10
11.
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Revenue by Smugglers from Olongtory and Macao at one Million of Taels a $1,330,000.
or
J. It is also questionable,
that the policy of Her Majesty's
Government and the instructions
transmitted here,
As
well as
the whole
love of the correspondence with this
Government, had long been affected by
the consideration that
lok
serious
loss and
a...
occasioned to the
Chinese Revenue by the actual smuggling of Opium from this Port. Even now much of Mr. Wade's
reasoning
is based
on
that assumption.
By it he justifies the propriety of partially sacrificing the interests of
this Colony more or
less in such
a
way by
accepting
a Chinese
Consul here, or purchasing immunity
from Revenue Cruisers
by
The establishment
of a Chinese Customs Station
in the midst of a British Government!
10. Hitherto the amount of
smuggling
has
been determined
by one-sided views. The Chinese
Foreign Office declined to receive the
evidence of the Vice-
The Nee Ray at Canton,
and decided, as it was
perfectly
legitimate for them to do, to collect the Opium and Lettin duties together. I have nothing to say against that
decision which, as the
expense
had
been already
incurred
of
stationing
and
maintaining
cruisers round this Island, was most natural and simple