CO129-065 - Sir Bowring & Public Offices - 1857 [11-12] — Page 336

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

him to let his subjects, male and Female, go where they please. But were eve better acquainted with the feelings of his people, and with the malines of

his traditional policy, we might perhaps discover that our counsel had Sprung from

our ignorance, and that we

had given very

bad aderice.

But dismissing the Chinese point of view, I would submit that we

evaugh have

ما

as

Киал

thats tve

Englishnew to pronounce adequate motives for refusing to Inake peace with the Emperor of

unless he will consent to alter one

China

Lawe

of

of Portingal long

threw

every

of tie his Empire about own people. King

obstacle in

The

hindamental the moverments of hus

the way of the emigrations of thes Juhabitants of madeira. The Governments of Germany strive against the press of

men until they have performed their military Service, and would punish

young

them

if they

returned. But these are Countries with which it would be presumptuous to meddle. It is

دا

arly

is the

Case

<

334

case of one which has out lasted the

Greatest Empires of the West, Chat

Every private Gentlemans at

Consei

feels manago,

an at Camberwell

ousness that he could

better than their own

Emperor, the Affairs of three hundred

millions of people.

The truth is, as

far as I can

learn, that in ore sense the Emigration Jamales is forbidden

both

of males and Females is by the law of China. They to come back if they quit the

land. The

are

forbiddew flavery

reasons why the objection is

more enforced

in the case of Females is simply that, in China, ( by the testimony of Shed f. Bowring and others) this Wanew are property. Every parent expects to be paid for his daughter when married from her home. This is one of the custons of the Country dating probably from a remote antiquity

I removed

مانانه

Comments

Approved members can add comments, bookmarks, and private notes.

No comments yet.

Private Research Note

Private notes are available after approval.