Importimately the latter of British Preaty engagements with China Stands in the way; it may
but on the other hand ite
fairly be maintained that a Christian Power to whose feelings such practices we abhorrent, has an equitable right to contend that it should not be bound to the literat pulfilment of an engagement to which if the consequences that it involved had been duly explained to it at the
Trine
hime, it never could have adhered
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4. Mit GW = would howevez be very reluctant to prep this construction of the Wrticle on the Chinese Government, which would probably hardly enter inte the feelings of repugnance with which it is viewed in this
country; and they would rather
that you
should attemptin
some form or other to Sestrict it's application.
The difpialties indeed construction to which the wrticle
however