 He used it to print "scripture sheets, tracts, &c."

Britain's 1833 Government of India Act ended the East India Company's legal monopoly on the Canton trade.Amid the diplomatic crisis occasioned by the uptick in opium smuggling and Lord Napier's resort to force to assert his right to act as the British consul in Guangzhou, the Emperor personally expressed disbelief that westerners were responsible for the Chinese-language magazines and broadsides being distributed by the British.Qing subjects were forbidden to teach to the language, and a crackdown was ordered.