alone. Against the confiscation of the two first I had nothing to lige, but that of the litter was reversed owing to i doubt about the exact definition of the line between. Cinimese & Hongkong Waters, & ouch
her cargoa
had been sold was paid for & the salt petre returned to the owners.. Purged the latter on
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ground that it was either good seizure or it was not, &, as the latter had been agreed to, the cargo, though contraband, must go with the verses.
No 6. The assertion of the Commissioners that, because Hongthong is a free port (which of course no one doubts) no
goods exported from it can Be contraband & that no vessel can be said to be
smuggling until the endeavours
to enter a Chinese port,
her cargo
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port, or land Chinese Zerritory,
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without paying duty, mus
must be accepted with reserve, China has not, as far as I am aware,
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surrendered her mirisdiction over her subjects in her own Territory
er in her own waters. She has also reserved to hersey
the right of declaring certain articles, chiefly supplied from countries, as contraband,
foreign countries.
such as arms ammunition & materiel of war, salt, saltpetre, &ouch like.. Fence she has The right to rearch & reize in her own waters, or on the High Seas, her national
vessel carrying such contraband, &i it is difficult to see how the fact of their being exported from the free foreign port of Honghong in a Chinese vessel