Foreign Office: Chinese Secretary's Office, Various Embassies and Consulates, China: General Correspondence. SECTION TWO FO 682/1972/39

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Foreign Office: Chinese Secretary's Office, Various Embassies and Consulates, China: General Correspondence. SECTION TWO: DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE CHINESE AND BRITISH AUTHORITIES 1839-1860. Lin Tse-hsü and Teng T'ing-cheng to Chiang Li-ang for C. Elliot: (1) accept Elliot's opium bond but insist that following sentence be added: "henceforth any opium found will be confiscated and smuggler executed"; (2) give new deadline of ten days to handover murderer of Lin Wei-hsi; (3) notorious opium dealers who have been expelled from Macao are given six days to return and pack up belongings; (4) traitors still in British service must be handed over. 30 pages.
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