4- an offer being faced there for the collecting of the duties incl. duty, though no opposition appears. Efforts have been made
of
"If the levy of the 16 percent duty is desired & we have another
Station chosen for
The
we have the
New Office. Collection of the duty
postponed for the present. The latter proposition was not accepted. An attempt was made to approach the Portuguese & Chinese officials & find a suitable site instead of Kungpei wan but without
success, and I believe the proposal has now been written off, by discretion instructions.
When it was determined by
the Chinese, about the last instant, to defer
a
further
the Collection of the duty, all the available junks in Canton waters were ordered in readiness, and from the blustering language ascribed to some of the Mandarins it was
likely thought that a
demonstration was intended. The British Subjects Messrs Stewart & Godfree, (lately of