patent to
every
one, that, as regard
the purposes to which these trouses were to be applied, callin them Inns instead of Barracoons was a distinction without a difference..
I took an opportunity of speaking to the Viceroy Juilin on the subject, & I will repeat, as nearly
as possible, what he said in reply:.
ago
That he wrote some time
to the Governor of Macas
that he had heard a new sptem had been established called "Inns & he feared these Inns were nothing but Coolie Burracoons under
another
another name, & reques
ted
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they might be suppressed..
To this the Viscount de San Januario replied that
it was time he had sanctioned
the establishment of Inns, but
were to accommodate Chinese who traced between
they
Macão & Singapore Penang
& Manila. Such traders, before the suppression of the Barracoons, having
been
accustomed, while at macas, to lodge in them, but, now were closect, they required Inns for their
They
accommodation. On the
receipt of this letter the Viceroy orcured Col. Pengynt to go
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