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Canton deridingly defy the Europeans to enter the

city

as

the latter pass the gates, and this of

of course

feeds and keeps up the insolence of the Chinese,

and perpetuates the degradation of the strangers. Nothing of the kind exists at it will not be

easy

any

other port; and. to find a sufficient inducement

for the Chinese government to remove a

5 remove a bar which they silently approve, should its removal be defered until after the restoration of bhusan. I only require the sanction of Her Majesty's government, for which 1 here is abundant time, and will pledge, myself to carry

the point if supported by that panction. The 12th article of the Treaty of Nanking expressly stipulates, as one condition of the restoration of Chusan, arrangements at the Ports shall be completed.

that " the

which can

long

- scarcely be deemed to be the

case as- as this important point is unsettled at Canton.

In a Memorandum which I furnished __

to the Foreign office in December 1842, I foretold -

that most difficulty

was to be apprehended in

establishing

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establishing desirable relations at Canton, where

"old established habits have to be subdued, and

was

"old feelings combated"," and this difficulty enhanced by the forbearance of Sir Hugh Gough

to the armed multitude which (as already observed by me to your Lordship) hung on his rear

-during his occupation of the heights, causing them most absurdly to attribute that forbearance to fear.

The mischievous effects of the exclusion from the city are so universally obvious to every one in this Country that the American Consul has used the strongest remonstrances in his.___ power, but without

or chance of being

N. 2.

Keying

جی میری

any means

attended to.

of gaining his point

Enclosure N. 2 is a communication from

which I shall publish, convering the

satisfactory information that six of the natives who had assaulted (sice Consul Jackson and his companions had been sy punished. In -acknowledging this by Enclosure & took occasion

I

to

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Inance