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GOVERNMENT NOTICE.
For the supply of Brooms for One Year, for the Ordnance and Barrack Department.
The Tenders must be sealed and marked on the envelope » Tenders for Barrack Services.
AN EDWARD PINE COFFIN, C. G. Commissariat,China,
Victoria, 4th October, 1944.
ENGINEER CONTRACTS
EDW, PINE COFFIN, C, G. Commissariat, Victoria, 4th October 1844
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BILLS ON THE TREASURY
NOTICE is hereby given, that tenders will be received at this office until Wednesday the 0th Inst Inclusive, for the purchase of Bills at 30 days sight, drawn by the undersigned on the Lord Comís sioners of Her Majesty's Treasury in London, to an amount, not exceeding ten thousand Pounds Sterling
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE.
bited on more occasions than one, and by more than one of Her Majesty's Consule at the North to inen, (Gentlemen
H.M. Ship Iris Captain Mundy, returned from Macao on Wednesday, having on board of our respected Lieut-Governor. To-day the Iris again lényes port, for a cruise round the Island, and on the arrival of the Custor expected about the 12th she will go north,
The Lis the Dudo, and the Cambrian, were built by Sir William Symonds, each being a beautiful specimen of her class, and, we are told they are slike in an admirable state of discipline.
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ninsula of Macao, where for two hundred years, they have dragged out an existence, neither profitable to themselves, nor honour- As in the present unfor- able to their country. (unate state of affairs in that settlement, it is more than probable, that a large portion of the inhabitants will seek an asylum in Hongkong we may shortly enquire into their character; also into the present state of their colony, its revenue, expenditure, and commerce.
TENDERS will be received at this, for theuns of ship), and to whose reponse la financed
Saturday the 12th instant inclusive, for the un- of Ship, and to whose intelligence rated by par dormentioned articles for Barrack services. vix. equally knowing as "Veritas bestial amount of dollars. Impediments and serious ones Base been thrown in the way 4 Cupboards Patterns to be seen at the, ---
of business at the North by an aver scrupulos autenton 50 Cot Boards í Ordnance Office
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minutial and detail, demanding of what has been found by the Consul General, at least at Canton, to be quite unneres 100 Large Chatties Similar to those usually 100 Small Do. supplied for hospital purposessary, and useless, so much as that one firm not the least yes pectable, or the most insignificant in the cast, toandind. ALSO
viseable to charter an American craft to avoid those inca xeniences, and to my knowledge others are about to adj
That part of the population of Macao, which the same aryton. It must be admitted that soon 158 late
claims to be Portuguese, in round numbers may hour to begin the business of a day even at Ningpo, where it is difficult to find occupation to stick away the huary hours
be set down at 5,000, exclusive of the military, and it appears passing change to mo indeed, that "Veritas
Since blir last skits the Supreme court has but of this number a very small proportion did not receive a direct, and Hát contradicúbh from tiề
best Authority" that Captain was kept waiting out been sitting for the trial of criminal cases. are of European birth or parentage of all the side the sanctum sanctorum from 10 o'clock A. M. to 12 pom th
The limited circulation of our paper Portuguese résident in Macao not-more than goon until the Official orgin had finished his morning meal at md-day, I presume! It must have been a idejeunes à la we cannot afford either to enlarge it or to 100 were born in Portugal, or in Portuguese fourchet Bar what occasion for the appearance of the employ a reporter: We are therefore placed dominions, except those of Asia. The last De ce un rad
Great Man" were none of the underlings, the Ductor in this position, either to report the proceedings census was taken, we believe, in 1834 At NOTICE is horoby given that tenders will be re Clerks competent to deliver up the ship's papers, and of the court to the exclusion of editorial'articles; that time the population was set down at 3793
