TREATIES WITH CHINA.
GREAT BRITAIN.
TREATY BETWEEN HER MAJESTY AND THE EMPEROR OF CHINA,
SIGNED, IN THE ENGLISH AND CHINEss LanguageS, AT NANKING, 29TH AUGUST, 1842.
Ratifications Exchanged at Hongkong, 26th June, 1843.
Her Majesty, the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the Emperor of Chius, being desirous of putting an end to the misunderstandings and consequent hostilities which have arisen between the two countries, have resolved to conclude a treaty for that purpose, and have therefore nained as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say; Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., a Major-General in the service of the East India Company, &c.; and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, the High Commissionera Ke-ying, a Member of the Imperial House, a Guardian of the Crown Prince, and General of the Garrison of Canton; and Ilipoo, of the Imperial Kindred, graciously permitted to wear the insignin of the first rauk, and the distinc tion of a pack's Feuther, lately Minister and Governor-General, te, and now Licat.-Gedral commanding at Chápo>-Who, after having communicated to each other their n spective full powers, and found them to be in good and due form, havə agreed upon and concluded the following Articles:-
Art. I.-There shall henceforward be peace and friendship between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and His Majesty the Emperor of China, and between their respo lice subjects, who shall enjoy full security and protection for their persons and property within the dominions of the other.
Art. II. —His Majesty the Emperor of Uhins agrees that British subjects, with their families and establishments, shall be allowed to reside, for the purpose of carry- ing on their mercantile pursuits, without molestation or restraint, at the cities and towns of Canton, Ainoy, Poochow foo, Ningpo, and Shanghai; and Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, &e., will appoint superintendents, or consular officers, to reside at each of the above-named cities or Lowas, to be the median of communication between the Chinese authorities and the said merchants, and to see that the just duties and other dues of the Chines Gozerament, as hereafter provided for, are duly discharged by Hor Britannic Majesty's subj› ta
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Art. II. -1: belagotvistý 42, 15 rang und da j have some port whereat they may vazera oad refit their ships when re juurou, a ul keep stores for that purpose, His Majesty the Emp ror of China codes to fe dusty the Queen of Great Britain, &., the Istua I oi il bagkong, to be posso in petuity by Her Britannice Majesty, her heirs and savessore, and to be goient by mich laws and regulations as He Majesty the Queen of Freat Britain, &c., shall set to direct.
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Art. IV. The Emperor of China agross to pay the sum of six millions of dollars, as the value of the opium which was delivere l up at Canton in the month or March, 1839, as a run.com for the lives of Her Britaanie Majesty's Superintendent and sub- jects who ha i been imprisoa 1 1 thereatened with dead by the Chines: high officers. Art. V. -The Governm nt of China having compelled the Ba ish merchants trading at Canton to deal exclusively with ertain Chinese merchants, cal · 1 Hang 'merchants (or Co-Hong), who had been fi ensed by the Chinese Government for that purpose, the Emperor of China agrees to abolish that practice in future at all ports where British merchants may reside, aud to prinit them to carry on their mercantile transactions with whatever persons they phase; and His Imperial Majesty further agrees to рет to the British Government the sum of three millions of dollars, on account of debts due
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