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I do not profess,
as
you
will see,
to follow exactly the order of the remarks
that I addressed to the meeting.
obliged to say when
6°
AND S
came to the consideration!
of this alternative, in other words the Blochade,
that unquestionable as might be the annoyance caused by it, annoyance which I had! foreseen it would cause, and sincere as was
community of my sympathy with a Countrymen whose trade might be embarrassed
that
I could not admit
my
oun
by it
so long as its action was confined to Chinese Junks in
Clunese Waters or upon the high seas,
the
Chinese Government was chargeable with doing.
other than what
any Government would consider
it's elf free to do, where it had a Maritime
revenue to protect under corresponding
circumstances
{
levied by
The abolition of the Sound Dues
Denmark was
referred to
ad
a precedent for the course which Chind
-
might be expected to adopt in the case of Hongkong; but the proposition I confess appeared
the converse of that before
to me
As
As to the status of the Cruisers, allowing that-
the Commissions of their Commanders might
cording to our notions, such Commissions
be, accor
as should be bome by officers holding such commands, I deprecated objection on this score,
because I am satisfied that, advised as it is
Now
being advised by competent Foreigners, the
Chinese Government, if informed that its case
was weakened by
Mon
conformance with Western in this particular, would i sve Commisions
usage in
on the Foreign Fodel without loss of time. As regarded the claim of suspicious
Characters to the status of Revenue Employés,
it seemed to me that nothing would be simpler than for the Police to carry any persons suspected
of-
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