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supplied by the stripe tinerchants of other Countries.
The object contemplated by
buying could only be effected by
the Chinese authorities themselves
prohibiting generally
the
importation of
Five terms by the
Merchants of any
other country;
but Her Majesty's Advocate, is of opinion, as you will see by
ral
the enclosed Copy of a report which I have received from
the subject, that the Chinese
Government cannot do so
consistently with the stipulations
of
the Treaties, by which it is
bound.
Sam J.
(Signed) Palmerston
True Copy!
(Signed) Frederick Harvey.
(True Copy) Marine
Colonial Secretary
Copy
Admiralty,
Doctor's Commons,
February 19th 1848.
I am honoured with
Your Lordship's Commands,
signified in Mr. Addington's
the SP. Just stating
ither
of the
theat be
the
was directed to transmit
a Volume
accompanying
in Sing
containing the Treaties between China & Great Britain, France, and the United States,
also to transmit a Despatch from Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in China, respecting the wish
of the Chinese High Commissioner
that the Importation of Five
The Right Honourable,
The Viscount Palmerston, G. C. B.,
etc.