CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7] — Page 126

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I have thought it necessary

accompany with these observations a nil return to the orders

of

the Right Honorable House . But it may not be irrelevant to the

prespose of this Dispatch to poper

to the following

Statements:

Mr. Azander Matheson

in his evidence before the Committe of the House of Commons in the Erésion of 1847" upon our Commercial relations with China Days:

"By our Treaty with China, it was

stipulated that no chinese vessel " should be allowed to anchor

in the harbour of HongKong

Dome

without a pass from s

11.

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"Chinese Mandarin ; Of Course

"No Mandarin would grant

a pass without a

one

" and by this Kode to Hongkong

heavy fee,

act the

The Junk

was in a

exterminated.

maimer ex

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Le John Rev's in his Dispatch N 3% of 11th April 18416 to Me Secretary Gladstone, hansmitting the Blue Book Of Honghong for 1845- says : – In spite of the discouragement "afforded by the Supplementary Featy, "The Chinese trade appears "rather on the increase :

Mr. Gutzlaff in his

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