left by
in which its functions were the late government; bochi in relation to the Chinese, & to British subjects,
home in despair in 1835,
brought me
at cause
and proved the great
s in the mine an
ally
four years
while worse, _ of the
uise pseudo-
ha
later things growing continua
Wor
The Portuguese,
colony of Macao ( I know from long acquaintance with it) is rather
a beacon to shine, than
Curr. ex our 2
ple
Motiva
d
to follow - In fact it is not a Portuguese colony, as the Chinese are
acknowledged sovereigns, and their people bear
an overwhelming proportion to the Portuguese inhabitants - The latter pay
a rent as
the condition of their tenancy is well- A Chinese Mandarin of the lowest magisterial rank (Tsotông) issues at once his licences to the Chinese, & his orders to the head of the soldiers,"
verrror
O
he calls the soi-disant you the part of the Portuguese
cccccc
f
Chinese collector of Customs receives
and seizes
the duties for the Emperor, Portuguese Opium (when he
CC
find any ) in the streets of the Town.
The Portuguese
sole ave
CARA LI
had in
cred, when I le
sin en
left them, to
meet the charges of their miserable
Establishment by duties on their
el coco
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still more miserable trade offer
or five Portuguese Ships, & occasionally a Spanish one the Opium trade having by a short sighted cupidity been driven away in 1822 to flourish at Lintin in floating warehouses, independent alike of cognizance taxation. The revolution in the Mother country,
The deficiency
curar ol
arrce &
of both friends & credit, led the Portuguese government to make a
the Ecclesiastical
terous attack
erroto
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wavents, as well as the private property of it's subjects both at home and in the colonies; and the richest merchant of Macao (almost the only
one that deserved the
in London,
refuge
lives. The remaining prosperity
on the
of the place was dependent English residents, who rented the best houses spent their there; when the expulsion of the British trade from Canton in 1839, and the necessity of a
cessity of warehousing our Merchants goods, gave
GL.
short-
lived prosperity, to Macao, which,
like the
the grafted tree, was surprised by the novos fructus, it non sua poma
But at the very
ungrateful imply
ent
when it so greatly benefited by the