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THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
27th day of April, in the Yene 1842, as aforesaid, shall be revoked and annuelled.
(From the China Mail, May 1st, 1843.) GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. And We do further declare and ordain, that from WHEREAS by an order of Her Most Gracians and after the date of the Publication, as aforesaid, Majesty in Council, dated at Windsor on the 28th of this Our Proclamation, the severnl Coins here November, 1844, His Excellency the Governor inofter specified, being perfect Coins, and of full and Commander-in Chief has been instructed to and proper weight and value, shall, in like manner publish the annexed Proclamation by the Queen, as the Gold, Silver, and Copper Coins of the Un- | the said Proclamation is hereby published accordited Kingdom, be an constitute a legal Tender of ingly and it is further commanded by Her Majes Payment within Our said Island of Hongkong and ty in Council that the same do take effect and come its Dependencies, at the averal respective mies, an 1
as equivalent to the values undermentioned: into force from the date of the publication thereof
That is to say,- By Order,
FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE.
Colonial Secretary. Victoria, Hongkong, ist May, 1845.
The Gold Moher of the East India Company's Territory, coined since the 1st day of September, 1935. at the rate of Twenty nine shillings and two pence Sterling Money of the Un ted Kingdom.
The Dollar of Spain, Mexico, or the South American States, at the rate of Four shillings and Two pence Sterling
The Rupee of the East India Company's Ter-
which allosion has been made in the China Mail, was
by English Gentlemen,
will
In relation to the aspersed Parsee, I am painfully obliged, tho' with great reluctance, to tell the fact that the Opit carried thru the Company's Garden to the property of an European, brought up by a Chinese
By giving this a place in your valuable paper from Whampoa in a boat belonging to a Ship owned
I remain
Dear Sir oblige.
Your Obedient Servant
A PARSEE.
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BY THE QUEEN. A PROCLAMATION, WHEREAS, on the 29th day of March, 1842. a Proclamation was issued at Hongkong by Sirritory, or ined since the 1st day of September, 1835, MADRAS Henry Pottinger, Barent, Our Plonipotentiary at the rate of One shilling and Ten pence Sterl-EATAVIA And thief Superintendent of the Trade of British | ng; and the Half Rupee, Quarter Rupee, und Subjects in China, in the terms following, that is Eighth of Rupee pieces, in proportion.
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With reference to the desirable object of preventing disputes and laying down some defin- ed system regarding the Circulating Medium in "this settlement, His Excellency Sir Henry Pot #linger, Bart. Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, is pleased to promulgate the "following brief Rules, which are to be considered #applicable to all common-Bazaar Purchases, and Barter, Fire, &c. &c, but not, to interfere with. or affect, what may be termed Mercantile Trans * actions, and are to be in force on the Island of "Hongkong, pending the Gracious Pleasure of
Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain. "1st. The following Coins are to be deemed legal Tenders-Spanish; Mexican and other "Dollars and their component parts, Company's Rupees and their component parts, Cash, or the "Copper Coin current in China.
2nd. Dollars of whatever denomination or
devisa, and whether whole or chopped, are to circuinte at par with reference to each other. "always providing that they be of the proper "weight and standard.
3rd. Two and ono quarter Company's Rupees
shall be considered equal to one Dollar. "One Rupes and twò. Annas (or half a quarter} equal to hulfn. Dollar, and three-quarters of a Ropee (or twelve Annas) equal to one quarter of isa Dollar.
4th. Twelve hundred Cash (1200) Copper Coin shall be equal to one quarter of a Dollar. "Six hundred (000) to half a Dollar.
Five hundred and thirty thre (533) to one Company's Rupee.
Two hundred and sixty-six (206) to half a
i Rupee.
One hundred and thirty-three (133) to one quarter of a Rupee.
5th. Any other Coins, whether British or Foreign, not enumerated in the preceding Rules. are not to be deemed a legan Tender, but they can of course be sold or otherwise bartered in the Buzaar, according to their intrinsic value
6th Cash Copper Coin at the rate laid down in the th Rul, will be sold to any individual *requiring in it sums of not less than fifty Dollars, on application to the Treasurer and Secretary to Her Britannic Majesty's Superintendent of Trade.
"God save the Queen."
