CHINA AND THE CHINESE:

THEIR

RELIGION, CHARACTER, CUSTOMS,

AND

MANUFACTURES:

THE EVILS ARISING FROM THE

OPIUM TRADE:

WITH A GLANCE AT OUR

RELIGIOUS, MORAL, POLITICAL, AND COMMERCIAL
INTERCOURSE WITH THE COUNTRY.

BY

HENRY CHARLES SIRR, M.A.,

OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

WM. S. ORR & CO., AMEN CORNER, AND 147, STRAND.

MDCCCXLIX.

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4. N. WA

DEDICATED,

BY PERMISSION,

TO THE

HONORABLE HENRY FITZROY, M.P.,

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL OF THE HONORABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY,

&c., &c., &c.

The following pages are inscribed to the Honorable HENRY FITZROY, with the fervent hope, that they will induce him to exert his powerful energies, and brilliant talents in the Legislative Assembly of his country, to suppress the trade in Opium, and in token of respect and esteem,

By his obliged and faithful friend,

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THE AUTHOR.