[ { "id": 227443, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "page_number": 137, "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "content_text": "NEW\n\n132\n\nMy Lord,\n\nDetention of a Schooner called the Spec, protected by a sailing Letter from this Colony, by Commander Pitman of Her Majesty's Ship \"Childers\"; the Master and Crew of the Schooner being charged with murder and piracy alleged to have been committed on board a Chinese Fishing Boat off the Rugged Islands, which lie in the vicinity of the mouth of the Ningpo River.\n\nI have the honour to submit for your Lordship's information the Copy of a Despatch from Meloncul Alcock relative to the seizure and detention of a Victoria, Houghton, October 17th, 1848.\n\nI also annex a printed copy of the evidence taken in the case before Mr. Consul Alcock at Shaughae, and before J. Stillier.\n\nThe Right Honorable,\n\nThe Viscount Palmerston, K.C.B.,\n\n&c.\n\n&c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227450, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "page_number": 144, "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "content_text": "139\n\nand three wounded. And the whole of the parties inculpated appeared before me on the 29th day of\n\nI proceeded in accordance with the\n\nSome question arose in my mind as to the proper course to be pursued in reference to their immediate Consular Despatch. The Circular respecting Jurisdictions, dated 22nd June 1844, instructing H. M. Consuls in all provisions of Ordinance No. 7 of 1844 and No. 1 of 1867, to inquire into the charges, all the witnesses appearing before them, in the presence and hearing of the persons accused, and reduced to writing the depositions of the witnesses, which I now transmit.\n\nThe evidence adduced was of the most direct and conclusive character, and so fully substantiated the charges, that I could have no hesitation in sending the whole of the Prisoners for trial, on a charge of robbery and murder. The Master, William Cole, stands further charged with a violation of the Navigation Laws, upon the enclosed evidence, marked No. 3.\n\nAfter the examination was concluded, it was usual to transmit the depositions to H. M. Plenipotentiary, that the probability of obtaining a conviction might be ascertained before the Prisoners were sent for trial. But in this instance Commander Sitman having detained the Ship for a breach of the Navigation Laws and Piracy, and determined to send that vessel to Hongkong for the decision of the Admiralty Court, it seemed to me most expedient to send the Prisoners without further delay by so eligible an opportunity, and thus relieve both Captain Sitman and myself of the very onerous charge of securing the safe custody of so large a number of men - English, Spanish, and Chinese, for which neither that Officer nor I had fitting accommodation at our disposal.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227456, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "page_number": 150, "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "content_text": "N° 85 of 1848\n\nInclosure. No 2 in Besp\n\nDOCUMENTS\n\nwhose authority he acted and he answered, By Mr\n\nIn the Case of \"Regina v. Cole and others,\" charged Davidson's the owner.\n\nwith Piracy, &c. N.B. The interlineations and marginal addition of the originals are printed within brackets.—ED.C.M.\n\nShanghae, in the Province of Kiang-soo, in the Empire of China, to wit.\n\nThe witness handed in the following documents, to which he made oath as a part of his evidence :-\n\nExtract from Log-book of H. M. S. Childers.—Do. of Boarding Book do.—Questions asked by Commander Pitman of Ching-chung-key, the Chinese Admiral.—Do. of the Master and crew of Chinese fishing boat, on board the Spec on 23d June,\n\nTaken before me the day above mentioned.\n\nJ. C. PITMAN.\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Consul.\n\nThe examination of Cutsu-kz, (Ting-koey,) native of the Town of Pil-ke, in the District of H wey-gun, in the Department of faeuen-chow, in the Province Fŭhkëen,—taken on oath, this 29th day of June, &c., &c.*\n\nI am a fisherman by occupation. In the spring of this year, I was engaged by Kwo-kin, a junk-owner of the Town of Pil-ke, to enter on board his junk as net-thrower at the rate of four dollars per quarter; I tsenen-ching or Kintsenen-shing, as I cannot read or do not know whether the junk's name was Kin-write; I only remember the junk's name by sound, tell the number of the junk. and do not know the characters of it; neither can I\n\nWe had on board crew of 24 men and four boats. We set sail from Pih-ke on the 3d day of the 3d month, (6th April,)\n\nThe following morning, the 23, I went on board the [captured fishing junk; examined her and found that nearly everything moveable had been taken out except two boats. The hatches were lifted up, and a few tubs of live fish alone remained. I observed bound for Chin-hae to fish, where we arrived in the 4th month. We had papers from the Tacping Custom-house, and had our fishing tackle on board. We were armed with 2 matchlocks and 2 small guns about an inch in diameter and three feet long, as a means of defence against pirates. The Junk was above 900 piculs burden. The owner Kwo-kin was on board. During the last month we made two trips\n\nOne shot struck\n\nThe examination of JOHN CHARLES PITMAN, Esq., Commander of Her Britannic Majesty's Sloop of war Childers, taken on Oath this Twenty-ninth day of June, on the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-eight, before me, Rutherford Alcock, Esquire, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Shanghae aforesaid, in the presence and hearing of Mariano Alvesto, native of Manila, Juan Nasieu, to the fishing ground off Poseu, the tides being favourable twice in a month for that purpose. On the 19th day of the 5th month (19th June) we again left Chin-bae in company with other fishing boats to the number of some twenty or more; but on account of our junk being larger than the other boats, they outsailed us, and we were left behind. On the 21st or 22d day (21st or 22d June) when sailing alone under Yung-shan, we suddenly saw a foreign vessel astern, which was coming up hailed us; we did not understand what they said, but we answered that we were a junk from Chin-bas, belonging to a Hong there, as we could prove to them if they followed us in. We said this, being fearing that they might think we were pirates, and might attack us.\n\nI then went to the Spec, and I told the master to muster the crew and shew the articles. The prisoner who now answers to the name of Ephraim Francis did not answer to any name in the articles.\n\nI saw being only one of the crew, I do not know the name of it, though I know the parties conducting it by sight. I asked what had become of the crew of the fishing junk and he answered, they were in the fore-hold. I ordered them on deck, and they were brought up, some of them with their hands tied; several were badly wounded: these I examined with the Surgeon of the Childers. I asked Mr Cole if he had examined the papers of the junk? He and the [Chinese] pilot pointed out the master of the junk, who produced the papers sewn inside his jacket. I told Mr Cole I should take as many [of the junk's crew] as he wished on board the mandarin junk, and recommend him or his mate to be present and hear the evidence. Everything was taken down in writing.\n\nWe had heard that two foreign pirates, but beyond that knew nothing about them. vessels were employed to protect the fishery from\n\nI asked the crew of the fishing junk what had become of the cargo, their clothes, &c. they answered, The rice, arms, and several boxes, had been taken on board the Spec, and Mr Cole pointed several out as the property of the junk. I asked if they had been plundered? They said, Something had been taken on the junk. I asked if they had been ill treated? They said, Five had been killed, and some thrown overboard. They then rushed below, made all of us fast, and passed us up on deck. I saw them throw overboard Kwo-kin's dead body. Kwa-nae, being in great agony, was calling for some one to put him out of his pain, and I saw one of the foreigners thrust at him with a sword and throw him overboard.\n\nI also saw the foreigners take up Kwo-fun in order to throw him overboard, but he struggled with them, caught hold of the bulwarks of the Junk. They then cut him down and threw him overboard, and among others [one] who is now here, having received injury from a grape shot in the foot. He stated that if this man in his feverish state was left on board and that his life would be in danger. I therefore said he should be removed to Shanghae, and brought him on board.\n\nI told Mr Cole to pick out two of the men of the junk, and either come himself or send his mate; he sent the mate the pilot of the Spec and Dr Rogers round among the prisoners, he pointed out the prisoner answering to the name of Ephraim Francis, and said I am certain this is the man.