And Whereas, on 27th day of April 1842, a for-. ther Proclamation was issued by Our said Pleui- potentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade af British Subjects in China, in the terms follow- ing,
That is to say,-
The Letter, of which a Copy is hereunto an "nexed, having been addressed to me by the Mer- cantile Films who have signed it, on behalf of themselves and others, I do hereby direct and * proclaim, in-conformity with their application, that pending the gracious pleasure of the Queen of England, the Mexican and other Republican *Dollars shall be taken as, and considered to be, the Standard, in all Government and Mercantile transactions at Hongkong and other places in China in the occupation of Her Majesty's Forees, unless at the time of such transactions taking * place it should be expressly specified to the con- .46 trary.
"And I do further announce, that the present Proclamation is not to be taken in any way or "shape as affecting the provisions of the one which I promulgated on the 29th day of last month, re- lalive to the Circulating Medium in the Island of « Hoogkong.
"God save the Quern."'
And Whereas, by our Leuers. Patent, hearing date the 5th day of April, in the Sixth Year of our Reign, we did erect and constitute our Island of Hongkong and, its Dependencies into a separate Colony, to be known and designated as the Colony of Hongkong; and by Our Instructions to Our Governor of the said Colony. We did then direc! and ordain that he should not propose or assent to any Legislative Ordinance whatever, whereby any - Bills of Credit or any other Paper Currency, or Cuin, save only the legal Coin of the Realta. "ay be made or declared to be a legal Tender. without special permission from Us in that be- half first obtained.”
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And Whereas it hath been represented to Us, by the Lord Commissioners of Our Treasury, thit doulits have arisen with reference to the terms of the said herein before recitel Proclamations of the 20th day of March, and the 27th day of April. 1842, respecting the legal sufficiency of Tenders of Payment within Our said Island and its Depen: dencies, in British Coins; and it is expedient at sich doubts should be removed, and that the Regu tations regarding Standards of Value and Tenders of Payment within Our said Island should be as- similated to those of Our other Possessions abroad. Now, therefore, We, by the advice of Our Privy Council, have thought fit to declare and ordain, and by the advice aforesaid, We do hereby declare and ordain. that from and after the date of the publica tion in the said Island of Hongkong of this Our Proclamation, the said hereinbefore recited Pro cla mutions issued on the 29th day of March, and
The Cash, or Copper Coin. Current in China, at the rate of Two hundred and eighty-eight Cash, for One Shilling Sterling.
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SINGAPORE April,
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THE FRIEND OF CHINA,
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board.. At 6 o'clock that afternoon she was off Chapel island; after taking the bearings of the island, and giving a course for Namon, Captain MacFarlane being indisposed, and re- the night, went below to his cabin for a short quring to be on deck during a great part of At half past 8 he was disturbed by the voice, of the chief officer, Mr. Wilkinson, who shouted in an unusual tone “Capt. MacFarlane you are wanted on deck." Capt. MacFarlane obeyed the summons; upon getting on deck the companion was closed by the Mate and Gunner, who were each armed with a brace to pistols. They told the Captain that it was
their wish, and that of the crew that he should take the vessel to Singapore, and that they had altered the course from S. W. to South, 18 They proposed that he should join then
-offered him a large share of the money on board-stating that from the Ariel's sailing qualities they could commit piracy with little risk of being captured. Though his life was at stake, the Captain refused to join them. They then ordered his Butler to bring all the AND HONGKONG GAZETTE. arms from his cabin,continuing their persuasions to join in their lawless intention to rob their VICTORIA, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1845.
