to all respect & it may seem to him a case of hardship in the abstract, but severity is necessary certain certain circ
20 when involved
under
& the more
public interests are
I need scarcely refer to the troubles of the Swatow districts in this province wh. cost the Goot several hundred Thousand Faels - in fact the amount & never et arrive at - * the
people loss of life who.
many
be estimated at not less Than 30000 souls, nor to the
or three
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petty war whs. raged for two "I The Puntis in the Eastern part of
years between the Hakkas the Province nor to the many other local disturbances who have caused great anxiety to the Provincial gost, to say nothing of the piracy
on the coast; & when it is remembered that, as can be proved, from the Colony of Roughing the supplies of worms
were
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were drawn wh. depopulated whole districts, is it a matter of ourprise that the Chinese authorities are severe upon the importation of
? The Comp however do
arms
not see the matter from this point of view; with them the Shing-kut-li junk had loaded at the Colony && the Chinese "(Therefore) has no authority
CC
"to interfere with her
"whether a
cargo,
portion of it consisted
of arms or not, such at least I take to be their opinion..
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Caro
be a
great
may hardship, but such is the
The opinion expressed by the Com? of its being only i pretext of the Hopps to enrich himself & his employes is in accordance with the estimate usually made by foreigners. of the acts of the Chinese authorities but, coming from an source it seems strange. -
official
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