\" [R.A.] Two others of the crew, Kwo-wei-tow and Kwo-ming, are missing, but I do not know what became of them. Before throwing Kwa-kin overboard, they took from his neck a silver chin. After having thrown the bodies overboard, they searched the vessel and took away a box-pillow belonging to Kwo-kin which contained his opium and smoking apparatus. about six stone of rice, of which they afterwards returned two, and\n\nHe asked the junkmen a great many questions— pronounced them to be innocent, and wished them to be released. I asked what should be done with the arms, if I should return them to the junk? he said they had a right to a certain number for their own protection; that half should be given back to the crew and the other half he would keep. He requested that the junk and any property belonging to them which might be on board the Spec should be restored to the liberated men, and asked them where they would go? and they replied, To Chin-hae direct, to represent their case to the authorities. I told him that I should take the Spec to Shanghae.\n\nI asked if he had any complaint to make against the Spec? He said she had no right there no right to fire into the junk, and that English vessels were constantly doing the same. I stated that I regretted it exceedingly, that it was contrary to the laws of England, and if he could point out any other vessel similarly engaged, I should feel it my duty to take her. In reply he stated he was equally sorry for it, but it was a very bad affair.\n\nOn the morning of the 22d June, standing up for the Ruggeds in H. M. Sloop Childers, I observed a schooner in company with a Chinese junk standing in for the south end of the Ruggeds,—it falling calm we were obliged to anchor between two or three miles from the schooner. The schooner and the junk anchored in a bay where there were three men-of-war junks; the schooner afterwards went alongside the junk and began discharging every thing out of her; a quantity of useless things, such as planks, matting, &c., floated past for several hours, and was reported to me by the officers. I weighed about 4 P.M. and proceeded to where the schooner was at anchor, and I immediately sent an officer on board the schooner, Mr Berkeley, to desire the master to come on board with his log and papers. Mr Cole, now present, came, I asked him if he was the master of the schooner Spec? He answered, For the time being; also asked him what he was doing there, and what reason he had for molesting the junk? He then stated that he had taken her the evening previous; that she was a pirate. I asked him what authority he had for doing it? He answered, None, but the Pilot had told him she was a pirate. [I asked him as he sailed so well why he did not go alongside of her, instead of going ahead as he stated and firing into her, as it was well known a Chinese junk would not have escaped, and that he ought to have hailed her and said he wanted to examine her.—R.A.] He voluntarily stated that several [of the crew of the junk] had been killed and wounded by their shot.\n\nI asked him if he was aware of the serious consequences of what he had done? and he said, No—that he saw no harm in it, that the same thing had been done before. I asked him repeatedly if the junk had in any way molested or interfered with or fired at him? He distinctly said, No. I asked him why, if the junk was a piratical vessel, he had not called upon me or the Chinese war junks to take it, as I had been in sight more than 14 hours? He said he did not know.\" I asked him were he had captured her, he said a short distance from where we had anchored in the morning to the Westward. I asked him why two boats were alongside? and he answered they had been assisting in towing her in. Those two boats immediately saw us approaching, sailed away towards the Chusan Group—they had obviously been taking the plunder from the junk. As the ship's company for several hours saw the more valueless contents float past,\n\nI told Mr Cole that he had committed a very serious offence, having by his own account killed and wounded several Chinese subjects, and that it was my duty to detain him. I asked him where he was from? He stated from Ningpo. Where he was bound? he answered, Nowhere he was going to look for his consort the Dido. to supply her with Powder and Shot. I asked him if he did not know that he could not be sailing about without being bound for some port: he said. He did not. Asked whether he had put in for stress of weather? and he said, No. I then referred to his articles, and asked him why his name was not there, as he represented himself to be the master of the vessel? He stated he was only there for a time while some one was sick.\n\nI then said I should examine his ship the following morning, and asked him if he had any papers to shew what brought him there? He said he had one.\n\n*The names of the Seamen are so illegibly written, that we are by no means certain all of them have been correctly deciphered.—ED. C.M.\n\nI then returned to the Spec, and saw part of the arms of the Junk returned in one of the Spec's boats. I told Mr Cole that the junk's papers were all perfectly correct, that the men were innocent men, and they with their property must be immediately sent on board their own vessel, Mr Cole then turned to the pilot and said, \"What a nice mess you have got me into;\" and I then asked the pilot if he had said she was a pirate, and he replied, No—that he had only wanted to examine her. I asked Mr Cole who paid him? He said he did not know, believed he was put on board and paid by some Chinese merchants.]\n\nThe men of the Junk afterwards sent a complaint that everything had been taken out and the shot-holes were visible through their sails.\n\nthe few cash I had in it. These things I saw them take, but I cannot say of my own knowledge whether they took anything else. They then directed us to accompany them to Yung-shan, and when we approached the land, two boats from the foreign man-of-war boarded us, and asked for our papers which we shewed them, but they, not understanding them, took them on board the mandarin's junks of which there were several anchored under Yung-shan. One of the men-of-war boats returned again, and took two of our men, one a helmsman and the other a sailor, on board the mandarin's junk to be interrogated. in his cap, asked them when we had left Chin-hae, with what Hong we were connected there, what places we had been to, and what fish we had caught? These questions being answered, he then returned them the papers of our Junk, and told them they might depart, and that we might return again to our fishing. The two men were brought back on board our Junk in the man-of-war's boat; we then prepared to return to Chin-hae, but I was taken on board the man-of-war, where they told me that I should go with them to Shanghae, and that my wound would be attended during the time I was on board. I was treated with the utmost kindness to there.\n\nTrue Interpretation,\n\nHARRY S. PARKES, Interpreter.\n\nTaken before me the day above mentioned,\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Consul.\n\n*It would be superfluous to repeat the introductory form, which is given with every deposition before the Consul, and printed at length with Capt. Pitman's evidence.—ED. C.M.,\n\nPage 150\n\nPage 151\n\nCopy of Despatch from Mr. Consul Alcock reporting\n\nthe\n\ncase of the \"Spec.\"\n\n6th July, 1848.\n\nI", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227457, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "page_number": 151, "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "content_text": "Captain PITMAN recalled, and asked if he could identify the last witness Ching-ke? Answered, I am, and corroborate the greater part of his evidence.\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Taken before me the day above mentioned,\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Consul.\n\nShanghae, &c. The examination of WILLIAM LOCKHART, Surgeon, taken on oath, &c., &c.\n\nThe last witness Ching-ke was brought to me [at the Chinese Hospital] from H. M. Childers on the morning of the 16th inst., with an injury to his left foot. Apparently a musket shot had struck him on the first joint of the great toe, breaking the bone and laying open the joint. Sloughing had commenced, and great formation of matter around the wound and behind. I consider it a dangerous wound, and that his life is in danger from it.\n\nWILLIAM LOCKHART, M.R.C.S.\n\nTaken before me, &c.\n\nShanghae, &c.\n\nThe examination of WILLIAM ROGERS, M.D., Surgeon of H. M.'s S. Childers, taken on oath, &c., &c. I went on board the Schooner Spec by Commander Pitman's order on the 23d instant. \"I saw three wounded Junkmen, one of them the witness recently examined, Ching-ke, and the other two had only received contusions and the injuries were slight. I asked how the injury had been received? The prisoner present, William Cole, said he thought it was by a grape shot. I heard William Cole say that he had fired into the Junk. I considered it necessary that Ching-ke should be removed for treatment, as the consequences of such wounds are frequently dangerous. I heard the answer of the Admiral interpreted to Captain Pitman, that the Junk in question was a proper Junk, by which I understood not a piratical vessel.