An foreigners in China'will hear with flaukow, Mr Chris. Gardner, proposes eat pleasure that H.B.M.'s Consul at
to take a very important. step towards stopping the farther issue of anti-foreign placards' in Hunan. He proposes to beard the Hunan lion in his den by visiting the Governor of the province at Changsha, whither he will be conveyed by H.MS: Esk, and we may be confident that the braggart voices of the Hunanese, who have vowed that their sacred soil shall never be polluted by the armed foot of the foreigner, will be hushed to a respectful murmur when they see a British man-of-war at anchor in the: river that bathes their Capital. It is a bold and at the same time a very politic step, and we congratulate all the powers that be that have had to be consulted before it could be taken, on having decided on sending a British Consul, and so' able a man as Mr. Gardner, in a British man-of-war into the heart of Hunan.
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