Enclosure
463
To Her Most Gracious Majesty
The Queen, Empress of India,
&c.
&c.
May it please Your Majesty,—
We, Your Majesty's most loyal and devoted servants, residing and carrying on business as Merchants, Shipowners, Bankers, Professional Men and Traders in Your Majesty's Colony of Hongkong and in divers ports and places in the Empires of China and Japan, most humbly represent to Your Majesty as follows, that is to say -
1. We are, individually and as the Agents and Representatives of Merchants, Shipowners and others residing and carrying on business in all parts of Your Majesty's Dominions, very largely interested in the Foreign Trade of China and Japan.
2. That trade is of an enormous and increasing annual value, of which it may be estimated seventy per cent, or thereabouts, is in the hands of Your Majesty's faithful subjects and carried on under the British flag. A vast capital is employed therein and a considerable revenue accrues to Your Majesty therefrom.
3. The Foreign Trade of China and Japan with Your Majesty's Dominions and with Your Majesty's subjects is carried on under and is regulated by the provisions of certain Treaties made between your most Gracious Majesty and the Emperors of China and Japan respectively, and by these Treaties certain well-defined rights are secured to the subjects of Your Majesty trading in and to China and Japan.
4. Of these rights the most valuable are those which secure to Your Majesty's subjects all the benefits and advantages of any privilege or concession which may be, at any time, granted by China or Japan, to the subjects of any other nation, and those which forbid the creation by China or Japan of any monopoly or exclusive privilege in favour either of their own subjects or of any foreign nation to the prejudice of the rights and privileges granted to Your Majesty's subjects.
5. Your Petitioners are apprehensive for the reasons hereinafter stated that their rights and privileges under "the most favoured nation" clauses in the Treaties between Your Majesty and the Emperor of China are in danger of being infringed, and that there is about to be created in China a monopoly which will operate most injuriously to their interests, and which will at the same time, inflict on your Majesty's ally, the Emperor of China, and on his people very heavy losses and grave inconveniences in the future.
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Enclosure
463
Ber Most Eracious Majesty
The Queen, Empress of India,
&&.,
$c.
May it please Your Majesty,—
We, Your Majesty's most loyal and devoted servants, residing and carrying on business as Merchauts, Shipowners, Bankers, Professional Men and Traders in Your Majesty's Colony of Hongkong and in divers ports and places in the Empires of China and Japan, most humbly represent to Your Majesty as follows, that is to say -
1. We are, individually and as the Agents and Representatives of Merchants, Shipowners and others residing and carrying on business in all parts of Your Majesty's Dominions, very largely interested in the Foreign Trade of China and Japan.
2. That trade is of an enormous and increasing annual value, of which it may be estimated seventy per cent, or thereabouts, is in the hands of Your Majesty's faithful subjects and carried on under the British flag. A vast capital is employed therein and a considerable revenue accrues to Your Majesty there-
from.
3. The Foreign Trade of China and Japan with Your Majesty's Dominions and with Your Majesty's subjects is carried on under and is regulated by the provisions of certain Treaties made between your most Gracious Majesty and the Emperors of China and Japau respectively, and by these Treaties certain well-defined rights are secured to the subjects of Your Majesty trading in and to China and Japan.
4. Of these rights the most valuable are those which secure to Your Majesty's subjects all the benefits and advantages of any privilege or concession which may be, at any time, granted by China or Japan, to the subjects of any other nation, and those which forbid the creation by China or Japan of any monopoly or exclusive privilege in favour either of their own subjects or of any foreign nation to the preju- dice of the rights and privileges granted to Your Majesty's subjects.
5. Your Petitioners are apprehensive for the reasons hereinafter stated that their rights and privileges under "the most favoured nation" clauses in the Treaties between Your Majesty and the Emperor of China are in danger of being infringed, and that there is about to be created in China a monopoly which will operate most injuri- ously to their interests, and which will at the same time, inflict on your Majesty's ally, the Emperor of China, and on his people very heavy losses and grave inconveniences in the future.
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