British Opium Policy and Its Results to India and ChinaS. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876 - 308 頁 |
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Alcock alcohol altogether amount appear Appendix Benares Bengal British Government British opium policy Calcutta Canton Captain Elliot chests China Chinese Government commercial Company's consumed consumption course demand districts drug duty East India Company East India Finance edicts effects Emperor Emperor of China Empire England English evidence evil export extend the cultivation fact foreign Governor habit Hong merchants honourable Imperial import increase Indian Government Indian revenue indulgence injury intercourse land laws legalization Lintin Lord Elgin Lord Palmerston Majesty's Majesty's Government Malwa Malwa opium manufacture ment millions moderate monopoly moral nation native opium officials opinion opium revenue opium trade opium war opium-smoking Patna Peking pernicious piculs poppy port practice present produced profits prohibition province quantity of opium regard Report result ships smokers smugglers smuggling trade spirits stimulants superintendent supply Szechuen taels taxation territories tion treaty Treaty of Tientsin vice whole Yunnan
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第 84 頁 - ... to protect an infamous contraband traffic, and if it were never to be hoisted except as it is now hoisted on the coast of China, we should recoil from its sight with horror...
第 247 頁 - Whenever His Majesty's Government direct us to prevent British vessels engaging in the traffic, we can enforce any order to that effect ; but a more certain method would be to prohibit the growth of the poppy and manufacture of Opium in British India...
第 235 頁 - Think of me as of one, even when four months had passed, still agitated, writhing, throbbing, palpitating, shattered ; and much, perhaps, in the situation of him who has been racked...
第 266 頁 - India Company, and for the better government of His Majesty's Indian territories, should be read a second time.
第 118 頁 - It is true I cannot prevent the introduction of the flowing poison ; gain-seeking and corrupt men will for profit and sensuality, defeat my wishes ; but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people.
第 232 頁 - ... observation, and that when cases do occur the habit is frequently found to have been induced by the presence of some painful chronic disease, to escape from the sufferings of which the patient has fled to this resource. That this is not always the...
第 248 頁 - Elliott the decision which they ought to have made known months, not to say years before, that "her Majesty's Government could not interfere for the purpose of enabling British subjects to violate the laws of the country with which they trade;" and that "any loss therefore which such persons may suffer in consequence of the more effectual execution of the Chinese laws on this subject must be borne by the parties who have brought that loss on themselves by their own acts.
第 125 頁 - This matter is injurious to commercial interests in no ordinary degree. If His Excellency the British Minister cannot, before it is too late, arrange a plan for a joint prohibition (of the traffic), then no matter with what devotedness the writers may plead, they may be unable to cause the people to put aside all ill-feeling and so strengthen friendly relations as to place them for ever beyond fear of disturbance.
第 256 頁 - ... the growing audacity of the foreign smugglers, and preventing their associating themselves with the desperate and lawless of their own large cities.
第 235 頁 - The digestive organs are in the highest degree disturbed ; the sufferer eats scarcely anything, and has hardly one evacuation in a week ; his mental and bodily powers are destroyed, — he is impotent.