THE FRIEND OF CHINA,
AND
DONGBONG
GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED EVERY THUR DAY MORNING.
PROCLAMATION.
naturally see that as there patrol the
ind?' have the Ceme↑ "Let your it does acco- burglaries, all committed upon. situated in the Queen's Road the main street
no
12 prurly.
to it; is it because the Troops got it for Canton, that we should establish such as a precedent, moreover, I consider the Bitta for Canton was paid out
no other tow millions ransom for that City, ant
I believe was, ransomed, on the other hand 1 dare, say Percussion will reply was not 21 millions the Ransom of the Chinese Em- pire 1 cannot really venture to offer a reply to such a query save that I suppose that sun was claimed to indemnify the British Government for -- How long is this state of fair to last, when a
the expenses of the war without feference to ran mere scratch of our Governor's pen were he merely som money or actual Capture, from which lat- to order a few oil lamps to be placed about the town. ter I dare say time may exhibit a dividend of tid a few Policemen to patrol it, wild do something prize money; under all circumstances I would say to toward remedying the crying evil, If it is said, your correspondent, cheer up fear not! the sole where is the rooney to come from my answer, is dier's faithful, gallant and (in the present instance) that it would be cheerfully contributed by the inhaextraordinary Services will not be neglected; gy bitants who lose in hundred Told gree the present insecurity of property but if not, the Governor's power 18. Buliciently dimple to enable him to collect a sum sufficient to maintain un efficient Pol the Island
Ir having been brought to my hottesURE that such a step has been contemplated, as sending Vessels with Opium on board, into the Ports of China, to be opened by Treaty to Foreign Trade; and demanding, that the said Opium, shall be admitted to impor tation, in virtue of the concluding clause of the new Tariff which provides for all. Ar- ticles not actually enumerated in that Ta riff, passing at an ad Valorem duty of five per Cent. I think it expedient, by this Pro- clamation, to point out to all whom it may concern, that Opium being an Article the traffe in which is well known to be de- clared illegal and contraband by the Laws, and Imperial Edicts, of China, any person who may take such a step will, do so at his own risk, and will, if a British Subject, meet with no support protection from Her Majesty's Consuls, or other Officers.
This Proclamation, will be translated and published in Chinese, so that no one may plead ignorance of it.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. Dated at the Government House, at toria, this 1st day of August, 1843.
that the place
on the side of
consequren-
d'an exit into
peedily
Mr. Editor, will it chosen for the slaughtering of the hill directly above the tly the blood, filth, and offa downwards [putrefying as through the town, and ultimat the sea close to, and partly benea No wonder that the meat itself becoming Laiuted. But a large portion of the Cith is arrested Vic-in its course by the ragged stones and uneven surface of the ravine into which it is cast lid there lies, rendering the wholesome air a cars until a heavy shower washes it away, or times dissipated it entirely into the atmosphere. t that it will be said that the survey of the island not complete, and the roads of laid out
&c., but I ask, must not tins so
eventually aba-
HENRY POTTINGER.
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 MAGISTRATES Chiese Inh
tween the hours of eight and ten 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 cousider- ation, unless he can produce a pass in Eng- lish specifying his object in being out at so late an hour.
A PROCLAMATION has also been issued. prohibiting, under penalty of severe punish- inent, all Chinese Boats or Vessels, from moving about the harbour after Gun-fire at nine o'clock P. M., and until Gun-fire at daylight on the following morning.
W. CAINE, CHIEF MAGISTRATE.
ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE,
(To the Editor of the Friend of China.)
Mr. Editor
Victoria 12th Jul” 1843.
not going too fat in payin That the ap nce of the Government Noti
day last was th
Fully
ted must not paved
W., Nor
sacrifice the
meantime?
the sea
them as to preve
c. &c.
vernments are not unmindful of their Servant's merits and ere long will reward them.
Your's Obedientlý ›
SPES.
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To the Editor of the Friend of China.
Is your paper of the 20th inst., under the head towards and Police Intelligence, is an account of a robbery of opin; conviction, and sentence of the offenders; now this sentence is nothing more nor less than a compromise of felony who ever before heard of a slight corporeal punishment, • and a small fine for such an open and daring robbery ?. In any other court in the civilized world the culprits would have got at least the galleys, or transportation for seven || years, besides the boat would have been confiseat- ed, but here, the law is so mild, or the "powers that be", so devoid of power, that if a boatman steals goods that he is employed to carry, to the amount of 420 dollars he receives 18 stripes and is fined in 5 dollars, the sentence is not only a com promise of felony but it is also a direct premium upon robbery for these four thieves in possession sull of 45 dollars worth of Opium, are fined 5 dol- - lars each or 20 dollars, and again let loose upon the Sa colony (25 dolları racher) to plunder anew. Ac- cording to the report it appears that the rentence was that of the Magrate, but I have been in- formed on good authority that the sentence was that of his Excellency himself.
be cleaned out,
Fun East
why people in the
ning
the hotbeds of not only offensive to the sense,
leanliness disease and promoters of habits of nu is a common practice in Magistracy street for the ft
commodes etc to be cleansed of their contents in the centre of the road; this can be vouched for by more than one person, and on more than one occasion.
Another ward, Mr. Editor, and
I put it in the shape of a questio
Are the bodies of seamen dying Vessels towered from the bow is them rowed a short dis
the deep IN THE HARBO
If so is it in accordance with, the navy regulations? And i read over the dead, and if so does the Ch
Tremain Mr. Ed
Your
done, and
HM.
Servant.
To the Editor of the Friend of China.
dent
To all new comers to the Island 1. have a hint to give. The Colony,or the Europeans in the Colony, may be divided into two classes
I Those who have been rubbed II Those who soon are to be rubbed. and I ad
advise all of the latter class to nail their boxes to the floor, lock them, and sleep with a good pair of loaded pistols under their pillows, for as soon as the moon gets into her first or last quarter the robberies begin, notwit tanding that we have appointed in the Isla 232 trikrates and 28 Police constables, but what can they do? the number of the Pob
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The Chie sistant Ma commercia
Mr. Bruce has
space than the зар.
hst
te, and
look after
that have been robbed. bed. The As- The leading as been robbed. Farncombe has
ould take more
ander of my sheet of paper, verb.
Your most obedient Servant,
An Old STAGER.
Hongkong 46th July 1843
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