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The following are excerpts from Commissioner Un's "Letter of Advice to Queen Victoria" which was written before the outbreak of the Opium Wars. It is unknown whether Queen Victoria ever read the letter. We find that your country is distant from us about sixty or seventy thousand [Chinese] miles that your foreign hips come hither striving the one with the other for our trade.and for the simple reason of their strong desire reap a profit.By what principle of reason then, should these foreigners send in return a poisonous drug which involves in the destruction those very notives of Chine? Without meoning to say that the foreigners orbor such destructive intentions In their hearts, we yet positively assets that from their inordinate thirst ofter oin, they are perfectly coreless obout the injuries they inflict upon us! And such being the case,we should like ask what has become of that conscience which heaven has implanted in the breasts of all men? 1. How does Commissioner Un describe British merchants?

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The following are excerpts from Commissioner Un's "Letter of Advice to Queen Victoria" which was written before the outbreak of the Opium Wars. It is unknown
whether Queen Victoria ever read the letter.
We find that your country is distant from us about sixty or seventy thousand [Chinese] miles that your foreign
hips come hither striving the one with the other for our trade.and for the simple reason of their strong desire
reap a profit.By what principle of reason then, should these foreigners send in return a poisonous drug
which involves in the destruction those very notives of Chine? Without meoning to say that the foreigners
orbor such destructive intentions In their hearts, we yet positively assets that from their inordinate thirst ofter
oin, they are perfectly coreless obout the injuries they inflict upon us! And such being the case,we should like
ask what has become of that conscience which heaven has implanted in the breasts of all men?
1. How does Commissioner Un describe British merchants?

The following are excerpts from Commissioner Un's "Letter of Advice to Queen Victoria" which was written before the outbreak of the Opium Wars. It is unknown whether Queen Victoria ever read the letter. We find that your country is distant from us about sixty or seventy thousand [Chinese] miles that your foreign hips come hither striving the one with the other for our trade.and for the simple reason of their strong desire reap a profit.By what principle of reason then, should these foreigners send in return a poisonous drug which involves in the destruction those very notives of Chine? Without meoning to say that the foreigners orbor such destructive intentions In their hearts, we yet positively assets that from their inordinate thirst ofter oin, they are perfectly coreless obout the injuries they inflict upon us! And such being the case,we should like ask what has become of that conscience which heaven has implanted in the breasts of all men? 1. How does Commissioner Un describe British merchants?

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British merchants are described as foreigners who are inordinately greedy for profit, who send a poisonous drug to China, and who cause injuries to the Chinese people.

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## Step 1<br />The first step in solving this problem is to carefully read and understand the excerpt from Commissioner Un's "Letter of Advice to Queen Victoria". The excerpt is a critique of British merchants and their actions.<br /><br />## Step 2<br />The next step is to identify the key phrases and words that Commissioner Un uses to describe British merchants. These phrases and words are "foreigners", "inordinate thirst for gain", "poisonous drug", and "injuries they inflict upon us".<br /><br />## Step 3<br />The final step is to interpret these phrases and words. Commissioner Un describes British merchants as "foreigners" who are driven by an "inordinate thirst for gain". He also refers to them as those who send a "poisonous drug" that causes "injuries" to the Chinese people.
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