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Mss:766 1754-1898. Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School.
foreign trade ,
and
we.
acting with Creat vigor. £ll of the foreign re.i_
dent. had been
mad.
prisoner. in the factorie. until the total quantitT
of opiUIII in foreign hand.
we.
eurrendered. !hi.
wa.
done, the quantity
being 20,283 che.te of the "elue of IIIOre tb8n ten millione of dollars,
and IIl8.tter. went on qUietly for. t11111,
bu.t
the fire WI., alW8¥' burning,
only ImOthered. I .hall not .ttempt to write the hi.tory of thi.
~.
a.
it has b.en done
mpny
time. alreaAr, notably
by
R. B. 'orb8e and W. H.
HUnter, both of wham were on the Ipot. I only .aw
I~
of
the
clOsing
Icenel.
We &ailed from Boeton in
Uq,
I think the 20th, 1841, in the
Mary
Ellen. She wae c'....lllImded
by
Uncle Au&ult1ne,
III
he wa. not wllliIl&
to be unoccupied at ",, but Capt. Sweetlin W.I the first officer. with
the underetandiD8 that he should be given cO""'Bnd in China. IIIr.Dearborn
wal .econd, to becaDe firet. The pa"engers were
J,Ir.
JOleph L. Robert.
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and
J,Ir.___ ••
on of
tIr.~.
The
latter Wat ,ent
out for
hi.
IIIOral health , but it w.. not JmlCh 1mprO'Jed by
it.
I never
.
aw
him
after
he
lett China on
the
return voyage, but I believe
he
died
•
few :fear. later wU.hout JmlCh chAnce in hit habit.. He .... an amiable ,
plea.ant fellow, without any other faultl. Bobert. wae a little red_
headed chap whom I hated cordially all the Y07a,ge without
~
cause
~hat
I
cell. remember ex.cept bein4!; cooped
up
in the same ahip.
It ••
1
rather
etrance
at
we were destined to be fsllow clerks and partners for m'ny
year" but I haYe no recollection
ot
dillild.ng
h1III.
after we landed.
Ons
of
the results of the Itate of qua.i
war
that enlted
wal that the Kn&lilh had all left Canton and taken J:'efU«e at Wacao.
HoD,!; Kong had not then COllIe into beiIll;.
Trade.
went on a. ueual, only the
Engli.h were obliged to employ the Americans to tran18ct all that portion
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