2.
3.
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bork the
Opium
and Lettin duties.
That
report transmitted a translation
by Mr Imich of
vone
veryy
important
ao
he states,
Chinese documents, which,
had been procured from authentic
Javrces.
2. Those documents have
bearing on two questions, which
Your Lordship
a direct
as
aware
ocoupied much
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attention on the part of Her Majesty's
Government during the
was
past year.
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The possible result of a threatened blockade of this harbor by
Chinese Cruisers - a blockade, which
Mr. Wade, Her Majesty's Minister at
Peking, represented as impending; and
the second was the establishment here
on British Soil of Customs Station
for
an actual Chinese
the collection
purely Chinese duties, especially
on
of
Opium, all which are taxable properly
in China only.
3. The correspondence with Mr
Wade
on those subjects
was
referred to
me in England, and I then pointed out that the Customs blockade of this Port, which Mr. Wade all through
as well
as could be inferred from his language, represented as only impending had been
a
reality for some years. Consequently I ventured to consider it impolitic
to accept
an
adequate reason for
making inexpedient concessions to the Chinese, a threat to inflict
on