Cotton combination at Canton, together with some correspondence that had taken place as to the right of the Chinese authorities to capture a junk outward bound from Hongkong, laden with opium.
As the first of these questions appears to have been satisfactorily arranged, there is no necessity for My Lords to make any observations thereon.
But with regard to the second, they desire me to state that owing to the want of sufficient information, Sir R. M'Donnell has not forwarded any copy of the proclamation under which the Chinese authorities justify the seizure by the Imperial Chinese Cruisers, nor does he state whether the junk in question was owned partly or wholly by British subjects. Until therefore further details have been received, My Lords are unable to arrive at any decided conclusion on the subject, but are inclined to think from the facts before them that although the Chinese authorities may have committed an unfriendly act, there is nothing in the course which has been taken to justify any decided opinion.
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Cotton combination at Canton, together with some correspondence that had taken place as to the right of the Chinese authorities to capture a junk outward bound from Hongkong, laden with opium.
As the first of these questions appears to have been satisfactorily arranged, there is no necessity for My Lords to make any observations thereon.
But with regard to the second, they desire me to state that owing to the want of sufficient information, Sir R. M'Donnell has not forwarded any copy of the proclamation under which the Chinese authorities justify the seizure by the Imperial Chinese Cruisers, nor does he state whether the junk in question was owned partly or wholly by British subjects. Until therefore further details have been received, My Lords are unable to arrive at any decided conclusion on the subject, but are inclined to think from the facts before them that although the Chinese authorities may have committed an unfriendly act, there is nothing in the course which has been taken to justify any decided opinion.
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