Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Essay on the Opium Trade: Including a Sketch of Its History, Extent, Effects, Etc., As Carried on in India and China
This is the only American firm, as far as we can learn, engaged in the tramez and what is the amount of capital invested, or the extent of the trade carried on under the American ?ag, we have no means at hand of knowing.
The same censures which are applied to the English, should also be meted out to all Americans engaged in this traffic.
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