་
032
GOVERNMENT BILLS.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the rates of Exchange for present month will be the
undermentioned, vizi
For Bills on the Supreme Government of In dia, Two hundred and twenty two Rupees for One hundred Republican Dollars. For Bills on the Fords of the Treasury, Fifty pence, sterling, for One Republican Dollar.
EDWARD PINE COFFIN, Comy. General.
Commissariat, Victoria, 1st January, 1845.
NOTICE.
•
Messrs. Lindsay & Co.
Dear Sirs,
I beg leave to acquaint you that I have been summoned by the Court about the $500 of Mr. Edward Shutter, which had been seized in March 1810-and were released on my becoming security for re-placing the same in the event of the suit being decided against him, as advised in my letter to you of 27th Augnat, 1840-I have named an torney. If you have any thing to say in defence please state it, that I may communicate to the Attorney. How long did the Fortescue stop in the roads and did she discharge any goods at Macao!
I am Dear Sirs
Yours faithfully
(Signed)
..
B. BARRETTO,
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAŽETTH.
We notice the arrival of the American coins of whatever stamp or denomination, whe- whaler Peruvian to refit at this port, with ther Portuguese or foreign, is also exempt from rouch satisfaction, and trust she will prove the duty. With this rennunciation staring him in precursor of a large fleet secking our harbour the face" the most illustrious Joaquim A. M. for similar purposes. A glance at a map will Carneiro confiscates a sign of money, landed by show the geographical advantages of Hof a stranger, in atter ignorance of the local law kong as a rendevous for the hardy scamen, who
Poverty entails no disgrace either on an in- have been pursuing their dangerous calling individual or a community; on the contrary, it the north Pacific or Indian occans, and these ad- may add dignity to the character, but meanness vantages we predict will soon be discovered by such unmitigated meanness as is observable the American and English shipmasters. In the in the conduct of the Macan Judge, destroys present instance, the vessel has been fishing with our sympathy for that fallen settlement. great success in the sea of Kamschatka and
Macao. 9th July 1844. Behrings straits, which have become favorite stations. On the approach of winter vessels so
Macao. a employed require to seek a port to refit in more New advertisements, will be received, until 4 temperate latitudes, and heretofore the Sand- O'Clock, on the evenings previous to publiwich Islands have been chiefly chosen, but cation, viz: Tuesdays and Fridays.
we apprehend that Hongkong possesses several advantages over these islands which cannot fail to attract observation. We may refer to one or two of these advantage, and first in magnitude we would observe that, Hongkong is a free port. of casy access, with a harbour almost unrivalled, having an abundant supply of good spring water, and markets where the ne cessaries of life can be purchased at moderate prices. Whalers have a peculiar dislike to port charges, and the freedom from them here will preposes many in favor of the port. The injudicious port charges and custom house re- gulations of the Sandwich islands, as well as the inquisitorial character of those who appear | B. Barretto, Esq. to control the imbecile government. has dis. gusted many who have visited the islands, and will also tend in some degree, to induce those who do not particularly admire the semi. barbarous monarchy, to seek a harbour of refuge elsewhere.
The exaggerated accounts which have gone forth, of the nature of this climate, has very probably detered vessels from visiting this port. but the truth cannot be hid, and when it is generally known that, however sickly the town may have been, during the past summer that the shipping were perfectly healthy, one draw back will be removed. We believe it to be a fact capable of demonstration that, of the va rious ships of war in the Chinese waters dur- ing the past summor, there was the least sickness on board of those anchored in the bay of Hong. kong. The summer however, is not the time when Whalers may be expected, at all events those, who like the Peruvian, have been fish ing on the ice bound shores of northern Asia; it is when the storms. fogs, and cold of winter, renders for a time fishing impossible that. those so employed, will bear up for a port of refuge, and to none could they run with greater caso than to Hongkong, which during the winter months is perfectly healthy.
18.
19
28 Sat-
20
29 Sun.
30 10 30 | 03 | 30
05 70 60 65.8||
རྒྱུ་གྲྭ་མ་ལ་
30 17 3007 30 13 04 57 61.4wly,
Da.
Do Strong Breasts during night.
ERGLAND
Do.
· METEOROLOGICAL TABLE FROM 23 DECEMBER TO DECEMBER 20μm, 1841.
of Month Month Week.
Chinese day Day of Day off
Maz
Min
Barometer
Thermometer.
