PROCLAMATION.
hey Sir Jobs Francis Davis, Ba. o End Commander in Chief of the Hongkong and jus Denendencies, and and flugt Superintendent of the Trade of
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
character-clothed Oreover, with the proof pa- noply of a British Merchant's reputation, that PUNY THING WARch for the last three years has been squatted like a night mars upon the back of our destinies does, in much onsela na tine present,
Tilt Wità o straws against a champion cased in adamant, While we feel all this, we still cannot help feeling it a trial too much for flesh and blood to be obliged under an Executive which, in one and she same through the wounded sides of our interests.
ra of the ramme, Her Majesty a i lenipo troke aims at the heart of our reputation poned for two years, bu that the other six articles, whom H. M. Plenipotentiary his stirred, and in-
specified, namely
Let others do as they may, Mt Editor, for myself Forena the Commands of Her Mos Cracious 1 am determined to clear this score with the Govern
The Queen, conveyed through The Right meat, and if in doing so in my own unpolished, and ble The Earl Grey, Principal Secretary of uncouth fashion, I should chance to curdle the acid Suite for the Colates, bave been received, approving humors of your stre-bilious Governor, or to tread on of and confirming the two Ordinances bereinafter the corns of your tender-footed Commander-in-Chief, and they should complain of the uncourtly rude Ordmance No. 5 of 1946, entitled, "An Ordiness; then tell them Bir when next they have nanan for the Substitution of Notices and Adver- cosion to put their retten cause inte editorial com- aberests under the Ordinance No 3 of 1840, mission, to whisper in the car of their overworked, led An Ordinance for the Itelief of Insolvent/jonizary, that the better part evon of bireling edehuses within the Colony of Hongkong" advocacy, is discretion !
Urdmaned No. 6 of 1846, entitled, "An Ordi. nance for the Tagulation of Criminal Proceedings to the Supreme Coun of Flongkong, during the Abarnce of Her Majesty's Attorney General Now, therefore, is hereby declared that the said |. two Ordinances have been so approved of and con- firmed, as aforesaid.
By His Excellency's Command,
W. CAINE, Colonial Secretory. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong,
this 23rd day of April, 1847.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. It is hereby notified that a Despatch has been re- ceived from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies confirming the appoinunent of The Honourable Major Caine to the joint offices of Colonial Secretary and Auditor-General of Hong- Long.
By Command of His Excellency the Glowernor,
W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Office, Victoria,
Hoogkong, 23rd April, 1847.
No. 12.
Diplomatic Department GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. His Excellenc Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary &o, &c., is pleased to make known the following appointments:
Adam Wallace Elamlie, Esquire, to be Her Ma. jesty's Vice-Consul at the Port of Canton.
John Backhouse, Esquire, to be Her Majesty's Acting Vice-Comsul at the Port of Amoy,
By Order,
A. R. JOHNSTON, Victoria. Hongkong, 23rd April, 1847.
To the Editor of the Friend of China.
Hongkong, 20th April. 1847. Ma Eorres-Cao you inform me why the para- graph in the Overland oumber of the China Mad, published for distant readers, 80 insulting and so felinus to the Mercantile Community of Canton abould be altered in yesterday's oumber issued for circulation in China ?
1. looks to me very like a dreument published by authority" in one instance, and corrected by ex- pediency in the other.I am, Me Editor, your's obediemily.
A CONSTANT READER.
Tofthe Editor of the Friend of Chino.
Caston, April 29th, 1547.
Sta, A strey Copy of the less perland China Bai reached as this morning, and one paragraph of its verkable narrative of the recent Expedition hos fled every Englishman here whose eight it has insuked, with feelings of such deep disgust and in- dignation, that we are literally at a loss to shape them into expression.
What! Sirt do we read Bright? Can we credit the testimony of our sensee, that a mio can be found in Chins-e mun calling himself an Englishman, who impeccbes his countrymen on this soil of disappointment at the cey of Canton mot baving been laid in øshes, and its inhabitants put to slaughter for the chance of the dire Catastrophie begetting & TEMPORARY ACTI TITE IN THE HOME MARKET!!! Good God! was
Take the following illustration :-
I now call upon the political Generalissimo of the recent Expedition.I call upon its military Commander in Chief, and his Assistant Adjutant General, to answer the following questions,
Question 1st. Was it or was it not included in the first General Order issued at Hongkong for the embarkation of the Force that on the capture of the Bogue forts a contingent of 200 men was to have been left behind there as a garrison; it being considered necessary for securing the safe return of the Expedition that the Chinese should not have an opportunity of tampering with lines of ord nance which under the circumstances could only be temporarily and roughly disabled!
