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        "content_text": "in 1134 Hongkong \n\nTHE CHINESE TARIFF. \n\n(FROM FELIX FARLEY'S BRISTOL JOURNAL, OCTOBER 28, 1843.) \n\n0.0. NOV, \n\nTO THE EDITOR OF THE BRISTOL JOURNAL. Sir, The vast importance of the Chinese Tariff requires that it should be reduced to English weights, measures, and monies, for the use of British merchants, and not having yet observed that this has beca done, I beg to trouble yon with such s table, toge- ther with a few observations upon the standard to be observed. \n\nThe definition and determination of the Chinese tael is ex- preased in several different ways. 1st. It has been generally in England taken to be one third of the pound sterling, or Gs. 8d., or 80 pence, making the mace its 10th, S., and the caudareen its 100th part, 8-10ths of a penny. This simple relation to our own money would be a great advantage to English merchants if it were fully established, but some, as Beawes, make the candareen Ed., reducing the tael to 62. 3d. \n\n2ndly. It is now, however, for the most part compared with the Spanish dollar. Thus the latest and perhaps the highest sathority, that of Mr. Pope, in the Yearly Journal of Trade for 1843, states 72 taels to be equivalent to 100 dollars. The Spanish dollar is commonly estimated at 4s. Gd., but her Majesty's proclu- mation (Yearly Journal of Trada, 1840, p. 391), issued for the West Indies, makes it equivalent to 48. 2d. The tael, therefore, will be 6s. 3d, if we take the former, and 58. 94d. if the latter, for our guide. \n\n3rdly. It was originally compared with the Chinese silver coin called mace, and their copper coin called cash, but the mase has been long disused; 1000 cash were once equivalent to one fuel, but the depreciation of these coins by deterioration of the metal and reduction of their weight, so amply illustrated in the highly interesting and most authentic work of Mr. Davis, has now rendered the tael equal to a much greater number of cash. By Sir Henry Pottinger's Hong Kong proclamation of the 29th of March, 1842, 1200 of them are declared equal to one dollar. In weight I have found them vary from about 85 graina troy to twice as much. Du Halde says that the French sou is equivalent to the 100th part of the tael, that is to the caudareen, and also that it is equal to 6 cash, instead of 10. \n\n4thly. The Chinese tael is a weight, and has its value expressed by European weights, either avoirdupois or troy, and this is the truest mode of determining its equivalent in fine silver, seeing that the references to English money do not agree, that dollars differ materially in value, and that the Chinese cash are still more different from each other in their weight and quality. Measra. Gordon and Crawfurd, in their admirable treatise upon Chinese commerce, give a table stating the tacl is equal to 1 1-3 ounce avoirdupois, or 579.84 grains troy. These, unfortunately, do not agree neither, for 1 1-3 oz. avoirdupois contains 437.5 and 145.8 1-3 grs., or 583.3 1-3 grs, troy, and not 579.84. Again, Beawez in his \"Lex Mercatoria,\" states that the tael was 1 oz. 2 dr., of course troy weight, which in 480 and 120, or 600 grains. The editor of \"Mortimer's Commercial Dictionary,\" in his “Universal Commerce,\" p. 64, says 100 taels should weigh 120 oz. 10 dwts. troy, or 57840 grs., or the single tael 5734, which is less than any of the above. He says, also, that 100 Spanish dollars should weigh 68 13 dwts.; that is, 42,552 grs., of which we take the 72nd part, according to Mr. Pope, the tael comes out 591 grs. Now, 16 taels make a catty, and 100 catties a pecul; all autho- rities, I believe, concur in making the pecul 133 1-3 ib. avoirdu- pois, or the catty I 1-3 B., for which reason I prefer taking the tael as 1 1-3 oz., or 183 1-3 grs. The English crown piece, or N. is so nearly an avoirdupois ounce that if we could make this the standard the tael would come out as at first 5a, and 20d., or 6s. 8d., or 80d.; but in China all silver coin is taken as bullion, and the duties of course will be paid in fullion. The real value of the tael must, therefore, be sought in the market price of stan- dard silver. This, at the present time, I find to bo da. 1110. per ounce troy, which is almost exactly 48. 