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are incapable of managing yourselves ; you are lawless, and 

 we must manage you ; you must receive into China our 

 contingent forces. We cannot irust you to pay these 

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

 province of Quang-Tong.&quot; 



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 

 on 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 (throne). He 

 would show his inability to reign, and would have to 

 accept a pension from England. And his Excellency, 

 my 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, say $45,000,000. 

 Well, said the English, &quot; your Majesty has not power to 

 prevent us smuggling this opium, therefore, why resist 1 

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

 coffers.&quot; Here was the ruffian duplicity of that offer. 

 .Say 25 per cent duty was put on, it would make 

 11,000,000 dollars of a bribe for his Majesty. Then all 

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

 flow like a desolating flame ; 200,000 or 300,000 chests 

 would find consumers. His Majesty s revenue would be 

 gradually increasing from $11,000,000 to $41,250,000, 