low the Master to take advantage of the tide su necessary int ceived at this office until Tuesday the 15th Inst the rivers Could the Best attori ant disclaim the or to pablish editorials to the exclusion of re-free people and 1300 slaves; the greater portion inclusive, from such persons as may be willing to fact, that the Consul coolly Busted that i was no part of his portermin tim present statel of the colony we of the latter being slaves. There were at that undertake any of the undermentioned works at duty to give onacil, and advice to a Entish subject in à this place; plans and specifications of which may case of dispute between him and a native. Tepprehend that think it better to devote our attention to matters period 75 males and 2. females, of pure blood, be seen at the Office of the Commanding Royal to adjust diferences, and settle disputes, and to see justice connected with public improvements and com- and European birth--this included a Governor, done, ie the imperative duty of all Consuls, and of all Magis merce, leaving the affairs of the Suprema six ecclesiastics, as few military officers, mer- Engineer, viz, ordium alloquonia
trates, in all Constries; and it is to be regretted that the love To build two ranges of Soldier's Barracks, of his adopted Country, and its inhabitante; has blunted the court-unless some very interesting case chants, and seafaring people. Since then wo are not aware that any important change which must be undertaken on separate contracts, Consul's kindlier feeling for his own Countrymen aid and ( should occur to those who have more leisure, 3. To build a Sea Wall on the North side of the assistance is what we have a right to claim from our Consel or greater industry, than we can lay claim to. has taken place, with the exception of a tem
Battery leading batas Britch Subjects, and it ought to be freely givet in all We would notice the first case, as being also porary increase in the Chinese population, dur-
cases of emergency, altho' the applicat be "only the mastor 4. To make cuttings for drainage, and to alter of a merchant ship, and subleotto numerous pains, padalies, the first time that criminals have been legallying the few years the English merchants were the Water course in the Sepoy Cantonment and fese for infringement of certain fill defined, and not eas tried by a jury in China. We set aside the residents of Macao, now that they the English Security will be required for the fulfillment of ly remembered Regulations are to beginnen in het do
The assertion of "Voring that "higher rales" prevailed dramatic affair got up by the ex-Governor last have removed to Hongkong, the Chinese po the agreements entered into
for months past, then what was obtained by the intelligent winter, where he sentenced one poor wretch pulation may be set down at 30,000, or about Captain, for the bulk of his Cargo bears absurdity on the to death, though we are happy to say, the con- the same number as in 1834. On this subject. face of it, "quatations are not bona fide asies; I presume templated act of judicial inurder, has not been we quote from the valuable work of Sir Andrew indeed, it might possibly be for the interest of the Mercantile Community at large, and more parágularly for the Can perpetrated, and her and wi Ljungstedt. signers of goods to that port, that "Veritas" should establish The first case brought before an English, what ʼn grave historian assorta--and there is there as a Commission Agent, where Uno doubt - his superior intelligence would prevent his being done by the jury in China was one of abduction. The prno ground for impeaching his veracity be true, wily and cunning Chingman, who engrosses and manages to soners husband and wife through false pe that the prisons of Portugal were now and then keep the trade; in his own hands. It is a lamentable fees tendes induced two young women to enter emptied, and the vicious tenants, and even culprits,
who should bave finished their career in the gal that at Shanghai, as well as Ningpa, two highly respectable" their boats After they embarked, they were China merchants, supported by some hitherto undiscovered bound and carried up the Canton river, where leys, were sent on board the royal flects to serve influence monopolisze the whole trade or nearly so of both ports, to the manifest disadvantage of the English merchants, they were sold for 90 dollars, each. Their in India we have less reason to shudder at the and the less influential native dealer, who by some under friends in Hongkong, hearing where they were, enormities perpetrated by the Portuguese in many hand work of the Mandarins is kept in the back ground and went to Canton and paid $220 for their ran parts of Asia. Some of this unholy stock respect- prevented coming into the market u compete with theơn trang Honge, it would be well for our Consuls to look more cloably son. After their return the prisoners also ed neither friends nor toes; they seized every op into this matter than they have hitherto done; I am aware came back, when they were given in charge portunity to enrich their commander and his horde, that Captain Balfour hus exerted himself to prevent this for of the police. The evidence was perfectly They were at times pirates or stagglers; at times mation of Hongs and Licensing Systery, but without effect, clear sentence 18 months imprisonment strelling merchants. Several of this contaminated and Mr. Thom was to enquire into the matter when he had
