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SUPPLEMENT TO No. 73.

VICTORIA, HONG-KONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1843.

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Speech on Lord | arrived at Maceo on the 7th of June. There Capt. upon the same terms in which all the other maritime

cultivation of Douglas heard of the release of Capt. Elliot, her

On quotes Majesty's superintendent at Canton, with whom he nations of Christendom bave, until this recent

as having despatch to

can re

with the

compre

Sit H. POTTINGER. How the concile the sentiments erein exp sale of the Drug to the Merchants for exportation to China is altogether beyond our Lord ABERDEEN must have either. extreme ignorance of the subject he wa or was giving the sanction and Government for the commis grossest injustice any Gover

of, and that towards

#Whatever may be the

upon the Chine

themselves aloof from ail con

The British merchant-

protection or support in the pro he must be made aware that

ces of his own conduct. Her the power to put a stop to this de on the #muggler"but the (may impede it in some deg. Hongkong and j stors, from being used by the

Camuggling.

to prev

of exportation into China

immediately communicated.

"Elliot rapturously received Douglas as the saviour of his countrymen considered the Cam- bridge a Godsend engaged her for eight months, at the sum of 14,000/-appointed Capt. Douglas magistrate of the outer waters and placed the protection of British honour, lives, and property in

his hands.

Under the circumstances, 14,000 was a small ram for the hire of the Cambridge for eight months. guilty. When she had fewer men and guns, she had been tered by the Honourable East India Company convey troops to the Indus, for one month, at

evail

hold

hea

eged you

Hongkong for the purpose Free Press.

A firm were during the month of February last engaged in re-packing for export to China 906 pieces of Spanish stripe cloths of foreign manufacture. The landing surveyor to the Board of Customs, observing that the goods were marked “Superfine Spanish Stripes", directed that the packing of the goods should be discontinued, on the ground that the exportation of cloths bearing the brand above mentioned was in opposition to the 11th clause in

the last Customs Act, which came into operation

on the 5th of January,

Upon this intimation, the partners in the house addressed a petition to the Commissioners toms, averring that no infringement

be made by the proposed expor

ject of the act was to preve

of any British manufacturer goods, and the mark in ques used by any British manufacture

ma

After further petitions and letters ce addressed to the Commissioners the Lords Commissioners of the the Board of Customs finall

replied by granting permissio

port the goods after cutting off the

at the

same time alleging their determination not to make this concession a precedent for future occasions.——— Times.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. SIR-FROM a paragraph which has run the round of the pa

I me that the Bishop of London hare issued

stier requir the

clergy in his diocese, to make a collection in their severn! churches and chapels for the misado or the conversion of

pere

ing

the Chinese.

The Bishop of London

and I am therefore surprise

private actions of the

missionary meeungs and seem to

their eyes, which on

public have but little how little

in Afric

dred to be a shrewd man;

2,8001

***In order to prepare the Cambridge for action, it was necessary to clear her. Captain Douglas, refore, brought another vessel, the Mermaid and aded her with part of his carg

It was three month before a Queen's vessel arrived. Meanwhile, Captain Douglas command- ed on that station, and upheld the honour of the

had

The boats of the Cambridge, were in action with Chinese batteries and junks. Twice was Captain Douglas wounded. In former services he red two wounds. His gallant and intre- pid conduct obtained the thanks of her Majesty's of the commander of the forces who arrived on the coast and of Lord Palmerston. "Douglas was successful for his country; but he was so obnoxious to the Chinese that he und the

promised

tamely acquiesced. Consuls, to reside at p Canton, have been appointed, from time to time, from the period of our independent existence; but they have never been permitted to enter the gates of Canton, nor received or acknowledged in any other capacity than as outside barbarians vassals to the Supreme Lord of the Flowery Land. The humiliating forms in which the concession of supe- riority has been exacted is signally exemplified in the following extract from the letter of the Consul of the United States to the late Secretary of State, Mr. Forsyth. After reporting an edict which he had recently received from the imperial commis- sioner and the governor of Canton, and his respect- ful

answer to it, he says; now send you a copy, was returned by this officer, "The reply, of which I (the Kwang-chow-foo,) requesting that I would add an expression of gratitude for all favors besto wed on me by the Great Emperor, and likewise a hope for the continuance of the Celestial dynasty's- trade with my nation, placing the Celestial dynasty about an inch higher on the paper than my nation My aunting their superiority.

thaenbradorithmutz*-*******

Mr. Snow very properly defined to comply with this demand; but the fact of its being made,proves how tenaciously the Chinese officers then adhered to their pretensions, and to what minuteness of mere formalities it was extended.

The Committee on Foreign Affairs, believing tual consent, the future relations of intercourse be- the present moment auspicious for placing, by mu-

upon a footing of national equality and reciprocity. tween the United States and the Empire of China,

Cambridge were proscribed by the Emperor-nay, 7,000 dollars were offered for his head.

Captain Douglas was, therefore, obliged to sell/ propose an appropriation of 40,000, to enable and to leave the trade, which w of about 5000 deeming it necessary to designate the specific rank his ship, which he did, at a loss of 7.

the President to accomplish that object, without tional and enormous loss. In all, be estimates the for that purpose, or more specially to limit the or character of the agents whom he may employ difference between serving himself and his coun- try, on that almost fatal emergency at 30,000 1.

amount of contingent expenses which may occur He was never paid the 14,000 which Elliot in the process of its accomplishment.-New-York

Courier. Instead of that um her Majesty's Su-

only 2,1007. Ford and Commons are thank- lors who fought against the

ptam Sir Joseph Abraham Donglas, Knight, losses to more than the amount of upon himself to defend tish Hag in China, when the Celestial Mo

ndeed captured in China; he arrived

and he was com- ented, honoure

On the 8th of

ded, as I have told 1843, a gentleman ace he was lodged prisoner is Captain Abraham Douglar, Knight !!!"-Bri- March

SANDWICH 19LAND CIVILIZATION.

AUSTRALASIA.

BANK OF

AUSTRALIA.

THE "untoward" disclosures of the mismanagement of the Bank of Australia have naturally caused the greatest excitement in the city; in fact, with the ex- ception of the recent discoveries of the frauds com- mitted on the Bank of Manchester, we know of no- thing equal to it and the latter only exceeds the for- before the discovery became inevitable, having quietly mer from the circumstance of the Cashier, the day

swept out some £15,000, being the balance in the iron chest, and absconded to America.

The affairs are even blacker than we represented yesterday. The firm that was stated to have obtained | £108,000, is liable for upwards of £50,000 in addi-

tion or $160,000 in the whole; the Director w

wha was said to have had £60,000, has had £80,000; & another Director has had (£40,000; besides which there are various trifling debts of £15,000, L20,000,

There is but one opinion of the conduct of the Direc

Their behaviour is only another proof of the well-

fact at a body of

rable men and the Direc- the Bank of Australia are "all honourable men

acts in their

they would be ash were it not

which indi

it be that the Directors £20,000 that

der

ent to enable the Bank to meet its

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