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THE FRIEND OF CHINA,

AND

No. 59 VOL. II.

LONGBON

NOTEELCATION.

GAZE T C .

PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MAY 4TH 1843.

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 Functionarios of the Government are still to be considered as official,

By order,

J. Robt: Morrison, Acting Secretary and Treasurer Hong-Cong, March 23, 1842.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

With reference to the Proclamation of the 15th it, on the Subject of Snuggling in the

Ke Kung, Governor-General of the “Two Her Britannic Majesty's Plenipotentiary, that, Kwang," &c. &c., has the honour to inform on the 23rd instant, he received a Despatch froin the Ministers of the Grand Council of State, covering a Copy of Imperial Commands, received

Cabinet on

on the 6th of April, 1843, and which

are of the following terms → Let Ke Ying be made Imperial Commis sioner

and let him proceed with all haste, by Post, to Canton, to inquire into, and conduct “affairs there. Of the Viceroyship of the Two Kwang, let Pichang take acting charge and till such time as Pichang shall reach that post, let Sun Shenpao be temporarily entrusted with the

are of its duties."

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RESPECT Tuis.

It becomes, then the Governor-General's duty to send, with due respect, a Copy of these Com- mands to the Honourable Plenipotentiary, request Canton River, His Excellency Siring that he will take the trouble to examine, and Henry Pottinger, is pleased to publish the act accordingly. following Communication from His Excel-

(A most necessary Communication.) lency Ke Kang, Governor-General of the Two Kwang,

By order,

RICHARD WOOSNAM.

Government House, Hong-Kong, 1st May, 1843.

Ke Kung, a Guardian of the Crown Prince, a President of the Board of War, Governor-General of the Two Kwang, &c., hereby makes this Com- munication in reply.

I have this instant, received the Honourable Plenipotentiary's Communication of the 14th day of the 3rd Moon, (13th April 1843) which I per- fectly understand, and by it may be seen, the Hon- ourable Plenipotentiary's most praise-worthy inten- tions to maintain peace and harmony.

As to the Hoppo's Clerks and followers receiving Bribes to connive at Smuggling, it is, I really fear, difficult to guarantee, that such is not the case, and I, the Governor-General, have communicated the same to His Excellency, the Hoppo, that, by some examples of severity, he may cleanse out this fountain of evil. As regards the English Mer- chants, no doubt there are good and upright men among them; but yet, it is to be feared, that out of every ten of them, there may at least be one or two given to deceit. The Honourable Plenipoten- tiary, for his part, gives po protection or encourage ment whatever, to Smuggling, and 1, the ( ernor General, never had the smallest sus that he did so, still, it is difficult for a single to oversee so much, and if, perchance, vision is not perfect, there will be less Smuggling; so I must, as before, be ourable Plenipotentiary, that the two. being now united in friendship, ho stringent than ever in his superin English Merchants should no listen to the seductions of th followers, to league with Duties; and now that we are

ing about a Tariff of Duties, 1 hope, that the Plenipote with a plan of Rules

scribed in our Code

we may act together in me

such abuses..

For this I now reph an

opportunity to wish your Ere

and happiness

To His Exellency

SIR HENRY POTTIN

HB MAT

Taoukwang 3rd year 3rd Moon:

6th, pril, 18493)

True Fran

Joint

To

SIR LIENRY POTTINGER,

Bart., G. C. B

H. B. M.'s Plenipotentiary. Taoukwang, 23rd year, 3rd Month, 24th day. (23rd April, 1843.).

True Translation.

(Signed) J. ROBERT MORRISON, -

Chinese Secretary & Interpreter NOTE. Pichang was long at Yarkand, and has been recently appointed to command the Tartar Force at Fuchow, but has not yet gone thither. Shun Shenpao, is Governor of Klangsoo, at Soochow

True Copy.

[Signed]

JR. M.

RICILARE WOOSNAM.

INQUEST 29TH AFRI, 1843.

