THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE.
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of official matter, we are reluctantly compiled to leave it over for our next publication..........[
Captain Sir J. A. Douglas, Kt, of Kowl celebrity, is now an inmate of the Fleet. Prisan, for debt.
Sydney papers to the 17th April lave come to hand. They report the failure of the BANK or AUSTRALIA TEA was quoted very dull of e) le Hyson Skin, £4' 11⁄2 Od per chest,
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themselves from danger. A sheep before a Wolf,|| landed, and this city, containing from 200,000 to ghows more courage I believe than a Chinese 300,000 souls, was taken without " a blow been before in European. In China cowardice || struck." appears to be a virtue, they show so much base. On taking possession of the town it was found ness and vile submission, so crawl
rostrate that the Mandarins had fled, and profiting by the in their defeats that one has
them
three days which the English had allowed to they are actually disgusting, an disposed to repel with the
strongly intervene between the taking of Chin-line and Their crawling Ningpo, they carried away or hid the public trea- salutations, Whoeyor had see Ing of Chin- || sure, which was said to hae (and it was the same every
immense. The mer- must admit || chants also had had time to carry off their valuable that the conquest of China could bare mere handful of men, indeed
ted by a goods, so effectually that the whole value of pro- that one regimentperty found did not exceed 100,000 to 200,000 We regret to notice by the Straits Mesing the sickness of the climate, might march from entirely empty.
capable of carrying its own isions, and avoid dollars, whilst the principal warehouses were senger, just received, that it is its last Canton to Pekin, taking all the towns issue.. "The lamentable demise of the late even the most populous, without losing a man, for the way, Editor, Mr Edwards, is, we are told, the the Mandarins would fly before, then, and when the Mandarins are gone, the people belong to any Chi-hae wrote the Emperor that “he would send him a bed made of the tanned skins of the Eng, lish,” and from „papers found in lus house, it ap: peared that he had written to the Court, that the he had driven them away, that they had fled,, and proceeding further, and after two days of fruitless barbarians had appeared before Chin-bae, but that A stone bridge prevented the expedition from had not since been heard of. This must of course, search, Yu-yaou was abandoned, and the Steamers have been in, allusion to the steamer that had re-returned to Ningpo. The country which the river connoitered a few days before the attack, when a traverses between Yaou and Ningpo, appeared to few cannon shots had been exchanged, yet this be of great richness and beauty, besides being well most of the attacks, and afterwards proud him banks, in order to see the barbarians pass in their
ran away the commence cultivated. The population in crowds to self at Nir
ing-po.
the Admiral at once went up the river with his In order to repair this fault and needless delay, Steamers, until about miles above Ningpo, he found a great and rich City called Yu-yaou, poor trembling wretches, the the houses shut up. Yu-yaou is said by those who deserted and have seen it to be a fine city, very rich, and con- taining from 30,000 to 40,000 souls,
cause of the discontinuance of a paper body that would take them, The Mandarin of || into which he entered, but streets thing except
which certainly merited a better faté. --
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MARINE MAGISTRATE'S OFFICE- Opium Robbery --Thursday, 12th July. Four Chinese Boatmen of the name of Chun-Aoo, Laong-Attyc, Loo-Akie, and Chun-Ayee, were, charged by Mr Pitcher, with having stolen a Chest of Opiume
Joe) • Burnt Mr Pitcher deponed, that on the previous day he to Gillespie's Godowns for filly cheets of Went to slip on board the Petrel schooner, and engaged a Curgo-Boat, of which the prisoners formed part of the crew. After the chests were put into the boat he counted them, and found fifty one, upon which he sent one back, and counted those in the Godown, when he found there was one missing ; those in the boat were again counted, and the boat properly searched, but the chest could not be found. The boat was then despatched to the schooner, and the Coolie told to do all he could to find the chest.
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fire boats
The town of Chin-hae must be looked upon as a place of great importance, and one cannot ima- General, occupied themselves in endeavours to On their return to Ningpo, the Admiral and gine why, during the former year, a part of the organise a police and establish order. Some of expedition was allowed to remain and die of fever the principal merchants then came forward and at Chusan, when they might,
glit, so easily have taken offered to open their stores, if they could be as- this town, where there were cannon founderics,sured of protection, this was immediately accorded, and manufactories of all sorts of arms. I visited but it was easy to see in their shops that the objects one of these founderies, and I even saw a cannon of greatest value had all been carried away, others hot in its mould certainly, our finest establishments offered to re-establish commerce, if the English of this kind are not on a larger scale. The faculty of would guarantee them that they would not abandon imitation has caused the Clunese to run their brass cannon similar to ours, except that
the country, for they said if we trade with you, bore is not and afterwards you abandon us, the Mandarins something like a perty," they could not be promised this, and their
houses remained shut,
Yeong-Akee, a Coolie who had been long in the employment of the house, deponed, that after the Opium was delivered to the vessel, he went on
Cargo Bout and perfunded one of the drilled, but widened, cleaned, and polished, by a will return cut off our heads and seize our pro-
board crew
on the other; that soon afterwards the man took a small Sampan boat, the Lower Bazaar, returning with " Opium,
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The case was clearly proven against the ers, on further evidence, 12 catties being sing, which, at the actual value of £420 per were worth $46. They were sentenced to receive cigtheen lashes each, and pay 85 to the Queen.
COMMERCIAL.
CANTON, 16TH JUL. Trade is still in an unsettled state, but Teas are being ship ped at the reduced duty of tour Taels, The
are nearly The New Tarifi (it is expected be in action on the 1st of
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quantity of powder, of firelocks, pivots, bows, arrows, lances. word, arms of all kinds tha The English destroyed all. thirty beautifulbrass cap
The morning of the attack, a strango aspect all the house
destro
shut or pillaged, and miserat whose dwellings had bee or heard crying and earth imploring passing, while
Export of Tu pri queste
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The great difficulty which prevented the English erything taking a decisive part, was, that they wanted the means of organisation of order. In this it was necessary they should find some Chinese that had influence with the people. The Mandarins could not be found, the principal merchants did not possess that influence, and besides, for the same reason that they durst not open their shops, they dare not take a responsibility which in the end might been fatal to them, yet the difficulty increas- ed from day to day, for it was evident that if the houses continued to be shut up they would soon be deserted, that the different moral currents at pre- sent arrested by a kind of stupor would soon re- en establish themselves, and teexcesses might not be feared from such a numerous population. Up on to the present time only the houses of the Mandar
ins had been pillaged by the Chinese mob, the merchants who had remained shut up in their houses had not yet seen them violated.)
For the short time that the Military occupation conti- ed, without a Chinese Police established under fish Authority could the troops be expected to ent a general disorder in so large a space? mae ves certainly had nothing to fear, for her passed thousands of Chinese bowed e earth, but how could 800 Troops ho were at the attack were Sailors, ed to their ships) stop robbery and b'extended over a circle of 0 or sting of from 80,000 to 100,000 he worst class. It was indispensable over the population should be who ought to receive their lish, but in the whole expe- ce interpreters who
the Man nderstand that of the en um sible for these heir attention to every ched to the Staff of and General
we could appreciate at which the English occu- Chin-hae, and Ning-po, of Fo-keen and Che- at all this damage which to 31,000,000 of ere handful, say some
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