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Music your podcasts. Letter to the Queen of England from the High Imperial Commissioner Lynn and his colleagues

from the Canton Press.

Lynn, High Imperial Commissioner, a president of the Board of War, Vice Roy of the two Guang

provinces, etc., Kong, a president of the Board of War, Viceroy of the Two Guang

provinces, etc. And, uh, a vice president of the Board of War, Lieutenant Governor of Guangdong, etc.

Hereby conjointly addressed this public dispatch to the Queen of England

for the purpose of giving her clear and distinct information on the state of affairs, etc.

It is only our high and mighty emperor who alike supports and cherishes those of the inner

land and those from beyond the seas, who looks supports and cherishes those of the inner land and those from beyond

the seas, who looks upon all mankind with equal benevolence, who, if a source of prophet

exists anywhere, diffuses it over the whole world, who, if the tree of evil takes root anywhere,

plucks it up for the benefit of all nations, who, in a word, hath implanted in his

breast that heart by which beneficent nature herself governs the heavens and the earth.

You, the queen of your honorable nation, sit upon a throne occupied through successive generations

by predecessors, all of whom have been styled respectful and obedient.

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