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with the principle aperted by the Chinese Government, viz a right by Thockirmation
to declare what dutiable
goods
shall be
tatten on board by repels visiting Hongthong
There is evidently
limit
as to the
extent to which the trade of this place
might be impeded, and injuriously affected,
were
the
such a principle allowed. as exportation of Cotton, or English goods - / might be equally restricted under pretence
of preventing smuggling.
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Hais Excellency notices also that the whole conduct of the Chinese Authorities in this matter has been marked by disregard of the free permifsion by Threaty of Commercial intercourse with this bolony, Such conduct is not merely illegal, but also
unfriendly, and cannot be passed because the banton Authorities now declare their intention not to permit
Similar
seizures
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over
CH
in future so close to
the Island of Hongkong.
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Whether close to the Island or not, His Excellency considers such seizures to
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be manifestly against the spirit of the Treaty of 1858, and to constitute a injustifiable interference with the right of Chinese repels to resert here and load with goods, on which duties
only feriable the Treaty at the Turto of anival.
Sir Richard Machonnell, therefore, be able to induce
by the
tiusto that
you may
are
the Authorities at banton to with chaw
their pretensions to establish such rights
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