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The Portuguese argument seems to amount to this:

both Hongkong and Macau are engaged in smuggling opium

into China, and it is not fair that the revenue of

Macao from this traffic should be sacrificed, not for

the advancement of the cause of prohibition in China,

but in favour of the Hongkong revenue. I await the

definite reply promised from Mucao, but should like

to be able to comunicate to the Ministries of For-

eign Affairs and of the Colonies sure detailed

reply to the figures supplied to me privately by

Colonel Freire d'Andrade and forwarded in my despatch

No. 130 Confidential of the 2nd instat.

(Signed)

I huve &c.,

Charles Wingfield.