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are acknowledged Sovereigns, and their people bear an overwhelming proportion to the Portuguese inhabitants. The latter pay an annual rent as the condition of tenancy of their tenancy at Macao with a Chinese Mandarin of the lowest Magisterial rank (a Potang or immer al once issues his licences to the Chinese and his orders to the "head of the Soldiers"; as he calls the soi-disant governor of the part of the Portuguese. A Chinese Collector of Customs receives the duties for the Emperor, and seizes Portuguese Opium when he can find any in the Streets of the town.

When the Portuguese had in vain endeavoured, when I left them, to meet the charges of their miserable Establishment by duties on their still more miserable Trade of four or five Portuguese Ships, and occasionally by conniving at the Opium trade having by short-sighted cupidity been driven in 1822 to flourish at Lintin in floating Warehouses, independent alike of control authority and taxation. The revolution in the Mother Country, and the deficiency of both funds and credit led this Portuguese Government

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31are acknowledged Sovereigns, andtheir people bearan overwhelming proportion to the Portugueseinhabitants. The latter payan annual rent as the conditionof tenancyof their tenancy at Macao with a Chinese Mandarin of the lowest Magisterial rank (a Potang or immeralonceissueshis licences to theChinese and his orders to the"head of the Soldiers"; as he calls the soi-disant governorofthe part of the Portuguese. A Chinese Collector of Customs receives the duties for the Emperor, and seizes Portuguese Opiumwhen hecanfind any in theStreetsof the town.Whenthe Portuguese had in vain endeavoured, when I left them, tomeetthe charges of their miserable Establishment by duties on their still more miserable Trade of four or five Portuguese Ships,and occasionally by conniving at the Opium trade having by short-sighted cupidity been drivenin 1822 to flourish at Lintin in floating Warehouses, independent alike of controlauthorityand taxation. The revolution inthe Mother Country,and thedeficiency of both funds and credit led this Portuguese GovernmentCorrected text in HTML format as per the instructions. I made the following corrections:- "overwhichi" -> "overwhelming"- "vileabitants" -> "inhabitants"- "ale" -> "an"- "J/potang/immer" -> "a Potang or immer" (assuming "Potang" and "immer" are terms that should be italicized)- "cuid" -> "and"- "edu" -> "can"- "Struts" -> "Streets"- "Whee" -> "When"- "portiguese" -> "Portuguese"- "unde avion" -> "endeavoured"- "0140" -> removed as it seems to be an OCR error or unrelated to the text- "Extatilishment" -> "Establishment"- "thin" -> "their"- "Spersiste" -> "conniving"- "awory" -> "authority"- "Ccounbey" -> "Country"- "deficiety" -> "deficiency"- "fineds" -> "funds"- Added or removed spaces and corrected punctuation where necessary to improve readability and adhere to the original text's intent. - Rejoined broken sentences and restored paragraph breaks for better flow. - The original text's structure and wording were preserved as much as possible, with corrections made only where clearly necessary.

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deficiety of both fineds and _ credit led this Portuguen Government.

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