any
such extortion would constitute
heavy differential duty against imports
from a British bolony,
and would be
at contravention of the Treaty.
・flagrant
-(vide Article 244).
14.
that it would be attempted.
but a
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I do not mean in
in the present
.Cause
-give any
an
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cow
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imposed
risk's
succumbing to the exactions in preference to incurring greater
have
I
therefore strongly urged the necepity
of obtaining a proclamation from Vice they disavowing
the
savowing all official sanction of the procedings of the Guild,
and this
alone will I think enable me to break
covert sanction to such
up the combination.
but your
15.
The
conceive how
a Native
obviously illegal demand. but
easily
Importer of Cotton from hence to Canton,
com
refusing to pay the demand of the
New Guild, might
- subjected
to such
soon find himself
Ov
series
of petty
opprefaiono by the Mandarins, and in
ways
which this Government offically notice, as
Government could not
eventually to prefer
Registrar General,
Mo becil
Smith, has by my instructions been
making direct inquiry
inquiry of the leading
botton Hongs here, and though their
principals
ivere
extremely reluctant at first
to repose any confidence in this Government, they imagined it would support the
action taken by the Mandarins at
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loantion, the majority have finally distinctly