applicable to Junks trading
to Manila, Saigon and the Straits settlements as foreign
Parts. Hongkong is therefore
not
an
Exception
I have heretofore written
to Her Majesty's Minister in
China very fully on this subject giving the bearings of the case so far as I
could arrive at them, and
therefore it is unnecessary
for me to remark upon.
Webster's despatch further
to say
I repeat to your
Lordship, that there is not a
strong case to go
for the solution of the only
question appears to me to rest
on one of
the three measures
I have above submitted,
I may add that at a late interview I brought to
the Viceroy
the notice
of this question of levying duties
on
Junks according to the English Tariff, and, as
I frequently do in complicated
cases,
I noted
on a paper handed to
him the matter which
I wished to discuss,
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