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provides that the subjects of Her Majesty the Queen and His Majesty the Emperor of China "shall enjoy full recurity and protection for their persons " and property within the dominions of each other.".". This attack at Canton
was not only against British Qubjects, but official persons, one of them the vice-Consul. I have therefore to call upon Excellency to display your sincere desire to preserve good-faith, and maintain the terms of the Treaty, by dealing such punishment upon the fiully persons as the Law of Chind awards against those who attack and wound Officer of fovernment. The property laken is of very little comparative consequence - though it will easily lead to the
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conviction of the offenders - What I have principally to call for, is the condign punishment
of the ruffians who made the cowardly and barbarous attack on three unarmed. Gentlemen, cannot deem myself satisfied unless they publicly punished and unless Mt. Consul
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This event, and the daily insults to which British Subjects at Canton are exposed, are
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mainly the consequences of their being excluded very improperly from the City of Canton by which the rabble are led to despise foreigners as a proscribed or inferior people. I am fully persuaded that my government will not allow me to acquiesce long in this state of things, which Your Excellency on the 9th. July 1843, informed Predecessor Sir Henry Pottinger would be. only temporary. However exemplary the moderation and forbearance hitherto displayed
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by the great nation which I have the honor to represent, those principles of equality and of mutual rights which were established in 1862 must be maintained, and it would be idle, to
other terms. continued harmony on any
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