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House of Commission:

Admiral

Agent

Course

the Chinese have

a

perfect night to arrange might not impossibly interfere with the

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the Government of the Colony

on

the print.

I have sounded

Yamen of Foreign Affairs

my

I regret to say

the

and

that I see not

the slightest ground for expecting

L junk trade

to the Colony, submitted

to an extent injurious

views on

Granville

as possible

might

some

the subject to Earl

and

I suggested it that the Colony

lo

negotiate through

it

any

be prepared

to concede

arrangement by which

of the Revenue

due surveillance of the

concerned

would be secured

to China, her government

return according

in

Concessions that would advantage British Trade. From His Lordship's reply I gather that the Colonial Office will have consulted

the

exchange of the Kind I had

The st

thought possible. The

standing

objection of the Chinese to

Concessions of any

of any novelty

apart, it is

plain

to me

that

the Yamen prefers to leave the responsibility of the collection

in question entirely to the Provincial

government of Canton.

Meanwhile the head of

this, the Governor General Fuhlie,

is