CHA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
such a Representative, as a matter of the deepest I am desired, therefore, to urge the appointment of importance.
I have the honour lo dej
A very proper notice on land claims is promul endanger the continuance of our amicable relations || gated, but we
soon proclaim-with that country, ing that a certain numb of Licenses for the sale of Spirituous liquors (for cach #150 is to be harged) will be granted. We are well aware the Missionaries could not prevent the illicit sale | and use of spirits, and that the continuance of the prohibitions on their sale and use, was incompatbile with British law; still, permission under severe regulations might have been unostentatiously,
Sir,--
Your obedient humble. Sorvant,
(Signed)
G, G. do II LARPENT,
To the Right Honourable,
Chairman..
if not secretly, accorded. We regret that one Sir Rot Peel, Bart., M. P, &, &c, &c.
of the first acts of the new Government should be to' parade a sanction and approval of prolific source of misery and crime, and which, whatever may have been the faults of Missionary rule, much to its honour, it has invariably striven to the utmost to check.
By a late letter from Canton, we learn that the very unfriendly disposition towards us is increas- ingly manifest.
A few days since, the Square was occupied by a_mob, (owing to a fire over in Honam) when an opportunity was taken to pelt the British. Our correspondent holds the opinion that another out
No 2, Cowper's. Court, Cornhill, 31st December, 1842.
MY LORD,
Under the impression that the Treaty, between Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and the Emperor of China has been ratified by her Majesty, and is about to be returned to China to receive the formal ratification of the Emperor, whose consent to its provisions has already been given, I am requested by the Committee of the East India and China Association. to express to the extreme anxiety felt by all persons engaged in your Lordship
break is inevitable. Rawatters are dull the trade with the Emperor of China to be made |
and but little doing. Of Six there is but little, it is Tsatlee, not No. and $466 is demand ed. TEA is firm and the shipments large, so that it seems certain fifty millions will be exported this
season.
The following vessels are loading, or about to load, with Teas at Whampoa The Equestrian, Susan, Orixa, Morley, Penang, Siam, Scotland, City of Derry, Columbus, Greenlaw, and Culdee.
In our No. 54, (March 30th) we pub- lished the reply of Lord Aberdeen to the application of the East India and China Association, with respect to the stipulations of the Treaty of Nankin. As we have not seen the application itself, nor the prelimi- nary letter to the Premier, in any of the English Papers, we think these documents
*
may think proper as Her Majesty's Government may think proper to disclose the same, with the provisions of the said Treaty, relative to the future with the conduct of the trade; information, which it is considered indispensable before any commercial operations upon an extensive scale can prudently be undertaken.
In a letter I had the honour to address to Sir Robert Peel (and which he informs me has to your Lordship, I was desired
been
by the Committee to ask for information relative to the terms upon which British Merchants might henceforth reside in China at the seveal ports pointed out in the Treaty; and also as to the mode by which the interests of British Merchants might
placed
the protection of diplomatic lese matters I beg respectfully to agents; and to these
your Lordship's attention. am further desired to Lordship the
draw
upon your
Importance of made being
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lic functionaries at those several stations,
period would be premature. and that to press the subject at this early
CHINA TRADE.-
The extra Mail from Bombay, bringing intelli- gence of the Peace with China, reached London the 23d November, when the principal conditions of the Treaty became known; and by reference to the Proclamation of Her Majesty's Plenipoten- tiary of the 26th of August, it will be seen that the main objects which the Committee, in 1839, submitted to Government as desirable to be obtained from the Chinese, had been oonceded. Still there remained some points to which the Trade attached considerable importance, and which, if not overlooked, were at least not noticed as such,-Whether the Merchants were to be allowed to possess factories and warehouses of their own, and to have their families residing with them; and, with reference to the consular establishments at the five ports opened to British ought not to be wholly unconnected with trade; commerce-Whether those appointed to that duty and that a Functionary of superior station, as representative of Her Majesty, should resist at on the 3rd December the Commitee addressed Sir Robert Peel on the subject, whose reply stated, that he had forwarded the communi- cation to Lord Aberdeen, and that, "he would not fail, in concert with Her Majesty's Govern- ment, to give due consideration to the various matters. which will require attention in conse- quence of recent events in China.”
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The Commitce subsequently addressed Lord Aberdeen more at length upon other points which welfare of the future trade with China, and for the Commitee deemed of vital importance to the your information the Commitee's letter to his in the Appendiis Lordship's reply will be found
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them to our readers. We have referred to their contents on previous occasions. We also publish Fxtracts from the Seventh Report of the East India and China Association, with respect to the CHINA TRADE and STEAM COMMUNICATION With China.
SIR,
London, East India aud China Association,
Couper's Court, Cornhill, 3rd Decr. 1842.
On the 2nd November, 1839, at the request of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Committee of the E. I. and C. Association, addressed a letter, copy of which is to be found in the papers laid before Parliament-Page-16...
2d. In that letter, they ventured to state, as the unanimous opinion of the Trade, the several objects which were then thought desirable to be obtained from the Chinese, in order to place British Trade in China upon a proper and satisfactory footing.
3d. Upon reference to the above letter, it will found that most of those objects have been conceded to the British Plenipotentiary, by the Chinese Govern ment; but that there still remain come to whi Trade attach the greatest importance and upon
I am directed to lay before you the
tions, in the hope, that if not
the Treaty, of which the prelim the latest advices to have been a
they should be deemed proper be included in the details of the to be ratified.
4th. The first remark applies rying on Trade with the Chinese tions to which the British
Merchants trust that they may Factories and Warehouses of their stations
that their
there with them a generally as they
without the inter Merchants, similar
the Ho
5th. The second remark blishment of Consuls at the sev the Consuls known to the Ch
been Merchants, and have Authorities as such, and the Crown. The As
judices of the Chine
persons engaged of opinion that Consul, should
place be app
that a
of her M ther
mad Trade
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power of appeal to the Emperor, might ve
the particulars mentioned in the 3rd article of the Proclamation of His Excellency the British Pleni- potentiary, dated the
he 26th August, in regard to the Tariff on imports and exports and to the inland transit duties.
To place these several matters clearly before your Lordship, I take the liberty of enumerating them in the following order :—-
1st. Whether the import, export, and shipping duties in China are to be fixed or arbitrary If possible, what the amounts arbitrary are to be? And whether they are to be uniform at the five ports opened to British commerce 2nd. Whether the Cd-hong monopoly is to bè continued at Canton, and sunilar monopolies extended to the other parts, (a system considered to be deeply infurous), or Whe ther the trade is to be left entirely free? 3rd Whether British Merchants are to be allowed the privilege of possessing factories uses of their own, and other
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