British Opium Policy and Its Results to India and ChinaS. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876 - 308 sider |
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British Opium Policy and Its Results to India and China Frederick Storrs Turner Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1876 |
British Opium Policy and Its Results to India and China Frederick Storrs Turner Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1876 |
British Opium Policy and Its Results to India and China Frederick Storrs Turner Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1876 |
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Alcock alcohol altogether amount Appendix Bengal British Government British opium policy Calcutta Canton Captain Elliot chests China Chinese Government commercial Company's consumed consumption course demand districts duty East India Company East India Finance edicts effects Emperor Emperor of China Empire England English evidence evil export extend the cultivation fact foreign Governor habit Hong merchants honourable House of Commons Ibid Imperial import increase Indian Government Indian revenue indulgence injury intercourse land laws legalization Lintin Lord Elgin Lord Palmerston Majesty's Majesty's Government Malwa manufacture ment millions missionary moderate monopoly moral nation native opium officials opinion opium merchants opium revenue opium trade opium traffic opium-smoking Patna Peking piculs poppy poppy cultivation port practice present produced profits prohibition province quantity of opium regard Report result ships smugglers smuggling trade stimulant supply Szechuen taels tion treaty Treaty of Tientsin vice whole Wilfred Lawson Yunnan
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Side 84 - ... to protect an infamous contraband traffic, and if it were never to be hoisted except as it is now hoisted on the coast of China, we should recoil from its sight with horror...
Side 263 - Whenever His Majesty's Government direct us to prevent British vessels engaging in the traffic, we can enforce any order to that effect ; but a more certain method would be to prohibit the growth of the poppy and manufacture of Opium in British India...
Side 273 - Why do you bring to our land the opium, which in your own lands is not made use of, by it defrauding men of their property, and causing injury to their lives ? I find that with this thing you have seduced and deluded the people of China for tens of years past, and countless are the unjust hoards that you have thus acquired. Such conduct rouses indignation in every human heart, and is utterly inexcusable in the eye of Celestial reason.
Side 239 - Think of me as of one, even when four months had passed, still agitated, writhing, throbbing, palpitating, shattered ; and much, perhaps, in the situation of him who has been racked...
Side 120 - It is true I cannot prevent the introduction of the flowing poison ; gain-seeking and corrupt men will for profit and sensuality, defeat my wishes ; but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people.
Side 264 - Elliott the decision which they ought to have made known months, not to say years before, that "her Majesty's Government could not interfere for the purpose of enabling British subjects to violate the laws of the country with which they trade;" and that "any loss therefore which such persons may suffer in consequence of the more effectual execution of the Chinese laws on this subject must be borne by the parties who have brought that loss on themselves by their own acts.
Side 127 - This matter is injurious to commercial interests in no ordinary degree. If His Excellency the British Minister cannot, before it is too late, arrange a plan for a joint prohibition (of the traffic), then no matter with what devotedness the writers may plead, they may be unable to cause the people to put aside all ill-feeling and so strengthen friendly relations as to place them for ever beyond fear of disturbance.
Side 241 - The digestive organs are in the highest degree disturbed ; the sufferer eats scarcely anything, and has hardly one evacuation in a week ; his mental and bodily powers are destroyed, — he is impotent.
Side 272 - Hookwang, issues his commands to the foreigners of every nation, requiring of all full acquaintance with the tenour thereof. It is known that the foreign vessels, which come for a reciprocal trade to Kwangtung, have derived from that trade very large profits. This is evidenced by the facts, — that, whereas the vessels, annually resorting hither, were formerly reckoned hardly by tens, their number has of late years amounted to a hundred and several times ten...
Side 270 - ... the Government of the British nation will regard these evil practices with no feelings of leniency, but, on the contrary, with severity and continual anxiety...