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spirit of
the Treaty hostile to the interests
and unfriendly and
the
Alony, is less explicable. By what process of reasoning
His Excellency has arrived at this conclusion
I do not pretend to know; but,
the hostility and unfriendliness of
he appears to have overlooked
As regards the act
the consideration whether the encouragement
of the British Colony of Hong Kong of
smuggling trade into China
may not have been looked upon lightly by the Imperial
Government, and whether the protective
measures strongly denounced were not forced
by our own acts.
To arrive at an unbiassed opinion
on questions of this nature both sides
should be looked at, and above all it is necessary
to examine whether a spirit of hostility
and unfriendliness has heretofore been exhibited.
As regards my not having communicated
to the Governor of Hong Kong the
intention of the Chinese Authorities to
establish these lat. Stations,
of which he complains, it would have been premature;
I conceive it would have been unjustified
to have done so pending a reply to the reference I had made to
Your Excellency, without your concurrence:
the scheme would have been abandoned
by the Viceroy; and, with this uncertainty
before me, I should not have been justified
in giving rise to a discussion, which
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