1841.
Journal of Occurrences.
No. 4. Public Notice.
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Macao, 20th April, 1841.
Notice is hereby given, that all persons requiring passports for small craft pro- ceeding up the river after this date will receive the same, on application at the office of the superintendents of trade.
The passports must be exhibited on board the senior officer's ship off(North Wangtong, and it is particularly notified that all small craft attempting to pass with- out examination will be liable to be brought to by the ships of war or their boats. (Signed) CHARLES ELLIOT, H. M. Plenipotentiary. No. 5. Public Notice. British Factory, Canton, 17th April, 1841. To prevent general and serious inconvenience to the trade, notice is hereby given, that her majesty's plenipotentiary has applied to the senior officer in com- mand of H. M. ships on the coast of China (and received his consent), not to suf- fer any schooner or other small craft to pass inwards beyond North Wangtong without producing on board of the senior officer's ship at that anchorage a pass- port signed by the plenipotentiary. And it is further notified, that all small vessels without such passes will be liable to dismissal from the river by the commanding officer of H. M. ships. To except vessels furnished with his own passports from the visit or examination by the officers of the provincial government, upon the ground of protecting the revenue, or any other, the plenipotentiary has also pro- cured licenses bearing the seal of the Kwangchow foo.
But the plenipotentiary, has at the same time pledged himself, not to issue his own or these passes of the government to any other than persons who shall afford him assurance, to his own satisfaction, that the boats shall only be employed in the conveyance of letters, passengers, or supplies of table provisions or conve- niencies for the use of H. M. ships in the river. The passports therefore will be canceled, whenever the plenipotentiary shall see cause to determine that such a course is necessary in discharge of his engagements. Subjects or citizens of fo- reign states, desiring passports for boats to be employed in the abovementioned pursuits, will be pleased to refer to their respective consuls, upon whose appli- cation to the plenipotentiary they will immediately be issued.
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And notice is further given, that H. M. plenipotentiary with apply to the senior officer in command of H. M. ships, to remove out of the river any ship or vessel, proved to his satisfaction to be engaged in dangerous pursuits, calculated to dis- turb the truce, and interrupt the general trade. (Signed CHARLES Elliot, &c.
About Keshen there have been many reports and several docu- ments in circulation, some of which we know to be false. His me- morial, which we here introduce, will enlist the reader's feelings in his favor. Some of the other documents shall appear in our next number.
No. 6.
Memorial, from the minister, &c., Keshen, to the emperor, showing the posture of affairs, and the condition, offensive and defensive, of Canton.
Your majesty's slave,* Keshen, minister of the Inner Council, and acting governor of the two Kwang, kneeling presents this respectful memorial, setting forth, how that the English foreigners have dispatched a person to Chekeäng province to deliver back Tinghae,-how that they have restored to us the forts of Shakok and Taikok, in the province of Kwangtung, along with the vessels of war and salt-junks which they had previously captured, all which have been duly received back,-and how that the war ships of these. foreigners have already retired to the outer waters-all these facts, along with his observations upon the military position of the country, its means of offense and defense, the quality of its soldiery, and the disposition of its people, observations resulting from personal investigation,—he now lays be-
# Slave or nootsae, It is always the practice of the Tartar officers in ad- dressing the throne, to apply to themselves this humiliating epithet, except when associated with Chinese officers, and then for uniformity they use chin, a "miuister."
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