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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

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