 Complete the following phrase:  Gladstone was an intense opponent of the opium trade. Referring to the opium trade between British India and Qing China, Gladstone described it as infamous and atrocious. Gladstone emerged as a fierce critic of the Opium Wars, which Britain waged to re-legalise the British opium trade into China, which had been made illegal by the Chinese government. He publicly lambasted the wars as Palmerstons Opium War and said that he felt in dread of the judgements of God upon England for our national iniquity towards China in May 1840. A famous speech was made by Gladstone in Parliament against the 