168 THE OPIUM TRADE. 



In 1820 a prohibitory proclamation was issued against 

 opium. 



In 1831 another law was enacted, to flog and transport 

 those who refused to point out the seller of opium. 



In 1832 an order was again issued against the im 

 portation of opium. 



In 1834 the order was re-published. 



In 183T an order was issued to send away to their own 

 country all &quot; opium warehousing ships.&quot; The same order 

 was issued again in the same year. 



In 1838 a China man was sentenced and strangled in 

 face of the English factors at Canton, for trading in 

 opium. 



In 1839 full power was given to Commissioner Lin, to 

 suppress the opium smuggling. 



In 1849 20,238 cnests of opium were forcibly taken 

 from the 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 $6,000,000, 

 valuing at $300 per chest. 



For this noble act of the Chinese against smugglers, the 

 English government declared an unholy war against 

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

 reflected on that war, made on a virtuous government, at 

 least upon a government that was acting nobly in defence 

 and protection of its subjects from demoralizing con 

 taminations 1 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 



