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.

336

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

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