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venality
and extortion so
general amongst
of Chinese Officials,
certain clapes of
great probability that the erection proposed
and the
of
the
bustom's stations will
lead to vexations and
harraping proceedings
against all native repelo clearing from
this Port, the Govemen
you were not
to the interests
auvare
of
can
of the
of
scarcely suppose
perious importance
this balony
sed measure.
the proposed
As
involved in
moreover in a scheme of that
magnitude
a
bearing
and which has so important
on the vast interesto involved
in the native direct trade with this
Colony
more than 20,000 refoelo per annum,
черево unlikely that the Viceroy left you
it is un
unacquainted
with his intentions,
or that
بات
that which you
proclamation such as that which enclosed could have been issued unless
after consultation with Her Majesty's Minister at Peking. Therefore, the matining
of the scheme must have occupied several
months, and His Excellency wishes to be
informed of the
rabomb
which induced
Governor of this
your to keep from the bolony all knowledge of
a meaome
calculated to affect so periously the Commercial
interesto
of
this place.
In the meantime, I am desired
His Excellency to convey to
against
you
by
his piratest
a scheme which apparently strains
beyond their legal limit the provisions of
existing treaties and which,
even
if
it in
accordance with those Treaties, is in its
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