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any

such extortion would constitute

heavy differential duty against imports

from a British bolony,

and would be

at contravention of the Treaty.

・flagrant

-(vide Article 244).

14.

that it would be attempted.

but a

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I do not mean in

in the present

.Cause

-give any

an

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cow

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imposed

risk's

succumbing to the exactions in preference to incurring greater

have

I

therefore strongly urged the necepity

of obtaining a proclamation from Vice they disavowing

the

savowing all official sanction of the procedings of the Guild,

and this

alone will I think enable me to break

covert sanction to such

up the combination.

but your

15.

The

conceive how

a Native

obviously illegal demand. but

easily

Importer of Cotton from hence to Canton,

com

refusing to pay the demand of the

New Guild, might

- subjected

to such

soon find himself

Ov

series

of petty

opprefaiono by the Mandarins, and in

ways

which this Government offically notice, as

Government could not

eventually to prefer

Registrar General,

Mo becil

Smith, has by my instructions been

making direct inquiry

inquiry of the leading

botton Hongs here, and though their

principals

ivere

extremely reluctant at first

to repose any confidence in this Government, they imagined it would support the

action taken by the Mandarins at

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loantion, the majority have finally distinctly