6d, the ouuoo avoirdupois, or 6s. the tacl; and I have accordingly made this my standard in the following table, wherein I have reduced the Tariff to English weights and monies. I prefer this to taking the market price of the dollar, whether Mexican or Spanish, new or pillar, and using the multiplier 1,204, because I consider that the term \"syees” means \"perfectly pure.\" This word I believe to be originally Chinese, although the characters used by the Chinese to express it do not indicate its proper etymology. I have no doubt that it was originally, in the orthoepy of Morrison, \"tsuh sih,\" or \"full quality;\" but the characters commonly used for it mean \"fine silk,\" expressive of what minoralogists would call it's \"lustre sating.\"* \n\nI cannot conclude without suggesting that, at the present low price of copper, 1000 tona, costing 70,000Z. or 80,0007., might advantageously be coined into Chinese cash, weighing each a 1-3 gra. This would greatly relieve the distress of the neighbourhood of Swansea, and supply Hong Kong and the Chinese with a good currency during the present and the next generation; for, if neatly executed, it would be universally coveted and hearded up in abundance, and would be a good payment for tea, instead of opium. On one side of the coin I would have the words \"Victoria Regina,\" and on the other, as usual, “perforated token,\" with \"Iong Kong\" instead of the Emperor's name. \n\nBristol, Oct. 14. \n\nI am, Sir, your obedient servant, \n\nSAM. ROOTSEY. \n\n3. Arsenic, ditto \n\n4. Banglos (or glass armlets), ditto \n\n5. Bamboo screens, and bamboo wares of all kinds, do. 0 6. Brass leaf, ditto.. \n\n9. Camphor, ditto...... \n\n10. Canea of all kinds, per 1,000 \n\n11. Capoor cutchery, per cwt. \n\n12. Cassia, ditto \n\nDitto buds, ditto Ditto oil, ditto \n\n13. China root, ditto \n\n14. China ware, all kinds, ditto \n\n15. Clothes, ready made, ditto \n\n16. Copper ware, pewter, ditto, &c., ditto \n\n17. Curals, or false coral, ditto..... \n\n10. Cubebs, ditto..... \n\n20. Fans (as feather fans, &c.), ditto \n\n24. Glass, and glass ware of all kinds, ditto 25. Glass beads, ditto \n\n26. Gine (as fish glue, &c.), ditto \n\nEXPORTS. \n\n1. Alum, per cwt. \n\n2. Aniseed star, ditto \n\nDitto, oil of, ditto.. \n\nd. \n\nCotton Manufactures, continued- \n\nGrey, or unbleached, cottona-viz., long-cloths, domestics, &c., 30 to 40 yards long, 26 to 40 inches wide, ditto \n\n£ 3. d \n\nGrey twilled cottons, 30 to 40 yards long, 28 to \n\n40 inches wide, ditto..... \n\nChintz and prints, of all kinds, 20 to 30 yards \n\n7. Building materiala, ditto. \n\n8. Bone and horn ware, ditto \n\nduty free. \n\nlong, 26 to 31 inches wide, ditto ...... \n\n0 1 24 Handkerchiefs under 1 yard square, 72 ea....... 0 0 03 \n\n0 à 01 \n\ni \n\nHandkerchiefs above 1 yard square, 1.03 ditto... ( Ginghams, pullicates, dyed cottons, velveteens, silk and cotton mixtures, woollen and cotton mixtures, and all kinds of fancy goods, not in current consumption, 5 per cent. ad valorem. 