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we must remember the injury Colony, with its present immunities, inflicts upon the Revenue of China an foreseen by Sir Stenry Pottinger
5 proses
when he made rules to,
the Chinese Revenue act it in his supplementary Treaty of 1843. The provisions of this, it is true, the Chinese goot then regarded
ored with indifference; either consequently or otherwise, we took no pains from the first
enforce them & we
annulled them when
Zinally
we
merged the supplementary Treaty in question in the Treaty
concinoreer at Trints in in 1858.
7 may
arge are
be Wold Urat what
purely moral
moral considerations
by wh., in questions of policy, it
is rarely quide d
one's practice to be
Jum
guided
even
more
more by what & conceive rightly
Cy
wrongly to be the interest of The Colony - to wit. The conservation & development of the funk tracke wh. I assume from the outing that has primarily occasioned The late Com", an important Section of the merchants interes and in that Frade have reason to believe is being frightened away..
with a branch Collectorate at Songhong the necessity for Cruiser surveillance wod to a great extent, if not enterely, disappear. This is what we th? gain by yielding the point. I diet once hope that we might obtain a better
in doute bargain, but & am
Thar
any great counter casession
the we now be grantest 20.- central goot w? probably
be on
the side of such a collectorate
because