168 THE OJ'il'.M TKADE. 



In 1820 a prohibitory proclamation was issued against 

 opium. 



In ls;U another law was enacted, to Hog and transport 

 1 1 lose who refused to point out the seller of opium. 



In lSo2 an order was again issued against the im- 

 portation of opium. 



In 1S;U the order was re-published. 



In I*o7 an order was issued to send away to their own 

 country all fci opium warehousing ships." The same order 

 was issued again in the same year. 



In lSo8 a China man was sentenced and strangled in 

 face of the English factors at Canton, for trading in 

 opium. 



In ls:]i) full power was given to Commissioner Lin, to 

 suppress the opium smuggling. 



lu 1*4'J 1*0,^08 cnests of opium were forcibly taken 

 from tin.' English, who then signed a bond in which 

 they solemly bound themselves for ever, not to introduce 

 opium into China. The whole of the above opium was, 

 before English witnesses, mixed up with lime, salt, and 

 water, and so destroyed ; its value, some $0,000,000, 

 valuing at jjyjnn per chest. 



For this noble act of the Chinese 1 against smugglers, the 

 English government declared an unholy war against 

 China, of which all know the history. Hut have any 

 reflected on that ^ar, made on a virtuous internment, at 

 least upon a government that \vas acting nobly in defence 

 and protection of its subjects from demoralizing con- 

 taminations ' England made war on China, because she 

 dared to attempt to put down smuggling into her own 

 country. 



That is the country that cheers a Kossuth, for making 



