certain local obstructions which I shall
notice by
and
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or rash experiments on
the part of the
No one capable of estimating
Government —
our
true interests in this
Country:
could for
a moment complain of a treaty which, though
the prospects of Hongkong
it destroyed the centres of our trade with China, opened
to us in compensation a thousand miles of
sea Coast,
very
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at the
thresholds of the producing districts - the
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:ding Settlement;
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the
only thing to
that in the face of the
be complained of in that in
capital reverse operated in its position by that treaty, both Ministers and Merchants
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Commerce between Great Britain
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the north east Coast was
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prodigious promises
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were built upon the Sand.
was the first and most obvious effect of that Treaty, in opening up all the
littoral provinces of China to British trade,
to
make that trade a direct one with China itself, and not an intermediate trade through a British Colony upon its borders. Once the whole coast was open
...
it surely
as the natural course of things, that our shipping
should resort direct to it, and
that the natives should bring their produce to the nearest port where the foreign
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was waiting for it with the exchange,
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and
to expect
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what more
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certain local obstructions which I shall
notice by
and
bye, than upon any foreing
or rash experiments on
the part of the
No one capable of estimating
Government —
our
true interests in this
Country:
could for
a moment complain of a treaty which, though
the prospects of Hongkong
it destroyed the centres of our trade with China, opened
to us in compensation a thousand miles of
sea Ceast,
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four.
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at the
thresholds of the producing districts - the
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its prospects as a
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should have still continued to
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