... facilitate emigration, and though they would no doubt be prepared, as they were then, to put in force the unratified convention of 1866 in the exact terms in which it was agreed upon, it is not likely that any further concession could be obtained from them without great pressure.
But Lord Derby would further wish to call Lord Kimberley's attention to the objections which have been shown by Mr Wade to exist to the resumption of Emigration under contract on the Contract System, unless carried out with conditions as to repatriation which would be considered too onerous by the Colonies. Emigration does not attract emigrants of a good class or in any large number, while it would be a constant source of irritation on the part of the Chinese Government, and would expose Great Britain to the imputation of supporting a traffic which has been denounced as a slave trade in disguise.
However strictly the regulations as to the terms of Emigration to British Colonies might be enforced, its resumption on the old footing proposed would open the door to the revival of the coolie trade under other flags than our own, and would deprive...
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