by quinal Intemational
general
usage having the
I believe the
force of Law. In this sense
Trench Government could not compel a
bound from London to Hame to call
repel
in at balais and there pay duty on Cargo shipped for the batter port without so
violating
Commercial
of any treaty right
and the spirit
once conceded to trade;
with the former part, as to justify a request for explanation.
H. Nevertheless nothing whatever is said by Sir Rutherford Alcock on that subject. He approves every proposal made to him by
the Viset lay, because the latter tells him his abject is merely the suppression of smuggling, whereas the Wice Key probably had at the time the ulterior but short sighted
object of adhancing the trade at banton by placing that of Hong Kong at a disadvantage.
12. Again it is important to month how little weight Her Majesty's Minister allaches
to the inevitable
consequences resulting from encouraging the Chinese to protect their revenue in the mode which they propose. It would be tediono to repeat again my numerous warnings already too completely fulfilled, that to treat the Chinese Government as ceble either honestly or respectably to cany
out at present o
a
revenue
police on the seas
merely amounted to sanctioning
CU
and encouraging
system of autragious squeezing and
extortion.
13. Thus the rights contended for by the