letter
(as
: ( us far as I can ascertain / from the first hour of
their
enactment - No steps appear by
records
to have been taken in-
our
the
reference to them either by Authorities or by those of China. now has any Complaint
any Complaint over been brought forward by the Authorities in china on the • ground of their Obandonment. Their rigorous
cent would indeed have enforcement,
been impossible either by
the
Chinose or by ourselves, nor would it be associated with any corresponding good of which I am aware. There Sems to have been from
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the first a disposition and a
determination on all sides
to
regard cuticles 14 and 16 as
nugatory and in
- inoperative _ but I cannot conclude this Despatch. without stating that every attempt which has been made to obtain the harmonious co-operation or intervention of the Custom house authorities of
Canton with our own authorities
in order to give effect to the engagements of Treaties has been invariably repudiated, and all
To the Superior Custom
Access
-house Officers rigidly denied.