20
21
43
lon last
year.
26. With
With a power absolutely indefinite fom the pout of the Chinese Government to
number of bustom Houses round
Terect
any
this Island and to search." their
!!
in their
ww
including as
waters"
own
vepels
Your Grace contends,
such half the waters in the
moon entrance to the harbor, where the
Lyee.
prapage
is about
as wide as
the Thames at
Gravesend, it is
to see how a timid, race
easy
like the bhinese might soon be timed from
all Commercial intercourse with
a
bolony
So unfortimately situated. That such idea
did excist of so
of so timming
timing back to the inconvenient estiary of banton the trade which the
establishment of this beleny
acutible position
position
in a more
under the security of the
British Slug
been
was intended to create, has
amply shown by the extensive ramifications,
Vide Goo" to of the bottion plct or league whose existence
ain bonsul till his attention
Sery of State No 392 of 14 Mort
1867. 36
Vide Gav? to Seey of State Nos 392 of 14" Mor! and 418 of 14* Deet, 1867
392
моло
unknown to
had been drawn to it by myself.
intention
The
same
was also subsequently exchibited by
the attempt to blockade
Cruisers
employed
leaving it,
мола
every
our houbor by
chinese repel
to overhaul
pretence of searching for opium.
367/7. The same spiunit has since been manifested by
418
1236
1250 167 inquiries made as to how far this Goverment
would object to the erection
to the erection of various
bustom Hau is on the Islands in
the
immediate vicinity of this Island, for the
Same purpose.
27. Therefore till the insertion of some
fush
Treaty, if such
provisions in the revised
in the revised Threaty,