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blockade under which we had been suffering all the mischief, which such a supposed wit could produce.
: long previously evil art, that to
4. At the same time I pointed out that we are now in a position
The extent of the mischief supposed to be caused by the terrorism amongst Native Craft occasioned by the Chinese Customs Stations with their unpopular squeezes in the neighborhood of this Colony.
I was then suffering from severe illness, and unable to consult recent Statistics on the subject, but nevertheless I believe that I represented the geographical situation of Kongtong(?) and its other advantages to be such as to render this Port so great a necessity to commerce, that it was beyond the power of the Chinese Government seriously to affect the legitimate interests of trade.
Therefore I recommended that each party - Chinese and British - should operate freely within the limits of their international rights, and that Her Majesty's Government should strenuously oppose such unheard of abandonment of British prestige, right, and interests, as was implied by conceding to the Chinese a Customs Station of their own in a British Colony.
Mr. Wade recommended, especially as Mr Wade