To the Editor of the —The criticisms to which the, audience Edict has been subjected by various writers in the public press, are not without their interest; and although they come quite too late to affect the question in a diplomatic point of view, they at any rate have their use in shew= ing the Chinese that, if any covert attempt at afront was intended, foreigners have proved themselves quite equal to the unmasking of the trick.
At the same time I am of opinion that hypercriticism in such a matter is to be deprecated, as calculated to do mischief by assuming an unfriendly intention where it was perhaps never thought of. The letter of your correspondent 'T. P. G., published in the Herald of the 19th Instant, I consider to be open to this oh:
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