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THE FRIEND OF CHINA,
AND BONGBONG GAZETTE
N°. 74 VOL. IL
NOTIFICATION
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
VICTORIA, THURSDAY AUGUS
publication of the Hongkong Ga der the authority of Government 1 be discontinued from this date: but all public orders and notifications appearing
"The Friend of
in
1813.
Chief Magistrate's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, July 14, 1843. The following is again published by au- thority, for general information
It has been lately Notified by PROCLA
Price 1 monildy, Or 812 yeurly.
All the English Officors concurred that England wanted nothing but reparation for injurion and the libony of commerce for all na tione in two or three porte of China, Perhaps this was the ongi nal intention but the march of events must have made them adopt another plan. No one is able now to say, what the Plenipoten tiary will do, cold and cautious he never speaks relative, to his instructions and plan of and how can it do so now, it is possible that the British Cabinet
operations, "He bides his time”. When the illusion of the power of the Celestial Empire existed,
Gazetted and Hongkong MATION of the CHIEF MAGISTRATE, to the had no idea of any permanent conquest in China, but when it
ing the signatures of duly au- thorized Functionaries of the Government are still to be considered as official.
By order; RO
J. ROBT: MORRISON, Acting Secretary and Treasurer. Hongkong, March, 23rd. 1812.
NOTICE.
THE pressure of business frequently pre- venting Sir HENRY POTTINGER from seeing Gentlemen, who are good enough to call on him, it is hereby notified, that he will be happy to see all visitors on Mondays and Thursdays, between the hours of Eleven and Two o'clock.
By order,
RICHARD WOOSNAM, Acting Secretary. Government House, Hongkong, 9th December, 1812.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
THE annexed Extract of a Communica- tion on the subject of Pilots, addressed on the 10th inst., by Her Britannic Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade &e., &e, to Their Excellencies, The Imperial Commissioner, Governor General, Governor, and Superintendent of Maritime Customs, (Hoppe) is published for general information, and all Masters and others in Command of vessels
are re- quested to aid in giving effect, to the pro- posed precautionary arrangement, by fur- nishing persons whom they may employ as Pilots, and
to approve
of with certi casot.
Arrangements are about to be made for all inward bound vessels reporting them- selves at the Bucca Tigris as they pass up to Whampoa, and the manner of and rules for doing so, will be promulgated for gene- ral information and guidance, at the earli- est possible period.
By Order,
RICHARD WOOSNAM.
EXTRACT.
I entirely coincide with Your Excellen
ferd of Vessels sho
to hire their
to the Office of Joint
tween
learns the ht
Chusan, Ching he and Ningpo were dispersed without facility and promptitude with which the armies of counting the other towns that were taken, and above all when they know how many of those people already demand their pro. tection, how easily they are governed, and how willing they are to be conquered, will they nor send troops and ships to consolidate the English power in the very centre of this vast nation, which presents so many great commercial and military advantages
Chinese Inhabitants of Hongkong, that be- hours of eight maten P. M. the cohibited from being out of their hous
thout lanthorns, and that after ten o'clock P. M., and until day heht on the following morning, no Chinese will, in future is certain that a conquest would produce a great revolution in be permitted to go out, under any consider Ceib, but the Chinese people are too fond of gain and commer- ation, unless he can produce pass in Eng-flmit themselves to the points already raentioned, but as certainly ce by nature, to refuse long to enter into traffic with their new conquerors. In the principle of their commercial relations, they lish, specifying his object in being out at so late an hour
It
that the Opium has burst all the fetters which the Emperor, and Mandarine put upon it's so equally certain is it, that woollen A PROCLAMATION has also been issued, and their way into the interior. On the other side the Chinese cloths, cotton goods, and other objects of English industry would prohibiting, under penalty of evere punish-inding a direct opening for their teas, silks, and other merchan ment, all Chinese Boats or Yessels, from selves also relieved from the despotiem, annoyances, and spo dise, without being obliged to send them to Canton, seeing them. moving about the harbour after Gun-fire at
liations f
of the Mandarins, there is little doubt but they would soon- shake off their aversion to strangers and gladly enter into mutual nine o'clock P. M., and until Gun-fire at
relations. daylight on the following morning.
W. CAINE CHIEF MAGISTRATE.
ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. (To the Editor of the Friend of China.) Victoria, 8th August, 1843,
Sir, I have read the
letter of your correspondent, SHOOKS, and think he is a very pr fellow, never- theless he is right, and therefore our
send a sort of a parson, who reads and the corpse goes to the deep but this, we before the mast, think Le
shall give you proof
About the burial of dead bodies, the
box of a steamer here,
A few days ago a dead body right arm out of the tow it out of the bay a
A dead body wAS afterwards another about 400 yarda astern of a M
and
in the paddle the bes and
was sent to shot
days ago within and tilmediately When the crew of another Merchant vessel in this yards ahead of her. harbour were about to have their dinner, a few days ago, a dead body came floating past the Ship, and be cause the dinner was fish, the Men would not eat it. days or week's, this bay will be floating with Corpses, I could give, plenty more cases, for in fact, in a few the best proof of which is, that the sharks have come that Men who have risked their lives to come to this, in to clear off these dead bodies but it is shame tropical climate should be treated like dogs when they die. The Stokers of the Vixen acted like men, and had their comrade buried ashore,
We have corrected
little, but at the
ent for his evil
I may be deceived, but I think England will find the occasion too favourable to let it escape, but this is only my own private, opinion that I submit to your Excellency, leaving time and the course of events to prove how far I am correct.
As regards the Island of Chusan, I am certain that the English will retain it, at least until the treaties of free trade with some towns on the coast be granted and ratified. The blindness of
the Emperor is truly deplorable, for he ought to consider, that the more he delays, the greater the difficulties become. Alas! die Chinese people had good reason to shut up their country enarely from strangers, and to leave them ignorant of their customs. I believe that without this precaution on their part, for a long time back Europeans, and more particulary the English would not have endured the humiliations which they suffered at Canton. Besides, is it not astonishing that the East India Company during all the time they held a monoply, had no sori. ous disturbance, for their interest dictated patience and resig nation. The war would not have broken out, if China had not acknowledged other powers, when the English had an official agent, a superintendent of Commerce at Canton, The English were right not to wait till they were overwhelmed with humilia. tions.
Meanwhile the first step has been taken and the illusion of Chinese power is destroyed. It will be necessary that the Emperor should give way, and open the ports, or there will be an interminable war which will draw on him the loss of his empire, and the ruin. of his people. For our commerce thell it retire from this storm that is threatening in China? No, for if at the prement, our trade there, is so trivial, it is not the prohibi- tory Chinese system which are have to blame, but ourselves. with which we are able to compete with England, and that article If Trade is opened in the northern Pore there is only one article Chinghee and Ningpo and the inhabitants are very fond of it, is woollen cloth. This article is not to he had at Chusan... for often have the Chinese stopt me to touch my clothes, in extascy at its beauty, and apparently desirous to have it. The winter dress is of silk and quilted cotton, but they have no woollen clothes, and the winter generally very severe.M, Barrot has already written regarding the qualities, the size, English bring them, but I know not i and the colours which the Chinese prefer in the cloth, which the the same taste exists in ctly the same form
the north, yet so their garments Br
I suppose the dimensions of the cloth ought to be the
OBIN CHINNI not know wha
our
Pret
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