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"Nisi potus ad arma Exsiluit dicenda."--_Hor._
But then, as Praed says, "poets tell confounded lies," and this may be one of them. Coleridge, in later times, is said to have sought the same inspiration from opium; and poems like "Kubla Khan" testify that he found it.
[105] Enough, as Mr. Brereton says, to form a devil's punchbowl huge enough for all the population of the British Isles to swim in at the same time.
[106] Dr. Norman Kerr in a paper read at the Social Science Congress.
[107] "Any serious attempt to check the evil must originate with the people themselves," said the Chinese Commissioners to Sir Thomas Wade.
[108] To chastise the insolent barbarian, as Lord Palmerston put it to his electors at Tiverton.
[109] A similar proposal to establish a Russian protectorate over the members of the Greek Church in Turkey is thus spoken of by Lord Clarendon: "No sovereign, having a due regard for his own dignity and independence, could admit proposals which conferred upon a foreign and more powerful sovereign a right of protection over his own subjects."
[110] pp. 35-37.
[111] From the latest Parliamentary Paper, containing the correspondence between the Indian and English Governments on the subject of the negotiations with China, it appears (sects. 43-50) that neither the British nor Indian Government has any objection to the ratification of the Chefoo Convention. The _difficulty is to get the other Powers to agree_.
[112] Sir Evelyn Baring. Financial Statement on India for 1882.
[113] A late medical missionary.
[114] Brereton, p. 50. It appears, however, that there are 6,000 Christians already in j.a.pan, the result of fourteen years' preaching.
[115] Intense dislike to foreigners and foreign intercourse was an ever-present reason for condemning a drug which, more than anything else, kept the gates of the empire ajar to the "foreign devils."--_Opium Question Solved._
[116] Comm. on E. I. Finance 1871, Q. 5831.
[117] The same who has lately been in correspondence with the leaders of the Anti-Opium League.
[118] Comm. on E. I. Finance, Q. 5834.
[119] _Ibid._, Q. 5817.
[120] _Story of the Fuh-kien Mission_, p. 188.
[121] Capt. Hall, _Nemesis_, p. 375.
[122] _Story of the Fuh-kien Mission_, p. 252.
[123] _Times_, Aug. 22, 1882.
[124] _Times_, Aug. 22, 1882.
[125] _Times_, Aug. 22, 1882.
[126] Brereton, p. 68.
[127] See minute by Sir William Muir, Feb. 1868.
[128] Speech at Newcastle, 1880.
[129] Malwa bears a duty of 650, but the consistence of Malwa chest is 90-95, of Bengal 70-75.
[130] Owing to bad crops the revenue from opium _has_ considerably diminished in the last two years, but the present (1884) crop promises exceedingly well.
[131] 1882.
[132] Consul Medhurst, 1872.
[133] Sir Rutherford Alc.o.c.k's paper before the Society of Arts, p. 225.
[134] Justin McCarthy, _History of Our Own Times_, vol. i., p. 181.
[135] Parliamentary Paper, 1882.
[136] The organ of the Society.
[137] Sir Wilfrid Lawson on the Egyptian War.
