CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12] — Page 352

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head on all healthy Chinese coolies not exceeding thirty years of age, landed at any of their sea-ports

Tevo shipments had already and Manualità" and had turned out well. A contract was immediately taken up with the Government, and the Coolies in the "Albert" and the "Chili" were shipped thereunder. Mr Elias, the supercargo of the "Albert", who was murdered, came here to set the thing going.

Arrived the "Frederick With Con Wilhelmi". An agent named Guillon has left behind to carry it out; and there can be no doubt that we shall see a large shipment crossing the Pacific within the present year.

In conclusion, the Colony appears to me to have settled down into its natural condition, and to the only legitimate level under the treaty of Nanking. It is never to be the centre or medium of our home trade with China, but it is to serve as an important and useful outport to our general trade.

As a very extensive emigration is setting towards the West from China, notwithstanding the disastrous out-turn of the shipments per "Albert" and "Lady Montague", contracts for 600 more have recently been taken up here, and vessels chartered to transport them, so that we may safely estimate that 3,000 Chinese will have crossed.

It is a refuge for it and an undoubted safeguard for one people trading within the track of this Government, and a silent restraint upon its insolence and tea smuggling. We might have had a better position or a town, as it is we are tied to it, and must make the best of it. On the whole, it is not a bad one, and I think it would not be difficult to...

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345 head on all healthy Chinese coolies not exceeding thirty years of age, landed at any of their sea-ports Tevo shipments had already and Manualità" and had turned out well. A contract was immediately taken up with the Government, and the Coolies in the "Albert" and the "Chili" were shipped thereunder. Mr Elias, the supercargo of the "Albert", who was murdered, came here to set the thing going. Arrived the "Frederick With Con Wilhelmi". An agent named Guillon has left behind to carry it out; and there can be no doubt that we shall see a large shipment crossing the Pacific within the present year. In conclusion, the Colony appears to me to have settled down into its natural condition, and to the only legitimate level under the treaty of Nanking. It is never to be the centre or medium of our home trade with China, but it is to serve as an important and useful outport to our general trade. As a very extensive emigration is setting towards the West from China, notwithstanding the disastrous out-turn of the shipments per "Albert" and "Lady Montague", contracts for 600 more have recently been taken up here, and vessels chartered to transport them, so that we may safely estimate that 3,000 Chinese will have crossed. It is a refuge for it and an undoubted safeguard for one people trading within the track of this Government, and a silent restraint upon its insolence and tea smuggling. We might have had a better position or a town, as it is we are tied to it, and must make the best of it. On the whole, it is not a bad one, and I think it would not be difficult to...
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head on all healthy Chinese coolics not exceeding thirty years of age, landed at any of their sea-ports

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had already and Manualità" and had turned out well_ A contract was immediately laken up with the Govenment, and the Coolice in the Albert" an a the Chili tere shipped thereunder __ Mr Elias the supercargo- of the Albert' toho was murdered, came here to set the thing

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