THE
Hongkong
Government
GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.
NEW SERIES.
VICTORIA, MONDAY, 8TH FEBRUARY, 1858.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,
VOL. III. No. 138.
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By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, Chief Superintendent of Trade, A., &c., has received from His Excellency The EARL OF ELGIN, High Commissioner and Plenipotentiary of Her Britannic Majesty, the following Notification, which is published for general information.
By Order,
Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th February, 1858.
GEO. S. MORRISON.
CANTON, le 6 Février, 1858.
Les Soussignés, hauts Commissaires et Plénipotentiaires de L.L., M.M. l'Empereur des Français et la Reine de la Grande Bretagne tc, etc., portent à la connaissance de toutes les personnes téressées, que la ville de Canton ayant été prise par les forces ées de la France et de l'Angleterre, cette ville et ses faubourgs at occupés militairement et soumis aux lois qu'impose l'état de
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NOTIFICATION.
The undersigned, High Commissioners and Plenipotentiaries of Their Majesties the Queen of Great Britain and the Emperor of the Frenchi, deem it proper to state, for general information, that Canton having been captured by the Allied British and Freuch Forces, the City and Suburbs are ia Military occupation and under Martial Law.
Tranquillity being re-established, the Commanders-in-Chief of the Allied Forces have already declared that the Blockade of the River and Port of Cauton will be raised on the 10th inst., and hare made public the conditions under which persons, other than Chinese, desirous to visit the City or Suburbs, will be permitted to do so after the Blockade shall have been raised.
Under these circumstances the undersigned declare that the City and Suburbs will continue in Military occupation and under Mar.
La tranquillité y étant rétablie, les Commandants en Chef des rces alliées out déjà déclaré que le blocus de la Rivière et du rt de Canton serait levé le 10 de ce mois, et ils ont fait connaître conditions auxquelles tout individu, quelle que soit sa nationalité, Chinois excepté, aurait à se soumettre pour être autorisé à nétrer dans la ville et dans les fanbourgs apres la lèveé du blocus. Dans cet état de choses, les Soussignés déclarent que l'occupation litaire et l'état de siége de la ville et de ses faubourgs continue-tial Law, until further notice; but that hostile operations against rent à être effectifs jusqu'à nouvel ordre; mais que les hostilités entre la Chine seront suspendues provisoirement, sauf le cas où les Commandants en Chef des forces alliées seraient contraints d'avoir tecours à l'emploi de mesures de rigueur pour conserver leur position militaire dans Canton
En dehors des limites de l'occupation militaire, les rapports entre es indigènes et les sujets des Puissances alliées, ou qui sont placés tous leur protection, devront être ceux que les traités établissent.
BON. GROS.
ELGIN & KINGÅRDINE.
China, except such as the Commanders-in-Chief of the Allied Forces may consider it necessary to adopt for the security of their Military position in Cauton, are for the present suspended.
Beyond the limits of the Military occupation, the relations of British or French subjects, and of Persons entitled to British or French Protection, with the Chinese, are regulated by the provisions of the existing Treaties.
Canton, 6th February, 1858.
ELGIN & KINCARDINE, BON. GROS.
Tiue Copy,
H. F. HANCE.
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