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interview with them
on the 18th March last, when
Sir John Walsham represented this inequality of Laxation
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opposed to the spirit of the Treaties between Foreign Powers and China and claimed that the native tariff could not as regarded-
produce carried coastwise, sehveen Treaty Porte- and a Foreign country.
or between
be
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Treaty
Port and a
manipulated as to place. Chinese vessers.
072 a more
favorable footing than Foreign vessels. My Committee notes that at this interview the Chinese Ministers admitted that the action the Hoppo had been irregular and stated that they had already written to the Government of = Canton on the subject, that only a few days previously they had received a belegram from the
Viceroy stating on the authority of the Sappor that the reduction in the native tariff no conace
-
existed - the Viceroy having.
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added that if any
due to unauthorized, action on
the part of the
irregularities were still practised they must be
Hoppo's subordinates .
Lord Salisbury further
caused,
this Chamber to be informed that the_
banton