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affixed at banton will, if offered for

sale there,

Quang,

ar

at

orv wen

confiscated.

5.

any place in the tivo

elsewhere in China, be

As that which is done with

Cotton might be done with

other

any

cuticle of trade, and a prohibition

might in a similar

on

mammer

be imposed.

the purchase in bhina of any goods which had been first imported into

into

imparted

confiscation

a

Chinese Port. When however

is mentioned. it implies

the

sanction of the Chinese Government, and

be correct or incorrect,

whether the imputation be correct

it necefsitates inquiry and action. le. Si

is

very improbable that if left. entirely to the speration of ordinary

causes,

such as the real interests of importer and

punchaser, a combination

alluded to; viz.

one

of the kind

imposing fetters

on

individual action, and the transactions.

of

a

this place. it is clear that the league against betten might league against all

to be

grow goods that had

entered this Harbor. There could however

be me valid objection urged by Forign Govenments to a refusal of the Chinese Nation to purchase goods unles originally

run

commerce, would be found in the long

to pay

In

case

any

His Excellency

person

to think of

would be the last

or

interfering with the heedom, which all should injoy of continuing abstam from buying

to buy