to Macao & see the Discount de
San
Janmaris & tell him as follows:-
The King of Portugul has
ismed a Proclamation
forbidding Coolie Emigration from Maças: this fact the
Discount de San Jannario Officially communicated to The Viceroy & the
& the Viceroy
has memorialized the Emperor of China.. If Cmigration,
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is resumed, whether under the name of Barracoons Inns, the Viceroy will send gunboals to Macao, & will
land troops with orders to
destroy such Inns & bring the persons engaged to Canton for punishment"
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Upon this the Viscount de San Januario wrote a des patch
to the Viceroy in which he
said he had ascertained.
that m
many persons mixed up in the Coolie business
were also mixed up in these Inns for Chinese, that these people had deceived him
or he would not have
given his sanction to these Inns being opened, & that, now he knew the real facts of the case he had suppressed them. Coolie enigration as
Regards
destroy