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But what renders the Treaty
still more creditable and honorable
been
fitting
made use
to us
as
for
as
it relates to the
by ili
бил
former
acknowledgment of this independence,
is that we to urt incrifice
claims while obtaining a befinite
them, and that
is
recognition of
state of affairs
which
A
now
for
the first time solidly established,
as
inving
This
in
is incitly acknowledge's existed for a long time. recognition, simply cnunciated would have gained nothing clearness, and would have been much less dignified, because whilst supporting
bemands by an appeal to the past, it would not have
our
that the argument
should be confuled
we
own success
To him who knows how
unwilling the Chinese Government, in spite of it's exceeding tolerance, has even shown itself to grant
may
be
concessions which clearly define and confirm rights that injurious to it, although it has for a long time admitted them in practice, it will be easy to judge how troublesome has been the contest in which
we not only obtained that the Colony of Macas should
at length be us
longer considered
by the Chinese Government as pack'
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