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venality

and extortion so

general amongst

of Chinese Officials,

certain clapes of

great probability that the erection proposed

and the

of

the

bustom's stations will

lead to vexations and

harraping proceedings

against all native repelo clearing from

this Port, the Govemen

you were not

to the interests

auvare

of

can

of the

of

scarcely suppose

perious importance

this balony

sed measure.

the proposed

As

involved in

moreover in a scheme of that

magnitude

a

bearing

and which has so important

on the vast interesto involved

in the native direct trade with this

Colony

more than 20,000 refoelo per annum,

черево unlikely that the Viceroy left you

it is un

unacquainted

with his intentions,

or that

بات

that which you

proclamation such as that which enclosed could have been issued unless

after consultation with Her Majesty's Minister at Peking. Therefore, the matining

of the scheme must have occupied several

months, and His Excellency wishes to be

informed of the

rabomb

which induced

Governor of this

your to keep from the bolony all knowledge of

a meaome

calculated to affect so periously the Commercial

interesto

of

this place.

In the meantime, I am desired

His Excellency to convey to

against

you

by

his piratest

a scheme which apparently strains

beyond their legal limit the provisions of

existing treaties and which,

even

if

it in

accordance with those Treaties, is in its

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