: matters to convert the Coolie into a Chinese article of Commerce.—
Something equally as from Macao's Emigration can be fed only by collecting and taking, it maybe, paupers voluntarily, it certainly often is, men in indecent positions kidnapped from out of the protection of their own families and friends,
and, kindred superiors, in making their contracts (if emigrate they must) to their advantage and removing them into distant lands far away from all protection where they are aliens in language,
and in customs, in every respect, where the love of gain predominates. And they are frightened, bewildered into contracts for their labor the full meaning of which they do not and cannot understand.
In my estimation there is no fair contract of advantage to these inherent evils.
18. If there is to be Emigration it should be from China alone and from Chinese ports direct that the Emigration of her own surplus population should be carried on. There would then doubtless be abuses which England and America could from high ground "intervene in mitigating and at all