Harvard University - Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School / Heard family. Heard family business records, Volume FP-4, Folder GQ-2-2, and Volume JP-2.
Mss:766 1754-1898. Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School.
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of the ol d school,
who
did not \U!oierltand the miUtaq power of forelcn
nations . and
thuB
there were all
the
elementl of
onll
of the little ware
in whicb England del1ghtl, beeaUIII! eh. alwto/e derlvu plunder at
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d1aeulllon went on for month.,
like
all of a t1m11ar na1nlre in
China. the weak Sir John" hand, beln,g upheld by
the
plllllky , but
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Parke• • 1
do
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wb;y
there wall 8\1Ch a craze in EngllL'ld at
thi,
t1m8
for a r ow
with
China , un1e.. tbe;,r had been for Il 1011& tl!11f1 Without having
their hand, in their neighbor " pocket and it seemed atrlllllgll •
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It
any
r ate , they .Ir e all
agog
for II bit of plunder, Then'8 urlvad At Silli;&–
pore new.
had
juat r eached there of an att«IIPt to poilon
the
whole com–
munity.
As
the at eamer
had
left Hon&- Iong 1mnediatel¥ after
the
attempt ,
DO
datin!
te
D'W,
w.t
known,
and
we
1
I11re left in all anxlet;y
all
to ..ho
had
fallen victim, and who bad escaped . then
'
Iff!
arrived in Hon&- Koll& our
firet questiODa
were
the~e .
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glad to be relieved of
'
I!'(J
anxiety a t
once by 1111 brother'l cOllling on board the Ite_r .
Ie then l earned the atoq . It apf>eare that the dole of poieon
wae 10 Itrollj; that
it
acted al an _tic, and thenby cllrld itlelf . br.
were but one or two immediate deathl f r om the POilOD, but l everal we re
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much affected th.a.t they died eventually . E'9"eqone who employed that
b·k.... W8I poiloned (pohon
haTi~
been pu.t in the bread) and there wal
no douht that
he
had been e.c:tiu,g umier the orders of the Canton mandarinl .
Gul told me that when the flut new. of the poilonlng reached him hh firlt
care wu to ....a llo... a do.e of ICUltard. and then to get hold of our cOIIIpr a..
dore. HI
In!o~d
that gentleman that on the fir.t eymptom of 111nel.
i n any one in the house ,
he
would .hoot
him,
and
he
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until
it
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