Question 2nd-If the occupation of the Bogue was originally deemed essential to the safe return of the army, why was il abandoned ?
Question 3rd-When Her Majesty's Steamer Vulture was approaching the Bogue on the morning of 2nd April last, and the roll was beat to muster for purpose of telling off the landing parties into divisions, were not two thirds of the Force destined for this service found to be DRUNK-BEAD
DRUNAROLI ING DRUNK —ROAHING DRUNK?
Question 4th. - When
the Artillery gun-bont was hauled alongside for telling off the landling parties of that arm in the like manner, was there hali a dozen men rapable of duty, or not in a stato of SWINISH INTOXICATION?
Question 5th - Was the garrisoning of the Bogue not obliged to he abandoned in consequence?!!!
Question With - When the crew of the "Vulture" were piped to quartere. her deck cleared for se. tion, the powder brought on deck for loading the gains, how many drunken Soldiers of the 16th Royal Irish staggered in amongst the powder-buckets with lighted pipes in their mouths, to the imminent deadly risk of destroying Her Majesty's Ship and every soul on board of it?
Question 7th-Were the proceedings of the Courts Martial in this case, which were carried on at the Murray Barracks at Hongkong during some len days after the return of the Expedition forwarded to the Horse Glards by last mail, as heating out and illustrating the Major General's To TRIUMFBE dated end. Quarters, Victoria, april 10th-achiressed to the colle give Force of the Ex- pedition without dialinction?
Question 8th - Would the Military Authorities of Hongkong wish us to inform them of the fact finding of these Courts Martial, as illustrating and proudly maintaining," the last clause of their Chief's in triumphe?
Tretty has been re
respected,, save in Canton into Community, who have had no Notice of these pro. which City entrance has not been permitted, and ceedings, who were prepared to await, sanguine of success, the satisfactory result who when they which alone justified the expedition, we can ima
ware disappointed. in this were assured the Naval gine with what wonder and indignation your Lord, ship will peruse your despatches, when you and military force would romain till every thing had find, that when the City alone required the exercise been completed, are now-informed, that saving about of that power which Her Majesty's forces possessed sixty den and their commanding officers, they ar left to Meir own resources to protect their lives and to make the authorities yield that and other neces
sary privileges, not only has that point been postproperty, and quell the fury of an ungovernable Alub, censed against them. Can you Lordship, and the are concessions trivial and unimportant when com. pared with the unnecessary display which has bees British Nation, and the Public Press, he satistic made to obtain them Any diplomatist can see, that with these results, the force being capable of achieving the great object for which they were assembled the consenting to a postponement for two years is virtually an admission that no entrance is required namely, by a necessary display of our power in a by the British, since the Chinese Authorities and the place where its existence is disbelieved, to obtain that Chinese Mob, who are the authorities on this paint, respect, due to the British Community which has profiting by their previous successes, will be pre never yet been obtained for thom in this place. pared to resist when the time for admission has ar fired. If that which alone warranted the expedi. tin has not been obtained, why was the expedition ever planned and commenced?
It was not that on the 6th the British force was too small for the intended purpose; we have reason to be firm in the belief that the force was ample and sufficient for its intended operations The British Community wore of this opinion for on the ch they were as a Military body inspected by General D'Águilar, who in his address to them declared that the treaty should be carried out to the lever, The Civil power had the same belief (for the Communi ty by Circular issued by Mr Consol Macgregor) were requested to hold themselves in readiness 16 repel any attack which might be made on the fac tories when the troops were attacking the City, If then in a City besieged the resident Merchants are found to remain in defence of the Houses. If with their opinion of its perfect compatibility to subdga any agressive power from the Chinese, peaceable men are found at their posts in the hour of danger. with a brave and highly disciplined force-plane admirably arranged dispositions, as to position and co-existent operations equal to the emergency laid down-Men high in hope-and Officers full of ex pectation that to them and those under their com- mand would be left the punishment of the semi bar barous authorities, who dared to break a solemn com pact, and when for two centuries of indignity heaped
the foreign Community,
upon
This rich reprisal is so nigh and yet not ours," Your Lordship can only come to the conclusion that Sir John Francis Davis, has committed himself hope lessly and beyond redemption by consenting to so ignoble a peace; that he has disgraced the British character in the eyes of the civilised World, that he hos cast a slur-Oh! how underserved on British Arms--that he has lowered us in the eyes of the Chinese Government-put the foreign community in a position to be insuhted-which even the presence of an armed force cannot prevent-rendered it no longer safe to remain in this place with our families-injured the interest of British Trade-and worse than ell the delay as to entering the City of Canton is grant ing the Southern Authorities, something which they will be quite right to calling a Victory will dissr range in a few months the growing amity which has existed at three of the Northern Poris, and thus altit mately leading the British Government into an ex- pensive and unpopular war, which can alone be cou- cluded at the expense of much treasure and blood on the side of either Nation, I say Sir John Francis Davis has done this and as I ara informed he has spared the City upon, principles of false humanity I tell you my Lord, this vacillation in the Councils of His Excellency will cause in a hundred fold de gree the destruction of life at some and not a very dis- tant period; and if any Man deserved to be impeach ed by the Crown of whom he is the unworthy Ser vant, that Man is Sir John Francia Davis.
