3
Gunkles proceeding from Hongthong to Masao.
உ.
The levy, respecting which I asked for an enquiry at Canton, was a duty of twenty taels (each tael is now worth one dollar and forty cents) on a cargo of hardwood. The hardwood had originally been imported into Hongthong from Bangkok.
3.
Sir Brooke Robertson expressed the opinion that the Petition to raise was a well-advised attempt to the general question as to the sovereignty of Macao; and in alluding to this particular case in one of yesterday's Hongthong papers it is also spoken of as a test question of the sovereignty of Macao. I enclose the newspaper paragraph referring to this subject.
Having of course no desire to mix up the Government of Hongthong with that question, I withdrew from the proposal of enquiry into the whole case; and in writing again to Sir Brooke Robertson, I confined myself to asking that the amount of the levy might be brought to the Viceroy's notice with a view to have it reduced if excessive, or to ascertain if it should prove a substantial impediment to any trade.
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Gunkles proceeding from Hongthong to
Masao.
உ.
The levy, respecting
which I asked for an enquiry at _
duty of twenty taels
Canton, was a
(each tael is now worth one dollar
and forty cents)
on a
cargo of
hardwood. The hardwood had
originally been imported into Hongthing from Bangkok.
3.
Sir Brooke Robertson
expressed the opinion that the Petition
to raise
was a well advised attempt to the general question as to the sovereignty of Macao; and in alluding to this particular yesterday's Hongthong papers it is also
case in one
of
Enclosure no2-
148
spoken of as a test question of the..
sovereignty of attacas : I enclose the newspaper paragraph referring to.... this subject.
Life.
Heaving of course no....
desire to mix up
up the Government of
Stonghong with that question, withdrew from the proposal of
into the whole case;
enquery writing again
In
an
and in
to Sir Brooke Robertson
I confined myself to asking that the amounit of the levy might be brought to the Viceroy's notice with
a view to have it reduced if.
excessive, or
be
any trade.
to
if it should
prove substantial impediment to
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