Contract term of service has expired.
Your Memorialists, however, submit, that the case is totally altered with respect to Chinese emigrants, conveyed in foreign bottoms or under a foreign flag, under Contract to labor in Peru, or other Foreign partes.
To the first place your Memorialists have reason to believe that at this very time a system of the grossest deception and fraud is practised upon the Chinese Coolies who leave Hong Kong for Peru and for Svirinam or elsewhere – the majority are kidnapped, or otherwise violently or surreptitiously entrapped.
Secondly there is no protection for them on the voyage or when they arrive at their destination. They are sold in the public market place as laborers, and according to the contracts, are perpetually ceded or located on the Estates where they toil under the slowest and most brutal treatment, and die by thousands of diseases engendered by the pestilential nature of their occupation as Guano diggers.
In Cuba the mortality from the miasmata of the Copper mines is equally great.
It appears to Memorialists that Your Lordship in permitting foreign vessels laden with Coolies, to clear out under such circumstances from British port, is to implicate the British Authorities and consequently Her Majesty's Government, in a species of traffic which in its incidence and results is but a new kind of slave trade and renders the said Government culpably privy to the enslavement of the unfortunate victims who are thus deluded or forced away from their homes.
Your Lordship's attention is respectfully directed to the fact that the Chief British Authorities are solely responsible for the prosecution of this new slave-trade. A notorious man-stealer lately Consul General for Peru in China, and a British Official Mr. (D) R. Caldwell is notoriously employed by the Peruvian Government and the Guano Contractors and the Sugar planters of Cuba to obtain in China Coolies.
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Contract term of service has expired.
Your
Memorialists, however, submit,
that the case
is
Sotally altered with respect
to Chinese emigrants, conveyed in foreign
bottoms or under a
foreign flag, under
Contract to labor in perii,
Foreign partes. –
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or win other
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ve reason to believe that at this very time) a system of the grossest dearption and frand practised upon the Chinese Coolies who-
leave. Hong Kong for pern
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and
for Sivrinam or elsewhere
the majority
are
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for Cuba,
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otherwise
-violently or surreptitiously entrapped.
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on the
voyage
after In Cuba.
when they arrival at their destination.
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are sold in the Stublic Meriket place
laborers, and accor
according
to the contracts,
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their formes and are bicated on
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the Estaters
In Perce they die
by thousands of boutal treatment, and of diseases engantered by the pestilential nature of their occupation
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In Cuba the mortality from the diggers. miasmata of the Copper mines is equally
great.-
It appears to Memorialists that
Your
in permitting foreign vessels laden with
Coolies, to clear out under such circumstances
from British port, is to implicate the British Authorities consequently Sher Majesty's
Government, in re species of braffic which
nothing
in its maidence and reults is but a new kind of slave trade and renders the said Government culpably. pricy to the enslavement of the unfoshenate victime who are
thus doluded.
or forced away foin their homes. __
attention is respectfully.
Your Lordship's attention is.
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at Henry Hong
British Authorities
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solely responsible for the prosecution
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man-stealer lately Consul General for Peru in Chia
and a British
Official Mr (D) R. Caldwell is.
employed by the
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notoriously,
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to obtain in China
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