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THE FRIEND OF CHINA,

AND

10. 14 VOL. 194

HONGKONG GAZETTE

**** PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.

YOTIFICATION.

¤ HONGKONG, THURAI

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-

per rized Functionaries of the Government are still to be considered as official

By order,

********___J. Robt. Morrison,

Acting Secretary and

Hongkong, March, 23rd. 1842.

reasurer.

CONSULAT DE FRANCE EN CHINE,

AVIS. daan di kat MESSIEURS les Capitaines et Subrecargues des Navires Français venant en Chine sont prévenus que leurs navires ne paye- ront, à l'avenir, à Whampoa, que les mêmes droits que ceux auxquels sont soumis les navires Anglais et Américains,

C. Alex : ChaLLAYE

Gérant le Consulat de France en Chine.

Hongkong, 25 Mai 1842.

TRANSLATION.

YIH imperial commissioner and rebel quelling gen- eral Tse, joint commissioner and high mi governor of the two. Kwang vinces, and Elient, governor put forth this their official despatch.

It appears that when the English barbarian Pottin- ger first arrived as Superintendent he offerred up a barbarian letter. Upon this we, the generals.com manding and others, deputed the Kwangchowfoo (Mayor of Canton city) Yu Po shun, to repair straightway to

Macao to make clear our commands, and open the way of reason to the said Superintendent. The Kwang chow foo, by petition, reported that after he had pro- eded to Macao the barbarian Superintendent Pot- tinge s at Canton presenting a barbarian letter, and that of the third of the seventh moon he had rifted anchor and proceeded to Amoy in Fokien and was unable face to face to open to him the way of reaso and words to this effect. Now, therefore, we hasten to deliver our definite orders to all the tary stations on the sea board, and also in the de- partments and districts that with combined purposes of heart out confines, be guarded with strictest dis-

translation of a

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JUNI A3RD.

H. B. Mrship Lion, captain sir Erasmus Gower, having on board the earl of Macartney, embassador, "minister plenipotentiary, &c, anchored near the same phee on the 25th of July, 1793-7---

The line of coast, from that point where the Great Wall terminates in the sea, lat, 40° 4' N. long, 120

2 E, runs southwest till to the south of the

Price

POLIC3.

Aroo and Assum were brought up to this office în custody on the 8th int charged with Cattle Stealing by Achsoon (the elder of Fok foo-lune village) who depose that about moon, a number of people came to the village, and forcibly carried off his Cow. Seeing this he gave the alarm and with his neighbours pursu. ed the robbers among whom were the two prisoners, who had hold of the cow by the horns. Its value is

ten dollars. This evidence was corroborated. ---Assum was sentenced to receive 100 Strokes and lose his tail. Afoo being but a youth was ordered to have 50 Strokes and lose his tail.

where it trends first southward and then eastward. clear weather the forts and a pagoda, near The river's mouth, are visible from the anchorage 12 or 14 miles due east. At the mouth of the river is a bar, stretch ing north-northeast and south-southwest, over which, at low water, the depth is not more than three or four feet, and which in many places is nearly dr quite dry. de Madagascar, on the 11th of August, 1840, had twelve feet, at spring tides. Lieutenant Campbell, in Attuk charged with selling Sanshu, and stealing from 1793, found that a course of west by north, according the person of John Northgate the sum of eight dollars. to the compass, led up the best channel, in a line with Jack who is one of the lade belonging to H. M the fort which stands on the southwest side of the en- S. Druid said all he knew was, that when he paid trance into the river, which at its mouth was about Attuk a rupee for two Bottles of liquor, he had eight one third of a mile in width, and three fathoms in depth dollars in his pocket, he knew nothing more, as he got at low water." Upon the bar and within it, Staunton Very drunk. One of his

is mates (who did not get so says the water is thick and sandy, although outside it drunk) swore he saw the robbery committed The is remarkably green and clear. He found the bar guilt of the prisoner being proved, he was sentenced divided into a number of sandy banks, lying in various to be imprisoned for four months with hard labour and directions. but so high and so close to each other as toto repay the 8 dollars, or continue in prison till it be prevent the passage, even of small vessels, except at paid. high water. Immediately within the bar, the water deepened to three or four fathoms. The river was there about five hundred yards in width. Mr. Gutzlaff, who visited Tientsin in a Chinese vesselin Sept., 1831, says "the river has no regular tides, but constantly flows into the

sea with more or less rapidity

On its southern bank, or the left of the entrance, is the small village of Tungku. Its situation is low and swampy, and the ground in its vicinity is covered, in summer, with the Arundo phragmites, a long and not altogether useless reed

From this village the vessels first move almost are north for three or four mile then turning westward and southward, making a complete elbow they move against the current, till early due west from Tungko they reach Siky (Seekoo) hence firming again veel ward and northward, and making another elbow, they arrive at Táků; and thus on in a zigzag course, they wind their way to rentsina kukince forty mile

right line, but more than twice that following the rivers channel,

Dr. Abel says, no country in the world can afford fewer objects of interest to the traveler than the banks of the river between the sea and Tientsin: the land marshy and sterile, the inhabitants are poor and squalid, their habitations mean, dirty, and dilapidated, and native productions of the soil are few and unattrac The banks of the river, during his first day's. were not much above its level, the countr them was low, exhibiting a dreary waste, marks of cultivation. Patches of mullet,

surrou with a species of benn,

huts on the immediate marg the second day's journey, slowly improved. The lat

debris of th

afford, no

-OUR readers will share our satisfaction in knowing that the native municipal Police has been re-established. We ventured to impugn the propriety of the summary suppression of this very useful force. The robberies which took place on its abolition, most unpleasantly attested its efficiency. With adequate powers our Island authori- ties will afford to the residents, as full a security of person and property as is pos........ sessed by the inhabitants of any town of a like population in her majesty's dominions.

Fire Insurance. We would press on our friends... the urgent expediency of either establishing a Company, or else putting themselves in corre- spondence with some existing Society, No more time should be lost. We know of instances, where considerable sums would be embarked in Buil- dings in our Town, but the parties very prudent- ly demur augmenting their risks to a serious extent. Surely an arrangement could be made with some one of the existing Marine Insurance hoes here, to take land Fire risks? It would eventially be a very profitable department. In our fourth number, we called the attention of our Readers to this important subject, we confidently boped ere this something would have been done.

We are glad to see in some of the Villa Resi- now erecting that provision is made to store From our maritime locality and admirable eats are altempered by a still the introduc- eeable Juxu-

easily procurable, it never seen or tasted more to

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