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needed on this houd, it

مصور

has ecen abundantly supplied by the resolute and persistent reposal of the Government to ratify the Portuguese treaty. from the

the moment th

they

dissevered that the Portug

version

tecve

sion might be interpreted

هم شیر تم میں اسلام کا نمبر

a

cession of Macao,

or at least a post facto recognition

of luopul possession, notwithstanding

bey

dte

well

txare

it has in

reality long passed from their hands, and to all appearance irrecoverably

10.

If a Foreign Power, therefore,

desire the possession of any portion

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of this territory not already obtained, however isolated it may be,

worthless themselves, there is only

one means

chance

to the Chinese

exce

offering the slightest

of success.

and that is

the employment of force. Islands or portions of the mainland

may

be

taken without the consent

of the Government; but

will certainly not be ceded as

during

the

minority of the

Emperor and the feeble

Regency

"Whether it might be

possible at the approaching

revision

of the Treaty

to obtain