employers, and afterwards to fit the vessel out as And We do hereby farther declare and Ordain,
a regular pirate. Captain MacFarlane pointed We are again reluctantly compelled to cor- that Tenders of Payment in the said Coins, being, as aforesaid, perfect Coins, and of full and proper rect mis-statements of our contemporary the out to them the heinous crime which they were weight and value, as well as in the Gold, Silver, China Mail, thought loss mischievous, or less committing, and the fearful penalty they would or Copper Coins of the United Kingdom, or any malignant, than others which have appeared in incur; he also promised that they should or either of them, according to the several relative that paper, they are still such as to call forth be forgiven, provided they gave up the attempt rates and values hereinbefore specified, shall be indignant denials of their truth from our esbut they were obdurate and resolved to deemed and taken within Our said Island of Hong; teemed fellow subjects the Parsee Merchants carry out their villainous plans. The Mate said kong and its Dependencies, to be a sufficient and resident in China, and we are well assured he would spare the Captain's life, stating that lawful Tender, in satisfaction and discharge of all that with the exception of the veracious Can- while asleep in his cabin, he had intended to ton correspondent of the Mail, there are few shoot him, and even pointed a pistol down the Debts, Coutracts, and Engagements whatsoever for the payment of money: Provided always never- theless, and We do further Ordain and Declare, or no foreigners in China, who will not disap.skylight for the purpose, but could not bring that nothing hereing contained shall be deemed, er prove of the Mail's making itself the medium himself to commit such a cowardly action as taken to render it compulsory on any person to of circulating palpable, and notorious untruths. to shoot a man asleep. He also stated that, The causes of the recent dispute at Canton. any attempt at rescuing the vessel would be accept at any one payment a larger Amonnt in Silver Coins of the United Kingdom of lower de- and the withdrawal of the receiving vessels certain death, as the crew (Manilamen) had nomination than One shilling, or in the Balf, from Whampoa, are well known in China, and all joined himself and the Gunner, who with Quarte, or Eighth Rupee pieces hereinbefore here the incorrect statement put forth by our the Captain and one al were the only. Euro- ruenighed, that the equivalent to Twenty Shillings contemporary was only received with dorision; peans on board. After some further conver- Sterling Money, or a larger Amount in Coppern Indja, however, and even in England, partiessation they promised to land the Captain, also Coins of the United Kingdom, or in the Chinese reading the Mail, may be persuaded that the to spare the life of his attendants, though they said they would be compelled to kill some. Copper Coins before-mentioned, than the equivals le cause was the misconduct of the Parsee who were on board for their own safety. At ent to One Shilling Sterling Money.
Merchants, who were openly introducing opium at the risk of again raising serious disagreements 10 o'clock the main hatch was taken off, and it was purposed to confine Captain Macfarlane with the Chinese authorities. Our correspon» dunt publicly refutes the charge-which to our in the hold; he requested that they would give readers in China is well know to be a false him his own cabin, and after some hesitation onc,but as it may be believed elsewhere, the they, agreat to make that his prison, Pro
vious to going below the Captain made another explicit denial is not uncalled for.
Knowing the utter falsity of the statement attempt to dissuade them, but it was of no arail. They said, they had made up their put forth by the Mail, we should have consi- dered it our duty to have corrected it, even minds to the step they had taken for sometime, had our Parsee friend not done so, but we and, only waited a favorable opportunity. confess we almost expected that in his They also mentioned, that others in Hongkong, next issue, he would have corrected it himself, had it in contemplation to capture the "Ariel"; He has not had the magnaninity, or rather the that a European, whose mume is before us honesty to do so; and "we again state that the was then close at hand in a Lorcha, having a crew of forty men, expressly fitted out for cause of the receiving vessels being obliged to
that purpose, and that Exiling his success leave Whampoa, was the reprehensible con duct of an English firm, who sold illicit goods There were people in Hongkong who intend- ́ Ariel with the Clipper to an officer of the Chinese government, ofed capturing the fering delivery of the same from an English Celestial. This part of the statement must be vessel not entered at the Consulate. The taken with caution--they however gave the Chinaman lodged a complaint with Her Mame of the ringleader of the pirates in the jesty's Consul, anil that gentleman fined the orcha, who it appears offered to ship on At daylight on the morning firm in question five hundred dollars for in board the Ariel, fringing the port regulations. It was the refusal of the 27th, Captain MacFarlane forced open to pay this fine, which led to an order for all the door of his cabin and went on deck, the the ships at Whampoa to eater themselves at ship's head was then S. Why W. At8, breakfast was sent into his cabin; the Ariel then running
At 10 he sent the Consulate within three, days, and the re- ceiving ships, declining to enter, have preferred before a fine N. E. wind.
for the mate and requested that they would leaving the anchorage for a time.
give him the long boat, or put him on board a Junk; this was refused-the nate saying that he (the Captain) would get to Hongkong 100.
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CORRESPONDENJE.
To the Editor of the Friend of China..
Canton, 27th April, 1843. Dear Sir.I was silent the indignant, at observing the instances of gross and palpable ignorance andvin- dictive feelings displayed by your Contemporary of
the Ching Mail in several of his issues, and would not
If we might presume to offer advice, we would say to the Mail, change your Canton corres pondent. Depend upon it, the person who now furnishes you with information is either extre- mely ignorant and ill informed, or he is in- sincere, and unscrupulous in his assertions,
soon for them.
