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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at orull .....de to
Bong-long
where the OOYernor. Sir JohD Dayl.,
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c_ at once to Ceton with all the foree at hie dl.poeal. and tl' ..n
becllJl a ..riee of "pour parl,rl,· which
had.
an ine1gn1ficant end1nc.
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qu...
Uon of the right
ot entry to the citT. and bet.len the two .tool•• the Encli.h tell to the
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round.
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he
right to CO into the city ..... noa.1nalQ- conceded, but
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thl principle of 'Ufe tor 11tl.' '!'Wo Chine..
had
been killed
'
b7
the
by tour pri.oner. bling takln
trom
the Canton jail and Ixecuted in the
pretlnCe of foreign otficer.. .lil then reeuced it. UI'II.&l ••poct.
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b7
the con5t.ant adnntage gained
by
tne
Chine'l in all their contelt. with the In&li.h .
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he
latter beean
bol dQ- , but aln,y••1....... red do1lD. to nothing. Procabl¥. the tea duties in
IzI&land
had.
much to
do
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take ....
aoation at Wacao. I had been in Canton tor three rearl
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tor
a tew houri at Yhampoa .
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had
arriTed in the eh1p SUrat. I went
doS'll
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I
ha....
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day.,
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ot
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oine to lioIl&-Kon,g, and on arrha! there I ccm:nmicatld with Kr.'aldron,
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