NOTIFICATION.
Her Britannic Majesty's Chief Superintendent of trade &c., &c., in China, being about to remove his establishments from Macao to Hongkong. It is hereby notified that JOHN RICKETT, esq. has been appointed government agent at the former place, with authority to open all mails that may come to the address of the post-master or other British functionary, to make up packets of letters sent to him for dispatch on the departure of vessels, of which the government agent will in all ordinary cases give due notice, and to be the "medium of transmitting references and communications which Her Britannic Majesty's subjects residing at or visiting Macão, or others, may wish to have sent to the Chief Superintendent or his Deputy at Hongkong.
It is further hereby notified that it is the intention of the Chief Superintendent, &c., to address letters by the earliest opportunity to the governments of Bengal, Madras, Bombay, and Singapore, as well as to Her Majesty's Post-master General in London, suggesting that letters intended for and specially addressed to Macao or Canton, shall as far as possible, be henceforward made up in separate packets, whilst the great bulk of the correspondence will, as heretofore, be forwarded in the mails generally addressed China, and which latter it is proposed, shall only be opened, and assorted at the post office at Hongkong, so soon as the arrangements now contemplated have been carried into effect:
All merchants, and others interested in the above described arrangements, are requested to note the same, and recommended to instruct their agents and correspondents in Europe, India, and elsewhere accordingly.
By order,
J. ROBT. MORRISON, Acting Secretary & Treasurer.
Macao, 25th Feb., 1842.
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