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ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.
مسعد الشمع
To the Editor of the Friend of China.
Macao, Sunday 20th April, 1815.
Ma. Ennu, came here three days ago for the benefit of my health, and after the severe storm this morning walked out in the direction of the Bastern fort when I had reached the Paraces burial Ground about 8 r. ., 1 was assailed by six Chinamen, one of
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if they should not by that time have left the river.
I have the honour to be Gentlersen, Your obedient servant, [Signed.] FRANCIS C MACGREGOR, Gentlemen, British Merchan'a resident in Canton.
whom being in advance, t row a handful of *** THE FRIEND OF CHINA, farm would prove a failure, and that the par-
gravel in my face and run forward I immediately purs sned him, "but had not a proceeded many paces before the other five came up and seized me, the other men then returned, and four of them endeavoured to tirow ne down, but which they could not effet; the other two succeeded in taking my Watch from my packet. secured only by a black ribbon, and hen fre of them run off. I laid hold of the sixth and struck him violent-
ly with the point of my unbrella in the neek, by which he must have been wounded but he began to cry out lustily to his companions, who all returned and seizing me again, compelled me to let go my huld they the ran in the direction of the Praya Grande, and altho' 1 persued then, calling out stop thief, no one seemed fo understand, or care about the inatter, and the Vij- jams got clear off. I therefore recommend my poun- trymen who visit this place, either on business or pleasure, to come well armed, and not hesitate to use their weapons when attacked.7
The lower orders of the Chinese are now so por from the falling off of the traile of Macap, and the Go fernment sa powerless from the want of funds to pro- sile a suitable Police for the protection of the People, that it is dangerous to proceed beyond the pecincts of the Praya Grande. By giving this insertion in your valuable paper you will oblige..-Sir, Your obed. Servant,
JAS, SMITH
To the Editor of the Friend of China. Ma. Egon-It affords me anspeakable satisfac tion in Buding that a Freemasons Lodge has been esta, bished in this colony, the more particularly which has been formed under the auspices of Masons, who pos- sess the power, the means and the incbnation to sup- port it. I am aware that fears, are entertained for i's ultimate success, arising out of the chequered state of, Society-but those Brethren who are best informed in the princ ples of the order, know that such feats are a groundless-they knew that Free-masonry knows no distinctions of persons or creeds, provided the indivi- dual desiring admission into the order, or if a mason, desiring to be admitted into a Lodge, he unstained in
inoral chasueter, for as Musons and Brethren all always stand upon a level by the principles, all are taught; we are all of the same family-high and low, rich and poor created by the same Almighty power, and pre penced as a body by a consulation and suppert originat- g from the same some it teaches us to give respect and honor to each plan to whom respect and honor be que, according to their respective characters. In the
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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 26ra, 1845.
The Ship Thomas Worthington, Velore and Flora, brought together.
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84tons, On 27th March, the Vessels, in Part were, Tory. Since sailed from Hongkong. ałażeppa. - Sum.--
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Sarah Louise, arrived from Liverpool on 24th March; Litherland and Fortunato, arrived from Manila on 26th March; on 27th Monarch, from Liverpool; Charles Jones, Loading for England.
We predicted some time ago that the opium
ties who purchased by public auction the privilege of retailing the drug would discover that the speculation would be less profitable and more annoying than they could have an- ticipate!.
Our reasons for coming to this conclusion were twofold-first, from the con-
DEFENCE.
The half of Op um which I sold this moraing was to go to Toong.kon, if it was to have been used here I wald not I asked the person when he came to the shop have soll it. where he intended taking the Opium and he told me to Toong-kaon.
Clase dismissed, prisoner released,
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be ruined.
(Signed) W CAINE.
Chief Magistrate.