\n\nWILLIAM ROGERS, M.D., Surgeon.\n\nTaken before me, &c.\n\nShanghae, &c.\n\nThe examination of JOSHUA BERKELEY, Esq., mate on board H. M. S. Childers, taken on oath, &c.\n\nI was sent to board the Schooner Spec this day week (22d June) with orders from Captain Pitman to ask the master what his business was there, and what was the communication he had with the Junk astern of him to which he replied that he had been commissioned by Mr. Davidson to convey some shot down to the Ding and he had captured the Junk the day previous and brought her in to the Ruggeds. I returned with this answer, and was again despatched with orders to the master to be on board H. M.'s S. Childers with his Log and papers within half an hour. The next day I was on board the Junk and saw the marks of several shot holes in her side and one in her stern. She was empty, I only saw some nets and bait on board.\n\nJOSHUA BERKELEY.\n\nTaken before me, &c.\n\nSHANGHAE TO WIT,\n\nThe examination of George Johnson, native of England; Mariano Alvesto, Juan Nasicio, Jan Nacion, natives of Manila; Levis Sept, native of Antigua; Striano de los Santos, Lucas Manoel, natives of Manila; Ephraim Francis, native of England; Lorenzo Santos, Mariano Augustine, Gabriel Calistro, Sebe Mariano, natives of Manila; Lith-Ayih, native of Chusan; Ching-Lea-Ching, native of Ningpo; Al-Aneung, Wang-Yuh-Fa, natives of Chusan; William Cole, native of England; Yum-Ching-Ming, native of Chusan Taken this twenty-ninth day of June, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-eight, before me Rutherford Alcock Esquire, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Shanghae aforesaid, the said George Johnson, Mariano Alvesto, Juan Nasicio, Juan Nacion, Levis Sept, Mariano de los Santos, Lucas Manoel, E. Francis, Lorenzo Santos, Mariano Augustine, Gabriel Calistro, Sebe Mariano, Li-Ayih, Ching-Lea-Ching, Ah Aneung, Wang-Yuh-Fa, William Cole, being charged before me the said Consul on the oath of John Charles Pitman, Esquire, Commander of H. B. M. Sloop Childers, for that on the 1st day of June, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-eight, being on board a certain vessel or schooner called the Spec in a certain place on the high seas near the sand called the \"Ruggeds\" on the coast of China, did piratically, feloniously, and violently with force and arms, attack, board, and take possession of a certain Junk or vessel, the property of a certain Chinese subject named Kwo-kin, the owner thereof, and did feloniously fire into the said Junk or vessel, whereby the said Kwo-kin the owner together with several of the seamen on board thereof were killed, and did take and carry away certain stores and apparel belonging to the said Junk, and certain Goods and Chattels belonging to the said owner and divers of the seamen on board. And the witnesses against them being examined in their presence, they are now asked by me if they wish to say anything in their own behalf; whereupon they answered they had no defence to make.\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Consul.\n\nShanghae, &c. The examination of KEW-TSAK-KIN, the day of July, &c.\n\nI was put on board the schooner Spec by a public body of Chinese merchants, and took no pay from the master of the ship. A Junk had been hailed to let down her sails, and not complying, a shot had certainly been fired into her.\n\nTaken before me, &c.\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Consul.\n\nI, John Charles Pitman, Commander of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers, do solemnly declare that the above is a true statement of my Questions, and the Answers made to the same. In witness whereof I hereunto attach my signature this 23d of June, 1848.\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Commander.\n\nI, George Taliaferro Dormer Andrews, Clerk of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers, do declare that the above statement was truly taken by me this day on board the schooner Spec at\n\nPage 363\n\nanchor off the Rugged Islands.\n\nIn witness whereof I hereunto attach my signature the 23d day of June, 1848.\n\nG. J. D. ANDREWS, Clerk\n\nQuestions asked by Commander J. C. Pitman, of Ching-chong-ke (the Chinese Admiral in charge of 7 junks), on board his vessel.\n\nRugged Islands, the 23d of June, 1848\n\nHas the English schooner Spec any right to be here?-No.\n\nWhether he knew what the English schooner Spec was about there?-Did not know.\n\nDid he know whether the Junk taken by the Spec was a pirate or not?-Did not know.\n\nDid he know what the schooner Spec was about with the Junk?-Did not know.\n\nWhether the Captain of the schooner had brought any of the crew of the junk on board to him, or made any complaint to him relative to the junk?-\n\nWhat became of the crew and cargo of the junk?-Taken on board the Spec, he believed.\n\nIs that English schooner any right to take the junk?—No\n\nDid he know why the Captain of the Spec did not bring the crew of junk on board his vessel?-Did not know.\n\nAfter the 2 Chinamen belonging to the junk and the mate of the Spec had been taken on board the Mandarin's junk, the following Questions were asked.-\n\nWhether the papers of the junk were correct?—They are all proper and correct, and signed by the proper authorities.\n\nIs any complaint to make against the schooner?—No.\n\nWhat cause had the schooner Spec to take that junk, whether it was proper to do so, and if the Chinese Mandarins like it?—The junk's papers are proper, but she had no business to have so many arms on board. The English vessel did wrong to take her; she has a right to carry arms. If the Chinese Admiral likes, the arms shall be returned to the junk—Part of them.\n\nIf he likes, remainder shall be sent to him or thrown overboard?—To be sent to him. Which was done.\n\nCaptain Pitman then told the junkmen that their junk, rice, and part of their arms, would be returned to them, and they would be allowed to go on with their fishing. They said they would return to Chin-hai.\n\nCaptain Pitman told the Chinese Admiral that the English schooner Spec had fired into the junk and wounded 3 men, and that one of the wounded men would be sent to the Shanghae Hospital for medical treatment. He said it was a bad affair, but was much obliged.\n\nAre you now quite satisfied that the junk is not a pirate? Yes, she is a fishing Junk of Chin-hae.\n\nI, John Charles Pitman, Commander of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers, do solemnly declare that the above is a true statement of my Questions and the Answers made to same, &c. In witness whereof I hereunto attach my signature this 23d of June, 1848.\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Commander.\n\nI, George Taliaferro Dormer Andrews, Clerk of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers, do declare that the above statement was truly taken by me, this day, on board the Chinese Admiral's Junk at anchor off the Rugged Islands.\n\n23d day of June, 1848.\n\nIn witness whereof I hereunto attach my signature the\n\nPage 364\n\nG. J. D. ANDREWS, Clerk\n\nEXTRACTS FROM THE LOG-BOOK OF THE SCHOONER SPEC.\n\nRedusduz, 1 June\n\nA. M. weighed, saw a junk to the southward—the pilot wished us to see what she was\n\nand took her, towed her back to the Ruggeds and anchored. 9. A. M., came up with her; she proved a pirate, boarded her. At 6 P. M. took 18 men and one boy, confined them on board.\n\nThursday, 22d June\n\nA. M. hoisted out the schooner, and put two boats out, one of which got adrift and was lost; 6 P. M. went on board the junk, brought her nearer the\n\nwas lying 5 miles to leeward of us last night. Took out almost every portable article.\n\nA. M. Brig Childers anchored to the southward.\n\nSt. p. 52. s. hove up the junk's anchor and took her closer in-shore. The Commander of H. M.'s Brig Childers came on board to see the papers—not finding them correct,* ordered us to Shanghae with the junk.\n\nFriday, 23 June.\n\nAll our prisoners on board the junk and let go except the man wounded in the toe, who was taken on board H. M. S. Childers.\n\nThis appears to be an expression of regret. It had been originally\n\nand (Indignant), having been imbecile with the loss of masters being scored out.. E. M.\n\nEXTRACTS FROM THE LOG-BOOK OF H. M. SLOOP CHILDERS.\n\nThursday, 22d June, 1848.\n\n\"A. M. 6, observed the English schooner Spec standing for the Eastern anchorage under the south Ruggeds (Falls.) with a Chinese junk in company with her; apparently discharging de-\n\nbris and other things into the water; 11.50, observed the schooner Spec alongside the junk,\n\nG. I. G.\n\nFriday, 23d of June, 1848. A. M. \"The schooner Spec of Hongkong having been mustered, her Articles and Log were found not to be correct. the master's and several of the crew's names not being registered the junk which she had taken possession of was liberated by order of Commander Pitman. took one of the wounded Chinese\n\non board.\n\nP. Chinese Admiral visited the ship. Saluted him with 3 guns. Protested against the schooner Spec of Hongkong for having taken the (alleged) Chinese Junk, killing Five men, and wounding Four.