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FRIEND
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
F CHEN A AND HONGKONG GAZNTIA,
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5en. 1813.
to imperatively necessitato such hard conditions. We hardly think, we have yet come to this.
As to thir eligibility of our association with India, wo have many strong grounds of objection, which we must roserve for another opportunity; means thin we may say, that there is no reason, why the Ir is believed, for it is wished, in well informed troops and Steamers of the Company may not be quarters, that our Island may hereafter be a do-employed, and as in the case of China Way, be paid *pendency of British India, like Singapore. Among || for by the Crown ; if needed, by the Hong Kong other arguments, in favour of this union, it is alleg. Govornment. Ceylon is a Crown Colony, although ed that the Troops and Steamers, necessary on the Shoros, almost indeed a part of India. Hong the
proper protection of our Trade and Commerce, Kong too, will we trust, be yet spared the infliction can be more conveniently and cheaply supplied of the banefit dominance of the East India Com- by the Company, than the Crown.
for
Further, that the peculiarity of the Chinese peo- ple, renders it indispensible for our safety that Bri- tish intercourse with them, should be as vigilantly watched over, as British relations in India; where numerically, we are so immensely inferior to the native population, Besides, it is held to be abso- lutely necessary, that a power of deporting all British Subjects, who may become obnoxious to Authority, by acts of disobedience, evasions or in- fractions of the revenue laws of China, should be given to the Consuls and Superintendents of the British Trade, in this quarter of the World.
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It is well known that the late Plenipotentiary, declared it wholly impossible, to command the respect or obedience of British subjects, unless he were armed with such authority, and moreover with an adequate force to compel obedience. He represented the utter lawlessness, which generally prevailed; induced, ho alleged, by the vast con- traband trade in Opium. These opinions, he pow- erfully urged on the attention of the Home Go- vernment, and it is thought not without effect.
pany...
By an advertisement in the Sydney Herald, we perceive a Company is organizing there, to work the Copper lodes which are known to exist in the Great Barrier Island, which is situated at the mouth of the Thames River, in New Zealand. As says of the Ores (the scientific character of which is not stated) give it is said a very encouraging result, and the Aucklandites are sanguine of suc-
cess.
In so new a settlement, to give a profitable return, the Copper ores must either be of more than double the average richness of those of Corn- wall-exist in much greater abundance, or of the easiest access to a port of Shipment. We should think the ores would pay better, if not smelted on the spot, but Shipped direct to Swansea.
that
out.
In the former, Quicksilver is an article of never failing demand in the latter Silver always commands a high promium.
As we are on the subject, we may mention that recent accounts from Peru report the Quicksilver mines of Guancavelica, to have been partially re- opened. They had fallen in, some thirty years, since from being so unscientifically wrought. They then produced only about 200 tons per annum.
The
e supply of the Precious metals is greatly dependent on the high or low price of Quicksilver. The Inte high rates, render it wholly unprofitable to submit the poorer Silver ores (of which there are abundant supplies) to the process of amalga. mation, as heretofore. It was expected, the sup. ply of Silver from South America, would from this
discoveries, or greater diligence and skill in this cause be much diminished, but new and valu- the working of the mines, have so far neutralised the effects of the high prices of Quicksilv that on very good authority, we are able to state, that at no former period in South America, was the product of the Precious metals greater, than at the present time.
We may add, that we have no sanguine expec tation that at Aden, Quicksilver will be found in quantities sufficient, to become an article of Com- merce; we have far more hope of a supply from the newly opened mines in Tuscany, which afford very favourable indications of ultimate success.
Sailing Letter, given to parties who may
THE following is a copy of the form of
require such a document, in carrying on their trade with this Colony
N
SAILING LETTER,
whereof
whereof
owner; and 1 hereby make known to all Her Britannic Majesty's public Authorities appointed to reside abroad, and also to all other Officers in her said Majesty's service tuted Authorities in Foreign Countries, that the said both civil and military, and also to the several consti.
is the property
In the Bombay Times of the 20th of August, we see a notice of Quicksilver found at Aden. It was forwarded to the Bombay Government by Dr. Malcolmson. The Editor of Times says, This necessity for a co-ercing force, with a pow-
"the quicksilver is found adherent, in small globu er of deportation, has received it is said abundant les to the sides of the cavities of a reddish coloured corroboration from recent events; to say, nothing vesicular slag, which when struck upon a board of British Subjects proceeding to Canton, in the
or shaken out on a table coalesce into a globule teeth of the Notification of the Plenipotentiary.
