CO129-023 - Sir John Davis - 1848 [1-3] — Page 97

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B. An internal Error at Page 13 was unstruck in the original Copy, and has been corrected in them. The number of

#

*

of sugar

shines be 21,529,600, not 12,110,400. 96

Observations in the Report of a Committee

of the House of Commons in 1847,

Creations

the

Commercial Relations with China, and

on the evidence taken..

Chief portion of the Report is occupied.. with arguments, (which are certainly quite unanswerable) on the necessity of lowering the duty on Tea, if we would possess the advantages anticipated from opening the new Ports in China. I myself urged nearly the

arguments as long ago

a letter addressed to one

as

Lord.

December, 1843, in-

one of Her Majesty's

Secretaries of State. The experience of four-

Years has since amply proved

amply proved that a duty

of 200 per cent on the staple produce of

China is neither liberal nor

on our own Manufactures from 5 to 10 per

average

duty charged by the

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B. An internal Error at Page 13 was unstruck in the original Copy, and has been corrected in them. The number of # * of sugar shines be 21,529,600, not 12,110,400. 96 Observations in the Report of a Committee of the House of Commons in 1847, Creations the Commercial Relations with China, and on the evidence taken.. Chief portion of the Report is occupied.. with arguments, (which are certainly quite unanswerable) on the necessity of lowering the duty on Tea, if we would possess the advantages anticipated from opening the new Ports in China. I myself urged nearly the arguments as long ago a letter addressed to one as Lord. December, 1843, in- one of Her Majesty's Secretaries of State. The experience of four- Years has since amply proved amply proved that a duty of 200 per cent on the staple produce of China is neither liberal nor on our own Manufactures from 5 to 10 per average duty charged by the
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B. An interlant Error at Page 13 was unstraund in the original Capy, and has been corrected in them. The number of # * of sugar shines be 21529,600, not 12,110,400. 96 Observations in the Report of a Committe of the House of Commons in 1847, Creations the Commercial Relations with China, and on the evidence taken.. Chief portion of the Report is occupied.. with arguments, (which are certainly quite unanswerable ) on the necessity of lowering the duty on Tea-, if we would possess the advantages anticipated from opening the new Ports in China . I myself urged nearly the arguments as long ago a letter addressed to one as Lame. December, 1843, in- ne of Her Majesty's Secretaries of State. The experience of four- Years has since amply proved amply proved that a duty of 200 per cent on the staple produce of China is neither liberal nor on our own M cent is the politic, while manufactures from 5 to 10 per average duty charged by the
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B. An interlant Error at Page 13 was unstraund in the original Capy, and has been corrected in them. The number of

#

*

of sugar

shines be 21529,600, not 12,110,400. 96

Observations in the Report of a Committe

of the House of Commons in 1847,

Creations

the

Commercial Relations with China, and

on the evidence taken..

Chief portion of the Report is occupied.. with arguments, (which are certainly quite unanswerable ) on the necessity of lowering the duty on Tea-, if we would possess the advantages anticipated from opening the new Ports in China . I myself urged nearly the

arguments as long ago

a letter addressed to one

as

Lame.

December, 1843, in-

ne of Her Majesty's

Secretaries of State. The experience of four-

Years has since amply proved

amply proved that a duty

of 200 per cent on the staple produce of

China is neither liberal nor

on our own M

cent is the

politic, while

manufactures from 5 to 10 per

average

duty charged by the

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