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Baring, Sir Evelyn, 60, 123 ff.

Canton, Governor of, 32.

Chefoo Convention, 34 ff.

Coalloon, action in Bay of, 17.

De Quincey, 70, 86.

Drain of Silver from China, 13, 23.

Lawson, Sir Wilfrid, 4, 137.

Li Hung Chang, 31, 128, 131.

Lin, 11, 16.

Memorials about Opium to Pekin Government-- Heu Naetze, 12. Wootingpoo, 24, 30. Yupochuan, 31.

Missionaries, 5, 97 ff.

Moore, Dr., 42, 43.

Narcotics, 76.

Ports opened, 17, 34.

Protective party in China, 11.

Wars-- 1840, 2, 17. 1856, 25. 1860, 27.

Shaftesbury, Earl of, 31, 61.

Yeh, 76.

London: Printed by W. H. Allen & Co., 13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. S.W.

Footnotes:

April 2, 1883.

Soo Sung, a poet of the eleventh century, says the poppy was grown everywhere.

Com. East Indian Finance 1870, Qu. 5865.

A.D. 25-220.

In a work on China published 1857.

A fee of one dollar was regularly left by the smugglers with the commander of the vessel, to be called for by the preventive officer.

Don Sinibaldo, however, attributes this removal to the exactions of the Portuguese douanier. See p. 6 of his pamphlet on opium.

One tael silver was nominally equivalent to 1,000 cash; the silver had now risen to be worth 16,000 cash.

A guild of Chinese traders at Canton.

Lord Macartney placidly allowed his interpreter to style him "this red-bristled barbarian tribute-bearer."

Don Sinibaldo says that opium not being expressly mentioned, "fait partie des articles non sp?cifi?s, qui sont tenus de payer un droit d'entr?e de cinq pour cent"; but surely this is a mistake.

Sir J. Davis, Dec. 21, 1855.

?650,000.

Mr. Lay, in a memorandum dated April 1844, gave it as his opinion that the difficulty of admitting opium rested only in the thought that it would be a violation of decorum for His Imperial Majesty to legalize a thing once so strongly condemned. He therefore advocated a change of name.

Sir G. Bonham, April 10, 1851.

The French took part in the expedition in order to obtain satisfaction for the murder of a missionary in 1856, so that in their case it was strictly a missionary war.

New Kwang, Tangchow, Taiwan , Swatow, and Kungchow .

Mr. Lay, secretary to Lord Elgin's mission.

Lord Elgin had been instructed by Lord Clarendon to ascertain whether the Chinese Government would revoke its prohibitions on opium. "Whether," says Lord Clarendon, "the legalization would tend to augment the trade may be doubtful, as it seems now to be carried to the full extent of the demand in China with the sanction and connivance of the local authorities."

From sixteen taels at Chinkiang to eighty-four taels at Foochow and Amoy.

Ichang, Wenchow, Wuhu, and Pakhoi.

Sept. 13, 1876.

Dr. Moore quotes Mr. Gardner's opinion to this effect.

Colonel Tod, in his book on the Rajpoots, draws a strong picture of the evil effects of opium consumption among them. Of this Sir Henry Lawrence, in a letter to Sir John Kaye, 1854, says, "There is little, if any, truth in it."

Similarly the Hurkarah, who carries letters and runs messages in India, provided with a small piece of opium, a bag of rice and a lump of bread, will perform incredible journeys.--Sir Rutherford Alcock, Paper before Society of Arts, p. 223.

Moore, p. 90.

Report by Mr. Weidemann, deputy-commissioner in Henzada, in Parliamentary paper relating to opium in British Burmah, sect. 11.

See a note appended to Sir Charles Aitchison's Report by Mr. C. Bernard, officiating Chief Commissioner in British Burmah.

Memorandum, sect. 9.

Memorandum, sect. 4.

Memorandum, sect. 13.

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