Excerpt from First Appendix to the Third Report From the Select Committee of the House of Commons, And, Minutes of Evidence on the Affairs of the East-India Company: 17th February to 6th October 1831 I. A great addition must be made in the number of mandarin merchants, or we must be allowed to trade freely with whom we please. New men will not offer to join the Hong, unless they have assurance that they may retire at their pleasure. They will not offer so long as they are forced to secure ships, thereby answering for the conduct of people whom they cannot control, and being in consequence exposed to the extortions and indignities of the government officers in the Hoppo department. New men will not come in when they are forced to succeed to a load of previously contracted debts and duties therefore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.