From this case it is evident, that the contrac- tors cannot receive any protection-that shops may be opened for the sale of the drug in contra- vention of the terms of auction--and that, unless the Government, by proclamation or otherwise, amend their own blunders the Contractors will It may be asked, on what grounds did the Chief Magistrate dismiss the case, so openly at issue with the terms of sale. In reply to this. WC state, that subsequent to the sale, an order of tions for the sale of Opium by retail;" by sonic Council was promulgated, entitled “ Regula-
The
49. All persons in charge of houses appropriate wholly or in part to the smoking of Opium or to the retail of the same in' smal'er "quantities than one chest
duly licensed as aforesaid and in default thereof shall
SHANGHAI, 12ta ArmiL. NA The Flora and Thomas Worthington, arrived.
numerous boats which are hourly passing to froin Liverpool on the 5th instant; the Velore, from of this island to the mainland and the 10th instant; also the and from we deemed it almot imposible to Liverpool arrived on frazelle, from Hongkong (ente ed to-das) and the enforce the regulation which confined the re- Isabell Anna, in the 11th from Hongkong,
tailing of opium to a few licenced houses, with out the aid of the government, and the constant vigilance of the police; and second after a per- usal of the regulations, though the spirit or meaning of them was evident, still the wording over-sight on the part of the person who drew of some clauses is so loose that a person wishing up these regalation, the differem clauses bear to set them aside, could have lithe difficulty induleren constructions, and by some of them, it driving a stage coach through them. These would appear, that the heence merely ex- tends to shops who sell for actual consump. were the chief causes which led to the con clusion, that the regulation would prove defect the island Putting this construction tive, and that the purchasers of the retail privi- upon these clauses, a man his only to open a lege would find that they had brought trouble and shop, stating that he does not retail fur con- anxiety with their i uopoly, There were also suption, but for export, and the Chief Ma other reasons, which for the present we do not gistrate acquits him. The 9th clause is of care to lay bare, but they were such as convine posed to this libe al realing of the regulations ed us that, there would be an immediate attempt in too, but others are favorable to it. to violate the terms of the public auction, and 9th clause says: For the last week or ten days the Muit has that the attempt would succeed. We need been in a state of incubation the egg was not say that, we disapproved of the farming furnished him from his patrons at goverment out entirely-that we considered it injurious të house and after the greatest care it has been the colony-that we believed that for the sake shall take out and hold a permit from the person hatched and the chicken is now cackling of of a small revenue, a suicidal blow had been be liable to the fines and punishments prescribed by dictionaries, encyclopedias, orders in council struck at our prosperity-that for thus, crush-section No. 1 of these Regulations provided alwa,s &c. in a style which must be quite delightful ing the young commerce which was singing that the said licensed person 30 granting the sait permit shall bave regard to the power retained under to the Mail after all hur maternal solicitude.
up, and whigh it was the chief dty of the ex- To be serious, it was only yesterday forenoon ecutive to foster, they have not the apology of the 2nd section of the Regulations by the said Gover
nor for determining the anther of houses so appro- we heard that the. Organ had made a gallant rabid fanaticism, or the smooth cloak of cun-
priated to the retailing and sucking of Opium.” defence of his employers, and an attack upon our ning hypocrisy. No; the opiam trallic is a
That clause upon which the Chief Magis- bumble selves which we are required to repel.legal traffic in Hongkong, as much as the wine Before the article was brought to our notice.
or spirit trade is in London, ner can all the rate gave his decision is the 1st of the re- the editorials for this issue were written; nor is anathemas of cant reduce the sale of the drug gulations and contains the word "shall retuil the matter of such consequence as to cause on the sea-board,, or its consumption in China opium for comsuption." It is upon the word us any reluctance at leaving it to our next; one chest. All this our rulers knew; they also consumption that the question binges, and when we will give our Contemporary a suit-knew that to draw a considerable portion of upon that word it. is decided, that any man able reply.
