CO129-014 - Public Offices - 1845 — Page 172

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thus wrote to Sir Henry Pottinger. The Sligh: "Commissioner has now in

conjunction with the..

• Governor General and Governor

commanded all local

• Magistrates and other officers to adopt measures for

• inculcating a better spirit. and he only waits until "The Port is opened and Commerce in progress, when "all parties settling

into a state of quiet shall meet- " together to consult within the City, whenever business may call them thither. If there be the "slightest falschood in this, many the Highest regant

- very solemn declaration, and I

"it." This was a

cannot for a moment suppose that His Excellency - the Imperial Commissioner was otherwise than_

now been concluded-

sincere . The pease having now bee

more

than two

years,

when no objection

the time must soon arrive

can exist. The natural disposition

of the people of Canton is towards commerce and mutual intercourse, and, if not purposely encouraged and led astray as before the war, it is plain that they will act like the people at Shanghae, Ningps, and

other

other places.

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But admitting that some portion of the ignorant rabble are disposed to act disorderly, would not be right to impair the friendly feeling of the two nations on their account. The Treaty of Peace and friendship must be observed on the part of the Chinese government

in word or

or

or your

government in deed as well as Excellencies cannot with propriety

•

quote or bring it to my notice. It cannot be at once violated on one side, and expected to be observed on the other. To look for the continuance of friendship without friendly treatment is contrary to human nature. It is therefore very invidious and. highly objectionable exclusion of foreigners from the bety of Canton be removed as speedily as possible.

desirable that the.

The High Commissioner very correctly remarked in his official communication to Sir-

"The two nations are now at peace

Henry Pottinger " without the plightest ground for jar or

or altercation.

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