...in the case of the embassy of Lord Amherst, to swerve in the smallest degree from a direct course of calm and dispassionate, but determined maintenance...of your Majesty's empire in the scale of nations, well assured as we feel, that any descent from such just position, would be attended with worse consequences...

...in the case of the embassy of Lord Amherst, to swerve in the smallest degree from a direct course of calm and dispassionate, but determined maintenance...of your Majesty's empire in the scale of nations, well assured as we feel that any descent from such just position would be attended with worse consequences...

...negotiations in which such pretensions are not decidedly repelled." Finally, I will quote a passage more closely and ominously applicable to any inconsiderate...to permit any future commissioner to set his foot ca the shores of China, until ample assurance is afforded of a reception and treatment suitable to...

...in the case of the embassy of Lord Amherst, to swerve in the smallest degree from a direct course of calm and dispassionate, but determined, maintenance...of your Majesty's empire in the scale of nations." Finally it is urged that no one should be appointed British envoy who was known to have been connected...

...in the case of the embassy of Lord Amherst, to swerve in the smallest degree from a direct course of calm and dispassionate, but determined maintenance...of Your Majesty's empire in the scale of nations, well assured as we feel, that any descent from such just position, would be attended with worse consequences...