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    when they copied out the words of my official reply , and gave the reply to him , he laid it down and would not peruse it ! !' Loo next proceeds to give an account of the arrival of another ship of war in Macao Roads , and remarks , not without terror , ' I again , and a third time , consulted with your Majesty ' s minister , Ke ,

    and we came to the conclusion that the common disposition of the English barbarians is ferocious ; what they trust in are the strength of their ships and the effectiveness of their guns ! ' Loo declares that they will treat Lord Napier with consideration , because they stand in the relative state of host and guest ; but , ' if he should madly think to steal over bounds , our troops may peaceably wait to work with him . '

    Let a dispassionate reader mark the concluding extracts : 'The said Barbarian Eye would not receive the linguists to interpret , so that the officers deputed had no means of giving clear orders , and after having repeatedly commanded the Hong merchants to inquire and investigate , the origin arid occasion of his mission still could not be at all ascertained There has P been want of bending and stooping to irivesli

    ' no gatc clearly ; nor has he been forcibly troubled with any difficulty . Vet the said Barbarian Eye / &c . Here follows an account of the dictatorial offences of Lord Napier . Again : ' AX present the barbarian ships which clandestinely sell opium in the outer seas are daily increasing . Just when the laws were being established to bring them to order , there further came this mad , mistaken , Barbarian J ] ye ! '

    K ^ 4 at this time indulgence be at once shown to them , they will then advance step by step , begetting other foolish expectations . Jt is unavoidable that a slight display should be made of reducing and repressing them . But , ' L , oo adds , * there decidedly must not be the least tendency towards what will occasion the commencement of a bloody quarrel ami disturbance . '

    Now in spite of the ludicrous vanities and other national peculiarities contained in the ahove Memorial , its equity , moderation , pacific disposition , and love of order and regularity in the conduct of public- affairs , is fully ; is upparent as its sedate ( crosslegged ) reasonings and curious prying investigations and queries are irresistibly comic . But while the Chinese authorities and merchants , and the British authorities and merchants in China , have

    been thrown into a . state of excitement , during the process of which it is evident that the aggrieved celestials kept their temper and behiived with moderation , the only sincere excitement that has been produced in Kngland , is among the tea-dealers hot h wholesale and retail ; not as to who is right and who is wrong in the recent quarrel ; not as to the chances of war with China ;—but as to the best method of tilling their pockets " in case of accidents . " Messrs . Brocksopp announce , that although there is a great rise in the market , there is no rise in their prices , the excellent article remain-

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    Chinese Politics . 2 S 3

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1835, page 283, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2644/page/59/