Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Reply to the Defence of the Opium Trade by the Shanghai Correspondent of the "Times"
The Times, March 3lst, published a letter from Shanghai, the avowed object of which was to refute the arguments of the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade. Several persons have intimated to the Secretary their opinion that he ought to reply to the attack. It does not appear to have occurred to their minds that a reply might have been sent to the Times, and denied insertion. Such, however, was the case. Possibly the Editor considered a reply unnecessary the same issue of the Times which contained the Shanghai letter having also contained a leading article, characterizing it thus: It is a plea of extenuating circumstances rather than of not guilty a plea which might have been advanced in the days of Queen Anne, on behalf of the stipulation by which England acquired the privilege of providing the Spanish West Indies with negro slaves. Having avowed himself unconvinced by his Correspondent's logic, the Editor may have deemed it super?uous to print any other reply. But, unfortunately, some provincial newspapers reproduced the Shanghai letter, and not the leading article. It seems, therefore, to be necessary that the Shanghai writer's attack should be answered by a representative of the Society.
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