of considerable magnitude." This rock, as we The powers applied for, and which it is believed happen to know, abounds very much all over
To be renewed yearly-for the protection of ships will be granted, are somewhat similar to those Aden. By the way, our impression of this Island owned by British subjects, but not entitled to the privi given to the Company, by the 53° GEORGI III (where we stopped for a day en route to China) was leges of British ships duly registered and navigated....*** Cap. 153, over persons residing in India without a
that it was one huge cinder, and we were parti- 1,
Her Britannic Majest y's licence. The words of the statute år, "Be it cularly struck with the beautifully varied tints,
Superintendent of the Trade of British Sub- enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for the which the chemical action of different degrees of jects in China, do grant this sailing letter, as above said Governor General, or in his absence from his combustion, had produced on the Volcanic rocks. designated for the use and navigation of the ship or Government, the Vice President, the Governor of Our Contemporary (for whose scientific know. vessel called the any of the said Company's Presidencies. the Chief ledge and personal character, we have a high res.is at present Master, Officer of the said Company, resident at any Bri-pect, and who we are glad to see, has recently tish Settlement in the East Indies. or Parts afore-received from the University of St. Andrews, a said, the Company's Council of Supercargoes at Doctor's diploma) is quite correct when he says. the Town and Factory of Canton, within the said
Quicksilver is not, so far as we can observe, any Town or Factory and upon the River of Canton, where set down, as known amongst the products or other Part of the Coast of China, and such of volcanoes of such recent activity as Aden ap-ship or vessel other Persons as may be from time to time be espe- pears to have been; so that this discovery fur- cially deputed and authorized for that Purpose by mishes a new and striking fact in a geological the Court of Directors of the said United Compa- knowledge. ny, to take, arrest, seize and cause to be taken ar- rested and seized, at any Place or Places within the East Indies or Parts aforesaid, and to remit and send to the United Kingdom, on board any Ship or Ships of, or belonging to or in the Service of the said Company, bound to the United King- dom, all such Persons, so being found at any such Place or Places in the East Indies, or Parts afore- said, without License or other lawful Authority for that purpose, and the Masters or other persons having command of all such Ships, shall and they are hereby authorized and required to receive and safely and securely to keep, aft and avery, such Person, and Persons who shall be sent on board any Ship or Ships for the Purpose aforesaid, until such Person or Persons shall be landed in some Port or Ports of the United Kingdom Provided always, that every Person whe shall be so put on board any such Ship, for the Purpose aforesaid, shall be entitled to be discharged in such Port of the United Kingdom, in which such Ship shall be moored in safety, as such Person shall think fit." Those best acquainted with China are unanimous in the opinion, that it is incumbent on some such powers being granted to the Authorities, otherwise another rupture with the Chinese, cannot, long be avoided.
We may be wrong, and we may over-estimate the restraining power of public opinion, when we say, that with Hongkong, a British Possession, and with a Free Press, it is impossible that the acts, heretofore done with impunity by British Subjects, can be repeated now. We would fain hope the moral tone of a sound public opinion (which we believe, cannot but be induced in a British, Seitle- ment) will operate successfully in repressing aught that may be amenable to virtuous censure, whilst the higher offences will be congnizable and pu- nishable by the Laws, which, we are sure faithfully administered. Till the efficacy of remedy is fairly tested and proved by experience, we shall not be disposed, ce
acquiesce in such arbitrary Powers Subjects being ain granted. We hayn
nance to such an abnegation of onal rights. Before the exercise can be warranted, the urgent
of the case, must also be generally ackn
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hence it arises,esides ***
The quicksilver of Commerce, is almost wholly produced by sublimation from the Native sulphu- ret, Cinnabar. The mines of Almaden, in Spain have been successfully wrought for fully 2500 are still the principal sources of supply, and they years. The mines of Idria, in productiveness, stand next in rank. The Rothschilds have monopoly of these, about 80 per Cent higher than before the celebra- the Spanish mines, and price of Quicksilver is ted Toreno Contract, in which, it is Christina of Spain, had a deep
Queen The best defined chrystals of cinnabar, are found in the coal formation of the Palatinate, and when there, we obtained very fine specimens, we also found some
me presenting the liquid character of that from Aden, except that the globules were not so We also were then presented with some
minute.
nterest.
very valuable specimens of native amalgam, or Silver combined with mercury.
Cinnabar, we may inform our unscientific read erd is, in fact, Vermilion, which like it, is but a compound of mercury and Sulphur, in about the same proportions, as the most abundant and im- portant ore of Quicksilver.
The Chinese have long been celebrated for their Vermillion; which is deservedly esteemed in com- merce. Dr. Ure says Its rich tone may be imit- ated, by adding to the materials from which it is sublimed, about one per cent of the Sulphuret of Antimony. The humid process of Kirchoff, fur- mishes a vermillion quite equal in brilliancy to the Chinese, but the process is we believe more operose. We shall be much obliged, if some of our readers can give us any information as to the Chinese process
es in
We believe the Chinese quicksilver, is the pro- duct of the Cinnal tent of supply? but we have
If, as we
at much 15
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South Amer
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to the protection of the laws of England. in all mat- of a British subject, and that she is therefore entitled,
ters relating to the rights of property But I do, at the same time, make known that by this sailing letter, there are given to the said vessel no rights of trade or navigation which are by the laws of England confined certificates of British registry, which is the only legal to British ships properly so called, and provided with evidence of their title to that character; nor to exer- cise any privilege of trade or navigation which is by
Navigation and Registry do not preclude British sub- the laws of England confined to the ships of any foreign Country owned and navigated by the subjects of such Country. But, inasmuch as the British laws of jects from employing ships other than registered ships they trade, nor in certain other cases, in voyages between Foreign Countries, between which letter is granted to the said vessel
this sailing order that she may be duly protected as British Pro- perty, while employed in any of such unrestricted vor- ages. And for the more certain identification of the do hereby certify that she has decks, and said vessel, for which this sailing letter is granted, I
stem to the after part of her stern post abast, is masts; that her length, from the fore part of the main
in. English; ber dreadth at the broadest part is ft
inches,
in, English, her feet,
inches, iu., English that she is rigged as a with a
bowsprit is sterned; has quarter gallerics; is built has a
head
with a rise of feet,
in English to the quarter deck, and
to the mode of admeasurement prescribed by the Bri- Toss according tsh Act
feet
feet,
depth of hold is
ft.
that she measures afloat
inches,
inches
to regulate
the admeasurement of the tonnage and burden of the merchant shipping of the United Kingdon, pasted in
the year
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto subscribed my name, add affixed my seal of office at
day of rear of our Lord one thousand
We hope to find L'in our next.
3pin the
ght hundred and als SUPERINTENDENT
BRAVA SUBKC Mana.