correct morals. By this mixture, those who ha finished the important business of securig" I think the the male prisoner, to be kept at hard labour, custe settled, no doubt, at Macao, with men of more "Sir Edward Ryan or some other stange sail at Ningpo. and exposed in the marketplace once a month reluctantly run the race of vice, were by good ex- creased lately in a much greater rano than the trade of the As a matter of course, the business of the ample recalled to the comforts of social lite, which were soon enhanced by nuptial ties. Mulay, Chi port has done, or is ever likely to do,bat as it is most laborious court, was carried on with that decoram which work to "secure" ships and the Consul in each an arduous even characterises a British court of justice. nese, Japanese, and other women bocame their undertaking must bo well and ably supported, although it must/There was no opportunity for any display of partners in wedlock, and mothers of a generation, be difficult for him to find either work or amusement for such a refinue, sull as show is everything with Chinese eloquence, and with very good taste none was the descendants of which are perhaps still members Officials, and then the respectability of the service reuires attempted, either by the Chief Justice or of the community. Their progeny is distinguish- numbors, and may it not be well to have a Consular School Attorney General His Honour read over ed by the denomination of "Mestiço," or mongrels, where, pupils may acquire a knowledge of the language and the evidence to the Jury, who could not do Next to this class range those whose forefathers were not Portuguese, but either Malays, Chinese, the Chinese diplomacy at the same time, and no man in otherwise than return a verdict of guilty./g/
China is more capable of importing knowledge in those par. ticulars than the Consul at Ningpo, provided his pupils hova It was with much pleasure, we heard the or Japanese converts; but they, like the posterity that peculiar formation of brain to render them competent to Attorney, General explain to the culprits that of the Portuguese, are free citizens. In a represen The Coals will be sold in lots of not less than receive his instructions-On those grounds I think the Esta the English laws were not laws of vengeancetation, written in 1821, to be presented to the con ten Tone-cach, and case be viewed until the dayblishment might not to be objected to, so far as the routine they are intended to protect the inocent by the stitutional king. John, as it is averred, that in 15830. per cent of the purchase money at the time of Sale, clerk in the office of the Consul where ten times the mere vindictive feelings. We anticipate, that women, slaves, and many hundred of Chinese of Sale, Purchasers will be required to deposit temarily large. On a late visit to Shanghae, I found "only one punishment of guilt-not to push guilt from there were at Macao 900 Portuguese, besides and to remove the lots bought by them within amount of business was done, and who I regret has since been superseded, and he got on with ease to himself, giving fourteen days afterwards.
EDW. PINE COFFIN, C.G.aatisfaction to both merchant and Ship Master, but he was an intelligent clerk and could find time among his numerous Commissariat, Victoria,
duties to give a statement of Imports and Exports, (a copy of which appeared in your paper) and which I have not seen from any other of the Consulates, nor again from Shanghse, Fearing that trespass 100 much in your good nature, and that I may outrage your columns with language uusuited to the refined discrimination, and classic diction of Veritas, allow me to conclude my yarp, and in the most delicate, pos mible maner to Infeinate that there are men now command ing vessels in these waters, who, are, notwithstanding the alur thrown at them by Veritas" an honor to their con try, and who can boast of a respectability and intelligenco quite equal to that of any Consul in China, or even to that of tho supient and learned" Veritas" himself.
De ce and I am Mr. Editor.
Your most obedient servant.
W. formerly commanding "a clipper. Note.--Were such a thing necessary, we would cheerfully give testimony to the intelligence and NOTICE is hereby given that tenders will be re-respectability of many of Commanders of vessels, ceived at this office until Saturday the 5th October Inclusive, from such persons as may be willing to undertake the conveyance from hence to Madras of about 300 Invalids of the Honorable Compa- ny's Troops, or of any portion of that number not
The tenders must be sealed, and marked on the envelope Tender for Pills, and are to specify the number of Fence Sterling which will be taken in exchange for one Mexican or other Republican Dollar, the amount desired, to whose order pay able, and the number of Bills required, which can be drawn for any sum not under £100 Sterling.
