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 in 1832. In 1837 the Viceroy re-established the cruising navy; but the Commodore  arranged with the foreign ships to convoy the opium for a percentage, which percentage he represented as being captured opium, and even undertook the import of opium himself. For these eminent services he received a peacock's feather, and was made a rear-admiral; in consequenco of which the yearly import gradually reached a figure of 40,000 or 50,000 chests. The suggestion made by certain Peking officials that this opium should be regularly taxed as a drug was rejected; and in the spring of 1839 Commissioner appeared upon the scene.

called upon the hong merchant [] to deliver up  [] and  [], who had been for many years in the habit of dealing in opium. , having got wind of this, had already mado his escape, but came with the English Company's Consul  [] from Macao to the Canton Foreign Factory. sent a body of soldiers to keep a watch upon them there and to surround the Líptak Fort, in the Canton River, with a cordon of rafts, so as to prevent communication therewith. He then ordered the surrender, within a given date, of all the opium on