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THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
Bar, in the Church, or in the senate, of those who Mr. Elphinstone who had succeeded some years Have been members of their different Colleges to before to the Government of this Presidency. To he anxiety with which our Naval and Military his duties as Resident were added those of the Seminaries, watch the professinal rise of those who, then Regency And whilst in the exercis have gone forth to the world from their walls, and office, Major Pottinger reclaimed the whether fame and distinction attend them, in the from the state of anarchy and confusion in whi path of scientific acquirements, or in the battle he found it, and placed it in one feld, exult in the recollection of their early asso tranquillity and prosperity. From 1825 to 1540 ciation with themselves and thence adopted they addition of lus duties as Resident in Katch, conclusion that the long connexion that had sub- Major, or as he must it is believed through the sisted between Sir Henry Pottinger and the Bom- larger portion of this time he called, Cal. Pottinger, bay Presidency, made all the members partakers to had other very important duties to occupy his a certain degree of the bigh and well deserved re- mind as the medium of constant. comtoumication putation he had acquired authorized them to take between the Supreme and Bombay Governments to themselves a small portion of that fame which and the Ameers of Seinde, all which was dis he could so well spare and which he (Mr. Craw charged in the most satisfactory manner and duly ford) was sure Sir Henry would willingly concede appreciated by his Superiors-probracing amongst other important measures his deputation as Envoy to the Scinde Aneers by the Governor General of India, Lord William Bentinck, in 1831, to.nego. tiate a Treaty for opening the navigation of the Indus, following which he was appointed Agent to the Governor General for the affairs of Boiode and in this capacity his successful accomplishment of all the objects of the Supreme Government, obtained for Col. Pottinger its highest and weh deserved approbation especially in establishing a British Resident a subsidiary Force and very paramount influence in that Provinca
to them in this instance.
Mr. Crawford peoceeded to observe, that it had been made the subject of reproach to India at dif- feront times by European writers and speakers, that she had produced but few distinguished inen- forgetting, as he said, that though the field of la- bour was extensive, the sphere of extraordinary exertion was limited, and the opportunities of dis. tinction few that the time of all men in this coun: try, was fully occupied in the discharge of the va rious duties of their respective callings, that we had not amongst us, any whose means permitted them to be idle, or jo turn their minds to such suits only as were congenial to their states, and that as regards the servants of the Company, in every branch of the Public Service in India, he would say that although from the causes he had stated, the path of fame was scarcely open to them, they might in respect to real usefulness, and zeal and devoted attention to the interests committed to their charge, challenge comparison with any body of
men in the world.
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On the close of the operations in Afghanistan, and the return of the Bombay Troops to India, Sir Henry Pottinger who had been raised to the dignity of a Baronet by Her Most Gracious Ma- jesty for his services during the advance of the Army through Scinde, and his general manage ment of our interests in that country, returned to Bombay and eventually to Europe, with impaired health, the consequence of seven and thirty years uninterrupted residence, and exertion in this part of the globe. He had scarcely said Mr. Craw ford, arrived in England, and had certainly de rived but little benefit from his residenes there, when he was sent for by the President of the Board of Control, Sir John Hobhouse, and asked to un- dertake the difficult, and to Sir Henry entirely new duties, pertaining to the desired settlement of our existing differences with the Chinese Go- vernment, and the conclusion of an honorable and permanent peace with that country. By what particular circumstances Sir John Hobhouse was led to make this selection of an individual having no immediate personal acquaintance with the Chi- nese character or the details of our differences with that nation, for the conduct of so difficult a nego tiation as Sir Henry had before him, he'( Mr. Crawford) could not pretend to say, but the choice he made spoke much in praise of Sir John Hob house's knowledge of character and penetration, and the result had, as all around well knew, fully justified the decision with which he acted, and the confidence he must have felt in his own judgment at the time, p
Sir Henry Pottinger arrived at Macao in August 1811 and as the commencement of his duties as Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary &c. &e. in that quarter, opened a communication with the Quang Chow Foo, at Canton, by sending Major Malcolm, the Secretary to the Embassy, to that City, and placing in his hands for transmission throgh the Quang Chow Foo to his superiors, the demands of the British Government on that of China, with an intimation that until these were complied with war would be continued.
