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Fouchoo-foo, with all its demoralizing influences on the 

 population, and embarrassing effects on the monetary 

 condition of the place." 



There is a very erroneous impression, viz. : that the 

 opium eater is not a dangerous man under its effects. 

 The facts are quite the reverse. On all war or exter- 

 minating excursions of the Singphoos, they keep up the 

 excitement by opium. Under its influence, the face 

 becomes fearfully puffed, the eyes dazzling, and then the 

 person so affected is roused by the least provocation to 

 perpetrate any murderous act ; and so dangerous are 

 they under this excitement, that it is necessary to sooth 

 them. When the English goverment established smok- 

 ing shops at Hong Kong, they were obliged to prohibit 

 the smokers to carry arms into the shops, under a very 

 heavy penalty of fifty dollars. It is only when the ef- 

 fects die off that the smoker becomes quiet, because 

 his body and mind are then prostrated, and he trembles 

 from head to foot. 



The English Government is not content with the word 

 smuggling, they do not like the name ; it does not sound 

 well ; and what would that Government do to wash 

 out that foul stain ? They would add to the villany of 

 smuggling and poisoning, the crime of corruption of as 

 noble an emperor as ever sat on a throne. They strive 

 to corrupt him, that they might have the unfortunate 

 Chinese at their feet, and then, instead of administering 

 54,000 to 80,000 chests of poison to the unfortunate 

 people, they could send hundreds of thousands of chests, 

 and destroy every good quality amongst them, and 

 then say to them as one of the Governor Generals of 

 India said to the native princes of that country : " You 