Captain's life would be spared was again re- newed. In the afternoon: the Captain's Chi-. nese servant, who was allowed to go on deck, told him that the Manilaman were not in the
He, however promised to put him on board a Junk at nightfall, also that he would give up all his personal property. At noon, the Mate again came into the Cap- tain's cabin, telling him to make himself comfor The proclamation, establishing a sort of a table until the vessel got to Singapore; he ex- currency in Hongkong, will be read with aston-pressed his determination to throw the treasure ishment. Although issued by Her Majesty in overboard it pursued the assurance that the Council, it is understood that it emanated from a tyro of the Hongkong government.
We have not leisure to point out all the absurdities of this "hotch potch" currency, but it will receive due attention next issue: plot, and that they ineditated rising upon the the meantime one or two things strike us, as
Mate and Gunner, and again restoring the they will others who read the document. The vessel to his command. About ten o'clock value of the dollar is changed from 4s 44, they had matured their plans, and although which is within 4d of the true value, to 4s 2d, without other arms than the rammers of the which is 13d under the value; the consequence guns, and their knives, they attacked the muti- of this is, that all government servants, whose,
neers, at the same time enabling the Captain to pay is nuninally sterling money, receive dollars get on deck through a window, and arming for 1d less than they are worth; and all those him with the Cook's axe, The fight was soon who pay land rent, also nominally sterling, are over-the Mate being knocked down with a fleeced out of tid on each dollar they pay for rammer, and also cut with knives-the Gunner the said rent. Thus, a servant of government took refuge in the Cabin, raising the hatch who has £1,000 of salary, at the old exchange which covered the magazine, and threatening of 4s 4d was paid: $ 4,615, at the new ex-
to blow up the ship. Captain MacFarlane hadd change of 43 2d he gets $ 4,800; pocketing by this time got possession of a fowling piece, $185 by the change-With the landholder one barrel if which was loaded; with it he the case is reversed. If his ground rent is fired and wounded the Gunner in the thigh £100, formerly he paid $401 d llars, now he The poor wretch cried out for mercy, but still robbing Peter to pay threatened to blow up the ship. A lasso was pays $499. This is" Paul" with a vengeance, and the man who got ready and thrown over his head, with which plumed the operation is no fool; but we re: the crew hauled him on deck and secured him. The Mate died of his wounds. The serve the subject.
Gunner was brought here, and haben com- MUTINY ON BOARD THE · XRIEL.”
initted for trial, after an examination before
If the Editor of the China Mail had the goodness
Matiny at sea, especially by the officers, is | Mr. Hillier, the acting Marine Magistrate." It is pleasing to stale that, after the affray was to refer to the old files of the Canton Pres and Re- so rare an occurrence, that the recent, and for ghter, he would, surely End that, the late crisis orig- a time successful attempt of the Mate and Gun-over, and the ship's course was again shaped for nated with the Europeans, and the more recent trouble ner of the Schoner Ariel to take possession of Hongkong, Captain MacFarlane mastered the (which is fortunately warded off by the sagacity and the vessel, with her valuable freight of specie, crew, and offered up prayers, and thanks skill of our amiable Consul) arose fros; the indiscret is the cause of mucis astonishment. The par- giving for their deliverance from imminent conduct of certain Europeans.
Every unbiased and candid teader will peresise atticulars of this tragic affair we have received danger. a glance that undoe and latrat mozites lurk in the from the very best authority, and our statement bosoms of the Editor of the China Mail and his may be relied upon. reracious Canton correspondent, in most wantonly in juring and wounding the feelings and reputation of the Perste,
cri-is."
have taken notice of it, had it not been for the illiberal imputation, so insiduously and indiscriminately thrown against the Parsees, in broadly stating in the columns of his paper of the 24th. Instant that, the Parsees are the parties chiefly concerned in again, employing foreign schoouers to take opium from Whampoa to Canton, the very thing which formerly produced a 1 need not dwell here, either upon the injurious and mischievious results which such misrepresentation might produce, or upon the fallacy of the statements which are evidently penned in a spirit bordering on jealousy, if not malignity, and with no other view than to prejudice and lessen the Parsees in the estimation of their friends and constituents at home and abroad ; but every person scquainted with the Opium trade is unquestionably aware, that not only the Parsees, but also Englishmen and Americans employ schooners in carrying the drug up the river as well as Parsces.
The Ariel left Amoy on Saturday last, bound for this port, with about 3 100,000 in specie on'
The whole affair is a very sad, though a re markable one. Mr. Wilkinson, the ring-leader, was a young man with the fairest prospects before him; his employment was, and is, the best
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