\"\n\nEXTRACT FROM THE BOARDING BOOK OF H. M. SLOOP CHILDERS.\n\nDate, 3d June, 1848—Name of Vessel, \"Spec.\"—Master, Wm. Cole—Owner, Davidson of Ningpo—Where from, Ningpo—Bound, Saddle Island, one of the Ports of\n\nTrade—Belonging, Hongkong—No. of Days out, 3.—Registered Tonnage,\n\n1.—7. 10—Guns, 9—Jungting, No Cargo—No passengers\n\nNation, English—How rigged, Schooner—Marks, The master, mate, and three men, not on the articles; one English seaman on Register Ticket; no registry of arms, and has on board 9 guns, 28 muskets, 5 Pistols, 10 cutlasses, 4 pikes, and 5 spears; 9 Chinamen, and 1 pilot not on manifest\n\n(True Copy,) J. C. PITMAN, Commander.\n\nLIST OF JUNK'S ARMS.\n\nThis is to certify that Ting-ke, the wounded Chinese brought to the Chinese Hospital from H. M. S. Childers, is still under my care. There is less inflammation of the foot then there was, the progress of the Sloughing has ceased, and several small portions of bone have been taken away from the wound; but he could not go to Hongkong, without great danger to his life.\n\nWM. LOCKHART, Surgeon.\n\nShanghae, July 4, 1848.\n\nQuestions asked by Commander Pitman, of the master and crew of a Chinese Fishing-junk on board the Spec, of Hongkong, in the presence of Mr. Cole the master, the mate, and crew of the Spec.\n\nRugged Islands, the 2d June, 1848\n\nFrom whence did the junk come?—From Chebac.\n\nWhere are your papers?—We produced them.\n\nHow came he to have so many arms on board?—To protect himself from the pirates outside.\n\nWhat became of all the things belonging to the junk?—Rice, arms, and some small boxes taken on board the Spec.\n\nWhether any person belonging to the Spec had taken anything from them?—Only the rice, arms, and small boxes.\n\nHave any of them been beaten on board the Spec?—No, except wounding them by firing at them.\n\nHad they had plenty to eat on board the Spec?—Yes.\n\nDid the Spec fire shot at the junk?—Yes, and killed 5 and wounded 3 men.\n\nHow many men lost?—The 5 killed, one of their heads was blown off.\n\nHow many men in the junk when she left port?—24—19 were on board the Spec.\n\nHas he any complaint to make as to the treatment received from the Spec?—No, only they were innocent of the charge of being pirates.\n\nWhere was he when the Spec took him?—Off the Ruggeds at the fishing station.\n\nCaptain Pitman told them that he would take 2 or 3 of them on board the Mandarin junk to be examined, and if they were found not to be pirates they should be allowed to go away.\n\nThe Pilot of the Spec was asked.—\n\nHow he knew that these men were pirates?—Because they fought the fishing boats.\n\nThe Master of the Spec was asked,—\n\nWho sent the Pilot on board?—The Chinese merchants at Ningpo, and hired the vessel.\n\nDid the junk attack or molest you?—No.\n\nThe following is a list of the arms I saw on board the\n\nJunk.\n\n5 Gingalls\n\n5 Tahious\n\nMatchlocks\n\n10 Pikes\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Commander.\n\nBritish Consulate Office, Shanghae, 31 July, 1848.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to return the Log Book and Papers of the Schooner Spec detained by you on the 23d ultimo, for acts of Piracy and breach of existing Navigation Laws, as set forth in the evidence taken before me on the 29th ultimo, on the charge preferred by you against the master and crew of that vessel for Piracy and Murder committed on the high seas. You will be good enough to hold these Documents available for production in evidence at any Trial that may take place in the Supreme Court at Hongkong.\n\nI have further to request that on the arrival of the Prisoners at Hongkong, the officer in Charge will report the same at the Superintendency, deliver the enclosed Despatch, and act in reference to the disposal of the Prisoners as Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary shall please to direct.—I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, for Consul.\n\n(True Copy, FARD. HOWARD)\n\nTo Commander J. C. Pitman, R.N., H. M. S. Childers.\n\nBy J. C. PITMAN, Esquire.\n\nYou are to allow no communication with the Prisoners except in writing through you. You will be furnished with a list of the master and crew, and all the necessary papers.\n\non reporting yourself and the number of Prisoners at the Superintendency's office there, where you will deliver the enclosed Despatches for His Excellency the Governor.\n\nGiven under my hand on board the Childers at Woosung, the 3d July, 1848\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Commander,\n\nTo Lieut. G. T. Graham, of H. M. Sloop Childers.\n\nCHIEF MAGISTRATE'S OFFICE, HONGKONG.\n\nBefore C. B. HALLER, Esquire, Chief Magistrate, and\n\nTUESDAY, 12TH SEPTEMBER, 1848.\n\na Commissioner of the Court of Admiralty,\n\nBRISAT\n\n1st Prisoner, WILLIAM COLE, of Pembrokeshire, master of the Schooner Spec,\n\n2d Prisoner, GEORGE JOHNSON, of London, mate of Schooner Spec\n\n3d Prisoner, EPHRAIM FRANCIS, of Maldon, in the county of Essex, gunner of the Schooner Spec\n\n4th Prisoner, No. 1 JOAN IGNACIO, of Staunbogan in the Phillipine Islands, seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n5th Prisoner, MARIANO AGOSTIN, of Seeboo in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n6th Prisoner, LORENÇO SANTOS, of Calibo in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n7th Prisoner, MARIANO ALBERTO, of Iligan in Luconia Island, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n8th Prisoner, MARIANO DE LOS SANTOS, native of Seeboo in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n9th Prisoner, LUCAS MANOEL, native of Bigan in Luconia Island, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n10th Prisoner, ERO JOSER, native of Antigue in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n11th Prisoner, GABRIEL CALISTRO, of Santa Luzia in Luconia Island, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n12th Prisoner, No. 2 JOAN IGNACIO, 30 years of age, of Soorgegas in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n[Juan Ignacio the first, named above, describes himself as 26 years of age.]\n\n13th Prisoner, BUENAVENTURA MARIANO, of Sambaangar in the Philippine Islands, Seaman of the schooner Spec.\n\n14th Prisoner, KWOK-AN-VEE, 14 years of age, of Chusan, domestic servant.\n\n15th Prisoner, LE-AN-VOOK, of Chusan, cook.\n\n16th Prisoner, WONG-KAT, of Chusan, servant to a Seaman.\n\n17th Prisoner, YUM-CHAONG-MING, of Chusan, domestic servant.\n\n18th Prisoner, YOW-CHAY-CHING, of Ningpo, seaman.\n\n1st Witness for the prosecution, JOHN CHARLES PITMAN, ESQUIRE.\n\nOn the 22d June last I was on board and in command of Her Majesty's Ship Childers off the Ragged Islands on the Coast of China, in Latitude about 30 North; do not recollect the Longitude. At six o'clock on the morning of that day, the Childers being then about\n\nPage 365\n\nfive miles from the shore, I saw a schooner and a Chinese junk was in company with her; looking with the glass I judged the junk to be almost a quarter of a mile from her, but it was impossible to judge correctly at that distance; the junk was standing into a bay, in the same way as the Spec (afterwards found the schooner to be) The junk and the schooner between 8 and 9 that morning anchored in a bay there close to each other; in the bay were three mandarin junks and some fishing-boats. It was calm, and we were obliged to anchor at A. M. between two and three miles of the schooner. During the forenoon we observed the schooner and junk apparently alongside of each other. I saw that some things were being discharged from the junk into the schooner, and refuse, floated past the Childers; from the direction in which they floated I supposed they had been thrown over from the junk; the tide flowed in a right line between the junk and the Childers. At 4 P. M. that day I weighed and made the Childers down to the schooner. I anchored about half a cable from her, and found the junk about half a cable's length nearly astern of her. I found the schooner to be the Spec. In consequence of a message sent by me on board the Spec at 5.30 P. M. that day, prisoner Cole came on board the Childers, bringing a Log-book and some Ship's Articles (witness produces them) which he affirmed to be the Log-book and Articles of the Spec. He said that he was acting as master of the Spec for another person who was absent at Ningpo. I asked him what he was doing there and what he was doing with the junk; he said he had captured her. I asked him if he had had any communication with the Mandarins, and what he had done with the people belonging to the junk; he said No to the first question, and to the second that the people were on board the Spec. I then asked him why he had not taken these men to the Mandarins, or brought them to me, as I had been in sight of him all day; he said he did not know. It was getting late and I told him that I should examine his vessel in the morning. He said in reply to any questions that he had not put in for stress of weather: that he was from Ningpo, and did not know any place in particular to which he was bound; that the junk had not fired at him or