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SHIPPING INTELLIGEN

A. ARRIVED.

Hth, Pandora, Cothay, Bothbay,

- 12th, Celestial-

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Macao.

THE FRIEND OF CHÌNA AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE.

Rod Rover, McMurray, Caloutta und Macao. Emperor, Koqua, Whämpon.

„Sarah, Mossman, Maono, e

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the event of any smuggling transaction doming to their knowledge, they (the Consuls) are to apprise the Chineso Authorities who will procood to suize and confiants" de."-

We are in ignorance, sa to whether the Commander of HI, M. Ship Wolf, inade a suizure of the William 4th by the orders of Captain Balfour, or whether he took the stop on his own responsibility.

unplausant

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Captain Frenchy

Ogesveraly

Captain Codrington, L. 40th Bogt, dangorously Lieutenant Atkinson, H. M. 89th Hort., soveruly Lieutenant Gray, ditto, very epulously Lieutenant Currie, ditio; Llantenant Colville ditto, slightly Ensign Newport, ditto, slightly Ensign Bray, ditto, severely

Horatio, (Ain.) Howland, New York and Macao|| can sparcoly 60 supposed that he took though it || Ensign Searman, ditto, severoly

13th, Ariel, → Amoy and Nande. 14th, Lord Potro, Lukey, Manila 4th March, MARON,

12th, Pandora,

BAILED.

Macao.

Sih, Wessackou (Am) Webber, Whampoa 14th, Celestial

Macao.

Oscar, (Am) — Whampoa. Fair Barbadian, Wolfe, Macao.

15th, Sarah, Mossman, Manila.

UNDER DESPATCH.

Canton, for England to-day.

Possidone, for Singapore to-day.

Emperor, for Manila in a few days.

REPORTS.

tark upon himself. If the dignity, or supposed digni. ty of the service, forbids the flout affording that pro- 1844. tection to this Colony, which is so much required,

surely the Capt. of our dr EI, M. Ships must look upon || himselfand ship, as degraded, by being employed as a Rovenue Cruiser for the Emperor of China.

It is much to be regrettod, that any attempts, have been made to introduce Opium at any of the Ports open to legal trade. A continuance of this, will ine- vitably lead to a rupture with China sooner or later. We trust the Merchants of China will set

set their

the against it at the auteet. Those engag

engaged trade, have sufficient scope for vending the drug on the coast, without carrying it to the porte, but re- ceftly opened to legitimate commerce, in contraven- tion of solemn treaties, entered into, between their own country and that of China.

Passengers per Lord Petre McKenzie, Esq., Mr. Hyland.

Passengers per Horatio, left June 2.

Halstend. Es Sarah, left Woahnu 11th Jan. Mr. Lee Red Rover, left fath Jan C.Stewart, Esq. Reported by the Royal Albert: spoke in Lat, 21 27N. Long. 120.30 E. on the 5th March, the Brig William,

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bound to Chusan.

Report by the Pandora: spoke in the Strait of Sunda on Feb. 7th, ships Indian and Zenobia.

The publication of the FRIEND OF CHINA, AND HONGKONG GAXETTE, Commenced on Tresday last ni-6 o'Clock A. M.

THE FRIEND OF CHINA,

AND HIỘNG-KONG GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATØRDAY, MARCH 16TH, 1844.

The three vessels detected in introducing Opium into the free ports were at from India, viz at Shang hai, the Amelia and Mongay,from Singapore, at Can ton the Carthagenian from Bombay. The want of suc eess in a first attempt will it is to be hoped, deter the shippers from renewing this dangerous traffic.

