7. You would, therefore, have
то
communication
com
re eived
the subject. however
ill advised, and unfriendly to this bolony
were
such a combination might appear, it not that there is conclusive evidence
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before His Excellency shewing, that unscrupulous persons have affirmed, and finduced others to believe, that,
stated, after
a certain date
any
as above
collon,
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not bearing a stamp denoting its " |importation into Canton in the first instance, will be liable to confiscation.
by the lehinese bustoms, wherever found.
It is unquestionable that such
8.
a
-belief has been created, and that is
the principal improper influence connected with the question to which I have by
His Excellency's
Governor of course
as
ow
that
containing
a
desire already
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alluded: the
regards such a statement mast absurd calumny
the Chinese Authorities, as implying
any goods landed in China from here, in accordance with Treaty could. popibly
be liable to confiscation. however
true it might be that
a
combination
might be made not to purchase them. I have, however, to inform you
9.
that many bhinese traders here have
actually been induced to adhesion to the combination in
a
reluctant
give
question,
whilst aware that it must limit their
market for funchasing, but they allege
they cannot
as
it
bring
help themselves,
join the League
were compelled to