As to the meanness, hypocrisy, and the rest, we need not say more than we have already said, but may notice in passing that unlimited abuse of England’s foreign policy seems, curiously enough, to be a guarantee with some people of the speaker or writer’s having the real interests of England at heart; and a man needs only to stigmatize the national policy with the added acrimony of alliteration as “cruel, cowardly, and criminal,”[137] for him to pass for the purest of patriots.
And now, in conclusion, we are content to leave the issue of this controversy to the judgment of our countrymen, feeling sure that, if justice and right are on the side of the agitators, they will succeed; if not, that the agitation will inevitably die a natural death: ever withal remembering the maxim—
Magna est veritas et prevalebit.
INDEX.
Alcock, Sir Rutherford, [4], [15], [129].
Anti-Opium Society, [5], [62], [136], [137].
Baring, Sir Evelyn, [60], [123] ff.
Brereton, Truth about Opium, [5], [57], [58], [68], [89], [136].
Canton, Governor of, [32].
Chefoo Convention, [34] ff.
Coalloon, action in Bay of, [17].
De Quincey, [70], [86].
Drain of Silver from China, [13], [23].
Lawson, Sir Wilfrid, [4], [137].
Li Hung Chang, [31], [128], [131].
Lin, [11], [16].
Memorials about Opium to Pekin Government—
Heu Naetze, [12].
Wootingpoo, [24], [30].
Yupochuan, [31].
Missionaries, [5], [97] ff.
Moore, Dr., [42], [43].
Narcotics, [76].
Opium—
Abkari, [52], [56].
Consumption of, in Armenia, [51].
Burmah, [46] ff.
Consumption of, in England, [51], [52].
India, [41] ff.
Turkey, [51].
Duties paid on, [23].
East India Company’s trade in, [9].
Edicts against, [9], [12], [13], [15], [21].
Financial aspect of trade, [115] ff.
Forced on China, [91] ff.
Foreign trade, [8] ff.
How consumed, [39].
Imported into China, [27], [28], [57], [84].
Innocuousness of, [39].
Medicinal, [37], [38].
Missionaries versus, [82].
Monopoly of, [96], [115] ff.
Mortality from, [64], [70].
Number of Smokers of, [70] ff.
Reasons for Chinese partiality for, [78], [79].
Revenue from, to India, [33].
" " to China, [33].
Tariff on, [33], [38].
Poppy Plant—
Extent of cultivation in China, [31].
" " in India, [54].
Known early in China, [6], [29].
Original habitat of, [6].
Ports opened, [17], [34].
Protective party in China, [11].
Wars—
1840, [2], [17].
1856, [25].
1860, [27].
Shaftesbury, Earl of, [31], [61].
Yeh, [76].
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