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blockade under which we had been suffering all the mischief, which such a supposed wit could produce.
: long previously evil art, that to
4. At the same time I pointed out that we are now in a position
The extent of the mischief supposed to be caused by the terrorism amongst Native Craft occasioned by the Chinese Customs Stations with their unpopular squeezes in the neighborhood of this Colony.
I was then suffering from severe illness, and unable to consult recent Statistics on the subject, but nevertheless I believe that I represented the geographical situation of Kongtong(?) and its other advantages to be such as to render this Port so great a necessity to commerce, that it was beyond the power of the Chinese Government seriously to affect the legitimate interests of trade.
Therefore I recommended that each party - Chinese and British - should operate freely within the limits of their international rights, and that Her Majesty's Government should strenuously oppose such unheard of abandonment of British prestige, right, and interests, as was implied by conceding to the Chinese a Customs Station of their own in a British Colony.
Mr. Wade recommended, especially as Mr Wade
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blockade under which we had been
evil
: long previously suffering all the mischief, which such a supposed wit could produce.
art, that
to
4. At the same time I pointed
guage
we
are now in a position
The extent of the mischief supposed to be caused by the terrorism amongst Native Craft occasioned by the of Chinese Customs Stations with
in the
their unonpular squeezes neighborhood
very
amy
of
this Colamy.
d. I was then suffering from
Levere
illnes, and imable to consult
recent Statistics on the subject, but nevertheless I believe that I
represented the geographical situation
of tongtong and its other advantages
to be such
as
to render this Port so
great a necessity to commerce, that
it was
beyond the pawn of the Chinese Government seriously to affect the quite so || legitimate interests of
trave.
Therefore I recommended that each -party- Chinese and British- should operate freely within the limits of their international rights, and that Oer Majesty's Government should strenuously oppood such unheard of abandonment of British prestige, right,
and interests,
as
مند
aw
implied by conceding
to the Chinese a Custons Station of
their
now in
in a British Colony,
Mr. Wade recommended
especially as Mr Wade
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