Tonnage built are concerned, should be maintained; that the proprietary rights of British subjects should be recognized and a sufficient police force maintained.
My remarks upon subject have been excluded from the copy of the scheme afforded to the Revision papers laid before Parliament some time since, and it is therefore not without hesitation that I request your Lordship to consider the scheme as therein set forth. The cruizer service, as expected it would, is already crippling the junk trade of Canton,
On the other hand, if we wish our treaty amended, as we must withdraw some concessions made in the convention of 1869, we cannot hope for changes advantageous, without we are ready with a quid pro quo to our...
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