6. In addition to the interruption

of trade, and to the other troubles and dangers referred to above, I find that persons who have long resided in China fear that, in the event of protracted hostilities between France and China, there may be, in some places, repetition of the Massacres of Europeans which took place some years ago at Tientsin and elsewhere. The Chinese populace

of the large cities generally shows itself to have

but when their rational and religious

passions have been thoroughly roused,

The Ancient and traditional hatred of

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