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when holding the first place we
not endeavoured to obtain
a
had
clear
and definite cession of rights enjoyed
for ages-
it is also incontestable
that this came difference position ought to have multiplied hundred fold the difficulty of a negotiation which formerly would have een considered impossible; because, whilst the recollection of the
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past urges is to do sunch, existing circumstances constrained do little.
us
to
And it is easily understood that this bifficult, which was the natural result of our
eyes
siminished prestige in the
the Chinese Government would
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give rise to another not less important;
because, in as
much
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the peculiar
position of Portugal in China required not only that that which formerly
wisted de trots should now be
facto
acknowledged
as
Le
jure,
but also
that all those advantages, political and Commercial, should be granted
us
us
which had been stained by nations whore trade and intercourse with chime
Than
ours, -
was of more recent date the there demands which the national
riguity compelled us to make, were of a nature to excite a rivalry which it was very necessary
Such were in brief
to arrease.
the
immense ctecles which this Excellency
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