EDW, PINE COFFIN, C. G.
Commissariat, Victoria,
4th October, 1844.
SALE OF COALS. NOTICE is hereby given, that a quantity of Costs not exceeding five hundred Tons, will be sold by Public Auction at the Commissariat Coal Sheds, on Friday the 11th instant, at 10 o'clock,
4th. Qotober, 1844.0. „Pub 7. baza Vádli tudi enev esh by TobinicDENOTICE; dur
WHEREAS the number of dogs straying on the Queen's Road, having no ostensible owners, has lately increased to a great extent, notice is hereby given that, from and after the 15th day of Octo- ber next, all dogs found straying without collars, or other marks of ownership will be destroyed by
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the Police.
By Order
J. BRUCE.
Victoria, 30th September, 1944
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SHIPS FOR MADRASK Men
less than 150 men,
The Consular Establishment at Ningpo has certainly in-
of business is concerned, the establishment seems unneces-
in
China-but it is unnecessary, few, or none,being in ignorance of the fact: The matter in dispute he tween Vindex and Veritas, and now alluded to by W. is one of delicacy. We have felt sore astonishment at the expense of the Consular es- tablishments-especially that of Ningpo-but have deferred saying anything on the subject, until we heard from the coast, in answer to some enquiries we have made
now the laws are in active operation, and a few severe examples are likely to be made, the Chinese will hold them in greater regard, and crime will decrease,
children, that had been purchased;* also a greut many people who came from Portuguese ports in Asia; and that at the latter end of the seventeenth century the population of Macao amounted ty 19,500 souls; in 1821 to no more than 4,600, consisting of free men, slaves, and people of all nations, including Chinese converts, who dress á Europeenne, viz, free natural subjects above fifteen years of age, 604 individuals, under fifteen 473 slaves 537 5 and women 2693, making a total
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In the history of nations, as in the life of individuals, we see the retributive justice of an unerring providence and are taught that, in justice, cruelty, cowardice or tyranny, whether committed by a nation, or by an individual, are
According to the pedigree, thus furnished by. sure to meet with the punishment they deserve. We need not refer our readers to Egypt or the learned Swede, the Macaenses are of Assyria, to Greece or to Rome, as corrobora- rather a mixed origin, but whether this cross- tive of the truth of what we now assert, that ing has improved the breed, as it certainly the sins of a nation are never overlooked or un- does in quadrupeds, we leave it for those who punished on the contrary, the whole range of are better acquainted with the people than we history, illustrates the grand truth that, nations are to say. We confess frankly, that so far as in the eyes of the Omniscient are as nothing, we have been brought into contact with the they are raised up for wise purposes, but when Portuguese in Hongkong, we have found them their iniquities become great, their punishment civil and polite. They also appear to be tempe- also is great. The injustice of Great Britain,lostrate and orderly,which is gratifying to know, as her forever the greater portion of her Ameri- their number is daily increased by fresh arrivals. can colonies; she has profited by the lesson, It is probable that those we judge of, are favo- and with maternal solicitude, protects and cul-rable specimens of their countrymen; and as The men will be ready to embark on or about
tivates the affections of the people in America, there are no restrictions placed upon their the 15th October, and will be furnished by the
who still recongize her allegiance. The op- settlement among us, the wealth and prospe Commissariat with Provisions, Medical Stores and
pressions of the Spaniards, lost them all their rity of this colony, may induce a more lawless Cooking utensils, as well as water if requisite. By the way, we would inform W-that his splendid colonies in that new world, which set to migrate.
