THE FRIEND
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E. PINE COFFIN, C. G. Commissariat, Victoria, 3rd April, 1844.-
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
G. H. Skend, Esq., Marino Magistrate and Harbour Harbour Muster at Chusan, is appointed to be Assistant Deputy Post Mastor at that Purt.
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By order of His Excellency the Governor in Conneil. Government House, Victoria,
RICHARD WOOSNAM
Flongkong 220 April, 1844.
ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE,
*** (To the Editor of the Friend of China.)
Dear Sir,
Is this an English Colony? I should say No! If it was we should have the laws of England in force and the Sabbath would be kept boly, and the Overseers of the China workinan (some of them, I believe are under Government) would then be allowed to attend to their spiritual duties.
Are we free born British Subjects? T should almost say Mother Country for redress; as it seems here, that we are under Not! No! No!!! did I not know that we an appeal to the complete despotism-as witness many acta that have been already purpetrated, yet instance the one of this day-that of fining a he is a publican also depriving as of that refreshing Beverage, man twenty dollars for entertaining his private friends,although Ginger Beer, I should suppose Boda Water also will soon not be allowed to be sold, in case, any one should put a STICK
into it.
3.
Victoria, 19th April, 1944
A FREE MAN.
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his people so completely under their power that they act using the Sultan's name and authority to cover the charactor of their actions. And in the severil meetings I have had with the Sulton and his people, it was easily seen that the Coti people were all in "hi. your of the English coming among them and the Bugle against it, and their influence rules the Sultan's lecisions. While refusing permission for me to remiile here the Sultan and his Counell at the same time ex pressed their great desire to trade with the English and their hope that English Ships would often come here for that purpose. This refusal being made verbally I though it best to put my gwa and the Sollan's viewa in writing so that not any mistake should take place ng to either
The therefore wrote to stating that
English and expressing his great hopes that English ships would come up here and trade with him. The truth of these statements resolved at once to put to Sultan's letter and my statement of his desire to have the test, for it would have been most probable that the English trade might induce some of my countrymen to take advantage of it and come up here to be mur→ dered as poor Captain Carvesome was.
he desired noth ore than the friendship of the
Acting therefors upon the Sultan's roquest I thin day sont to him samples of the womny articles 1 have for aute and among others large quantities of the most import- aut articles hord (sult and tubnood). The sequel proved the opinion I had formed to be correct, and that the
Are we to endure all these and many other sets passively 7 Sultan's kind letter was only the decay for somo un
proparel merchant ship. The samples were all return- ed with the statement that they could not be bought
Of course not..
Tongarron, Câti River, 12th Foby., 1844 ore but at Semarindon-a vain attempt to place me To Captain HART, Yonge Quene, an
and my ships in the hands of the Bugis there prepared "and Captain Lewis, Brit Anne,
for any act and much easier performed when unlading. Gentlemen-Considering the position in which the
I cannot therefore help being suspicious of the pon- deem it proper to communicate to you my thoughts or nor cling us in our present position. We are now, ships you command and their crews are placed here.dact of the Sultan of Coti, and the Bugis his rulers; and more especially as I have seen vast preparations pursued. on the subject and opinion as to the best coulse to be
and have been lying off the Sultan's house with not-u gap to bear on us in any direction. The only guns which we know of in the place being those under the Sultan's house and impossibile to use against uk.
I
You are fully aware of the course I have pursued in cultiynging the friendship of the people on this great river since we entered it a month since; and my in variable desira to use every means in my power to conciliato their regard and open up a vast field for English enterprise and manufactures; this river of Coli lending into the heart of the Island of Borneo and to its richest districts. Hitherto na English ship has as far as I know ponetrated to Tongarron though we have good reason to know that some English and many Europeans have by the piracy and treachery of its inhabitants been either murdered here or detained in Captivity in this place. It has been necessary for us therefore to take and exerciso extreme care in our intercourse with the inhabitants.
Yesterday and to day we had the pleasant sight of upwards of 14 guns within a few hundred yards of us and pointed directly either at the brig or schooner, houses being taken down and cleared away and plai- forma tuled for the guns, while the large boats have dropped down to the island below us as if to stop our progress by forming a battery there. The Sultan's house and yards are filled with armed mon, two thous. and of whom we have already seen in one room and most of them having the deadly sampee, and guos hayo→ also been mounted on his house so as at a distance of two hundred yards to hear direc
direct on the ships. These symptoms of hostility are too great to be
t be despised,
Semerindon, the first large town on this river, is inhabited entirely by Bugis, a nation of all the tribes
especially with our small force, and it is incumbent of the Archipelago the most determinedly bloodshirsty, on me to take such steps as may seem best in our and the greatest haters of Europeans. The Bugis situation. Every one also knows that with a Bugis to bave hitherto exercised campiste influence over the show, you fear him is to find his kris at your throat, Sultan of Coli, and other triben solle on the river
and if placed in extremity with him you have no Coli, shutting up the trade of the river Il but them chanca but in killing him. Forts to show fear would selves, an i keeping the whole at the interior of the
be the signal to attack us, aud this if done on our pas part of the Borneo under the ulection in concessage down the river might chance to be a lion either mieuce. My object in coming hata was branka hooger or the brig drived into the bushes by the intercourse with the Sokan of Cott, and the Dyak curiei tribes, the natives the Island for the Bugid are.
Yon
their
better able to
orten
bes many hund
frearms than the
would be tüken ate great dishdvantage, Ti into the interior amont the Drake wonld be of avoiding the Bugle And oil £ be serving the poor Dyake do with our pidsent store of provi
up the river being to TON nd not Armly and decidid
y ip proceeding down the Loen prepared for us in which may be at any of vor und öertainly at Bomer
stain bostages for our safety of Europeans and others
i by the treatment ible to
Government Hause,
COVER
NOT
that