molested him, but that the pilot had told him that she was a pirate. I asked him why he had hailed her. He did not reply to this, before nine o'clock next morning I went on board the junk and examined her; I found that everything had been taken out of her excepting some nets and some small tubs of fish for bait. There were several shot holes in her hull that might have been caused by sound shot from a three or six-pounder gun; then I went to the Spec and mustered the Spec's crew. I found the articles were incorrect. Prisoner Cole said that the Chinese crew of the junk were in the fore hold of the Spec. I saw them brought on deck from the fore hold; their hands were tied together; seven of them had wounds about them; one of them was so severely wounded that I sent for the medical officer to examine him. I asked Cole how these wounds had been received, he said by shot from the Spec. I asked Cole if he had papers of the junk, he said. No; I then asked for the head man of the junk. One of the Chinamen came forward and produced some papers that had been sewn up in his clothing, and which by the interpretation of a Chinese from the Childers were pronounced to be the junk's papers. I conveyed to the\n\nPage 366\n\nhanded them over to the Chinese Mandarins. When subsequently questioned Cole about it, Cole said that the wound was caused by a grape shot from the Spec; and prisoner Ephraim Francis added that he thought it must have been caused by a grape shot. I subsequently released the crew of the junk, excepting the man who was badly wounded, and who was sent on board the Childers to be under medical care. I went to the Mandarins, and the crew of the junk (that is two of them) were examined before them. The Mandarins, as the interpreter explained to me, wished the crew of the junk to be released, as their papers were good. By their request I also handed over to them half the arms of the junk, handing the others to the junk's crew. The junk was a fishing junk of the ordinary class fishing thereabouts,\n\nThe quantity of arms belonging to the junk was not unusually large; the crew said she had them to protect herself against pirates. I found in a list of the arms belonging to the junk as detailed to me by Cole. Between 4 and 5 P. M. on the 22d June last I saw two Chinese boats alongside the junk; shortly afterwards as we\n\nJ. C. PITMAN,\n\nCommander of H. M. Sloop Childers.\n\nare hereby directed to repair on board the schooner Spec of Hongkong and take charge of her, as well as the master and crew, who are prisoners under the charge of Piracy on the High Seas, &c., and you will use the utmost\n\nvigilance that none escape whilst under your custody. You will proceed with all expedition to Hongkong; on your arrival there you will report yourself to the Senior Naval Officer, from whom you will receive further instructions.\n\nFor your better guidance, I refer you to Chap 8 of the Queen's Regulations, Page 82, and to Art. 14 of the Admiralty Instructions, Pages 6 to 14\n\n146", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227458, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "page_number": 152, "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "content_text": "Tuesday, 14TH September, 1848.\n\nDecision-te Prisoners, Wilika Cole, Genn...\n\nstood towards the junk and fired grape nut canister at her. He said that he had run alongside the junk and fired grape nut canister at her, acting on the orders of Mr. Davidson. None. He said that he had run alongside the junk and fired grape nut canister at her.\n\nCole what had become of the property on board the junk he said that everything that had been on board the junk was there, pointing at the same time to some small Chinese boxes, some rice, and some arms on the deck of the Spec. I detained the Spec and took her to Shanghae, where she was handed over to the Consul, and sent her here at his request. I do not recollect that Cole during any conversation I had with him mentioned the date of the capture of the junk, but I think he said that he had captured her the day before.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker, representing himself as the Attorney for the prisoners.\n\nI have previous to today been twice at this Office, and have once had a conversation with some prisoners all the Manilamen. I told them that if any of them gave evidence on behalf of the Queen the Governor would give them a free pardon. The Governor and I were in conversation about the case, I told him that some of the men were anxious at Shanghae to become Queen's evidence. The prisoners said that they were willing to become evidence. The Governor told me to offer this free pardon, I have not seen the depositions taken at Shanghae since they were taken. The mandarin said he considered the junk had too many arms, as she was only allowed to carry a certain number, which number he did not know, so he kept a portion of them. The evidence given at Shanghae was not interpreted to the Manilamen in my presence. My evidence was not so translated.\n\nThe witness further states.-\n\nI beg to hand in two extracts from the Boarding-book and Log-book of the Childers, which I include...\n\nAntonio Rocher, a police constable, is sworn.\n\nC. PITMAN, interpreter of the Teagaio dialect, which two of the prisoners speak.\n\nPrisoners, The preceding evidence having been explained to them, are remanded until to-morrow at Ten o'clock.\n\nC. B. HALLIER,\n\nA Commissioner of the Court of Admiralty.\n\nWEDNESDAY, 19TH SEPTEMBER, 1848.\n\nJOHN CHARLES PITMAN--recalled.\n\nlet the exact time. When asked why he did not communicate with the Chinese junks as to the capture? He replied, that he had done so, and that two Chinese mandarins had been on board the Childers.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker.\n\nI have had no conversation with Captain Pitman, that I remember relative to the evidence I have given. I did converse with Captain Pitman yesterday relative to the Chinese witness who has absconded—I mean the witness who was sent down from Shanghae.\n\nF.S TREMLETT, Lieut. R.N.\n\nGEORGE JOHN DORMER ANDREWS--Kwok...\n\nThe following Sailing Letter is one of 14 papers...\n\nPart of Greenock, af Gabriel Cales or Calisto, a Manila seaman, dated 20th September, 1847.\n\nHongkong Register Ticket of do. No. 870 of do., dated 18th August, 1846.\n\nCertificate of Servitude as above of Lawrence Zoney or Lourenço de la Zong, Manila seaman, dated 20th September, 1847.\n\nCertificate of Servitude as above of Mariano Gosting, dated 20th September, 1847.\n\nin the after part of her hold. I saw at least a dozen shot holes in her bottom. The hatch way were two holes caused apparently by grape shot. The others were of no great importance, just passing in at one side and out at the other.\n\nCertificate of Servitude on board the Lesuar, from the Shanghae Consulate.\n\nT. W. Riddles, No. 226, dated 19th December, 1845, Ed. Robinson Commander, No. 247, dated 8th March, 1848.\n\nPort Clearance from the Chinese Superintendent of Customs, No. 247, dated 4th day, 2d moon, 28th year Taou-kwang, or 8th March, 1848.\n\n#12. 3 Envelopes\n\nI am a Clerk on board Her Majesty's ship Childers.\n\nNo. 18 of 1847.\n\nI addressed to Capt. Robinson, schooner Spec—absent, Capt. T. Band, schooner William.\n\n1 having written on it Spec's papers and articles vid log in charge of Timot G. T. Grabam, H. M. Sloop Childers.\n\nI directed on service Messrs McKenzie, Bro. & Co., Shanghae.\n\nSAILING LETTER,\n\nBritish subjects, but not entitled to the privileges of British...\n\nMr Cole gave me on the 22d June last the documents I now hand in, being fourteen papers, among them the Sailing Letter of the Spec; he told me they were the ship's papers, all he had. I returned being then near her, at about 9 or 10 in the morning went on board the Spec. I saw on board the Spec, alongside the Childers, the Sailing Letter, as above designated, for the use and navigation of the ship or vessel called the Spec.\n\nThe next day, the Childers' officer duly registered and mustered the crew of the Spec. I can identify the prisoners Cole, Johnson, Francis, Juan Ignacio (No. 1) Lourenço, Juan Ignacio (No. 2), Mariano Agustin, Gabriel Calisto, Euzebio Josep, Mariano Alberto, for Aryok, Yuen Chang-ming, Kwok Aryee, Yow Chay-ching, as having been on board the Spec when I first visited her on the 23d June last.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker.\n\nI have had no conversation with Captain Pitman relative to the evidence I have given.\n\nF.S TREMLETT, Lieut. R.N.\n\nGEORGE JOHN DORMER ANDREWS.\n\nI am a Lieutenant of Her Majesty's ship Childers.\n\nI was on board on the 22d June last; she was then off the Rugged Islands.\n\nAt 6 p.m., I was officer of the deck; I saw a schooner and a junk in company under the land and standing for the land. Between 10 and 11 in the forenoon I observed that the junk was alongside the schooner, apparently discharging. I saw things passing backwards and forwards from the junk to the schooner, but could not see what they were; we were distant one mile.