Mean
Max Min Mean.
Fore,Latter Winds-
23 Mon. 30 07
30.00 | 30 | 04 | 63 | 61
N. N. E
Thie
24 Tas 30
Why.
modt.
25 Wed.
30
06 | 30 | 00 | 30 03 63, 59 60.8
09 30 05 30 00 02 58 60.5 N. by F.
Dull
Fine elear
Foré part fine clear, latter dull.
Fine eleiz.
Z
LATEST DATES.
Hemarke
ස
0
SINGAPORE Aug. 8
Nov.
UNITED STATES
CALCUTTA
Augt. I Oct. 14
BOMBAY
Oct, G
SYDNEY
MANIGA
Nov.
17 CHUSAN Dec. 5 SHANGHAL Det, Foo.CHOW-FOO Dec. I ANOT
Dec.
MADRAS BATAVIA
Nov, 22 Sept. 99 Oct. 18
THE FRIEND OF CHINA, AND HONGKONG GAZETTE,
VICTÒRIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY, 4TH 1845.
Full ships, about to return to America, or Europe, will scarcely hesitate in micking this the harbour for refit, previous to their final de- parture, in preference to the Sandwich Islands, If they chose the islands, their voyage home must be by Cape Horn route, a passage which, in the winter months, few deeply loaded ships are fitted to encounter. If, how ever, they give the preference to longkong, they can sail, during the N. E monsoon with a fair wind, they double the Cape in the summer of that latitude, and after entering the S. E. trades, a few hundreds miles to the northward of the cape, they carry a fair wind almost to the shores of America, or if bound to Europe to the equator. This to ships which have been cruising until their sails rigging and spars have become injured is a consideration not to be neglected.
•
Dear Sir,
Floogkong 11th July 1844.
Macao.
We are this morning in receipt of your letter of the 9th inst. and must say we are somewhat sur prised at the contents of £ You are well aware of the facts of the case, Mr. Edward Shutter a young boy of obout 14 years of age landed from the Fortescue" then in Mocan roads with $50 which his father had given him on leaving England" It was his first voyage, and being totally ignorant of the regulations at Macio, he very naturally brought his money on shore with him. It was seized by the guard, and afterwards restored on your giving security which we were led to (11) derstand at the time, was a mere form,” and ave thereforeertainly never expected to fled the ques- tion again brought forward four years afterwards. As to any defence, there can be non. All you can do, is to state the facts to the Judge or Governor, and if the error of a Child is thus to be taken advantage of, it cannot be helped and, i will only be our duty to publish such a disgraceful proceeding to the world, which we shall most assuredly not
fail to do.
(Signed)
We are
Your shirdient servant;"
LINDSAY & Co.
44
Macao 14th November 1814
Messrs Lindsay & Co
Dear Sirs.
Hongkong,
With reference to my communication to you under date the 9th of July last.- -
I now beg to inform you that, the case has been decided by the Court against Mr. Shutter and an appeal has been interposed by our lawyer to Goa. It is optional with you to desist from the intended appeal, and to abide by the sentence in which case I will thank you to proside me with the means of making the payment and of the costs which will amount to about $50, besides something to the lawyer for his trouble in defending the suit. If the appeal to Goa is carried on, there will be an additional charge of about 8 100 to be incurred, A regular document shall be furnished to you of whatever sum I pay on this account.
I remain Dear Sirs
(Signed)
Could ships sell a sufficient quantity of bone or oil to pay their disbursement bills there would be another strong inducement for coming to Hongkong, and we think they can do so. In- deed it is quite possible that,as articles of import B. Barretto Esq. they may be disposed of in large quantities to the Chinese. The common oil of China in quality, is much inferior to the black fish oil
Dear Sir
Your most observant.
B. BARRËTTO.
Hongkong 20th November 1811
Macan.
We are in receipt of your letter of the 14th, Judges decision, as also the defence mude by you.
(Signed)
at the above named settlement be as clear a lawyer and as respectable a person as the one who occupies the Rench at Macan, it would only be throwing We have no hesitation in saying away money. that if compelled to pay the 500 dollars, the case is one that has no parellel, and we shall publish the whole proceedings in the papers here, and in india to shew the world how Justice is ad tered in the Portuguese settlement of Macno,
We are
(Signed)
You ob. servant. LINDSAY & Co.
