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the Customs collect at longthong,

if they

are

to collect

excuse will there be

any, the lef for inter

ference with the junk-trade I between Wongtong and the coasts.

I have marked this letter

Confidential, because if the matter of it is to be discussed between the British Consul and the l Croneral, the less it is talked about

I till all is settled the better.

The Chinese

are

themselves more

daily buying

more and more with

of the

the comments of

They

are

The newspapers.

prone at the

ame

time to attend only to the

arguments

on

what they

Conceive

to be their side of the question

I have No

(Signed) Thomas Francis Ware

(Ame Copy)

a

Sanduan Bustin Colonial Secretary

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