\n\nA little after six in the evening, the Childers being about two cables from the schooner, in consequence of a message sent by Captain Pitman, Mr Cole came on board the Childers (the prisoner Cole)—he was asked by Captain Pitman to produce his log-book and papers. He produced his log-book, but no papers.\n\nThe log-book produced by witness Pitman is shown to him, he states, on oath that this is the log-book; I would not swear that it is.\n\nCaptain Pitman asked Mr Cole what he was doing there? Cole replied, that he was there for the protection of the fisheries under orders from Mr Davidson.\n\nWILLIAM ROGERS———AWON.\n\nI am Surgeon of Her Majesty's ship Childers.\n\nI was on board on 23 June last: she was then off the Rugged Islands; the Spec was lying not far from her.\n\nAt about 10 a.m., I went on board the Spec by Captain Pitman's order to see some wounded Chinamen.\n\nI saw three wounded Chinamen on board the Spec. Two had slight contusions, the other was wounded on the great toe of the left foot; the joint was laid open; Mr Cole (the prisoner) told me that the wound was caused by a grape shot.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker.\n\nI was examined at Shanghae; my deposition was not read to the prisoners in my presence; they asked no questions.\n\nF.S TREMLETT, Lieut. R.N.\n\nJOSHUA BRAKELEY.\n\nI am acting master on board H.M.S. Childers.\n\nI was on board on the 22d June last; she was then at the Rugged Islands.\n\nOn the evening of that day at about 6 p.m., the Childers was anchored, and the Schooner Spec was lying close to us; a junk was placed 100 yards astern of the Spec.\n\nI went on board the Spec by Captain Pitman's order; I saw prisoner Cole on board.\n\nIn reply to my question he said that he had been sent by Mr Davidson to carry shot to the Dide, and that on the previous evening he had met this junk and taken her, she being a pirate.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker.\n\nI was examined at Shanghae; my deposition was not read to the prisoners in my presence; they asked no questions.\n\nPrisoners make no defence, excepting Euzebio Mariano, who states.—I was not on board the Schooner Spec at the time when the offence charged is said to have been committed. I joined the Spec at Woosung on the 24th June, from the Muzzepa. I did not know her to be a pirate.\n\nC. B. HALLIER,\n\nA Commissioner of the Court of Admiralty.\n\nExtract from an Inventory of the Stores belonging to the schooner \"Spec,\" of Hongkong; taken by Lieut. Graham of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers.\n\nWoosung, 30th June, 1848.\n\n9 cwt, 4 pounders, 9 in Number.\n\nCarronades...\n\nMusket Ball Cartridge Fusee, 100 in Number.\n\nPistol Cartridges, 151 Rounds.\n\nFlannel filled with Powder, 1 lb., 40 in Number.\n\nDito with powder and shot.\n\nLoose Powder, 2 oz., 1 lb., 74 lb., 100 lb.\n\nShot round iron, 2 lb., 6 lb., + 470 Number.\n\nMuskets with lock and Bayonets, 16 in number, (3 without ramrods) without Bayonets, 1 in Number.\n\nCutlasses, 5 in Number.\n\nSpears, short, 150 in Number.\n\nDo. long, 50 in Number.\n\nPlates, 8 Breachings.\n\nCarbine Rifles, ...\n\nSwords corved, ...\n\nPercussion Caps for Rifles about 210 in Number.\n\nBar shot, cast iron, 8 in Number.\n\n7 Spare Trucks.\n\n12 Cum Tackles\n\nGEO. T. GRAHAM. Lieutenant,\n\nH.M. Sloop Childers.\n\nJOS. BEEKELEY, Acting Master.\n\nNOTE--The remainder of the list contains mention of Ship's Store and private articles.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227731, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "Owner of late Schooner \n\nSpecn resides at...\n\nShave be\n\n4hinghs.\n\nJ. C. Pitman\n\nCommander\n\n \n\nAgent\n\n33", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303747, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "page_number": 339, "title": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "content_text": "# THE CHINA MAIL.\n\n## HONGKONG, MONDAY, MAY 5, 1879.\n\n### GENERAL GRANT IN HONGKONG,\n\n#### GRAND STATE DINNER AND RECEPTION AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\nOn Saturday evening a grand State dinner was given at Government House by the Governor and Mrs. Hennessy, in honour of General Grant; and afterwards a reception was held, which was one of the most brilliant and numerously attended that ever took place within these walls.\n\nThe following were the guests at the State Dinner:\n\n| Guest | Title/Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| General and Mrs. Grant | |\n| The Duke of Magliano | |\n| Don Giulio Grasioli | |\n| Hon. A. E. Borie | |\n| H. E. the Major General and Mrs. Donovani | |\n| The Chief Justice Sir John Smale, and Lady Smale | |\n| Commodore Smith, R.N. | |\n| Hon. J. Russell, Acting Attorney-General | |\n| Hon. P. Ryrie, MLC | |\n| Hon. J. M. Price, Surveyor-General | |\n| Hon. M. S. Tonnochy, Acting Colonial Treasurer | |\n| Mr. Chester Holcombe, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires in China | |\n| Lieut.-Col. F. D. Grant, U.S.A. | |\n| Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. Geddes, 27th Inniskillings | |\n| Captain Kasama, Japanese Navy | |\n| Commander Perkins, United States Navy | |\n| Commander Paul (H.B.M.'s Consul, Manila) and Mrs. Pauli | |\n| Mr. Tara Ando, Japanese Consul, and Mrs. Tara Ando | |\n| Commander Von Schuckmann, German Navy | |\n| Captain Kerr, 27th Inniskillings | |\n| Lieut. Drummond, Scots Fusilier Guards, A.D.C. | |\n| Dr. J. M. Keating | |\n| Mr. C. V. Creagh | |\n| Mr. J. Russell Young | |\n| Mr. J. Pitman | |\n| Mr. G. De Champeaux | |\n| Mr. Han Hap | |\n| Mr. Ng Choy | |\n| Major Palmer, R.E., A.D.C. | |\n\nThe following ladies and gentlemen who had received invitations were, from various causes, unable to attend:\n\n- Bishop Burdon and Mrs. Burdon\n- Bishop Raimondi\n- Hon. H. W. Marsh, Colonial Secretary, and Mrs. Marsh\n- The Hon. I. B. Gibb\n- Colonel Moaby, U.S. Consul, Hongkong\n- Mr. Lincoln, U.S. Consul at Canton, and Mrs. Lincoln\n- Surgeon-Major Hungerford\n- Rev. R. Bayward Kidd, Colonial Chaplain, and Mrs. Kidd\n- Dr. Frederick Stewart\n- Captain Muskett, Army Pay Department\n\nThe following programme was played during dinner:\n\n1. Grand March, **David** \n2. Overture, **Absalom**, Longhurst\n3. Selection, **Das Nachtlager Kreutzer**\n4. Valse, **Kübezahll**, Flotow\n5. Selection, **in Granada**, ... Coote\n6. Polka, **Telephone**, Werner\n\nAfter the toast of **\"Her Majesty the Queen,\"** which was duly honoured in the usual way, the band playing **\"God Save the Queen,\"** His Excellency said:\n\nThe Governor of this Colony has from time to time had the privilege of welcoming, in the name of the whole community, distinguished visitors. One of the children of our Queen has been residing in this house, and my immediate predecessor entertained here a son of the Emperor of Russia. But I believe the young princes would be themselves among the first to say that the man whose health I am now about to propose, is the most illustrious guest that ever sat at this table. I do not refer so much to the military achievements which will for ever rank the name of Ulysses Grant with those of Washington, Wellington, and Napoleon, but to those other achievements, indicated by Lord Beaconsfield, when he truly said that the future of civilization is indissolubly bound up in the future of the United States - those other achievements, accomplished by the toleration, resolute strength, and love of justice of the statesman, when the sword of the soldier was laid aside.\n\nTwo years have gone since he first saw, at Yok harbour, the shores of the British Empire. During that time he has visited the Old World, breathed the Scotch air of his ancestors, and passed on from point to point of Queen Victoria's dominions; and now, on leaving this Island and crossing the Pacific to his own home, he is about to part with that Empire throughout the whole of which he has been received with one long ovation of respect and affection. As the Queen's representative, and in the name of every one in this Colony, I thank him for giving us this opportunity of showing him that we all appreciate his character and career.\n\nWill you forgive me, ladies and gentlemen, if I presume to add that there are one or two personal reasons also why it affords me peculiar pleasure to see General Grant at my table. During the whole of those ever-memorable years, from the day when he drilled his company of volunteers at Galena, to the capture of Richmond and the surrender of the rebel army, I was in a small way mixed up in public affairs in England, as a member of that assembly the power of which, for good or evil, is not confined within the bounds of England's Sovereignty. It is now a matter of history that in both Houses of the British Parliament there were friends and foes of Freedom, but we may recall with pride the fact that two men so diverse in person and disposition and party relations as John Bright and Benjamin Disraeli, were sagacious enough to know that the honour of their own Country and the welfare of the World were associated with the cause for which Ulysses Grant was contending.