TRANSLATION OF VERDICT,
TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS JÚDOz &c. &c. &c.
•
The Humble petition of B. Barretto. Showeth that he desires to have a copy of the Sentence passed against Edward Shutter for smug- gling a quantity of dollars as mentioned in the re-
cord.
And as in duty bound your
petitioner will ever pray,
LIBEL.
E. Shutter in the following terms,
The Attorney to the crown complaine against
1st. According to the Regulations of Macao Custom House in-chap 10th Goods. must be dis. charged at the Custon-House wharf, the contrary being done the transgressor will lose them, and bứ condemned to the penalties appointed by the laws, 2nd. Besides the above Regulations, by the cir cular of June 23 1844, and the Govt. Notification of April 16 1839, issued by the Judges of the Customs, it was expressly prohibited the Landing of Go ods in the Praya-Grande, or in any other place but in the Custom House wharf,
3rd in spite of the aforesaid Regulation the transgressor landed on the evening of 11th March Praya Grande, a place expressly forbidden, and for 1840 a box containg 300 new Sp. Dollars in the which reason they were apprehended:
subject to the duties, and on account of tart 4th: Being an article of Import it must be being laniled on the Custom-House wharf, it will serve as a sufficient proof against the Transgres- For, any pretence given by him on by na nicans be admissable.
5th By the aforesaid proofs the Transgressor must be condemned to lose the said 8500 in con- formity to the Chapter 30th and other Regulations. -
*(Signed).
Gones,
TRANSGRESSOR'S DEFENCE.
B. Barreto proves against the Public Ministry.
1st. Notwithstanding it be true that E-Shutter. having cone as-passenger in the Fortescue from England, lan-led in the Praga-Grande clearly in course of the day $509, for this reason ba cannot incur the penalty of losing them, as the Public Ministery requires; because to do this it would be necessary that the said passenger should have land- ed them maliciously, and also should be aware of. the Custom-House Regulations, then corperal punishment could be inflicted on him, because the | Regulation only inflicts pebalty on those who are . aware of the same. Regulation by these words to avoid embezzlement practiced by dishonest Merchants. 2nd. The passenger came in the Fortescan for Cauten. or other parts of China, where he had never been before, and as soon as the vessel anchored in
the Macao Roads, he heard that the war between Chinese and English continued yet, for this reason he would not go to Canton, without coming be fore hand to this city to provide himself with some articles for his own use, for which be brought with him the $500. being impossible for him to he aware of the prohibition, or any other Macao' Law..
3rd. Had the vessel entered the Inner Harbour then the said passenger could be acquainted of the law by way of any of the Custom House (ficers, 4th. The passenger had not the slightest idea of its probibition because is no country are charg- ed duties on Imported Dollars.
5th. Shortly after he had landed, being desirous to inforui bimself of what he should be obliged to observe in this city, he met with a Custom Honse Officer, who asked him to take the Dollars into the Fiscal Department, to which he made no ob jection, and this he would not have done, had he
In our last issue, we committed a capital error, when alluding to the report of a Steam boat's coming here from N. S. Wales. The vessel hogged was the Seahorse, not the Cor- sair; the latter is a very superior vessel of great power, and faithfully built. The Seahorse, until she met with the accident to which we have and we are inclined to think it is equally costly. Oblige by furnishing us with a copy of the brought them with the intention of smuggling. referred, was also an excellent vessel, making Our enquiries upon this subject, have not been her voyages to and from Sydney, Van Dieman's such as to enable us to judge of the price of Land and Port Phillip with the greatest regu-China oil when a large quantity is taken, but larity.
at the retail, or bazaar rate, of $2 for about 4 We turst that the enterprise of the Gentle gallons, the Whalers could probably under- Messrs Lindsay & Co. man who brings on the Corsair will be amply sell the Chinese dealer It is also possi rewarded. He will confer a boon on the co-ble that whale bone might find a market to lony of no ordinary magnitude.
•
Dear Sirs,
We are you ob, sert.
LINDSAY & Co. Macao 27th November 1844.
Hongkong.
You firor of the 20th inst. reached me on the 22d and you have herewith enclosed the copy of the Judges recision as well as of the defence made by our lawyer.
I remain Dear Sirs
You most ob, servant.
