2.
558
articles at the Chinese Curtours Stations,
on chinese juntes procceting from an Houghtong to Macas
to Macas. Her Majesty's
Consul at Canton was of opinion that
the case out
f
which the corespondence
arose was an attempt to raise the
general question of the lovereignty of -Macas: and as I had
mis a
no desire to
the Government of Stoughtong
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with that question I withdrew proposal I had make of a general enquiry into the whole care and confined myself to asking that the Amount of the duty should be fixed at so small a sum as to prove substantial impediment to trade.
I have ascertained that the duty is
moderate, and is no
appreciable
impediment to trade in the article
concerned,
such
us
hard wood.
2.
The
question of the disputed
Sovereignty of Macas has however been raised again, in some other
cases of traffic in contraband goods that cubrequently occurred. About the same time that the popibility of War between Rupin and England began to attract attention here, it
was discovered by the chinese authorities at Canton that lange
quantities of Gunpowder
wers
conveyed in Chinese Tanks
being
from.
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