This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... equired for thorn pnrpnrmr/niust be greater, year by year, as the resources of the euyjire develop, and its transfers multiply, under the hand of peaceful industry. It is only on this admission, that an abstraction of 50,000,000 or 60,000,000 dollars, caused by the sales of opium, within the last ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... equired for thorn pnrpnrmr/niust be greater, year by year, as the resources of the euyjire develop, and its transfers multiply, under the hand of peaceful industry. It is only on this admission, that an abstraction of 50,000,000 or 60,000,000 dollars, caused by the sales of opium, within the last fifteen years, can have been felt as a great embarrassment, calling the Imperial Council together to consult on checking it. We learn from the opium memorialists, that the silver mines of China are not abundant, and that the laws in force respecting them, are framed, (not to check their produce, and so lessen the dangers of excessive wealth, ) but to protect them from exhaustion. It should not surprise us to find this motive working in China, since it has shown itself so often in Western legislation, and was, a century ago, a main argument with the Japanese, for restricting their trade with foreign countries. These fears of exhausting their mineral wealth, unfortunately became connected, in the minds of Chinese statesmen, with vague apprehensions of a time to come, when, with weakened sinews, they should have to stand in collision with Western nations. There was enough, in actual experience, and historic knowledge of European doings in the East, to suggest the apprehension. Had any thing more been needed, to prompt the foresight, such sentiments as the following, from a Canton paper of April, 1833, would have been sufficient: "Perhaps nothing could contribute more readily to the final reduction of the Chinese people to reasonable terms with foreigners, than this steady and never-ceasing impoverishment of the country, by the abstraction of the circulating medium, by the export of the returns of the opium trade." To keep to the financial...
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