deove; a concession which, if the Chinese Government understood its financial niteredo,
it would esteem as
-profitable to itself
the foreign hader, but which unhappily
one
the
ao
во
premature mention of which would
be but too certam to alarm the Government,
I madvertently onisted all allusion to the state of the Shanghai watere
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had
-entirely overlooked
Innot confess
that
your reference to
she
it until reminded of it by yourself as he
had been under the mecting broke up. impression that the obstruction adverted to
which
was the bank above Woosing,
has been the subject of so much complant and correspondence during the last 10 years. You explaned to me that it was not to
thus that
you were
directing
attention but to
banks of recent growth which threaten to contact the anchorage - space off the Settlement.
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I regret much that I shoved have left the
matter unoticed
it as soon as
I.
Yesterday I arrive in
J
whall look into
Shanghai.
come now to the Blockade, with the
case of the Colony against the Cordon of Stations and Cruisers that surround it,
vas
of Course
sufficiently familiar; but there were some
arguments advanced yesterday in support of it which I do not remember to have heard before.
I
shall endeavour to restate briefly the sum
of the Contentions put forward, whether new or old. It was contended if I understood the speakers aright, that the Proclamation of Captani Charles Elliot, then Supermitendent of Trade, which Hong Kong
was declared in 1844
by
a
free port, guaranteed to the Port certami advantages
in the enjoyment of which
the Chinese Government had for years acquiesced;
that Article 4444 of the Treaty of Trentem
which