Is British trade in China to. be suérified and are British interests to be ruined for the sake of an abstract idea, an idea that, if pat into practice, would throw the country, in whose favour it would be supposed to act, back a couple of decades, if it did not plunge it into a state of bankruptey and chaos from which it could scarce recover in half a century? Ts China going to sacrifice the work of years of her own merchants as well as that of their British commercial friends Ddeeatise a few ill-disciplined school
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