CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5] — Page 224

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Chinese Archonties.

In

saying this, I do not intend to

support the Chinese Airhorities in measures

of an arbitrary natine

such

as...

are

the trade

calculated to cripple or injure of the Colony of Hongthongs and the annulment of the proclamation under

which this vessel:

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my obtaining

-seized afford

wefficient freef of that. What I devire to

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regard for the respective interests,

Colonial and Infurial, and

on these

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I

argued

the question; and

than

I. chrise it is now better understood

it

Mas,

of this, however, I fel culon,

and chrink it right to disabuse the mind of this Excelling the Garmor, that dispositions on the part of the

there is

Chinese Archarities to injure the native trade with the Polacy of Hongthang.

duy

but

they naturally desire to collect the revenue; and, if their mode of doing

quite in

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is not

accordance with our ideas on the

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exception to it, save and

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The principle that,

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might be far from friendly as between nations, and, therefore, bitter avoided t

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I have No

(signed) D. B.Robutor,

Corvul