certain local obstructions which I shall
notice by
and
bye, than upon any foreign
or rash experiments on
the part of the
No one capable of estimating
Government —
our
true interests in this
Country:
could for
a moment complain of a treaty which, though
the prospects of Hongkong
it destroyed the centres of our trade with China, opened
to us in compensation a thousand miles of
sea Coast,
very
an ...
four.
new entre-pôts
at the
thresholds of the producing districts - the
... insisted on is the fact that the
only thing inserted,
treaty did ...
:ding Settlement;
trading
its prospects as a
a great
the
only thing to
that in the face of the
be complained of in that in
capital reverse operated in its position by that treaty, both Ministers and Merchants
should have still continued to
...
on
in ...
Judge
the prodigious expectations originally
formed of it; and
one ...
& ...
dreaming about ... out an impracticable
it, and scheme.
so ...
traffics for it; as
though no change whatever
occurred to traverse their spe...
had
Now.
...
lations
I now proceed to argue why the Colony
never could have had
...
share in the any
319
An ...
Commerce between Great Britain
& China,
Once
the north east Coast was
opened — in other words to show that the
prodigious promises
So
boldly staked upon it after the Treaty of Nanking),
It
were built upon the Sand.
was the first and most obvious effect of that Treaty, in opening up all the
littoral provinces of China to British trade,
to
make that trade a direct one with China itself, and not an intermediate trade through a British Colony upon its borders. Once the whole coast was open
...
it surely
as the natural course of things, that our shipping
should resort direct to it, and
that the natives should bring their produce to the nearest port where the foreign
...
vessel
was waiting for it with the exchange,
...
but to expect them to bring it to Hongkong
and
to expect
...
under such circumstances,
ships to wait here for it
...
farther,
to ...
what more
absurd than it would be to expect the
American