The letter written by Commissioner Lin to Queen Victoria requesting an end to the trade of opium with china was written out of necessity. Commissioner Lin was appointed by Emperor Qianlong to cease the opium trade. He was stationed in Canton, which at the time was the only port that of which foreigners could use to trade with china. In Lin’s letter to Queen Victoria he demanded an end to the trade of opium. Opium use in China had become a major problem with roughly 10% of the population considered
1. What is Lin asking Queen Victoria to do, and why? Lin pleaded to Queen (mistakenly calling her “King”) Victoria to ban Britain’s opium trade with China and to shut down its illegal opium production in India. He and the emperor were desperate to terminate the trafficking of opium because it jeopardized China. The drug is very addictive, unhealthy, and uneconomical. When a person is on opium, he loses his drive to work, so he won’t do his job. This was destructive for the economy. The government
other hand, the British do need the materials they are getting from the Chinese. Since the Chinese are trying to avoid any conflict with the British, they offer ways in which this problem could easily be solved. In the letter, Lin Zexu states that Queen Victoria check the outgoing British ships and vessels headed to China and other nations. And to also make it a law, that is known and followed, that anyone smuggling any opium into other nations shall face extreme consequences. Also that the amount of
Queen Victoria was the longest reigning British monarch in history. Ruling the U.K. from 1873 to 1901. Queen Victoria’s death on January 22, 1901 at the age of 81 was mourned around the world and signaled an end to the VIctorian Era For months the Queen’s health had been failing. Victoria had lost her appetite and started looking smaller and smaller. She would become very tired more easily and would become very confused. The Queen had left very
reached 3 to 5 percent of the population” (Schoppa 2008). The British did not have many goods to trade with China so they, used China’s opium addiction to their advantage. They supplied opium to dealers and government officials, they were able to milk large amounts of silver from China. The dealings of opium prompted Lin to address the crown with devices such as letters. The letter was meant for the Queen of England, Queen Victoria, to read and realize what this devastating drug was doing to both Chinese
a year after that, they had a baby boy named Rodrigo. The Barbosa family had many connections in Spain, and they got Ferdinand an appointment with the king of Spain. The king of Spain at the time was, Charles 1, the grandson of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, who funded Columbus' voyage to the New World in 1492. Just like his grandparents, King Charles gave support to Magellan for his westward voyage. Magellan had promised the King that his expedition would bring an abundance of riches for Spain
also the princess Victoria went to school she didn't like being treated different from others she wanted to be the same as the other people. Everything was going fine and then Victoria met a trustworthy girl named Maria and they were so close friends. But Maria was just using Victoria to know all her problems and make fun of her later on behind her back without knowing. They all wanted to have fun so they went down to the ice skating rink but, Noe didn't know how to skate, so Victoria tough him and
acknowledge that it is inextricably linked to the reign of Queen Victoria. The Online Cambridge Dictionary, for instance, merely defines the term as “belonging to, made in, or living in the time when Queen Victoria was queen of the UK (1837–1901)”. The term ‘Victorian’ is becoming merely a marker for a historical period, without any socio-cultural connotations. In: Victorian Poetry, Poetics and Politics (1993), Isobel Armstrong claims how wrong it is to conceive of Victorian poetry as merely characterized
from Paris to London, whilst life shifts from ownership of land to modern urban economy (Greenblatt & Abrams, 2006, p.979). The Victorian Era began in 1930, while the Queen Victoria ascends to the throne in 1937, ruling the British Empire until 1901, thus being part of the developments of the time. Queen Victoria was a devoted queen and mother of 9 children. She became the symbol of earnestness, moral values, importance of family and ideal motherhood while reigning the country, this way representing
collection of his short stories (Murphy). He later wrote a book called Great Expectations which would end up defining the Victorian era. When people think of the Victorian era, some remember the queen, still many think of the things that happened to Pip or the convicts. Others may think of Pip’s attitude as how people from the Victorian era acted. Pip was a stuck up, arrogant man who thought being a so called gentleman gave him the right to act that way. Yet he ends up being a dynamic character in the