B. BARRETTO.
some extent, and we trust before the Peruvian leaves our harbour, that her Agents will bring We hear that the Vestal proceeds to Wham-forward the ticle and make an attempt to
sell it.. poa to receive another insaiment of the indem-
We need not point out the benefits which nity money-it is said three millions of dol- lars. Since her arrival she has been refitted. would accrue from the yearly visit of a hun- and now lays at anchor, as our brethern of the dred sail of whaling ships, they are self American press would express it," the pride evident and important. In the present insta and fashion of the ocean.
nce, it is to be hoped, that the Captain of the Perucian will have no cause to regret his Messrs Lindsay & Co.
The Agincourt it is said returns from the north immediately. The Castor, to the regret of many of our leaders, goes to Chusan for a few months.
visit.
•
<
(Signed)
Dear Sirs,
Macko 20th November 1814.
Hongkong.
I remain
Your most ab, sert.
B BARRETTO.
(Signed)
6th. Had the said passenger been aware of the prohibition; neither he nor the sailors with him in the boat knew the Custom-House wharf, this being the first time of their coming to this Port. Nor did the circumstances, which obliged him to come on shore, gave him time to obtain any infor- mation before his landing.
7th. The said passenger even by Portuguese” Laws must be absolved, as he was entirely ignorant of them, and being a stranger he had never been in a Portuguese settlement before, and with much more reason because the Custom-House Regula tions, and Circulars are not general Laws, but only private to this settlement which even to a Portu- guese would be of excuse.
8th. No malice can be attributed to any one, when he has done any thing by ignorance, conse
no penalty can be inflicted on E. Shatter quently by the 1st Act. as demonstrated. By these reasons, by Law, and for being also proved by the aforesaid articles the culprit ought to be absolved of the pe nalty of losing his money, and of other expences charged him and being also unanswerable to give a bail-Witnesses -Alexandro Grandpre, Igne- cio P. Pereira, Braz de Mello..
(Signed)
Jozn Gabriel FERNAÑORS.
SENTENCE.
Our lawyer wishes to know as soon as possible, whether the appeal he has interposed to us from The following correspondence exposes a the decision of the Mucio Judge, is to be prosecut piece of characteristic meanness; and weed, or whether you intend to desist from it.- 1 sent We hear of fresh attempts at piracy. A Lor- convinced that the respectable natives of Macan you two days ago the copy of the sentence and the cha, from Macao to this place, was chased and who are settled among us, will blush for the defence. fired at a few days ago, but she fortunately suc-most lustrious Judge." ceeded in escaping.
The circumstances of the cases we need not The Festal went out yesterday, in search of repeat, as they are clearly stated in the corres the ruffians, though there is but little chance of pondence, but are would call attention to the her being successful. A ship of her size, is not fact, that the intelligent Judge, who thus de- suited for the service, nor will the sysem be prives a boy of a consulerable sum, because he put down, until Gun-boats are added to the co-was in ignorance of the gati-deluvian laws of lonial establishment. Give Capt. Talhot, in Macasappears to forges that, since the seizure addition to his own vessal, three or four smartas made now nearly four years ago-the beats, with instructions to burn sink and desiloval senate lave abolished the duty on coin, as troy" and in a few weeks piracy would be un- being one too obsolete even for their autque heard of in these waters, and mutil is, or nottus of commercial polity. The second clause the second requesting to know whether we are June23 1844 and Govt Notification of 16 April some similar plán is adoptedit is impossible for of the first article of the rules for the executing the most active efficer to protect the numerous of the tariff of Macao is as follows," and the vessels daily in danger of being robbed, importation likewise of gold, silver, or copper
Hongkong. 18th December 1841.
B. Barretto, Esq-
Dear Sir,
Having perusal these documents it, shows that in the 11 Macch41840 a box containing $500 wm apprehended in the Praya-Grande. being laid for the bont of a foreign vessel, and this seizure has been deemed valid and prosecuted by the collector of the Custom Houge. The Public ministry in their Libel think that the seizure ought to be valid and We are in receipt of your favors of the 17th and proceeded with and the Culprit condemned to lure 99th, alto. The first landing us a copy of the his monty, ou account of laruling, it in a for. Judges decision in Mr. Edward Shutter's case, and hidden place as pur. Chap. tuth of the Orcular of anxious to refer the matter to Goa. You are bot 1599, by which it was determined the satt Chapt aule to form an opinion as to whether any good | tocht be observed, and by which it is would arise from such a reference, for if the Judge proved that this apprehended article was subject