Question 9th - Will the Secretaryal war in his place in the House of Commons be enabled to answer out of the fulness of the Major-General's 1 say nothing my Lord on what the lately ac- Despatches any further particulare at details which quiret possession of Hongkong was when he arri. Di Bowring or any other of our friends in perlined, and what under his Government it has become.
ment inny think it necessary to put to him?
Quetin 10th - Refers to all the others and asks,
was it,
* Discipline alone which could have effected this ar I am Sir,
Your humble Servant,
VINDEX
To the Editor of the Friend of China.
But I assure your Lordship words are weak in ex- pression, compared with the feelings excited in the mind of the British Community at this his crowning act; every head hung low at the first paragraph of his Public Notification, and honest indignation burst from every lip.
Canton, 26th April. 1847. SIR-The enclosed letter which I forwarded ever any thing so horrible uttered in this worldsbe you immediately it was written, and which being fore-the merchants of Canton represented to their penned on the data it bears, was hastily prepared friends in England, as out Heroding in their you returned for a fair copy, my leisure in the mean bloody thirst for gain the Maraus of the French Reume has not permitted me to send one to you tillat a portion of the China Town in close proximity voluticut !! Dat, out, out upon this atrocious, this now, I have however forwarded one to England for hideous insinuation! I will not stop to quarrel with insertion in a London Morning paper, and it is for the Califf Janizary, who altered it. 1 will not stop your consideration-whether you will now print it to esquire for whose diseased appetite this murderous in your own. sentiment was dished up; or to whose soddened and depraved palate this occepiable patulum was intend-National importance, and as the opinions held are The subject is one of vital-indeed I may say ed to minimer. I will not stop Sir, to analyze that those of all unbiased thinkers-only a leetle more dark and damnable design of justifying a home, the strong-you may perhaps therefore not consider the abandonment of British interests in China by block- subject even yet wom thread bare. My dear it,** ening the molizer of the British Merchant. No Bir! I
Yours frithfully, take the as a Government serdiment, and 1 deal with accordingly I heard the same thought obscurely
BENJAMIN SEARE, Hated at bere during the Expedition by creatures To the Right Honorable
ace of the government, but I never could that they would have dered even in of the official close to have much lese have pat a forward
End of the Braish world!
forit thus
barz Menture ent
Right
LOED PALMERFTON,
:
I now my Lord offer a few romarks upon the Article No. 1, viz:-The postponement for two years
your Lordship thinks this promise will be fulfilled? of our entrance into the city. And I would ask it Is it possible we can suppose that at the end of two years, the Chinese forta will be unmanned, and that 827 Ouns will be again apiked without a single casualty? Is it not fair to presume that what wa are prepared to demand they will refuse, and be. ready to back their refusal
British character, and British Trade, have received a blow in which nong will more participate to their advantage, then our friends on the other side the Atlantic, who through all this misconducted business have watchfully bet aloof, silently observing proceedings working s
much to their benefit.
