And
friendship, and to excite jealousy
and ill-will by openly countenancing
that drug
at their
very door,
in
Settlement which we had
just erected from them; if by
any means
from other source
we can
discover
any
of Colonial Revenues,
we incur the "Odium, sine pretio,
criminis".
As avowed in a former declaration
of Sir Robert Peel in Parliament, that it was not intended to
countenance Opium at Hong Kong,
any
more
than at the five
Ports.
But the first impulse of conscience in individuals, then first views of expediency
are
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After the best and safest guides
it can be shown that in
the present instance, the
honestum
and the utile would be united, and mere
Conjectures
suggest expediency our not countenancing Opium at Hong Kong, clearly sending all
the other trades
and
smuggling
by admitting this, or insult -
annoy the Chinese Government by drawing Revenue from it under their
very
nose?
Reasonable
The extremely low rates of the Tariff annexed to the Treaty surely entitle the Chinese to all its duties in the fair
Course