Mr. Crawford in continuation said, that allow ing for a mom
for a moment that the reproach he had advert ed to, was not altogether without foundation, the greater must be the merit of those who had raised themselves above the general level, and attained not only an Indian but a European reputation, and passing over the names of many men of high talent who might have had the opportunity of improving their minds in Europe, during a portion of their connexion with the Company's Service, he would advert to a few, known not only to all around him, but to almost all the civilized world, whose educa. tion from the day that their school boy studies ceased, had depended on themselves alone whose experience had been gained and their judgment matured in India paying then a short but well merited compliment, to the Hon'ble Mountstuart Elphinstone, Sir Charles Metcalfe, and Sir John Malcolm in succession, all of whom he observed had landed in India between the early age of fifteen and sixteen, the two first never having quitted it for a day till each of them returned to England, after the close of a distinguished career in this country and the last but for a short time whilst yet a boy, until he had completed a service of nearly if not quite thirty years-Mr. Crawford went on to say that India might well feel pride to call these distinguished men her own, but that he had yet another name to whose reputation she might prefer an equally exclusive claim to add to his list and on then naming Sir Henry Pottinger proceeded to give an outline of his public life, from his landing in India to the present time, in substance as follows. Mr. Pattinger arrived in Bombay upwards of forty years ago, and like the eminent individuals already named a boy not more than fifteen, and having been appointed an Ensign in the 7th Regt. N. 1. shortly afterwards, immediately devoted his attention to the study of the native languages, in which he made such progress as to obtain for him self the situation of Assistant to the Superintendent of those languages at the Cadet Establishment and of Superintendent, on the departure of the of ficer who filled that office to Europe, holding the same till the abolition of the Cadet Establishment itself. In 1809 Lieut. Pottinger was employed as an assistant with a Mission from the Supreme Go. vernment to the Rulers in Scinde, under Mr. Hankey Smith, of the Civil Service of this Presi dency, and on his return from that country was selected with Capt. Christie of the Bombay Army, by the late Sir John Malcolm (then Colonel Mal
In February 1842, Sir Henry returned to Hong colm) to explore the totally unknown country lying between India and Persia.The Travel kong, where his presence had become necessary, fers landed at Sonmecanee on the 16th January and remained there until the month of June, when 1810, and proceeded by Beila and Khosdar to he rejoined the Head Quarter of the Expedition Khelat--and thence to Noshky where they sepa- on its way to Nankin just after the capture of rated about the 20th of March-Captain Christie Woosung. The capture of Chin-keang-foo, at taking the line by Herat. and Yezd to Ispahan, the mouth of the great canal followed almost im whilst Lieutenant Pottinger proceeded by Sarawan,mediately (in July 1842) and paved the way to the the provinces of Kohistan, Nurmansheer, aud Kirman to Shiraz which he reached on the 5th June having performed a journey of nearly 1600 miles since leaving Sonmecance of which nearly 1400 miles were in as direct a line as the paths would admit from East to West-and been for two months and half without any Europeau com- panion whatever.
