Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-12-04
origin With j. to be found in period long besOre

that sczurr happened
The lsctuier then went into history ofthe diff
Guilty between Lord Napier and the Chinese, con.
seaueot upon his following his instructions to com.
mu, ieale oniy with the Viceroy Of Canton. and
not with the Hong merchants. These merchants
ha always been The persons through whom all
communications had been made whist the East
India Cnmpiny's charter had existed but upon
the Establishment Of the trade on more liberal
footing, tic British government, which then as
sumed The control instead Of the Company, deter
min d no longer to submit to treat with any but
the recognized authority in the Empire. This
brought IA tiers TO a crisis The Chinese insisted
upon an ack"o"lrd cement of superiority, which the
British have as tcshu,ely refused. The quarrel IL
then found, d upon abstract principle Of the law
Of nature nnd nations, and not at all upon the right
to he compensated for Prohibited article Of trade.
ing Of perfect equality with another. in the relation
they establish with each other.
With tie death of Lord Napier, eau ed by cha.
grin md modification OF the indignty and insults
which had hccn hraped upon him, tho lecturer con
clud,d. And with it he announced ,ha, be had
not arrived even a, the settlement Of the fret ques.
lion proposed by him at the ou,set--lhe justice Of
the cause between the two parties At some fu>
ute time he promised if he should live, to
it, He finish, j by brief nllusion to the last of
hi, four questions-,he duties of the American
government and people in the premises. by con-
trasting the repusc of Lord Naper's agent from
the gates OF Canton, in July, 1894, with the ran
san afthst city for six millions of dollars, in June,
lsii, he drew the moral th'a evey halion should
prepare 'M war and preserre peace.
We are not sure ,ha, have given the full
train Of reflections, of the arsumen, but by this
abstract We are confident that readers may
gather some accurate notion Of the substance OF the
lecture which occupied one hour and twenty min
utes in the delivery, to crowded an auditory, not.
wi hstandrg The torrents of rain, as was probably
ever assembled within the walls of The Temple on
any sinilar occasion.
We confess tha, we do no. see that Mr.. Adams
has sustained the justice Of the British cause. Ne-
the. the law of nations which Mr.. d,ms says is
says has, in pari become the law Of nations, can
warrant muderous attack upon people for r,fu-
| sing commeici Il intercourse with nation which
they do not like, whose commerce they have never
courted, and whose hospitality they have never tn
| ioycd.
! The idea that China must lie coercel, by blood
shed and the destruction Of her commercial cities
into intercourse with Great Britain, because a state
of nature is state of peace appears to u to be q
gross non seguifur, or else Mr.. Adams catches his
ideas Of peace from the motto Of his native State
and below tha, it must always be sough, by the
sword.
Chni is one of the few nations that have adopted
the "le, alone policy" She shields herself, o
rather she seems to have thought hat she had shield
ed herself from the abstraction of ihose commercia
laws upon which other nations go TO war, by avoid
ing all active commerce, and conining herself to
passive commerce which being upon her own soil
she could regulate by her own laws. But Englan'
seems determined TO possess herself OF that com
merce, and the means oft likewise and she find
an advocate in q nation which is likely TO sutfe
most by the mode of peaceful commerce.
If Great Britain succeeds in making treaty wit
China, after bait, ring down her fortfcalions nn
seabosrd ciiies, it is retty certain that she will Pr
into the conditions certain clauses that will give h,
ships and her merchandise a pref renee. Chin
now takes the coarse fabrics of this country an
gen,ian. How long will she consent TO take frol
US any thing which she receive from nato
that is so expert in illustrating the truth, that
state Of nature is a state of peace, and who is Z
skilled in giving enpositions of Of tho cannon laT
of christianity.
II England should make a treaty with Chin
other commercial nations must that they a.
not left behind in the right of enforcing trade.
The following ireatn1nt of burns is copied fro
the London Medic / Gazette:
CoNNes Soar, which, besides its grcat Va 'ue
a local application, commands the additional adval
tsse Of always being a, hand in cases OF emergenc
= The mole in which am in the habi, OF employ
> it is this A common shaving box may alwa..
he procured from which a good lsther may, in Il
course of minute two, he easily ot,sne
This la,her is then gently laid over the burnt 81
y face ly means of shaving brush, and 50 soon
&C the drst coat begins to dry, OF the pain retuI
u This Practice ought to be repraed occasionally d
lie ring the first day until sue tine the pain
e rci,ved. The benefit accraing to the patient
N Immediate and the result of The practice highly