To the Editor of the the letter I addressed you on mat., and which you did me the favour to pul your issue of the 20th, I ventured to point out the summary in which Lord Mlgin disposed of the ficulties convected with inland taxation of Brit in Japan, by the 16th Article of our treaty with that Empire, which rendered all taxation over and clearly ile tification of extra duties being levied, if such an attempt were ever So satisfactorily was this object Mal August, 1858, attained, that Lord Elgin, writing to Lord
1 of transit duc The completeness of Lord Elgin's proviso in Japan t grievances similar to those which British commerce has had to suffer in China, makes it all the more regrettable that his Lordship did not frame the 28th Article of the Tientsin Treaty ith equal precision; but it would be very woning to infer that the when troating with plied Lord Elyin's having viewed the case of China as exceptional, and that it was to be treated on different principles, As I observed in my letter above referred to, Lord Elgin concluded the Jupan treaty exactly two months after signing that of Tientsin. Whether his remembrance of what he had stipulated for in his convention with Chins, stimulated him to make
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