Once ranking with the
It is rather amusing to hear of the res The Tenders are to state the name and other re-letter is anonymous, and that in publishing it, we they had discovered. quisite particulars of the ships offered, (which will lay ourselves open to the charge of inconsistency first of European nations, her crown resting triction's placed on their fellow subjects of be subjected to a survey by Officers of the Royal We know who it comes from, but at the same time proudly upon two hemispheres, and her flag Macao, a hundred years ago by the proud old Navy) and may be made either for Charter for we w wish to state finally, that in writing to this dominant in every sed, she is now only ranked Portuguese. In 1744 an edict was passed the voyage, the ship being then at the entire paper,no respectable man need be afraid to give his third rate power. Even in her distress forbidding the natives, under a penalty of ten disposal of the undersigned, or at a fixed sum per name. If he writes confidentially, his letter will she retains some of those noble qualities taels, from wearing a wig or covering themsel head, for such number of men as the ship may be be received as confidential, but in no instance will which animated her sons in the olden days, vea with an umbrella.One Matheos de espable of conveying consistently with the Re- we again publish any communication, the writer of when they saved. Europe, from the inroads of Souza, petitioned the senate, and was allowed gulations of the service, but in either case a proper which does not chose to say who he is.
the Moors they still retain the courage and the use of both, as be proved himself to be by table, as well as suitable berths, must be provided
fortitude which was displayed by the followers the side of his mother, from the lineage of a for the Commissioned and Warrant Officers a
of Columbus, or Pizzaro, and when elieved Portuguese. It may be unnecessary to say board, respectively, for which payment will be
from the shackles of a bigoted and avaracious that, all these ridiculous distinctions, have been made at the Established Government rates, head money in addition not being chargeable for them.
church, we may again see her ma state of long done away with The Tenders are moreover to state whether water,
peace and prosperity. Portugal, however, in or casks to contain it, will or will not be provided
her state of degredation, offers the most com- by the party offering, and, in the former case, in
plete example of the just infliction of national what proportions per head for the voyage. Further
punishment, which comes within the scope of particulars may be known on application at this
modern history. The first of western nations office, or at that of the Assistant Quarter Auster
to discover a passage to the east, she had the General.
trade of India and of China-with valuable co- EDW, PINE COFFIN, C. G.
lonies or settlements in either country-at her Commissariat, Victoria,
disposal. la India, where she, was once su- 20th September, 1844.
preme, her name would be now unknown, were it not claimed by a few half castes who personal appearance and moral character, are as opposite as white is from black, In China; to other nation had, or probably ever will have, the varme opportunities for profitable tacls. mercantile relations which were once at the disposal of Portugal These opportunities were neglected; the Chinese were plundered, and compelled to confine the people they at Colonial Chaplain.first received with open arms, to the small pe
ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCES
To the Editor of the Friend of China.) SteWithout having any great desire to encounter euch a redoubtable, opponent in a war of words as Mr. Verites of Macão must necessarily be, and who I firmly believe has got a Bee in his bonne as well as Lindley Murray under his arm to back him. Without feeling any particular itching to write or to appear instigated to defend all the essertions made" by Vindes. I cannot allow this opportunity to pass without fully corroborating and bearing out, "Vinder" il- there has been a want of Courtesy and good mimers exhi
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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6ra, 1844.
NOTICE -In consequence of the repairs, which are being carried forward on the building used as the Colonial Church, there will be no Service until further notice qu
VINCENT STANTON,
The revenue of Macao is raised from duties paid on goods imported, the inhabitants being neither burdered with a polltax, nor with taxes on houses or windows; but from the limited trade the revenue is much less than the expen- diture. At the present time, the government is in great distress for funds to meet their unavoid- able expenses, though they are reduced to the lowest scale. The troops are unpaid, and said to be mutinous; money has even been bor. rowed upon anticipated duties, but still they are unfortunately in arrears. We have no correct statement of revenue and expenditure to which we can refer for the past ten years.In 1834 the gross amount of duties was 75,283
The expenditure for the same year 89,900/taels leaving a deficit of about 18,000 tzels or £3,500 Sterling.The whole government establishment 13 on a very small scale, the expences of the Civil, Ecclesiastic and Military Establishments acar