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a gross breach of faith towards such of the natives of China, who, relying on the protectors promised them in the said Proclamation, have placed themselves and all their intérests under the British
Flag.
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Not having been asked an opinion as to what - is required I scarcely like to say more, but of this I Ocel certain not with standing the late statement of the Marquis of Salisbury, that Nothing will satisfy the Polonists of Houstong but
re
The total abolition Blockade
of
the
their Waters
by the removal of
the
Haikwan's cruisers and
of the Customs stations which now guard every entrance to, and exit-
from Honghong.
would aste by what- right-does this state of affairs Crish now, which did not
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apply when the Moyal Pro= : Clamation of 1841 was issued, why should the Chinese Government in all its Communications on this.
Subject, and for that matter Her Majesty's representative at Peking also, persist in treating the British Colony. of Woughtony as though it- the Treaty Ports
were one of
open
to British Trade in China
Let the Chiese collecti their own revenues, as is done in other countries
for themselves; if they Cannot, they must go Without them.
it is.
certainly not the province of Houghong to do it for them,