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upon the table of the assembly a Bill to ratify them.
went on
The Bulle
to say that the object of the Treaties appeared to have been Completely misapprehended. The principal effect of them wod (he
affirmed) be to open
branche
f
Irade to Europe.
I answered that this was Cestarily not the impression which they appeared to me to be Calculated to produce prima facie,
and I asthed
him to allow me, in order to peet Нино
teen vividly before him in the Infavourable taple light in which they might be regarded, to turn
the articles round, & state in
familiar language, some of the stipulations respecting hieropeans,
other than Frenchmen.
For instance I said supfore the Articles to be put as
follows:
1. To European shall act
foot in Annam. nos
sojouris
Mow, without the special
the French.
permission of the
2. No Trade shall be
Carried
Carried
on between European
Nations
and
annam without
the intervention of the French Consul.
3. The Custom houses shall
be under the direction of
Frenchmen
Le Frade between Annam
-
a
+ Saigon shall be favoured by
reduction of half of the Duties.
5. French and Spanish Roman Catholic Missionaries and this Proselytes shall enjoy exclusion
protection and telusive.
privileges.
I might, I observed go on withe articles about jurisdiction tother similar matter, to say nothing of the political poschion assigned to
France
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by
the Preaties; but no doubt what I had already posited out would exffice to show that it was not unlikely
that