looking at the critical position of British property at Canton __ that I look upon
it as one
of the most assured prospects
of the Colony within the next five
while the event may
any
• five years;
be brought soon
day by another fire
at the
another fire-raising
Convulsion
The fairest prospects of the
Settlement, however, appear to me to be
in
the
And
new trade springing up between it & California -
& generally
the
West Coast of North and South America.
I find that upwards of
10,000 tons of Shipping were
wholly
- partly loaded in this harbor for the West Coasts of N & S America between the
1st January
year
and 30
4 June of the current year. See Return for
Of these 10,000 tons 6842 tons were under the British Flag and only
1156 under the American
The China merchandise
exported consisted chiefly of the following
articles: see Returns.
articles — coarse silks — Camphor —
340
floor matting — camphor trunks — fire works —
molasses — wrought —
Sweet meats — tea —
Sugar —
granite – wooden houses — planks lumber —
and sundry packs of all sorts
The bulk of the Sugar exported
was loaded here
It was
brought down
in the usual smuggling boats from a district called Shey-he lung, the flat country, stretching inland from the Bogue
paid for in Opium
Molasses has been shipped in some quantity
The natives for the first time
Commenced
packing the article here,
which employs
some labor,
for export comes to more
than the first cost
the packing:
Sweet Meats and Fire works. The Chinese have lately
commenced the manufacture of these wares
- for export —
Considerable
Camphor