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harbors, to have a thriving trade, canied on in native craft contrary to the provisions

of

Treaties

01

Chinese laws, interfered with

by bhinese Revenue boats, and watched

from stations so selected as to render

evasion more

difficult than it has hitherto

been, it is in my opinion impossible, with

any show of right, to object to such

large

measureo,

measi

That a

contraband trade is kept up by and through the two Sercigar Colonico

on their coast with the tetal absence of any effort to check it by their constituted

authorities. inflicting immense Jhinese thevenue is a

fact

lof

com

the

too well ascertained.

and universally known to admit

of

question. The Chinese themselves estimate

this lop to the Puvenue at nearly a Million

imposible to contest their

of

Jaels. It is

night to stop

this

any

meamb

wrong

done them be

by

which do not violate the

Treaties in force Hongthong and Mcaras

can

only be regarded by them, it is evident,

great Sxangoloog depôts; and yet what they propose is not aimed at their existence

on

growth,

man

any development of a legitimate

trade. Not having the faculty to establish

a

bustom Haause at either of these

great

centres of smuggling operations, what other resource have they but to establish

establishments

controling

as near as the Law of Nations

permits in their own

their

own

waters?

territories and in

I do not deem it either just

expedient therefore to instruct

to take

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