It cannot now be the time to enquire, why a re sident should be so anxious to enforce a privilege which is permitted at the other Ports in China open to British Trade, it is quite sufficient, that it has been made an Artick of a treaty already suffered with impunity to be tampled under foot to show it is of too great importance to be thrown thus away at the very moment it was within our reach, and its non possession has subjected us to the contumely
of the Americans, of Europeans of Natives, not for. getting the Natives of China from the Mandarin to the lowest Coolie, who are proud, and satisfied at the advantage they have obtained may be said, that it would I have bườn a wantóragiestruction of life
to have bombarded the city, this argoment cannot be made use of by Sir Jobo F. Davis, for how did he know how many Chinese he might have had to destroy, had the forts been manned ere he had se cured his retreat? That emergency would have caused him to take away life, he could do tell, but that it would have been required and if needed it would have been done, and if just in conquering a fort Just in conquering a city. I pay my Lord no attention to the supposition that any great destruction of life' or property would have taken places A few Rockets. fired across the city would at once have brought the Chinese to subros
submission the Chinese here disbelieve. the possession of our ability to project such to a distance, this fact should have been demonstrated to them, and they would soon have submitted. Keying or some other chief Magistrate should have been
brought balora H M. Plenipotentiary, and there made security, that in the event of any casualy, Caused by wilful aggression, befalling any foreigner when in the city, in the event of such aggressor mot being found the Chief of the street himself became responsible. Indeed my Lord it is surprising that with the knowledge winch
has
hitherto been sup¬ posed HE. Sir John Francis Davis possessed of the Chinese character he did not insist that the Minor Mandarins, and the heads of Streets, should themselves waness the humbleness with which it is said that wily politician Keying has out-willed F. M. Plenipotentiary, gained time, saved himself from disgrace at Pekin and turned the tables more com- pletely ou British Diplomacy than has ever been My Lord the time is coming when Keying will done before in this or any part of the Eastern World, retire from the Government of this province. Le will proceed to Pekin He will be received with bonor, far has he not prevented the outside Barba rians from obtaining entrance into the grent Southern City.
the dismantling his forts He will be dissatisfied at ty. The Emperor will never hear one word of
the state of things in all the other Poris where ad- mission has been obtained, and will commence s... systern of gradual coercion injurious not only to us, to us in a greater degree than to others, our interest being greater than or
aher nations, but also to the ac vancement of intelligence, and civilization, retarding alike the progress of morality, Religion, and Com-
merce.
I am fully aware my Lord that it will be advan British Merchants on the 5th of their wants, and ced by some that the expression of opinion by the requirements, were of so weak and puerile a cha racter as to deserve but little consideration from Her taken by surprise, their lives possibly, their property Majesty's Plenipotentiary. ↑ But my Lord they were
the security of both and my Lord it does not follow public matters, till they had made arrangements for certainly jeopardised, and they could not consider
Before 1 commence to comment on the very reas sonable requests of His Excellency, permit me to enter into a few minor details in connection with the late military operations, not likely to reach your Lordship in your Public despatches, and to the truth neas of what your Lordship will agree with me in of which I pledge myself having been an ey
un eye wa calling one of the most unparrelled and disgraceful acts of petty Warfare and small revenge which ever disgraced the page of History. On Sunday the 4th to the factories where a guard had been stationed, a which, neither by whom, nor from the roof of that stone was either dropped or thrown it is not known
were with difficulty restramed from at once inflict cy's Aid-decamp, a portion of the 18th Royal Irish House, and struck Captain Sargeant His Excellen
ing punishment on the House for man there was none to be seen, now i would have been quite in determined, they required such a manikstation from that when so converal because or was not then keeping with honorable warfare had they been per Her Majesty's forces, as would obtain them the mitted to do so at once-but mark two day are al respect of the Chinese, they were the less entitled to lowed to elapse, and at the end of that period the
receive it, and it must be remembered they were Sappers and Miners are ordered to pall derun the uninformed of the proceedings of H. M. Gover House of a Man well known to all the British Comment, and I for one edge myself to your lordship munity, by name Hop-Mow, a respectable Manuface turer of Canton Tea, who could have had no hard in this particular Act of aggression, even had it been known and capable of being proved that the missile came from his house. Now it has been said the House was pulled down as an example to the Chi nese of the fate their dwellings would mees-should any missile be thrown from their roofs Who is to inform the Chinese of this Act of so called retri, ribuuve justice? Can such an Act be justified, and if
it can be justified, is
H.. Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs.
MY LORD-The official despatches, which you will receive by the Mail which conveys this Faper to London, will contain among others two Notifica tions Ope anabuncing the entrance of a British force in front of the Canton factories, after having spiked 627 Guns in the short space of 36 hours Virtually
on ance mere in the possession of
he 2nd that Kerm had
ton under
Waadt wise to bring up for the
years bars by
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that had they been informed it was the intention of Sir John Davis to stop at the point where he has concluded his operations, they would as one Fan have protested against such an unnecessary display of power, and shrunk with horor, and detestation from place, and the carrying a flying bridge over a its wanton exercise. The Articles granting a burial
significant and filthy lare I need scarcely comment upon. A burial place where our remains may be respected is indeed something in Canton, but it worthy of the British Nais necessary you
has been sormiked
that 18 WILE dos in armed fo
procured; and op remaibs
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Lordship should be informed reat difficulty Coffin can be induride insult that the
Do their last home can be Can your Lordship ought to require de low them to bury
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been mubscribed, a Com
sbursement, and is.
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