9 (ZVom a Correspondent.) . It is our deliberate opinion, collected from a long and anxious reflection upon the sub* feet, that the Chinese Government can never be dealt with in the way of negociation. It is too proud to admit a foreigner upon a parity of terms; and too false and hypocri* tical ever to abide by any engagement. IT MUST BE DISPLACED, and a more , reasonable government established in its place. CHINA MUST BE RULED BY A SOVEREIGN WHO FEELS THAT HE OWES HIS THRONE TO THE AS* CENDANCY OF BRITAIN; AND THIS EVENT IS NOT VERY FAR OFF. We deprecate war, and Britain has already enough of empire; but the Chinese government has driven us to the ultima ratio. There is no way of treating with this moiety of the world till the spirit of despotism has been destroyed. BEFORE .LONG THE BRITISH FLAG WILL WAVE OVER THE WHOLE OF EASTERN ASIA, FROM BURMAH TO MANCHURIA. The Japanese, who are a brave and highly interesting people, will catch the echoes of'freedom, and cast down the tyranny that now treads them to the earth. “IT HAS BEEN ASKED WHETHER BRITAIN IS ABLE TO GOVERN ' CHINA. TO THIS QUESTION WE REPLY IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. The Chinese people, from their love of traffic and attachment to peace and home, will yield a cheerful obedience to any power that protects them in their possession. Besides, they have every thing to gain by a connextion with us. Their natural curiosity, and their love of gain, will dispose them to court our iriendship, as soon as the spell that now binds them is broken. If the Tartar' power should be deposed, and a descendant of some former dynasty set up under the protection of Britain, 'the form of government will be preserved, and the people would have something to look up to as the fountain of literary honor. The Chinese are so far advanced in civilisation, that little would be required to be done by legislation to promote their social happiness. The severities of their penal laws might be softened, and the trial by torture abolished. Public business is conducted with great regularity among them and the fiscal burdens seem in no case to be heavy. ♦ “Nothingwould be necessary in the internal management but to select men of reputed honesty to fill the various offices, with sufficient salaries to keep them from taking bribes. Some of the provinces might hold out for a time ; but as soon as they dis* covered that there was no intention on the partot the foreigner, or his protege, the new Emperor, to increase taxation, to impose any badge of servitude upon them, or in anyv way to abridge their rights and privileges, they would fall in with the general arrangement. The friends of philanthropy and religion may heave a sigh at the prospect of blood and carnage; but if they look a little ahead, they will' see a vast expanse of ter* ritory, with its teeming millions, open to their efforts. With the Tartar pride, disdain and prejudice thrusting themselves in his way, the philanthropist will never be able to achieve any thing of importance in China. Wheh that power has been removed, he will have the fairest field the world contains for realizing his most sanguine wishes. The Chinese now prosper under our government at Malacca and Singapore, and they will flourish still more in their native soil under the same ascendency!!!” And how is this mighty conquest to be achieved, by which three hundred millions of the human race are to be added to the already overgrown empire of Britain? Through her commercial agency is the deed to be consummated. Mabk this. Having through her opium traders shamefully and shamelessly violated a well known edict of the Chinese government, she waits not to know whether negotiation or arbitration can settle her pretended grievances, but permits it to be published to the world that “ China must be ruled by a sovereign who feels that he owes his throne to the ascendancy of Britain; and this event is not far off.” It may be urged that this is the gasconade of a private individual, but the London Globe seldom admits any thing of so important a nature, unless it have the sanction of the government. The remarkable feature in this stupendous project is, that the conquest is to be gained by the agency of what ostensibly seems the ordinary course of commerce. Her mercantile interests must be taken care of, and forsooth an independent nation is to be brought prostrate at her feet! To those who understand even the first rudiments of the Chinese question, it need not be told that the grievances set forth by the British nation, as the grounds of her war upon China, are not the real ones. The great fact is this: that a great revenue is raised in British. India by the cultivation of the opium sent to China for sale. Let the demand in China be cut ofl, and the prosperity of British India is at once trenched upon in an alarming degree. And for this cause the government of a vast empire, a peaceful empire, is set at bold defiance. Leaving entirely out of view the moral bearings of the case, the bare project of overturning the present Chinese dy* nasty, and placing another in its stead, obedient to Britain, is a fearful evidence of the latter nation’s power and policy. Through her Commercial Company, she possessed herself of British India, and through her commercial interests she now allows the con* quest of China to be discussed.
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