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"ticatrice as contraband of war?
Atelegram
to the above effect
from the Frouch allivister in China
(alt. Patenêtre) was shown to we
Yesterday by the Frouch Convert at
Hong Kong (M! Dejardin).
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"This decision of the French -
authorities will serimisly affect
serimisly affect tstritish...
trade in these seas,
Jav
for I am
informed
that several British mercantile firms
at Hongkong had contracted with the
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Chinese Governcout for the conveyance, in steamers muider the British flag, of the bubute rice sont by the Southere.
Provinces to the Imperial Court at
Peking
Peking.
H:
Morcover, as rive in the an
principal food of the overwhelming -m.
majority of the Chieuse Nation, and as it
iegrown principally
Empire,
in the South of the
it is suanifest that the stoppage
or quaterial diminution in the supply
of this staple article of consumption with entail wide-spread suffering.
I have the honour to be,
My.
Your Lordship's
ford,
Most Obedicut,
Humble Servant,
5 Bowen
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