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Your Grace
will be duly sensible, to invite attentium to the tone of Sir Rutherford,
Alcock's' remonts on the trade in opium
are all with the
Macao and
here. His sympathies khinese and he designates Horghany us smuggling depots whilst he computes the lep of Revenue to bhina
through smuggling as amounting to about a Million of Jaels. 201. Now there
here and m
are
eminent firmo
marry em
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conducted by the Chinese, the principles which guide European Nations in such
how
matters.
22. N
No opportunity has been afforded to this Goverment of declaring its friendly
on the subject- A scheme has been I believe and certo
intentions
concocted. illequl
curtainly in
many points of view
highly improper to enable the bhinese to levy an extraordinary
Experts hom
and extortionate tax on
in
Abong Rong. The utmost
by the
secrecy
was observed
many individuals, myself included, who would only be too happy to join Some reasonable
anangement for enabling
the Executive her to control such contraband
trade
as conducted hom here pror
from here provided
Any such measures could
fairly be required
in aid of a well regulated preventive service
the parties concerned and
very great pains must have been taken to prevent
my becoming acquainted with
any part
of the intended scheme till it had been fully matured.
23. Having already solicited Your Graces