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THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONG KONG GAZETTE,

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION

TO THA

FRIEND OF CHINA, AND HONG-KONG

GAZETTE,

For ONE YEAR (payable in advance.)

Do, Six Morres, do,

do.

Do. THREE do. do.

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We learn that Mr. Lay in so thoroughly over- tasked, that he has been compelled at times from have sheer exhaustion to decline acting, and

received indignant remonstrances at the detention which therefrom, has already taken

Although it is a well recognised fact, that

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the interest of the Merchants to

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N. B.-ALL REPETITIONS at a half charge.

To insure insertion, Advertisements ought to be sent to the Office on Tuesday but none can be received after 12 noon on Wednesday.

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And $1 each additional hundred.

Any Subscriber who does not receive his paper on Thursday will please complain at the Office, a every Subscriber's copy is regularly sent off, and it is only by Complaints being made, that the Publisher

can correct the irregularity.

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Is answer to more complaints from Canton regard ing the non reception of our papers regularly; we beg to state that we send them to the Post Office bera properly addressed, and the Authorities at the Post Office say, they forward them regularly to the British Consul at Canton. We therefore advise our subscrib. ers to call there for them, and if they do not, get the missing Nos, and the future Nos regularly, to write us again, as we spare no labour or expence in enquiring into any irregularity in the delivery of our paper.

SINGAPORE BREZ PRESS-Not a copy of this paper has reached no for some months. Where are they? We doubt not they have been sent off, but they have never been delivered at our office

Bex Beach in our next

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THE FRIEND OF CHINA,

AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21ST, 1843.

3.

We have received several letters from Canton

rate of duties now levied by each and all are subjected would indicate it to be the bell ties that the Merchants are bent

Hence Goods cannot be shipp out the Consuls signature, with oth and fruly vexatious formalities

This is sorry, sorry work, and whilst exclaim how pur-blind or dim-visioned foreseen, what every practical man vitable, yet we refrain, and would earnestl nay implore that no exceptional policy, be ted in China; nor the persistance in arrangeme which will provoke the derision of European dip lomacy and at the same time tarnish the honour of the British flag.

Some of our readers may think this a remote contingeney, and heedlessly disregard, or hold as nothing worth the public opinion of Europe. In this they are wrong: for has not China become one of the family of nations? has she not freely gran ted to all countries, the privileges and immunities which we thought we had exclusively extorted by the might of our arms?

ment and in explan or their especial enlighten-

charges has it is said,

ed

ting anxiety which the representa

in the estimation of the

that the principle of this levy is generally enlightened writers and statesmen

nd on the point of being officially re direct contempt or for the Chinese, the

aments.

ints of squeeres

X cumshaws—yet

onary can be Rokel is provok on in sticklin

arins, whit our own. Bit stem we have ounced and justify the claimed and

tive of Her his name and

some discon anon be array

2010 audience demanding redress ry Judicrous, were it

of for his countrymen. no worse, but seeing that the China trade during year, most have produced to the Home and Indian Governments a revenue of fully £5,500,000 it becomes utterly paltry and contemptible. From the smallness of the fees they are willingly enough paid, but their existence--irrespective of Chinese notions is quite incompatible with a sound public opinion or a comprehensive policy befitting the

present era.

Since the foregoing was written we have been informed by a Correspondent at Canton, that the Americans there, in the conduct of their Trade un-

We need only refer to the last Paper, which re- corded the official reception of the French Consul at Canton to prove the altered relation, in which China now stands to other Powers. It was a ce- remonial of most expressive significance. Have we not too, a French and an American Embassy on their way? England, we know has only to be to herself true, to secure her permanent predominance in this quarter of the World; yet we are con strained to say, the policy, as defined in the Consulat Arrangements would almost seem to be cunningly devised to peril its moral influence and der the New System, have no reason whatever to power, in the eyes not only of the Chinese, but of complain, and they are without the cumbrous, cos- the whole World. All this is well known and hastly, and useless machinery of our Consular arrange- ments. To the query of how then do our Repub- been proclaimed abroad, but heedlessly noted or

lican friends manage? We are told that the Con- despised. To some of our home readers it may not

sul for the United States at the Port of Canton, be so apparent, and

does no more than he would do if performing his we must tell them, that co-

duties at Smyrna, Odessa or Valparaiso ; by so incident with a scrupulous and unnecessary super- vision on the part of the British Consul at Can-acting he has contrived to secure the mutual sat

isfaction of his Country-men and the Chinese Auth- ton, in order to secure the payment of the Chinese orities. duties on every bale or package imported, or exported, with a profusion of protestations of the sincere desire of the British Government to protect and augment the Chinese revenues; besides a cloud of Notifications, Proclamations and decla- rations of the entire controul under which, British subiecte are placed to British Authorities, and which painfully felt at Canton, yet in the face of all cus, and almost in sight of the Consu- lar (*) flag, we have a fleet of British vessels engag ed in vending Opium, in direct contravention, or rather in open contempt of the laws of a Country, for whose fiscal regulations, we officially profess to have so intense and profound a respect, as to set at naught (in the legal trade) all commercial prece dents.

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loudly complaining of the bad working of the New System. We confess it occasions us no surprise, and were we inclined to exult in the fulfilment of our anticipations, we might be content to refer to our oft-repeated efforts to demonstrate the utter inexpediency of her Majesty's Consuls at the seve veral parts becoming (as now at Canton) the Re-which if possessed is une venue Officers of the Emperor of China.

and if not possessed

No extraording form

It will not need a foreign diplomatist to call the attention of the Chinese to this almost incredi- ble instance of sublime hypocrisy or quote it as a no- table evidence of our national faith!i blame not the venders of the Opt blame the assumption

We do not quote from the past, as we cannot but believe the impracticability of the present regula tions, guarantees their speedy abolition. If not, the merchants will indeed have reason to complain. Hitherto British Mercantile Interests in China have been wholly neglected by the Home Govern- ment and the most obnoxions conditions of the old System sprung from such neglect.

Now it seems, we are to have a prefect

of governmental interference, and our

in the legal trade, are to be environed

in, by stringent rules

would befit the ora of Alsa

to mere

be it in

chants

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FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

CHUSAN 11th August, 1843. OUR present quotations are for Grey Shirtings 83,25 to 83,35. White 84.20 to 84,25. Spanish Stripes $30 to 881. Pig Lead $5,30, Nail rod Iron 84. Maha Opum #8665 to 675. Patna $780 to $790. Benares $760. Rice $1,40 per picul.

Amoy 12th September, 1843.

We have rather more doing here in British ma nufactures. The Posthumous which has just left us for Chusan sold some $40,000 worth, at about the following rates Long Cloth good and stout greys at 83 do. fine at $4. Good whites at bay is in good demand and the 1 Turkey red cloth 36 inches at $7 Cotton,

cleared out at some 829 to 30

The shi

per picul.

$1000 per chest ha