CW. C.No384-19.
Hong Kong, 27th December, 1857. (Received 27th December 1871)
The Warble Cecil C. Smith
and R. H. Caims, Esqre
Moncas Coolie Graffie
Notes
on Enclosure in Earl Kimberley's Despatch No. 129 of 18th October, 1871 - being reply from the Portuguese Government at Lisbon to communications on the subject of
The Daily Advertiser.
HONGKONG, Monday, January 8, 1872.
We subjoin hereunder a return taken from the Macao Boletim do Governo which speaks for itself. No less than 348 dead bodies have during 1871 been found in the streets of Macao, mostly, as we learn upon good authority, those "would-be emigrants," who have been rejected by the coolie Agents on account of sickness or physical incompetency! With every disposition to acknowledge the services already rendered by Admiral Souza, in purging the coolie trade of some of its worst abuses, we must repeat that such a state of affairs reflects great discredit on his administration. Whether the songon be hard or not, it is indispensable that every coolie broker should be responsible for the return to his native place of those rejected. Must Chinese emigration always be attended by horrors? If so, the sooner it is abolished the better!
The following is the return :-
Statement of dead bodies mostly of Chinese being nuts discharged from the Barraccons on account of sickness those found in a dying state and removed to the Asylum, excepted
Enclosure Sol in Govr Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell's Despatch No. 1916 of 8 January 1872.
January, 1 July, 32 February, 12 Aug., 34 March, 12 Sept. 33 April, 28 Oct., 39 May, 25 Nov. 47 June 27 Dec., 48 Total, 348Page 2029
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