CO129-57 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7] — Page 18

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intuenau,- as well as coresponden, hurate and public - with the

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therum & oilacne, on the

inject

& Pracy. I have

lo lealME

Carine that Sula suimarães

would

will take sucucures likely to

mix

continute seriony dis prition with the Thinese. He couch do

much, from the constitution of his Government, that I'áme not attemet, out he is at this mount

cusaged in serious questions with the Eximere, who are

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recognize

unwilling

his Consular

appointments- while the status of Macas itself, - which

Continue to

seerquize

as a

a part

Extract to

Admy

the Chinese dominions not

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iubject to inderendent Portugues

Control- may

J

Preate more intricate.

quections than are

likely at once

to present themselves.

But I am of Grinion,

-

A

grinion, without

compromising ourselves with the Chinese officials, - and indeed with the certainty of then convennenec, that much may be done

the

inppression of siracy, and in the dircction towards which W. Budges points, in places where the Imperial "Authority is absolutely non-csistent, and I should not hesitate to adont

chrong

my

measures (

(Communicating

intentions to the Mandarins)

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