I $4: BRITISH I'OLU'Y AND CuHliC 1> J'KJLN. 



are incapable of managing yourselves ; YOU are lawless, and 

 we must manage you ; von must receive into China our 

 contingent forces. \Ye cannot trust you to pay these 

 forces, we must see them paid ; therefore, allot to us the 

 province of Quang-Tong." 



The arrangement made, some squabble would soon 

 occur between the English province and the Chinese. It 

 would be magnified into insult, and that the people were 

 tumultuous ; extra forces and extra expense were neces- 

 sary to curb them, and another province must go to 

 England for that purpose. Next step would be to spur 

 <>n the unfortunate Government into hostility. War 

 would be declared, and England "would be triumphant; 

 the Emperor a prisoner, and declared dethroned, and 

 some worthless member put on the guddee uhrone). lie 

 would show hi< inability to reign, and would have to 

 accept a pension from England. And his Excellencv, 

 niY Lord Duke, as Governor-General of the Celestial 

 Empire, would issue his ukase, and the world then might 

 know the value of some hundred thousand chests of 

 opium, and England's feigned love of liberty. 



The amount of opium sales is now, sav $45,000,000. 

 Well, said tin; English, ; ' your Majesty has not power to 

 prevent us smuggling this opium, therefore, why resist? 

 Put a duty on the opium, it will put money into your 

 coffers/' Here was tin- ruffian duplicity of that offer. 

 Sav -~> per c'-nt duty was put >n, it would make 

 1 1 .nnn.niio dollars of a bribe for his Majesty. Then all 

 over China, as well a< on the sea-board, the poison would 

 flow like a desolating flame ; :!<><>, nun ,, r ijon^MM.) chests 

 would find consumers. His Majesty's revenue would be 

 gradually increasing from $1 1,000,000 to $41,250,000, 