that traffic, from the bays and rivers of they open a shop, sell the drug, and escape Chinese Empire, to the harbour of Hongkong, the penalty upon the plen that he did not sell for consumption, We are no lawyer- the colony. would be to draw wealth and prosperity to
With this clear as noonday, either are we a casuist--we lay the question was this dicision a just one. We will be un they have by one regulation or another, driven fairly be're the public-it is for them to say the little trade we had, and left this derstood clearly that, we do not impute any is however irrelevant to our present purpose. beautiful harbour deserted of shipping. This
sinister or improper feelings to the Gentle- We would wish to show, that in the present
man who gave it; but that the Contractors are deeply injured by it, there cannot be two state of affairs, it is proper either to break
opinions. It now remains for goverment the monopoly. entirely, remunerating the pur to provide for this error in the regulations; chasers for their losses, or to protect them in
but will they do so? We believe that they the contract they have made.
will, as however much we are opposed to some of the privilege to retail opium, and however of their measures, and even to the farming out freely we express our sentiments upon their action as public men, we most conscientiously attempting to injure an individual, whichcharge there would be grounds for, were the present Contractors not protected. The members of
Lodge all distinctions, are levelled, save its own, and the proudest peer in a lower degree bows to the pea saut in a higher one, and lie is compelled by the Insti- tates of the order to acknowledge the superiority. The late gallant Si Sidney Smith stated, that upon one oc-
We have been requested, as the earliest op fasion, though a commoner and in a foreign land, he portunity, to contradict a portion of a paragraph presided over several princes, and other distinguished in the China Mail of the 24th instant, respect. Noblemen, because he was a higher mason and our late Royal Grand Master, in speaking of Free-masousug the Pic Pic house at Heong Keong. said, as their charity is universal, so were their so- cial feelings towards each other-anong tham no dif- ference upon religious opinions had any weight of whatever each party kindred or cline, all readily and sincerely held out the hand of gend fellowship to each other. These masonic principles had been his pride through life-they had been bis solace in affliction, his confort in distress of mind, and when be reflected upon then, at that very moment they almost made him feel young again. Yes, he would again assure the Brethren, that in all bis experience he had found Free-masony to be the best regulators of his conduct, and he there--
The Cottage is not as therein stated, open to the Inhabitants generally, on the contrary it is to be considered strictly private, and it's use confined to subscribers, who number about 70 from H. E. the governor downwards.
The only refreshment afforded is beer, which the Chibanan in charge is authorised to keep for the use of members at a rate that yields him a triffle for his trouble.
The club was originally formed in 1842 by fore recommended the practice to others, of what had II. E. Mr. Johnston, then deputy governor, It has been falsely asserted, that Masonry leads to not by the individual to whom the Mail gives intemperance and irregularity-but I know if these the credit.--(Communicated ) evils do take place they are not the consequences of masonry but the reverse, they are diometrically opposed
been so useful to himself.
as well as Christianity teaches as that, our bodies are
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bona fide transaction, binding alike onthe con- With regard to the contract itself, it was a
tracting parties, and if from sonic flaw in draw- ing out the contract, the government cannot fullfill their part of it, by every principle of jus to rectify the blunder, and give the purchaser, that which in good faith he bought by public auction, and that which by the terms of their own advertisement calling that auction is speci-government will doubtlessly see the matter in its true light and take the necessary steps forth. ally mentioned,
with. In the government paper of the 24th of Fe-- bruary there appeared the following advertise-
Major Caine and several other residents, and tice, and every feeling of honour, they are buund exonerate them from any charge, of knowingly
ment --
"PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.
to the fundamental rules of the order, for Masonry Mr. MacGregor, II. M. Consul at Canton the temples of the living God," and the Eye we ought by Circular a copy of which we annex, has to have even before us speaks trumpet tongued. ordered the masters of opium receiving vessels Thou God seest me" No doubt however there are moored at Whampoa, to appear before him with practical abuses-from the spirit of masonery, being their paperes, thus virtually driving these vessels from the Canton river. Our information upon the subject, is too vague, to enable us to judge: of the merits of this high handed measure, Notice is hereby given that the exclusive privi- but we cannot help thinking that Mr. Mac-lege of retailing Opium in any quantity less than Gregor has taken a very bold step-whether it is a prudent one remains to be seen. One thing is certain, that heretofore, no public ser vant has interferred with the opium trade, who
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Remarks.
one chest, within this Colony and its Dependencies and the muters thereof, will be disposed of by Pu- blic Auction at the Chief Magistrate's Office at -2 o'clock P. M. on Friday the 28th Inst.
