possesses
advantages.
even as a
Warchouse for goods - and there being
no market here for any...
Exturally
-description of imports,
my
we save
alterative, and must either leave
Houghing is pay others for doing business elsewhere.
To live or three of the large Houses extensively engaged in the Opium Trade on the Coast, Abingtung
is no doubt Convenient, but the
trade was formerly conducted by them with equal facility from Macao :
and we are inclined to think that ;
but for the
aviormOUS
sums invested
by them in buildings, they
-again
Return to Alacav.
If we
would
we were asked to account
for this state of things.
have no hesitation in
入
hesitation in attrit
should
attributing
$33
it to the operation of the Opium Tarms,
and the other taxes
or
trade, and which
AAE
think a
wise
Government, having
the power, would immediately abolish,
leaving
Commerce
of every kind entirely unfettered. In proof of the injurious effects of the Opium Farm, it is only necessary to state, that before it was established, we used occasionally to seni
+
over Opium from! Macas here for sale, am that we are assured on goer authority the
your sales thent amounted to upwards of 200
Chests a month, and it is
to
is fair infer from the Removal here of most of the Henses engaged
aged in the Griment
Trade, that but for the Fann the
Sales
exe
this would hawe reached 300
Chests a month, instead of which purchasers
are driven te Macae
Cunnsingmem,
and as far
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Cee Ce
beams.
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