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invite Your Lordship's attention more particularly to the
last three paragraphs of the enclosed memorandum from which
you will see that as from February 28th. next the sale by
unqualified Chinese vendors of morphine and compounds of
opium will entirely cease, and the highest reasonable duty
will be imposed upon both morphine and opium sold by
reputable Chemists under effective supervision.
3.
I would venture in this connect-
-ion to remind Your Lordship that morphine is (as I under-
-stand) very largely exported to China and Hongkong from
the United Kingdom and to suggest that those who are deep-
-ly interested in curtailing the export of opium from
India, and in restricting its consumption for smoking in
British Colonies should investigate the conditions of the
home trade in Morphia with the Far East and the extent of
the participation of the United Kingdom in the profits of a
trade which in common with the highest expert authorities,
I am convinced to be a source of the greatest danger to
China.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient,
humble servant,
Mangar
Governor, &c. •