Security will be required for the payment of the
has not injured himself as well as those engagerent, and for the observance of the Regulations to
ed in that important branch of commerce.
It is said, that the Consul has been in a man- ner compelled to this measure, in vindication of the powers vested in him, which have been set at defiance, by one of the small mercantile firms lately established in China. The firm in question, sold to the Mandarin, who is licensed to purchase Salpetre legally, a quantity of that mineral, to be delivered from the ship at Whampoa. The boats sent to receive the article were offered it from an opium receiving ship, which of course was not entered at the Consular office. The Mandarin, it may be supposed, was enraged at being offered goods from a vessel employed to the injury of the very trade in which he was engaged, and forthwith lodged a complaint with the Consul, who was bound to take cognisance of the
which the Farmer will be bound to conform, and a copy of the same may be seen on application at the Chief Magistrate's Office or at the Office of the Chinese Secretary.
By Order,
FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE,” Wednesday, 19th February, 1845.
There can be no misunderstanding this, the exclusive privilege of retailing opiùm in any quantity less thin one chest within this colony and its dependencies was to be sold by public auc- tion. On the faith of this the privilege was bought at a monthly rental of $720, and the purchasers proceeded to avail themselves of their lease by opening several shops for the purposes of retailing opium. They discovered that certain Chinmen, better known than respected, insti- gated it is said by some of the subordinate officers of government, whose duty it is ta The penalty inflicted upon the firm in ques-protect the purchasers, had also opened shops tion, for having thus violated the treaty, by scl for the retailing of opium.“ ling articles of legal traffic from a vessel not en-
On the 22nd instant, the contractors sum: tered at the Consular olice, was five hundred moned before the Hon. Chief Magistrate the dollars; and a refusal to pay has lead to the keeper of one of these illicit opium shops, the order, which for a time will drive all British proceedings before Ilis Honour are as follows. receiving ships from Whampoa.
affair.
Such we believe is the true version of this affair, but we give it subject to correction.
CIRCULAR.:
21st April, 1845,
Chiel Magistrate's Office, Tuesday, 22nd April, 1915. Cheong Aman, charged with appropriating a Shop fut the retail of Opium in less quantities than one Chest.
George Dudell, Opium farmer Sworn-states, my charge against the prisoner is for appropriating a Shop No 250 for the retail of Opium in less quantities than one Chest,
John Haggett, private of Pulice Sworn states I was called by complainant this m ring to apprehend some Chinese who were selling Opium without license. I went in the house of prisoner and saw a man in the shop with the ball of spism
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· Gentlemen.—I have the hoa: ar to sequaint you that under this day's date I have instructed the British Consular Agent at Whompa to repair en board the several vessels at anchor in Blenheim Reach and in accordance with the 3rd article of the Regulations of Trade, give notice to the Masters or row in cur in his hand, he told me that he had bought Syl, (Sp.) Barera, persons in charge of them present themselves at this for and there was a ets with 3 balla‹fopura incita Snipe, Riddle, Consulate fontisith after receipt 11 such notice with their (produres money and papers regarding the sale of the tall | Matti Krevet, (N3 ) CushnaNG 4 ships and cors may be inspected and levied, geller with down from the front of the shop. Ying-hee sels Pains.
Register and other Ships papers in order that the Dates on fopinm) die ball now prodared in Euent is the one I took Bayer. Woodhory, O'Clock, on the renings previous to publi- { all fines and jevalties incurred under the said Regulations i and Malwa Opium in small quantities, this shop only wells 1 Venice, (m.) Dunberg, gation, riz: Tuesdays and Fridvys,
NOTICE.
New advertisements, will be received, unlu
(and that is default of compliance I shall proceed in acvariance. Do strangers and out to be used on the F-buni.
A Privateer, Martel,
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