(Before Mr E Farncomb, Coroner) This was an Inquest on the body of a Chinaman. The Jury on being sworn proceeded to the view. The Rey. Mr Dean was sworn as Interpreter to the Court,

Hoken A Chi man, being a Christian, was sworn on the Holy Bible, says Ahung the man who com- muted the deed had for a long time beh Afug, and yesterday morning he had accused him defrauding hum of money after some alter the deceas hearing of the affair went

to assist in

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Price $14 monthly ŞamaKr=12-M-yearly

from loss of blood from the largo"Axillary blood vessels.—Verdict-Wilful Murdor, against hung,

SAME.

APRIL 28TH-BEFORE THE This was an inquest on the body of three Chinamwn who had been killed on the night before, in the Bazaar behind Messrs. Jurdine Matheson and Co.'s. Godow.is.

The Jury proceeded to the view. Mr. C.-W, Bowra was sworn as interpreter to the Court,

Chariem, a Lascar sworn, snys-This morning at a quarter past one I was asleep in my house, at the back of Jardine & Matheson's Godown, I was awoke by the report of tire arms, when I heard the firing i ran out to assist the Sejoys, who wore on duty in the Bazaar behind the Godowns. On arriving at the Bazaar I met a Chinaman, who attempted to stab me with a spear, I then fired a Pistol at him, but wissed- hun-I saw 3 or 4 of the Robbers entering the door of a house inhabited by Jardine, & Co's Comprador, when 1 retreated behind one of the Guns and reloaded Pistol, as the Robbers were going off with the booty and the Sepoys fired, and the men fell wear the door.

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The Robbers when they found that some of their companions were wounded, carried away 2 of them with theis. As they were carrying them off I saw a man staggering, and having lost the ramrod of hay pistol I could not re-load, so I went up to the man and knocked him down with the butt end; in knocking the man down I happened to fall on him, and a Sepoy who was with ine secured the man. As we were tying the man, one of the Robbers ran past us, on which the Sepoy fired at him and shot him in the shoulder. I and the. Sepoy dragged two of the men who were shot up to the muse, and gave them some water, and at about an hour after they expired. As the Robbers were going away I heard a shot fired, the shot was fired from a window in the Bazuar.

Richard Fry, a Serjeant of the Ninty.eighth Regi ment, sworn, says I was awoke at one o'clock this morning, and went to the window of the house where I was staying that night, in Jarding and Matheson's Bazaar, the window was open, and I saw a number of Chinese armed with weapons resembling boarding. pikes, I saw them break open the door of the house opposite, and on this I went into a back room and took a musket which I knew was loaded, and when I came to the window -saw 3 or 4 of the Robbers inside of the trouse, and one of them in the act of breaking open a locker or drawer in the inner part. The Robbers had thrown a fire-ball into the house which made it quite light, so that I could see everything that was going on quite distinctly; I then fired my musket at a Robber who was breaking oper, the locker, and. be then fell the flash from my musket attracted the attention of the Robbers, and one of them then made a thrust at me with a spear through the venetians, I then went jute the inner room, re-loaded my muskot," and when I returned to the window I found they were.

reating down the Bazaar, I then fired the musket shot another as he was running away under the dah of the house opposite. The men who shot were not quite dead when they were back to the house by the Lascars, but died ter the man that was shot in the house out of the house, and went a short distance

up when he could proceed no further. The was shot with a bullet and the other with mixed The length of time that he time that I first saw the Robbers to ras about minuits I think. Two endeavoured to seize some of the need. The Comprador whose

me there had been 284 Dollars. um The third Robber who the upper part of the Bazaar. op I found it on fire-On my bodies tied together-Two of the house opposite whom I shot at fall,

says I am Purser to prador. The goods in About half past ise outside the door;. I ning. They broke stairs and fastened guns fred. When came down, and found hop on fire-I then got ere were 3 dead men-

rn, says

examined

having severe snot bu it k my opinion the effects of the

Richard Woor

The following Communication, from Hr

Excellency Kesl

Governor-General of

the Two Kwang, is published for general

information.

By order.

RICHARD WOOSNAM.

Goverment Howe Hong Kong, 1st May 1643,

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