August 3.) Tientsin, Juno 3, 1882.
My Lord,—In the preceding despatch I sketched the slow progress of the discus. sion, commenced la September 1876, of the question of opium taxation.
Briefly to restate the case which demands a decision at the hands of Hor Majesty's Government, in 1876 I proposed at Chefoo that, the likin Collectorates being excluded from the port settlements, with which the Chinese Government was undoubtedly free to levy li-kin on opium, the K-kin which muar otherwise be lost to the Chinese by. this exclusion of Collestoyates
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