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AND. LONG KA
NOTIFICATION.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
16TH, 1843.
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Price
on 12 yearly
of the house. We did not enter it. We heard above the noise of women, but do not certainly know that
Tur publication of the Hongkong Ga should be left to do so, but I have never women lived in the house, st
zette under the authority of Government. wil be discontinued from this date but all public orders and notifications appearing in "The Friend of China and Hongkong Ga- zetto" 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.
NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency Sir Henry Pottin- ger
Bart is pleased to direct that the fol- lowing Letter be published for general information.
By Order.
RICHARD WOOSNAM.
Hongkong 9th March, 1843.
SIR.
Acting Secretary
Government House, Hongkong, 8th March, 1843.
I have the honour to acquaint Your Ex cellency that the Chinese(local) Authorities, are about to take active measures for the total suppression of Piracy, in which I had offered to co-operate with them, but which co-operation they have, for the present at least civilly declined; and that I have been for some days past in communication with the principal Maudaria entrusted by the Viceroy at Canton, with the general superintendence of this service.
Their plan appears to be, to fit out ten or, twenty fishing boats as Cruizers, with orders to detain any Boats of a suspicious pearance, or that have any unusual number of arms or armed men on board, and to convey them either to Kowloon, or some other of the various posts in this neighbourhood, for minute investigation and punishment, where that may be found re- quisite.
Most (if not all) of these Cruisers are to
· have Linguists on board, who speak a little English, and the principal Mandarin has this morning sent to me to say, that he apprehends that the Pirate Boats (some of which are already well known to t Gincers
above, I consider it very desirable that it
theless (from the apprehension of a failure)
Yung-shing-chung being" called on to give evidence, apprized the Mandarin that 1 will at any
prevationted in such a way, he was consequently com- time be ready to take a part in the opera-mitted by order of the Chief Magistrate. tions agreeable to my onging proposal, (of which I enclose a printed Copy) and in before, I know Shing.chung he has lived with me or that event I will again addre Your Ex- two months, he was to have been my partner, he bas cellency.
had nothing to do with pirates.
A copy of this letter will be sent to Major General Lord Saltoun, commanding the 1 and Forces.
I have th
the honour, &c. (Signed) HENRY POTTINGER,
H. M's Plenipotentiary. (True Copy) RICHARD WOOSNAM,
Acting Secretary. His Excellency, Vice-Admiral
SIR WILLIAM PARKER, K. C. B. &c.
POLIGO
BEFORE THE CHIEF MAGETRATR.
January 10th, 1843-Chi Aycang, Chum Aming" calling themselves coulies, charged by Lung Wing Hup, the master of a pirate vemel, with Piracy.
Complainant states, on the 1st lost I was carrying fish from the Canton river to this pice, and was pas-
through the Capsing moon p. sing
wing about 30 men,
attacked by a Pirate boat ca they boarded us and wou took myself and my crew into their boat, until they
thing it contained value to our own boat and
two prisoners we my vessel from
which the
swear to this,
Temen
Ting lum qui states, I belong to the boat of cot plailinut, we were carrying ha moon passage, were attacked by
SWOTL
in the shoulder by wound in the shoulder] the
10 as being two of the crew. were not, the men who ♥ folly corroborates the evidenou
Leang Pok te fully foregoing witness and two of the crew of the more of the crew of the
swear to the identity of the the crew of the pirate boat, and of their evidence.
DEPENOB. They deny the
ter and were
plajuan
sme.
This witness complainant..
the evidence of
ar to the men as being There are three ready to
orn to the truth
Berto
Assou, Comprador states, I never saw the prisoner
CASE REMANDED.
JANUARY 11st resumes, The Rev. Mr. Dean at the request of the injured parties, as well as of the Chi.. neee interpreter who cannot speak the Te Chew dialect kindly consented to interpret. The three pirate passes were produced, they were all of the same tenor and date, 26th December 1842, No. 63, 64, 65.
Atak states I was on board the boat of complainant Sen-Chun when his boat was attacked a pirate. I saw the prisoner Fung-Yung-shing he was the first man, to board our vessel and had a sword in his hand. there were three boats of us in company when we were attacked, his testimony fully corroborates that of com-
in every respect. The complainants state their loss in all amount to about $2800, abouts 2000 of which was in Silver (dollars).
DEFENCE-Deny the charge entirely, complainant and witness sworn to their evidence by cutting off the Cocks head.
Translation of the Pass:
General Society of the Tai-Ping-Suy,-Under the character Tong [Tong is probably a character used in- the account books of the society to facilitate reference] No 65
This boat is upwards of 50 Cubits in length, Kinn- wanan is her name, her bow is painted and is green, she carries an assorted cargo, she took this passport as
protection in case of attack by robbers.
You are to take notice of the size of the attacking of her name, iumber of masts, of men and of of attack. On making a true statement to be made by one of, or belonging to this the money shall be refunded to you. If by other men, a boat shall immediately be dispatched in search of them, This pass furnishes protection until the 5th of April 1843, after which time it will be void. Dated 26th December 1842-On the back of the pass are two characters, signifying upright intentions.
N. B Complainants state that they were robbed on the 17th ult. Their petitions also assign the same date to the day of the robbery, while the date of the pirate passes are 26th ult. The Rev. Mr. Dean having been asked to enquire into this discrepancy, gives the following statement of complainants in explanation.
We took our passports from Sing-chong on the 12th of the 11th Chinese moon, we were plundered on the 16th by the pirates, who took our passports, we sent two of our men, who had them renewed by Sing chong
these last bear the date of the 25th of the same month, are of the same tenor as the former, and are those which we yesterday presented to the Chief Magistrate. The case was submitted to the head of the Goveru- ment
The following remarks were made by the Duke of Rutland, at the Rutland Agri-
a few monthis sit
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