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Lt. Adj. Munro, IL M. 40th Regt., severely

Some of the papora stato the loss of officers to have been 37 killed and wounded, and of the lower ranks about 500,

500. We fear the list must contain fully that number, as F. M. 40th Regt is said to have had eight officers wounded, whereas we can only find the names. of two. The casualties amongst the other grades arc stated to be as us follows a la data

HM 39th Regt,, 150 rank and file killed and wounded

HM 40th Regt., 177 ditto, ditto 16th N°ly 7 117 ditto, ditto

And the other corps about 100 rank and file each, It is obvious that the weight of the battle fell upon a few corps, and that therefore the enemy never had to contend with our whole force. It appears that Sir Hugh directed a reconnoissance to be made of the enemy's position, on the result of which he formed his plan of attack; in the night, however, the Maharattas changed their ground, and thus not only baffled the arrangements of the British General, but also rendered- his movements actually faulty in relation to the new line of operations.

With the exception of the foregoing details all we Know at present about the confiret is, that a British army of 16,000 men, including a fair proportion. of Europeans, has defeated after a hard fought contest about eighteen thousand Native Soldiers, partially commanded by men possessing a respectable know. ledge of war. We allude to Cols Baptiste and Jacob, This is rather a novel event, and certainly might be supposed to indicate either a great advancement in organization, discipline, and energy, on the part of the Native tribes of India, or something defective in our science, which has hitherto enabled our hundreds to

of China, to draw any unfavourable conclusions, until defert almost a corresponding number of thousands. It would be unjust, however, to the gallant conqueror

we are better informed with respect to the details of the battle. We know that Sir Hugh's go ahead" style of fighting in this country, has stamped him in the eyes of many, more as a Varro than a Fabius, yet we would remind our readers, that his first affair in China, namely that before Canton, was undertaken and exe- cuted in a most masterly manner, thus sanctioning the inference, that he did not adopt the purely bull dog stylo of warfare, until he was fully convinced of its being the best adapted to overthrow the people with whom he had theu to contend.

On the 17th February we published a few re- marks upon

the nature of the title by which the Colony of Hong Kong is held as a dependency of the British crown, and that by which the Portu- guese claim their settlement at Macao. Right or

Fiews we

took of the question, it is for others to judge, but our opinions are unchanged. We may be wrong; but we submit that our re- marks were penned with a spirit of liberality, and our language not calculated to give offence to those who might fler from us in opinion. Since the intelligence from Canton. disturbance took place has saluted us with a weekly discharge of Billings Just before going to press we received the following date we have mentioned, the Aurora Macaense at Canton in the afternoon of the 11th instant, which at one time threatened to be very serious. A Manila gate. Their remarks, though disgusting, are per- man belonging to one of the ships at Whampoa cutfectly innoxious; indeed we had no intention of off a China boy's tail, and otherwise ill-treated him. noticing them. But a rather amusing re-transla A crowd assembled, pelted the offender, as well as the tion of one of the Aurora's extracts from our people in the ship's boats, who were waiting for their columns, which appears in our contemporary the officers before the factories. The sailors were ro Hongkong Register of the 12th March, encourages strained from retaliation by the merchants, some of us to hope that the individual who displays such a whom received contusions in the affray. The sailors happy knack at translating prose, may be induced

with their boats in the most

to attempt a little poetry. As a first lesson we They could, and the crown dispersed about six o'clock, give him, three lines alien by a close observer of after the excitement had lasted about four hours, and without the interference of the soldiers, who did not plication of which will understood in Macao.

men and manners some thirty years

the ap- ago, appear until the riot was over. The British Consul is A people on with ignorance and pride, endeavouring to adopt some regulations to prevent a "Who licked yet loathed the hand that waved the sword, recurrence of such disturbances, which imperil the lives" And saved them from the wart of Gaul's unsparing Lord. and property of our countrymen,

We beg to be understood that we have no wish to enter into discussions with our brethren of the press, not even with those who in their writing On the same day, another action took place on the sustain the character of gentlemen. Upon any opposite side of Gwalior, between the Division of Gent. topic of passing interest we state our opinions Grey, consisting of about 4000 men, and a Mahratta frankly and briefly, our limited sheet, and the force estimated at 10,000. The result, as usual, wan amount of mercantile and other useful information favorable to our arms; Capts Stewart and Cobham must we are required to lay before the public, put idle

have fallen in this combaty as H. M. 3d Buffs and 5th disputes out of the question. When necessary to ed, do not appear to have been engaged under Sir.

