THE FRIEND OF CHINA,
AND
No. 71 VOL. II.
WONG BONG GAZETTE
$
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
VICTORIA, THURSDAY JULY 27TH, 1843.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Owing to the great pressure of Public Business, Sir Henry Pottinger regrets that he cannot have the pleasure of seeing visit- ors on Mondays and Thursdays, until after the departure of the AKBAR Steamer, on the 1st August.
By order,
RICHARD WOOSNAM,
Government-House, Victoria, 19th July, 1843,
The H. C's Steamer "AKBAR" will be despatched from this place, for Suez, on Tuesday, the 1st of August, and the Mail to be forwarded by her to England, will be closed at the "Post-Office at four o'clock on the preceding evening.
By order,
RICHARD WOOSNAM.
Government-House,
Victoria, Hong-Kong, 15th July, 1843.
NOTICE-Mails will be closed at this *Office, at 4 P. M., on Monday, 31st inst., for Singapore, Penang, Ceylon, Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay, and will be left by the H. C's Steamer. " Akbar," at the most favourable points, on her way to Sucz.
Post-Office, Victoria,
24th July, 1843.
Chief Magistrate's Office,...
Victoria, Hong-Kong, July 14, 1843. The following is again published by"au-, thority, for general information:
It has been lately Notified by Procla- mation of the Chief Magistrate, to the Chi- nese Inhabitants of Hong-Kong, that, be- tween the hours of eight and ten P. M., they are prohibited from being out of their houses without lanthorns, and that after ten o'clock P. M., and until daylight on the following morning, no Chinese will, in future be permitted to go out under any consider- ation, unless he can produce a pass in Eng- lish, specifying his object in being out at so late an hour.
A Proclamation has a severe
issued, prohibiting, under penalty of s punish- ment, all Chinese Boats or Vessels, from moving about the harbour after Gun-fire at nine o'clock F. M., and until Gun-fire at daylight on the following morning.
W. CAINE,
CHIEF MAGISTRATE.
Price $ 14 monthly.
Or 12 yearly.
PROCLAMATION...
SIR HENRY POTTINGER, Burt., G. C. B., Her Britannic Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., in China, has the gratification to announce, for the general information and guidance of all subjects of Her said Majesty, that he has concluded and sealed, with the High Commissioner appointed by IIis Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of China to treat with him, a Commercial Treaty, stipu- lated for in the Definitive Treaty of Peace, signed at Nanking, on the 29th day of August 1842, and the Ratifications of which Definitive Treaty of Peace, have been lately exchanged under the Signs Manual, and Seals of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, &e., and His Majesty the Emperor of China.
Her Britannic Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., now publishes the Export and Import Tariff, and the Regulations of Trade, which have been, after the most searching scrutiny and examination, fixed and finally agreed upon, and which Tariff, and Regulations of Trade, are to be promulgated in Chinese, simultane- ously with this Proclamation, accompanied by a Proclamation on the part of the Imperial Commissioner, &c.
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Her Britannic Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., trusts, that the provisions of the Commercial Treaty will be found, in practice, mutually advantageous, beneficial and just, as regards the interests, the honour, and the future augmented prosperity, of the Governments of the two mighty contracting Empires, and their subjects: and His Excellency most solemnly and urgently calls upon all subjects of the British Crown, individually, and collectively, by their allegiance to their Sovereign, by their duty to their country, by their own personal reputation, respect, and good name, and by the integrity
honesty which is due from them as men, to the Imperial rights of the Emperor of China, not only to strictly conform and act up to the said provisions of the Commercial Treaty, but to spurn, decry, and make known to the world, any base, unprincipled, and traitorous overtures which they, or their agents, or employes, may receive from, or which may be in any shape made t
to them, by any subject of -China-whether officially connected with the government, or not-towards entering into any collusion or scheme, for purpose of evading, or acting in contravention of, the said provisions of the Commercial Treaty.
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Her Britannic Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., will not allow himself to antici- pate or suppose, that the appeal which he now makes to all Her Majesty's sub- jects, will be unheeded, or overlooked, by even a single individual; but, at the same time, it is his duty, in the responsible and unprecedented situation in which he has been placed by the course of events, to distinctly intimate, that he is deter- mined, by every means at his disposal, to see the provisions of the Commercial Treaty fulfilled by all who choose to engage, in future, în Commerce with China, and that, in any case, where he may receive well-grounded representations from Her Majesty's Consuls, or from the Chinese Authorities, that such provisions of the Commercial Treaty have been evaded (or have been attempted to be so), he
Will adopt the most stringent and decided measures against the offending ; and, where his present powers may not fully authorize and sanction. such measures as may seem to him fitting, he will respectfully trust, that the Legislature of Great Britain will hold him indemnified for a-lopting them, in an emergency directly compromising the National Honour, Dignity, and Good Faith- in the estimation of the government of China, and in the eyes of all other Nations GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Dated at Government-House, at Victoria, Hong-Kong, this 22nd day of July, 1843.
HENRY POTTINGER.
Tariff of Duties on the Foreign Trade with China,
The following is the only CORRECTED OFFICIAL EDITION, Printed expressly for the use of the MERCHANTS in,
and connected with, CHINA.
EXPORTS
T. M. C. C.
T. M. C. 0.
1. Alum
2 Aniseed, Star
Do,
3 Arsenic
Oil of
4 Bangles (or Glass Armlets)
5 Bamboo Screens and Bamboo
of all kinds :
6 Brass Leaf
7 Building Materials
8 Bone and Horn Ware
9 Camphor__
10 Canes of all kinds
11 Capoor Cutchery
12 Cassia
Do Buds
Do Oil
13 China Root
do do do
per 100 Catties- ".
14 China Ware, all kinds
do do do
5 #
15 Clothes (ready made)
do do do do
5
do do do
do do, do
7
5
10 Copper Ware, Pewter do., &c., do 17 Corals (or false Coral)
do do do do
5 K
£
.5
+
**
do do do
5
do do do
do do do
do do do
2 T5 Duty free
21 Furniture of all kinds
per 100 Catties 1
do do do
23 Gamboge
per thousand
5
18 Crackers and Fire-works of all
kinds
19 Cubebs
20 Fans (as Feather Fans, &c.)
22 Galingal
24, Glass, & Glass Ware of all kinds do do-de-
do do do
14.
do do do !
I
والمين
7 A
5
do do
do do do do
I
諗
- do do do
1
do do do
2
44.
per 100 Catties “
25 Glass Beads
do “do-do
do do do
26 Glue as fish glue, &e)
do do do
do do do
27 Grass cloth (all kinds)
do do do
do do do
28 Hartall
do do do
29 Ivory Ware, all kinda
do do do
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