535
they
other
were
taxes
if when
of foreign goods if
by
native vessels
introduced
along the Coast,
subject to Peking
of prohibitive character,
...
China
open
to forbid
to
the Sovereign of
the introduction
any where
except
at
Treaty Ports,
conveniently situated.
violation of the law
to impose rich
penalties for
he deems
interference from foreign
hitherto
impossible, with
Powers.
However
distasteful it
be
therefore
free ports
to
the authorities
of two
harbours
to have
a
carried
on
a
thriving trade,
native craft
contrary
to
the provisions
of Treaties
or Chinese
by Chinese
Revenue
boats, and
watched from
selected
Coast
to render
every
more
difficult than it had
been
in my
opinion
any
show of right,
to object
to
such
measures
That
a
large contraband
trade
is kept up by
and through the
foreign
Colonies
on
Their East with
the
total
absence
of any
effort to
entrepôts
at
the mouth of
a
great river
to
populous
river.
and
in close vicinity
check it
Authorities inflicting
by their constituted
immense loss on,
towns
and
numerous
the
Chinese
Revenue
so
fact too
harbours
well