14. Cotton yarn and cotton thread, per cwt. Jo. Cow bezoar, per lb...... \n\n16. Cutch, per cwt.. \n\n17. Elephants' teeth, Ist quality, whole, ditto \n\nS \n\n5 O \n\nI 0 2 \n\n2d quality, ditto, broken \n\n18. Fish maws, ditto \n\n19. Flinta, ditto \n\n18. Crackers and fire-works of all kinds, ditte.... \n\nす \n\n20. Glass, glass ware, and crystal ware of all kinds, 5 \n\nper cent. ad valorem. \n\nՌ \n\n21. Gambier, per cwt.... \n\nD 0 9 \n\n21. Furniture of all kinds, ditto \n\n22. Galingal, ditto....... \n\n23. Gamboge, ditto \n\n22. Ginseng, 1st quality, ditto \n\n2d ditto, \"or refuse, ditto \n\n23. Gold and Silver Thread :- \n\n0 2 G \n\n1st quality, or real, per lb.. \n\n2d ditto, or imitation, ditto \n\n24. Gums, Benjamin, per cwt \n\n0 5 0% \n\nOlibanum Myrrh \n\nditto ditto \n\n6. Horus, Unicorus' or Rhinoceros', ditto \n\n32. Lead (white lead), ditto \n\nGums unenumerated 10 per cent. ad valorem. 25. Horns, Buttocks and Buffaloes', per ewt... \n\n27. Linen, tine, us Irish or Scoteb, \n\nyards long, \n\ninches wide, per piece \n\n1 0 10 0:15 1 \n\n↓ \n\nCoarse Linen, as linen and cotton mixtures, silk and linen mixtures, &o., 5 per cent, ad valorem, \n\n28. Mace, or four of nutmeg, per ewt.....**** 29. Mother of Pearl shells \n\nhitte...... \n\n0 5 04 0 I 0 \n\n38. Nankeen and cotton cloth of all kinds, per ewi \n\n30. Metals, viz., \n\nRice paper pictures, per 100 \n\n40. Paper fans, per cwt. \n\nCupper, unmanufactured, as in pige, ditto.......................... 0 Ė 4 Ditto, manufactured, as in sheets, rods, ditto... 0764 Iron, unmanufactured, as in pigs, ditto \n\n41. Paper of all kinds, ditto \n\n{ 2 64 \n\nDitto, manufactured, as in bars, rods, &c., ditto 0 0 9 \n\n42. Pearls (i. e., false pearls), ditto \n\nLead in pigs, or manufactured, ditto \n\n2 6) \n\nQuicksilver, ditto \n\n0 15 JA \n\nSteel, unmanufactured, ditto \n\nTin, ditto..... \n\nTin Plates, ditto....... \n\n31. Nutmegs, ist quality, or cleaned, per cwt. \n\nOrganzine, all kinds, ditto.. \n\nRibands, thread, &c., ditto.. \n\nUnenumerated Metals, 10 per cent. ad valorem. \n\n2d ditto, or uncleaved ditto \n\n} \n\n32. Pepper, ditto..... \n\n33. Putehuck, ditto \n\n34. Battans, ditto \n\n35, Rice, paddy, and grain of all kinds.......... \n\nduty free. \n\n36. Rose maloes, per cwt. ...... \n\n37. Saltpetre (to be sold to Government agents only) \n\nper dilto \n\n38. Sharks' fius, first quality, or white, per ditto...... 05.04 \n\nsecond quality, or black per ditto...... 0 2 61 \n\n27. Grass cloths (all kinds), ditto 26. Hartall, ditto \n\n29. Ivory ware (all kinds), ditto \n\n30. Kittysole, or paper umbrellas, ditto \n\n31. Lackered ware, all kinds, ditto \n\n33. Lead (real lead), ditto.. \n\n31. Marble slabs, ditto... \n\n35. Mats (straw, rattan, bambon, &c.), ditto \n\n36. Mother-o'-pearl ware, ditto \n\n37. Musk, per Îb.'.. \n\n39. Pictures-viz., large paintings, each \n\n43. Preserves and sweatmeats of all kinds, ditto \n\n44. Rattan work of all kinds, ditto \n\n45. Rhubarb, ditto \n\n46. Silk, raw, whether from Chekiang, Canton, or \n\nelsewhere, all kinds, per ewt.. \n\nCoarse or refuse silk, ditto.. \n\nSilk piece goods of all kinds, as silks, satins, pon- \n\ngees, velveta, crapes, lustrings, &c., ditto..... 80 53 N.B. The additional duty of so much per piece, \n\nhitherto levied, to be henceforth abolished. \n\n47. Silk and cotton mixtures, silk and woollen mixtures, \n\nand goods of such classes, ditto... \n\n48. Shoes and boots of leather, satin, or otherwise, ditto 0 49. Sandal-wood ware, ditto....... 50. Soy, ditto... \n\n51. Silver and gold ware, ditto.... \n\n52. Sugar, white and brown, ditto..... \n\n53. Sugar caudy, all kinds, ditto... \n\n54. Tin-foll, ditto.. \n\n55. Tea, ditto..... \n\n56. Tobacco of all kinds, ditto, \n\n57. Turmeric, ditto.... \n\n58. Tortoiseshell ware, ditto.... \n\n59. Trunks (of leather), ditto... \n\n60. Treasure, i. e., coins of all kinds... \n\n6J. Vermillion, per ewt. \n\nfree. \n\nArticles unenumerated in this tariff to pay a duty of 5 per cent. ad valorem. \n\nIMPORTS. \n\n1. Asafoetida, per cwt. \n\n2. Rees' wax, ditto...... \n\n3. Betel nut, ditto.. \n\n4. Bicho de mar, 1st quality, or black ditto \n\nDitto \n\n0 % 1) \n\nD \n\nTiger, leopard, and marten sking, each \n\nLand otter, racoon, and sharlis' skins, per hund. 0 12 0 \n\nBeaver skins, ditto..... \n\nEbony, ditto... \n\n39. Skins and furs, viz. \n\nCow and ox hides, tanned and untanned.......... \n\nSea otter skin, each \n\nFox skins, large, each.... \n\nDitto, small, each. \n\nHare, rabbit, and ermine ditto. \n\n40. Smalts, per cwt....... \n\n41. Soap, ditto \n\n42. Stock-fish, &c. ........ \n\n13. Sea horse teeth \n\n44. Treasure and money of all kinds, free. \n\n£ 8. d. \n\n45. Wine, beer, spirits, &c.:- \n\nIn quart bottles, per hundred bottles \n\n0 6 l \n\nla pint ditto, ditto...... \n\nIn casks, per cwt. \n\n46. Woods, namely- \n\n◊ \n\n1st ditto, cleaned ditto.... \n\nSandal wood, ditto \n\n24 ditto, good middling ditto \n\nJapan wood, ditto......... \n\nInenumerated woods, 10 per cent, ad valorem. \n\n47. Woollen manufactures-viz., broadcloths, Spanish \n\nstripes, babit cloth, &c., 51 @ 64 inches wide, per square foot... \n\nLong ella, kersermeres, flannel, and narrow cloths \n\nof this description, ditto \n\nBlankets, of all kinds, each. \n\nDutch camlets, per square foot.... \n\nCamlets, ditto........ \n\nImitation ditto bombazettes, &c., ditto \n\nBunting (narrow) ditto. \n\nUnenumerated woollen goods, or silk and woollen, and cotton and woollen mixtures, &c., 5 per cent. ad nalorem. \n\n48. Woollen yarn, per cwt........... \n\nN.B. All articles unenumerated in this tariff 5 \n\nCambrics and muslins, 20 to 24 yards long, 40 to \n\n46 ditta ...... \n\nper cent. ad valorem, \n\n5. Birds' nests \n\nDitto Ditto \n\n2d ditto, white ........................... \n\n3d ditto, uneleaned, ditto \n\n6. Camphor (Malay), 1st ditto, clean, per lb. \n\nDitto \n\n24 ditto, refuse ditto, per in. \n\n7. Cloves, Tat ditto, picked per ewt........ \n\nDitto, 2d dirto, mother ditto.......... \n\n8. Clocks, watches, spy-glasses, all kinds of writing- desks, dressing-boxes, cutlery, perfumery, &c., 5 per cent. ad valorem. \n\n9. Canvasɛ, 30 to 40 yards long, 24 to 31 inches wide, \n\nper plece \n\n10. Cochineal, per cwt \n\n11. Cornelians, per 100 stones. \n\nDitto beads, per cwt \n\n12. Cotton ditto...... \n\n13. Cotton manufactures-viz. \n\nLong-cloths, white, 30 to 40 yards long. 30 to 36 \n\ninches wide, per piece...... \n\n1 5 2) \n\n* We have something like this at home. There is a place in Wales called Llanseashore, bat which is not upon the sea shore. This name Stor or Shore is the old British name of George, or Saint George, and exists also In the English word Wyndeshore, or Windsor, which I shouli Latinise \"Venta Georgii,\" from the round table, castle, and chapel of St. George. \n\nGUTCH AND MARTIN, PRINTERS, SMALL-STREST, BRISTOL,",
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        "content_text": "M \n\nВо \n\nMaler og 2604 Gort Establishments Wile write respect. \n\nRoberton I sell Whether Mechanics would be unconger to settle- 222 Police Force, prefuses estatt fone, Rovereft & result. Rest appetunt of Surveyor or Graftimon \n\nlippensete. \n\nwom Schedules of redattachments \n\nReturn of Offices provisionally, \n\nhome offices filled \n\n\" \n\nMotechlin an Laserficers \n\nLour \n\nMacartney 142. Regt an Cepprustment \n\nN \n\nӨ \n\nPollock & me Laws Ofic \n\nPett An \n\nOrucunce & Lesiturg \n\nRoottey I ther observations in Chinese Fareff. \n\nPanton). (Other As his appetunt as thaplain comest got te make \n\nSly \n\nRed & \n\nout, euf of he may style himself. \n\nas Chaplain in a work he is about 4 Bublish. \n\nF from Pattage allorans, Pop ytre of. \n\n2014ny Church thhols enf decision of foot \n\nbrune Fustees to pr. sproved sistitutions \n\nstee \n\nalso \n\nder Public Seal Top permission tedy for Hlustrated hews \n\nHorting Afftant as Althermal",
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