might have or not. Opiums Vessels may seem to prosent a difpoultry, as they visit
Port along the boast at pleasure, but
I trust
Yer Majesty's
trust Your Excellency and Fir
Government will ere long
see the high
propriety of compelling the Chinese to
:allow Opium to pass through the bustom
instead
house in a fair and legal way, of admitting it as they do now under
crangements and compromise.
most comm
It is inconsistent with the
on principles of international aly should
justice that so great a
ergist in our. Consular jurisdiction just because the authorities of this country
.
lse and hypocritical
choose to act a false a false
part for
for their own peculiar profit and advantage. It tends to the subversion of
all order and discipline that there exists
at this moment a fleet of Vessels in the
.
China
+
China Seas, which under the shadow and
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protection of a monstrous traffic seb at defiance the authority of Her Majesty's
- direct opposition
-Consuls and act in direct,
to
the solemn and.
1 oft repeated pledges of Your Perscellency's predecessor, that no other
Port
save the five expressly seb down in the Treaty of Nanking should be resorted
by British Vessels.
to
We have a specimen of the
mischievous effects of this toleration in
the
se of.
Letters; the Opium Fleet
outside the His Islands of Ancor
full possession of everything
es in
in the
shape of orders, instructions and news, while we Here
I servan
Majesty's
ts are
dependent repon the good nature of any Commander who may think that he can bring on Letters and Despatches without rishing, what he is pleased to think, his
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