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26. With

With a power absolutely indefinite fom the pout of the Chinese Government to

number of bustom Houses round

Terect

any

this Island and to search." their

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in their

ww

including as

waters"

own

vepels

Your Grace contends,

such half the waters in the

moon entrance to the harbor, where the

Lyee.

prapage

is about

as wide as

the Thames at

Gravesend, it is

to see how a timid, race

easy

like the bhinese might soon be timed from

all Commercial intercourse with

a

bolony

So unfortimately situated. That such idea

did excist of so

of so timming

timing back to the inconvenient estiary of banton the trade which the

establishment of this beleny

acutible position

position

in a more

under the security of the

British Slug

been

was intended to create, has

amply shown by the extensive ramifications,

Vide Goo" to of the bottion plct or league whose existence

ain bonsul till his attention

Sery of State No 392 of 14 Mort

1867. 36

Vide Gav? to Seey of State Nos 392 of 14" Mor! and 418 of 14* Deet, 1867

392

моло

unknown to

had been drawn to it by myself.

intention

The

same

was also subsequently exchibited by

the attempt to blockade

Cruisers

employed

leaving it,

мола

every

our houbor by

chinese repel

to overhaul

pretence of searching for opium.

367/7. The same spiunit has since been manifested by

418

1236

1250 167 inquiries made as to how far this Goverment

would object to the erection

to the erection of various

bustom Hau is on the Islands in

the

immediate vicinity of this Island, for the

Same purpose.

27. Therefore till the insertion of some

fush

Treaty, if such

provisions in the revised

in the revised Threaty,