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THE FRIEND OF CHINA,

AND

N°. 6. VOL. 1

BONGBONG

NOTIFICATION.

GAZEECER

PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.

THE publication of the Hongkong Ga- zette under the authority of Government, will be discontinued from this date: but all public orders and notifications appearing in "The Friend of China and Hongkong) Ga- zette," with the signatures of duly autho- rized Functionaries of the Government are still to be considered as official.

By order,

J. Robt: Morrison, Acting Secretary

and Treasurer.

Hongkong, March, 23rd. 1842.

PROCLAMATION.

THE letter, of which a Copy is hereunto annexed, having been addressed to me by the Mercantile Firms who have signed it, on behalf of themselves and others, I do hereby direct and proclaim, in conformity with their application, that, pending the Gracious pleasure of the Queen of Eng- land, the Mexican and other Republican Dollars shall be taken as, and consider ed to be, the standard in n all Government and Mercantile Transactions at Hongkong, and other Places in China, in the occupa tion of her Majesty's Forces, unless at the time of such Transactions taking place, it should be expressly specified to the con- trary.

AND I do further announce, that the pres- ent Proclamation is not to be taken in any way or shape as affecting the Provis ions of the one which I promulgated on the twenty ninth day of last month rela- tive to the Circulating Medium on the Island of Hongkong.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. DATED at Hongkong, Government House, this 27th, day of April 1842.

BY

Sir

(Signed) HENRY POTTINGER

ORDER

J. Robt: Morrison, Acting Secretary and Treasurer.

To His Excellency

Sir Henry Pottinger Bart :

&c. &c. &c..........

HONGKONG, THURSDA

With reference to the existing scarcity of the Spanish Pillar Dollar, and the cer tain further diminution of that Currency in consequence of the Coinage having ceased.. We beg leave to suggest to Your Excellency the eligibility making the Mexican, and other Republican Dollars the Standard in all Government and Mercantile transactions at Hongkong or other places in Chia in the occupation of Her Majesty's Forces.

It is the general wish of the Mercantile Community in China to adopt the hean Dollar as the general Sta value

of their opinien

nges

NOTI

PRIL 20TH. 1043

lay before the Land Committlee, are hereby ANY Persons having Representations to requested to send in written Statements of their cases without delay, else they will not be taken into consideration.

BY ORDER,

Hongkong,

Land Office,

Geo; F. Mylius,

Land Officer

APRIL 27th. 1842.

TRANSLATION.

FROM THE PEKING GAZETTE.

SUPPOSED CASE OF THE NERBUDHA,

THE Imperial will has been received as follows Tă Hung Ho and others, have sent up a document memorializing in relation to their having sunk a bar- barians ship, seized barbarians and captured their great barbarian ships have been coming and going to and guns. From the 9th moon to the present (10th moon) from the Formosan offings, incoherently wandering about and then casting anchor, regarding which the said high officers have already repeatedly given orders proceedings. that rigorous measures be adopted for preventing such of the present moon a barbarian ship sailed into the Ata o clock on the morning of the 11th port and when opposite the Sha Wan fort commenced an attack with her great guns. The advisary general way opened fire, and beig oppo You Chin King and other having made ready straight- their shot with thunder roar took effect and over-

to the

helmed her in the wate Kin and others

to the

took

but our high

and proceeding in a

firing he

alive and put to death a great rians. Another officer was also emp tioned himse in a vessel and proc

out

At this junc

and putting forth his exertions seized alive many names of black barbarians and beheld the white barb plunge into the sea of their ture also the high officer ao opened fire from his vessel and suuk a ship

put to death all the live very many of white barbarians, and brough the black barbaria

so returned from his cruise to another island having destroyed a ship's boat, put to death the white barbarians and seized alive ma- ny of the black rebels, and having dragged up the guns and found a valuable chart.

Thus then the civil and military officers, and the pa- triotic among the people have made a public numer- ical statement as follows;

Killed

ditto

white barbarians, five men.

red barbarians, five men

ditto ....... black barbarian Captured alive

ditto

ten

THE CHINA QUESTION

monthly

Ir le evident that no movement can be made towards the Capi tal till the weather has become milder, and large reinforcements have arrived from England. The last accounts from home give reason to hope that the Ministry had begun to act on the Duke's maxim, that we should never engage in a little war. The ships which have been despatched will show formidable squadron, and the troops now on their way to China amount, it would ap pear, to nearly three thousand till this is but a small reinfo ment for the work on hand, and no farther assistan given from India. After Chusan, and Chinhse,

Pekin, would not exceed,

can be

Farrison at Hongk disposable for a mare pu not equal, fi can be no doubt that I the approaches to Pula b water, will be found, to have heen fortified by all the skill genuity which the Chinese can command, and the progress they have made in their military education, under the tuition we have given them during the last two years, shew that we have never had more apt or diligent scholars. If the Emperor should retire into Tartary, not an unlikely step, and leave us in possession of his Capital, what are we to do with it, and how will the acqui. aition of it advance the conclusion of a Peace The Emperor will issue an edict from beyond the great Wall, giving the most plausible and satisfactory reasons for going into Tartary during the summer; and his subjects will doubtless believe him, for the. credulity of the Chinese seems to increase in proportion to the de. mand made on it. Are we prepared in that case for the expens. es of a fourth campaign or for the establishment of a new dynasty 7 Friend of India 10th February

Ex President John Quincy Adam's opinions on the China question. The justice of the cause between the two parties, Which has the righteous cause You have perhaps been surprised to hear me answer, Britain Britain has the righteous cause. But to prove. it I have been obliged to show that the Opium question.... is not the cause of the war my demonstration is not yet complete, The cause of thewar is the Kotou! — the arrogant and portable pretensions of China, that ercial interc ir with the rest of terms of equal reciprocity, but upon the insulting and degrading forms of relation between The melancholy catastrophe with

ind, not

and vassal

I am obliged to close, the death of the gallan

was the first fruit of the bitter struggle against

I in the flight of time be

you, I should pursue the

in

utted again to address of the inqu

ough

the four questions with hich ve begun 1 But the solution of them all is involved in the germinating element of the first the rustice of the cause. This

Whether it have sought in the natural rights of man. may ever be my good fortune to address you again is-

disposal of a higher power but with reference to last of my four questions-what are the duties of the government and the people of the United States re- Culting from the existing war between Great Britain and China 1 I leave to your meditations the last event of that war which the winds have brought to our eurs the ransom of Canton. When we remember - the scornful refusal from the gates of Canton, in July, 1834, of Mr. Astell bearing the letter of peace and... friendship from Lord Napier to the Governor of the two Provinces, and the contemptuous refusal to receive the letter itself, and compare it with the Tanson of that same city in June, 1841, we trace the whole line of con- nection between cause and effect. May we not draw from it monitory

of on, written upon a beam

tion for war and preserva. phosphone light tion of peace?

Herald.

NITED STATES

which arrived at

to the lat.

(Signed)

April