\n\nWhilst Bright was repairing the blunders of one or two eminent men of the Liberal party, the great Conservative Chief was, to my own personal knowledge, labouring night and day to counteract unreasoning prejudice amongst his own followers, and it is ever to me a source of intense satisfaction that, though in a very humble way no doubt, I was one of those members of the House of Commons who loyally supported his prudent and patriotic policy.\n\nBut this is not the only personal reason that is present to my mind to-night. I am a citizen of Cork. I come from that corner of the Old World, nearest, and not less dear, to the United States; and on behalf of my fellow citizens I now assure General Grant that in no part of the civilized globe would he have received a heartier welcome, if he had honoured us with a visit, than in my native city.\n\nI now invite you to drink his health, and will ask you not to forget the charming lady at my right, and her family; for, within the last few minutes, a telegram has reached them from London, announcing the birth of a grand-child, so that General Grant, though still comparatively a young man, younger indeed to-day than Washington when he first became President, has, as a grandfather, added another little link to unite the two countries together. I give you, with all my heart, the health of General Grant.\n\nGeneral Grant, in reply, said:\n\nI am very grateful to you for your kind address, to which I would be happy to respond, but there is so much personal and flattering to myself that I find it impossible. It is only a continuance of the kindness that I have... \n\nPage 334", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492110, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "308\n\nVISIT OF THE PRINCE OF\n\nWALES.\n\nFULL TWO DAYS' PROGRAMME.\n\nthe\n\nMr. Eric Rice, hon. secretary to Committee in charge of the arrangements for the visit of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, has given 'ocal Press representatives, particulars of the two days' programme decided upon subject only to such variations as weather conditions may dictate. So much depends on whether the wet season begins early or late this year.\n\nFor convenience the programme is given in tabulated form.\n\nA-M.\n\nTHE FIRST DAY.\n\nAPRIL 8TH.\n\n7.00.-The Renown will\n\nprobably\n\nanchor in the Harbour at this hour.\n\nHer arrival will be greeted by a magnificent display of daylight fireworks, arranged by the Japanese community.\n\n9.30.-H.E. the Governor will go\n\non board the Renown to pay his official call.\n\nAt a few minutes before ten o'clock H.R.H. the Prince of Wales will leave for the shore in his barge.\n\n10.00.-The Prince will land at Blake Pier.\n\nPresentations of various officials and representatives will be made.\n\nThe Prince will inspect the Guard of Honour drawn up on Blake Pier.\n\nHe will proceed to the special pavilion through streets lined by naval and military detachments. This journey will be made in a most elaborate chair, decorated with Prince of Wales's Feathers, and upholstered in white and red embroidered material. Eight coolies in full array will carry the chair.\n\nAt the Pavilion, the Prince will receive addresses in the following order:—\n\n(1.)-On behalf of the entire British community of Hongkong, presented by the Hon. Sir Paul Chater, C.M.G., as one of the oldest residents, a member of the Executive Council and Chairman of the Reception Committee.\n\n(2.)-On behalf of the Chinese community of Hongkong, presented by the Hon. Mr. Lau Chu-pak.\n\n(3.)-On behalf of Shanghai and Treaty Ports, presented by representatives from Shanghai.\n\n(4.)-On behalf of the foreign communities of the Colony, presented by Mr. W. H. Gale, Dean of the Consular Faculty.\n\nH.R.H. the Prince of Wales will reply.\n\nAt the end of this ceremony, which will be witnessed by a large and representative gathering, the Prince will re-enter his chair and, accompanied by H.E. the Governor and two or three members of his H.R.H.'s staff, will proceed to Government House by a route which will afford ample opportunity for the general public to see the Prince. The way will be by Chater Road, up Pedder Street, along Queen's Road to Garden Road, and thence to Government House.\n\n11.30.-At about this hour, when the Prince arrives at Government House, he will inspect troops of Scouts and Girl Guides.\n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS &\n\nP.M.\n\n1.00. There will be a \"luncheon party at Government House.\n\n2.30.-His Royal Highness receives the ex-service men of the Colony and officers of the Mercantile Marine, at a garden-party at Government House.\n\n(Incidentally, those who come within these categories are reminded to send in their names by March 28th, at latest.)\n\n4.30. If fine, the Prince will motor to the Polo ground for his game of polo.\n\n8.00.-Official Banquet at Government House. The guests will number between 100 and 150.\n\n9.30. The Prince and Staff will motor to Blake Pier and embark on the Governor's launch to view the illumination of the Harbour. There will be a special display of fireworks from the water; this is arranged by the Japanese community.\n\nReturning to the City, the Prince will witness from a specially erected stand, a Chinese Fire Procession.\n\nThat night, the Prince will sleep at Government House. Some members of the staff will sleep there; others will be accommodated, by invitation of the Hon. Mr. A. G. Stephen, at Bank House.\n\nTHE SECOND DAY.\n\nAPRIL 7TH.\n\nHis Royal Highness will probably drive round the Island in the morning, and upon whether or not rain has interfered possibly visit the Peak. This will depend on the polo match on the previous day. If the Prince has not had the game of polo, and conditions are then favourable, he will have it on the second morning.\n\nA.M.\n\n11.30. The Prince will arrive at the Hongkong Cricket Club's ground, where the school children of the Colony will be assembled. The Prince has expressed a special wish to see the school children; he will walk through their ranks and proceed to the special pavilion.\n\n11.45.-His Royal Highness will receive an honorary University Degree in the course of a Congregation held in the pavilion.\n\nP.M.\n\nThere will follow the laying of the foundation stone of St. Stephen's Girl's College. The Prince will operate a model which will be electrically connected with the stone on the actual site.\n\nA short address will be read by the Ven. Archdeacon Barnett and one of the pupils will present an illuminated address in Chinese and read an English translation.\n\nThe Prince will then receive a Masonic address.\n\nSir Paul Chater will ask the Prince's leave to present to the Colony a statue of His Royal Highness, to be placed with those of other members of the Royal Family in Statue Square.\n\n12.30.-The Prince will lunch with\n\n[March 25th, 1922.\n\n9.30. The Prince will proceed to a Ball given by the entire community at the pavilion.\n\nThat night, the Prince and Staff will proceed on board the Renown, in order to depart at 7 o'clock on the following morning. The departure, at that hour, will be unofficial.\n\nKOWLOON\n\nMUST\n\nBE\n\nDISAPPOINTED.\n\nWith such a full programme before him, it will be impossible for H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to set foot in Kowloon. Every endeavour will be made to include a visit to the Peak in the programme as the Prince has expressed a special desire to see how the once-barren mountain has been made habitable.\n\nThe Hongkong Automobile Association has arranged to place a certain number of cars at the disposal of the Prince and his staff during their stay.\n\nTHE PRINCE'S STAFF.\n\nThe names of the Prince's staff are as follow:\n\nComptroller.-Vice-Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, R.N., K.C.M.G., C.B.\n\nMilitary Secretary.-Brig. General C. R. Woodroffe, C.M.G.\n\nPrivate Secretary.-Sir Godfrey Thomas, Bart.\n\nExtra Equerry.-Capt. Dudley North,\n\nR.N.\n\nLord Louis\n\nEquerries.-Capt. the Hon. Piers Legh and Lieut. the Hon. Bruce A. A. Ogilvy.\n\nExtra A.D.C.-Capt. E. D. Metcalfe, M.C., Indian Cavalry.\n\nAide-de-Camp. Lieut. Mountbatten, R.N.\n\nMedical Officer. Surgeon-Commander A. C. Newport, R.N.\n\nSPECIAL PRESS CORRESPONDENTS.\n\nwho are accompanying the Royal Tour\n\nThe names of the Press correspondents\n\ngraph), Sir Percival Phillips (Daily\n\nare: Mr. Perceval Lando (Daily Tele\n\nExpress), Sir Herbert Russel (Reuters) will probably be, also, a kinematograph and Mr. W. Fair (Central News). There\n\nphotographer, on behalf of the Admiralty.\n\nESCORT OF JAPANESE WARSHIPS.\n\nThe British Ambassador at Tokio has notified the Hongkong Government that the Japanese Government is despatching the Third Squadron, consisting of four cruisers, to convey greetings to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales on arrival here and to escort H.M.S. Renown to Japan. The Squadron will probably arrive here a few days before the date of the Prince's visit.\n\nPITMAN'S SHORTHAND RESULTS.\n\nST. MARY'S SCHOOL, KOWLOON.\n\nDecember have arrived from England and\n\nThe results of the examination held last\n\nare as follows:-\n\n140 words a minute.