stored on
there
the spot to barter for in
on the
is our
on
shipping,
We may Carry it away
may
it two would never
it, and
the spot, to
assure ourselves
be left there for the
clumsy
Post Junk's to bring it to Hongkong. If it would pay the English Merchant at Hongkong as a return", it would have paid his Agent at the upper Port,
and there it would have been bought, the Junk freight saved upon it:
And the
more
It would have been infinitely rational if we had just reversed
the thing;
and, after we had, stipulated
(on board the "Cornwallis" off Nanking) for a free
and unrestricted Junk trade with our young Colony, for every Junk &
clearing out of every
haven
0.2
An
reach or river, nook.
anchorage, between the Bocca
Tigris and the Yellow
sea, we had indulged in a little diplomatic liberality, made the Imperial Commissioners a gracious gift of the Junk Trade of the
Five Ports.
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thereby
Modify those malignant clauses of the Supplementary Treaty = Legalize the Opium trade and free the Coast from the systematic smuggling
that obtains, have a large
commerce between it and :
this Colony - that is to say - you will have
a considerable barter trade between the
Coarser produce of China - its sugars and
some of it's drugs
and our
in general merchandise - always bear in mind, that
But let us alive
(speaking for Hongkong) shall never
under
any circumstances ~ get a
her raw silks and teas or
more
or Any
of her
soil upon
precious productions, now that vents have been opened up in the which they were grown -
very
The present junk trade
for these causes, rather of
of the Colony is for these causes
an adventitious than settled character. The Junks sometimes drop in here in
in good
numbers