480
out
an
this line, taking
Gibraltar by way of illustration,
you
will see that China can do
much
than
more
she has
and
no proper
may
in
more, in the eyes of
the
yet done still give Sugland ground for interference:
world China will have good grounds
of complaint against
England for rendering
such
action necessary! And as
the Opium Revenue,
I know it to be the intention
of high officials
who are
in the second rank, but who will be leaders
in
a
few years' time, to legalize
the cultivation of the Poppy-
if not as a
final measure
to be continued for economic
reasons, at least
best way of stopping
Indian Opium Trade,
the
Pray remember that
To you was
my April letter elicited by your own request for any suggestion I might
have to make,
and that it
must not be held to amount
to interference with Colonial doings "Further, there
was
no
attempt
to give the Colony the go-by.
in
my
initiative.