Regt, to which corps those officers respectively belong- express dissent from opinions brought forward by Hugh Gough. Much regret is felt for the fall of Col. any of our contemporaries, we endeavour to do sa in temperate language, nor have we any reason to that two such glorious epitits, so united in history, Sanders, the coadjuter of Pottinger at Herat Singular complain of the respectable papers in China, for should have been quenched almost together. any lack of courtesy towards us,

The Col. fell cheering on his old Candahar friends, H. M. 40th. Gen. Churchill is also described as having received Coloasjee Family has brought Calcutta papers his mortal wound, whilst animating the lancers to to 13th January. A fierce action was fought on the 29th December, near Gwalior between the army of exercise, commanded by Sir Hugh Gougli in per son, and the forces of Scindia.

A press of matter, compels us to leave out our corrected price current and Shipping list in future they will appear once a week. An en largement of our paper, and other contemplated changes, will, at an early date, enable us to give more of our attention to commercial and local af fairs than has hitherto been in our power.

The policy of imposing upon H. M. Consuls, at the five free ports, the duty of protecting the revenue of the Chinese government, is a very questionable one, By our treaty of trade such a duty is undertaken, and the honour of the British crown requires that it should Le rigidly attended to. I may appear to individuals até tempting to introduce Opium, or other prohibited ar- ticles, into these ports, a harsh measure on the part of the Consul of their own country, to give information to the Chinese Authorities which may lead to the con- fiscation of the article. In accordance with the treaty, Consuls are imperatively bound to give infor mation of every instance of Hlicit trading, which may come to their knowledge and any deviat unpleasant service, is to be reprobated. the office entrusted to them, and a breach towards the Chinese empire, In the Su Treaty, however, we find no clause by which Consuls, or Shipe of war, are to proceed to the actual seizure of British vessels having contraband goods on hoard. That clause of the treaty which bears upon this point is as follows.

from this

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ARTICLE XH— Provides for the British Plenipoten tiary instructing the different Consule, (in addition to the Proclamation, the Menipotentiary has already is sued) to strictly watch over and enrefully scrutinize "" the conduct of all Persons, being British Subjects

trading under their Superintendence. event of aby smugzung trong

In the

Knowledge, they are to ammrize the Clance

whatever their value or nature –

who will proceed to

so smuggled and will likewise

prohibit the Vessel,

were landed from

Away, as soon as

In the recent affair

of which we give

and Captain of 11. MS. W

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respective duties, in so far, as they made seizure of any of the vessels having Opium on board The erms of the treaty upon this lead are very explicit,

The official list of casualties is supposed to have been intercented by some adherents of the It had not reached Calcutta when the The in given in the Loung manifest that the action was and we gret to my omcers

veteran of a hundred

ign, who have eithe action. We have gl have reason to believe, graphs, that many more

Major Gen. Churchill, Lient. Col. Sanders, Major Crommelin, Capt. Stewart 3rd Buffs

Capt. Cobliam, 11 M 50th Hegt. Lieut. Leathes. A

Lieut Newton 16th N

Yates, slig

Laren, 16th

Major Bray, H. M. 30th 1 "Captain Finley H.

Captain Somerset M. Be Captain Herbert, ditro, ») ptain Campbell, au

private letters insinuate that fate, in making him a The Governor Genl was present in the field, and

politician,deprived the army of a good soldier. So un.... expected was the engagement that several ladies,Lady Gough among the number, were for some time under, fire. THE

ing extract from the Englishman, charge the enemy's guus We subjoin an interest-

We have extracted the following from the Delhi

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