Mr. Crawfoal on arriving at this portion of Sir Henry Pottinger's career, observed that even at this time, when our knowledge of these regions was so much improved and cut influence so much greater, this journey would be a hazardous one: but when he recollected the circumstances under which it was undertaken, the extreme risk of life then incurred and the privations endured, it offered a strong proof of the adventurous spirit, courage and enterprize of the two Travellers, and might now be considered a presage of Sir Henry's future course in life, and present distinction,
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But nothwalistanding this dissatisfied spirits had been found, interested it was to be feared in the ntenance of evils which it had been Sir Henry's just endeavour to put an end to, who cavilled at his acts, and by way of justifying their own dis affection went the length of saying that similite feelings in respect to some if not many of these, existed in the mods of the Home Goverment. His own intimacy with Sir Henry Pottinger for a long course of years, had afforded him the oppor tacity of knowing on the best authority that these imputations were entirely without foundation, and he hoped he did not betray the confidence of Friendship when he said that under the signature of the Foreign and Colonial Secretaries of Het Majesty's Government the Earl of Aberdeen and Lord Stanley he had seen in what might be termed their farewell letters to sir Henry Pottinget on the appointment of his successor in the end of February last, the very gratifying assurance of Her Majesty's most gracious approval of his whole conduct during his employment in H. M. Service, of the regret the Queen felt that he should have been under the necessity of relinquising the trust. which he had discharged with so much zeal and ability-and the aenouncement to Sir Henry of Her Majesty's commands to them, to assure hin that he retired from her service in possession of Her Majesty's entire approbation, and gracious acceptance of his services. This, continued Mr. Crawford, was coupled with the declaration, that Her Majesty's Government felt that the energy and judgment he had exibited in the negotiations by which hostilities were brought to an end and in those which were afterwards required for con- solidating the work of Pence which had been so appily accomplished and for placing the relations between the two Countries on a sound footing, justly entitled him to the highest commendation. That the duties which he had been called upon to discharge during his residence in Chinn had been various and complicated but his zeal and resources had overcome all difficulties,
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Mr. Crawford added, that the entire and unqua lifed approbation of Her Majesty and her confi- dential advisere, of all Sir Henry Pottinger's acts as the British Plenipotentiary in China must be as gratifying to himself and his numerous friends in all quarters, as it was distructive of every past or future endeavour to give a false coloring to the estimation in which his services were held by those most competent to judge of their merits, and most interested in their success. For himself he was satisfied that their value was yet but imperfectly known and appreciated: that it remained for the hand of time to develope their worth to the full extent--and it was only in after years that the real extent of the benefits conferred on his country, Galangal and on its commerce in particular, by Sir Henry's indicious conduct and measures, would be thorogh ly understood, and obtain for him all the gratitude to which he was entitled and to which he might even at this time failly lay claim
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Reverting, in this concluding portion of his specch, to the obervations he had made at an earlier period of the evening, to the imputed want of dis- inguished men of Indian rise and reputation, Mr. Crawford said that he trusted a sufficient answer would he found to this reproach in the instances he had cited to the contrary, but more especially in the extraordinary and in respect to India ever memorable fact, that for the management and set. tlement of two of the most difficult questions of
fine scentel. 50 Legislation and Government, and Diplomacy, in
Twankay Canton. 15 0 the extreme West and East, it might he said of the
Hyson civilized world two servants of the East India Company had been, selected by Her Majesty's Go Young Hyson Canton 20 vernment one of the Civil and the other of the Mi-Hyson Skin Canton. 00 litary branch of the service both exercising their Gunpowder Canton, 27 high functions at one and the same time, and both Imperial Canton.. entirely of India growth and reputation, for in the case of Sir Charles Matcalfe as in that of Sir Hen- y Pottinger, each by a singular coincidence of time and fame arrived in India at the early age of fifteen years, and remained in it uninterruptedly for These last named places, were made the Head, the lengthened period of thirty seven, to the advan Quarters of the Plenipotentiary and of the Comcement of the interests of Governant, and the manders in Chief by sea and land-and from them Establishment of a high reputation, in both instap- How well these distinguished individuals bad several minor expéditions were undertaken against ces. neighbouring cities, in which the Plenipotentiary discharged their duty as servants of Her Majesty, always took a part.
the public voice in India and in England, and the voices of H. M. Ministers in both Houses of far- iament, sufficiently attested.
Sir Henry then joined the Expedition at Hong kong, whither the Naval and Military Command ers had just preceded him. The demands of the British Government having been disregarded, ac tive operations were resumed, and the expedition proceeded to Amoy as the first point of attack. This soon fell to our arms, and was followed by the retaking of Chusan which had been given up to the Chinese after its first reduction by our Troops and the capture of Chinhate, and the City of Ningpo, which concluded the Military opera- tions of that season.
negotiations between the Plenipotentiary and the Chinese Commissioners Keying, Elepo, and New keen which were eventually brought to so satis factory and beneficial an issue--And here, said Mr. Crayford, it should be remarked that Sir Henry having at an early period after the fall of Clingkeangfoo become quite satisfied of the sin cerity of the Chinese Government, in its proposed desire for Peace, and its negociations for that object. all hostile proceedings were at once put an end to on his sole responsibility-the Troops were re-embarked, and the Naval Force was withdraws as rapidly as circumstances would permit,
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A few musters of new Tucping greene arrived. About: 20 chops of Congous rejected. They were found on arrival to be minch inferior to muster. EXPORT OF TEAS FROM CANTON TO UNITED KING- DOM FROM 1ST JULY TO 16TH OCTOBER 1844, Green, 2,472.381 lbs. Black,
9,278,844
Cargo
Total 11,746,677 lbs. in 25 ships. John Dugdales" included."
