Memorials about Opium to Pekin Government-- Heu Naetze, 12. Wootingpoo, 24, 30. Yupochuan, 31. Missionaries, 5, 97 ff. Moore, Dr., 42, 43. Narcotics, 76. Opium-- Abkari, 52, 56. Consumption of, in Armenia, 51. Burmah, 46 ff. Consumption of, in England, 51, 52. India, 41 ff. Turkey, 51. Duties paid on, 23. East India Company's trade in, 9. Edicts against, 9, 12, 13, 15, 21. Financial aspect of trade, 115 ff. Forced on China, 91 ff. Foreign trade, 8 ff. How consumed, 39. Imported into China, 27, 28, 57, 84. Innocuousness of, 39. Medicinal, 37, 38. Missionaries _versus_, 82. Monopoly of, 96, 115 ff. Mortality from, 64, 70. Number of Smokers of, 70 ff. Reasons for Chinese partiality for, 78, 79. Revenue from, to India, 33. " " to China, 33. Tariff on, 33, 38. Poppy Plant-- Extent of cultivation in China, 31. " " in India, 54. Known early in China, 6, 29. Original _habitat_ of, 6. Ports opened, 17, 34. Protective party in China, 11. Wars-- 1840, 2, 17. 1856, 25. 1860, 27. Shaftesbury, Earl of, 31, 61. Yeh, 76. London: Printed by W. H. Allen & Co., 13, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. S.W. Footnotes: [1] April 2, 1883. [2] The insinuations of Mr. Lock in the _Contemporary_ are simply beneath contempt. [3] Soo Sung, a poet of the eleventh century, says the poppy was grown everywhere. [4] Com. East Indian Finance 1870, Qu. 5865. [5] _Ibid._, Qu. 5855. [6] A.D. 25-220. [7] In a work on China published 1857. [8] A fee of one dollar was regularly left by the smugglers with the commander of the vessel, to be called for by the preventive officer. [9] Don Sinibaldo, however, attributes this removal to the exactions of the Portuguese douanier. See p. 6 of his pamphlet on opium. [10] Capt. Hall's _Nemesis_, p. 113. [11] _Nemesis_, p. 115. [12] See _Opium_, a paper by F. C. Danvers, 1881. [13] One tael silver was nominally equivalent to 1,000 cash; the silver had now risen to be worth 16,000 cash. [14] Tang, the Governor of Canton, himself dealt largely in opium. See _Nemesis_, pp. 84, 113. [15] A guild of Chinese traders at Canton. [16] Lord Macartney placidly allowed his interpreter to style him "this red-bristled barbarian tribute-bearer." [17] Don Sinibaldo says (p. 8) that opium not being expressly mentioned, "fait partie des articles non spécifiés, qui sont tenus de payer un droit d'entrée de cinq pour cent"; but surely this is a mistake. [18] We can well believe with Capt. Hall that "whatever part the question arising out of the opium trade may have afterwards borne in the complication of difficulties, there is little doubt that the first germ of them all was developed at the moment when the general trade with China became free."--_Nemesis_, p. 79. [19] Sir J. Davis, Dec. 21, 1855. [20] £650,000.