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hostile gesture.
gesture. And
yet thousands
of the spectators must have
recollected the period, only
twenty-five years ago,
when
it was certain death for any foreigner to be found within the walls of Canton. Many
who know China well, believe
that this vast Empire
on the eve
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is
now
of still more momentous
changes, that the ancient policy of jealous isolation will be
gradually relaxed; and that in
the course
of the next generation,
China
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China, like India and Japan, will be opened by the Railway and Telegraph, to the influences of European civilization and progress. I have the honour to be,
My Lord, Your Lordship's Obedient Servant,
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