-COTTON. REPORT.
Canton, September 1st to
to 30th, 1844,
bales....
Including
Mr. Crawford in conclusion said, that he must, before he sat down, express the gratification if afforded him, after an intimate acquaintance with Twist, their distingushed Guest of upwards of eight and munity on this occasion in welcoming him on his Bengal, thirty years, to be the organ of the Bombay Com Bombay, return to their Society, and conveying to him as Madras, he had endeavoured to do in honest but as he was fully aware inadequate language some idea of the estimation in which he was held in this Presiden cy-and that-wishing himasafe and prosperous. voyage to his native land, happy meeting with his Family and Friends, continued and increas ing favor with his Sovereign and his Country and such future employment in the Service of that country as he should himself desire, including, Mr. Crawford hoped, a return to Bombay in due season, it only remained for him as the president of the evening to propose to the company, already impatient to do honour to his Toast, the health of Sir Henry Pottinger,"
CANTON PRICES CURRENT. 16TH OCTOBER, 1844.
IMPORTS. DUTY PAID. Ale (best brands) $25 0 8 0 0 per had. per catty 00
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Mr. Crawford dwelt forcibly on the energy of character, and confidence in his own judgment and resources, which coull alone have induced the Plenipotentiary to take upon himself so direct and weighty a responsibility as that which he (Mr. C.) had just mentioned, and then proceeded so say that most of those around him were aware that in From Lieut. Pottinger's return from Persia, to earlier life he had a deep stake Rimself in our Bombay, where he landed in the early part of Commercial intercourse with China which had 181 till the year 1814; he was employed in the induced him to take a lively interest in our con- duties of Military life, but in the latter year he nexion with that country ever since, and to watch Amber was appointed by the Earl of Moira (afterwards with anxiety all the differences and embarrasaments Betel Nut Marquis of Hastings) then Governor General of | of later years. It might be presumptuous in him | Canvas-Eng, and India, second Assistant to the Resident of Popun, to offer an opinion on the merits of measures which (the Hon'ble Mountstuart Elphinstone), which he had met with such general approbation as those continued to fill until the termination of the Mah which their distinguished Guest had by his firm ratta War of 1817-18, when he was appointedness and tact, combined with frankness and con- t Collector of Ahmednuggur, and there remained for ciliatory conduct throughout, been able to carry about seven years, discharging the duties of his through in Chim, but he would nevertheless von office, with his accustomed ability, and to the com ture to say that the success which had attended plete satisfaction of Government.
Sir Henry Pottinger's exertions in China far ex- ceeded his (Mr. Crawford's) expectations-that it
In 1895 a vacancy occurred in the appointment of Resident in Kutch, and Sir Henry, then Major exceeded he believed the expectations of the Com Pottinger, being desirous of returning to the Pomercial world at large-and be thought be might litical line of the service, was nominated to it by even say of Her Majesty's Ministers themselves.
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Deliveries. 031 Deliveries.
22,674
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PRICES OF BULLION. Sycee Silver, hrge, 2kper cent premium
small, 1 to 2 ditto Spanish Dollars, Ferdinand, par
Carolus, 5 per cent for gelected, Republican ditto, 4 to 5 per cent. discount.
EXCHANGE. Bills on London at 6 months sight, 45: 3d. to 48. 4 Navy Bills, 4s. to 4s, Id H.M. Plenipotentiary on the Bengal Govt., Treasury
218 Rupees per 100 Mexican dollars, p Court of Directors accepted on ditto, 60 days, have been offered at 220 Rs. per $100. Difficult of Sale. Unaccepted $30.
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To London or Liverpool, £4 per ton of 50 ft. To Out-ports, 10s. per ton additional, To Amoy, $6 per ton of 40 feet To ports north of Amor, 98 ditto
SHIPS LOADING FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM
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Edited, Printed, and Published by Joan. Banėj Gazete At The Friend of China and Hongkong Printing Office, QUEEN'S ROAD, Vieronta, Boxczone, 1944.