Opium Crisis: A Letter Addressed to Charles Elliot, Esq., Chief Superintendent of the British Trade with ChinaEdward Suter, Duncan and Malcolm, and Hatchard and Son, 1839 - 82 Seiten |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 33 - Enacts, that, if any persons, to the number of three or more, armed with fire-arms or other offensive weapons...
Seite 53 - The great object of the Bengal opium agencies is to furnish an article suitable to the peculiar tastes of the population of China, who value any sample of opium in direct proportion to the quantity of hotdrawn watery extract obtainable from it, and to the purity and strength of the flavor of that extract when dried and smoked through a pipe.
Seite 73 - He acts as if he felt, that the suppression of the import of opium, is indispensable to the safety of the State and the welfare of the people.
Seite 40 - ... imminent jeopardy. Thus profoundly impressed (and after the failure of his own public entreaties and injunctions),* the chief superintendent feels that he would have betrayed his duty to his gracious Sovereign and his country if he had hesitated, beyond the period he had formerly fixed, effectually to separate Her Majesty's Government from any direct or implied countenance of this dangerous irregularity...
Seite 27 - ... state wherein he resides, as of the government employing him, so that he may admonish all British subjects against carrying on an illicit commerce, to the detriment of the revenues, and in violation of the laws of either. And it is his duty to attend diligently to this part of his office, in order to prevent smug*gling, and consequent hazard of confiscation or detention of ships, and imprisonment of the masters and mariners.
Seite 33 - British subjects being owners of such schooners, cutters, or otherwise rigged small craft, engaged in the said illicit opium traffic within the Bocca Tigris, that her majesty's government will in no way interpose if the Chinese government shall think fit to seize and confiscate the same.
Seite 11 - ... hope that a trembling obedience to the laws and statutes of the celestial empire might be produced, that the good portion of the foreign community might thereby preserve for ever their commercial intercourse, and that the depraved portion might be prevented from pursuing their evil courses.
Seite 11 - This remarkable reply at once placed the fearful act in its right aspect. It was not a disrespect to flags — a public insult — it had no national bearing whatever. It was a holding up before the eyes of the introducers of opium one of the miserable partners of their trade, one of the wretched victims of their seductions. Awful as was the mode of appeal, it was yet a most moving appeal to what its director knew that barbarism could not extinguish — to human sympathies. It was while reading this...
Seite 76 - Look out for some talented traitor ; call him the sole representative of the old Ming family ; set up his throne in the deserted courts of its ancient capital. Make free intercourse with the southern half of China the price of this " protection;" and on coming away, bring a reimbursement, and leave a subsidy. Superiority in arms and discipline may make all this easy. To render it more sure, let it appear, that Providence shall always wait in vain for western piety to give Christianity to the East,...
Seite 68 - ... opinion of a stranger, to the disgusting effects of the betel and areca preparation. The Indian islanders are well known to be passionately addicted to the habitual use of opium, and yet the general use of this drug is but of comparatively recent introduction. They may have been taught the use of it by the Arabs ; but the extensive and pernicious consumption which now distinguishes the manners of the Indian islanders, is to be ascribed to the commerce of the Europeans, and to the debauching influence...