Opium in China / extracted from China; political, commercial, and social.

  • Robert Montgomery Martin
Date:
[1847?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Opium in China / extracted from China; political, commercial, and social. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ££2f/p ' 3Ar^n OPIUM IN CHINA, EXTRACTED FROM CHINA; POLITICAL, COMMERCIAL, AND SOCIAL:* [dedicated by gracious permission to the queen,] BY R. MONTGOMERY MARTIN, Late Her Majesty’s Treasurer for the Colonial, Consular and Diplomatic Services in China; and a Member of Her Majesty’s Legislative Council at Hong Kong, A perusal of the following description of the fearful crime that England is at this moment committing on the coast of China,is earnestly solicited; more especially by those who believe that Christianity is not a mere name, but a principle of daily action ; who deem that there is a national as well as an individual responsibility to the Creator and Preserver of mankind ; who consider that He who is the fountain of justice, decreed the inevitable punishment of sin, declaring that “ whatsoever a man (nation) soweth that shall he reapand who has incul¬ cated the blessed precept “ thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” Even those whose thoughts are chiefly occupied with the acquisition of wealth, with adding house to house, and field to field, too often heedless of the means used for such acquisition, and who are, alas! ready to overleap every law, human or Divine, which may interfere with their rapid accumulation of gain—must admit, if they peruse the an¬ nexed Report on the Opium traffic, laid before Her Ma¬ jesty’s Government, that it is a painful and unexagge¬ rated record of national guilt, and of human suffering. To the Bishops of the Anglican Church, who are placed in the highest legislative tribunal, to watch over the morals of the nation, this Report is specially commended. [* Published by James Madden, 8, Leadenhall Street, London, in two vols. 8vo.]