-Mrs. M. F. O'Sullivan (staff of Messrs. Deacon, Looker. Deacon & Harston), Mr. Stanley H. Garrod (staff of Colonial Secretary).\n\n80 words a minute.-The Misses Kathleen Gourdin, Maud Marsh, Norah Leonard, Bertha Santos, Paulina Lopes, Idalina dos Remedios, Lena Gomes, Zita\n\nGomes and Sabina Souza.\n\n60 words a minute.-The Misses Ritta Vice-Xavier, Laura Gill, Laura Carvalho, Lena\n\nChoa and Agnes Vichy.\n\nAdmiral Sir Alexander Duff on H.M.S. Alacrity.\n\n2.15.-The Prince will attend a race meeting in Happy Valley.\n\n8.00.-A Chinese Banquet to the Prince will take place at the Taiping Theatre\n\nAbout 200 guests will attend and the theatre will be lavishly decorated with Chinese symbols.\n\n50 words a minute.-The Misses Idalia da Lux and Aurea de Sousa.\n\nElementary Certificate.\n\n- The Misses Cissie Hast, Dora M. Aris, Eileen E Aris, Grace Lee, Annie Nunes, Avelina Souza, Consuelo Garcia, Laura Gomes and Lyce C. Oliveira.\n\nInstrutor.-T. F. O'Sullivan, F.I.P.S.,\n\nP.C.T.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564124, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "page_number": 87, "title": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "content_text": "## British Shipping\n\n124. Interference with foreign and especially British shipping off the China coast became rapidly worse during April. Interference with the loading of British ships in the Yangtze delta had begun earlier in the year and showed no signs of discontinuance, intimidation being used by Japanese naval and military authorities to prevent Chinese from loading British ships. Between the 23rd and the 26th April, six British ships were detained for flag verification purposes in the neighbourhood of Foochow, the ships detained including some which were well known to the Japanese, and about the British registry of which there was no doubt. On the 8th April, a Japanese prize crew was placed on board the steamship Sagres, which was engaged in loading salt for the Chinese Government off Foochow, and the ship was taken off to the Pescadores. Representations by the commander-in-chief to the Japanese naval authorities to the effect that the ship was engaged in peaceful and legitimate trade failed to secure the release of the ship, but after a fortnight's detention and interrogation, the crew were allowed to return to Hong Kong. The matter was still under discussion at the end of the month.\n\n## United States of America\n\n125. On the 30th March, the United States Ambassador in Tokyo protested formally and emphatically to the Japanese Government against the continued disregard by the Japanese forces of American lives and property in China. Mr. Grew reminded the Japanese Government that, although United States nationals had taken voluntary measures to mark their property in China, there had been no less than 135 instances of Japanese aerial attacks endangering American lives and resulting in damage to American property, which the United States Embassy had had to bring to the notice of the Japanese Government.\n\n126. The U.S.S. Astoria arrived on the 17th April at Yokohama, bringing the ashes of Mr. Saito, late Japanese Ambassador in Washington. The officers and crew of the ship were overwhelmed with hospitality and expressions of appreciation, while the American Embassy was inundated with presents. The visit was exploited to the full in the Japanese press, and the arrangements for the funeral were both efficient and impressive; certain events which occurred at the same time, however, sounded a different note. For instance, Mr. Sumner Welles, the United States Under-Secretary of State, informed the press on the 20th April that he had protested to the Japanese Ambassador in Washington about the continued interference by the Japanese authorities with the movement of United States citizens in China, and the United States Ambassador in Tokyo made a similar protest on the 21st April. The transfer of the United States fleet to the Pacific from the Atlantic, which was announced on the 21st April, also received much notice of a surprisingly hostile kind in the Japanese press.\n\n127. President Roosevelt's message to Hitler of the 15th April received lukewarm approval in Japanese newspapers, which eventually resorted to agreement with the Axis view that the message had been sent to the wrong address.\n\n128. On the 27th April, Senator Key Pitman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced a resolution in the Senate which would empower the President to impose certain important restrictions on trade and credit transactions between the United States and any Power violating the Nine-Power Treaty. The resolution has aroused violent controversy in the United States.\n\n## Anti-Comintern Pact\n\n129. A series of meetings of the Five Ministers' Conference were held during April and created the impression that an announcement giving added force to the Anti-Comintern Pact was imminent. However, as in the previous month, nothing definite emerged, and at the end of April, the newspapers had it that no decision would be taken for another month.\n\n## Germany: Visit of German Journalists\n\n130. On the 27th April, a party of German journalists, who are touring the Far East, arrived at Yokohama for a week's visit to Japan. The delegation, which consists of representatives of many leading German news agencies and newspapers, is returning the visit paid by a Japanese delegation to Germany in 1938.\n\n## German Flight to Tokyo\n\n131. A Luft-Hansa aeroplane left Berlin on the 22nd April, piloted by Baron von Gablenz, a director of the company, who is flying in easy stages to Tokyo. The object of the flight is said to be to collect data for the eventual establishment of a German air service between Europe and the Far East.\n\n## Conditions of Life\n\n132. Mr. Ikuta Yasugi, a former member of the Japanese Embassy in Moscow, was quoted in the press as saying that the restaurants in Moscow served better food to their customers than those in Berlin. The necessary correction was made with exemplary promptitude, accompanied by a suitable expression of Mr. Yasugi's indignation at the misunderstanding.\n\n## Italy: Italian Exhibition\n\n133. An Italian exhibition, sponsored by the Italian Embassy, the Italo-Japanese Cultural Institute, and the Tokyo Nichi Nichi newspaper, was opened on the 12th April. The exhibits consisted mainly of illustrations of the extent and achievements of the Roman Empire and of modern Italy. The most impressive feature of the exhibition was a large room containing photographs of the activities of the Italian armed forces.\n\n## Occupation of Albania\n\n134. General Itagaki, the Minister of War, and Prince Kanin, the Chief of the General Staff, telegraphed to Signor Mussolini congratulating him on the annexation of Albania.\n\n## France: Spratley Islands\n\n135. The French Ambassador addressed a note to the Minister for Foreign Affairs on the 4th April protesting against the occupation of the Spratley Islands. The French Government, he said, could not recognise this action and did not regard it as in any way affecting French sovereignty over the islands.\n\n136. On the 10th April, His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires left with the Minister for Foreign Affairs a note to the effect that His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom were unable to admit that the claim of the Japanese Government had any legal foundation and that they deplored the procedure adopted by them in this matter, as it could only complicate still further the situation in the Far East. In a reply, dated the 13th April, Mr. Arita stated that the Japanese Government found difficulty in understanding the basis for His Majesty's Government's representations, since not only was the measure taken lawful and based on fact and upon law, but it also was a matter which concerned Japan and France. The Japanese Government also disagreed that the measure would further complicate the situation in the Far East.\n\n137. The Official Gazette of the 18th April contained an order signed by the Governor-General of Formosa on the 30th March announcing the inclusion, as from that date, of the Spratley Islands within the jurisdiction of Takao City, Formosa.\n\n## China: Military Operations\n\n138. Much publicity was given to the Chinese so-called \"April offensive.\" This operation, however, was treated with considerable ridicule by the Japanese press, which gave frequent accounts of invariably successful Japanese counter-attacks and costly Chinese losses.\n\n## Japanese Policy\n\n139. In a speech on the 11th April at the opening of a conference of the heads of Liaison Offices in China of the Asia Development Council, the Prime Minister stated that the Japanese Government had no intention of excluding or restricting unreasonably the economic activities and interests of third Powers beyond the extent necessary for Japan's national defence and her existence as a nation.\n\n140. In a further speech on the 13th April, Baron Hiranuma stated that, when the new régimes in China had expanded and were fully co-operating with Japan...\n\nPage 633-2\n105", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]