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THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HÔNG-KONG GAZETTE.

Hen MaSTY'S SHITS Agincourt,“ 72, Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane

K. C. B. Caji Brace,

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BRITISH SHIPPING AT Whampoa.

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AGENTS,

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Dirom & Co Russel & Co. Dent & Co. Ball & Co. McVicar, & COL Fox Rawson & Co,

From what we hear, we make no doubt, an bou- orable member connected with the China trado, will, in his place in Parliament, move for a copy of Sir Henry Pottinger's despatches which accom. panied the Supplementary Treaty.

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has been but too successful; His Excellency has been duped, and charges laid upon British coasting vessels, which would possility pay the entire cxpense of transit by canal from Canton.

Well may dissatisfaction prevail among us, Placed under an arbitrary and tyrannical form The eagerness with which the imperial ratifica- tion was tendered--and that too before Her Ma- | Government the inherent rights of British an jesty's was received was quite out of course, and jects denied us--our persons and property ables at the morey of one man, from whoso award there is diametrically opposite to the proceedings of the Chinese in respect of the Treaty of Nanking, and no appeal our lands burdened with taxes, which ought to have inspired suspicion. In order, how.have no parallel in Colonial history--our commer to keep up the popular delusion, and cial and maritime interests sigued away, by a fool- although the Chinese Government has not kept ish and unstatesmanlike compact, the particulars of which we are firmly persuaded were not known faith, nor has made the Treaty of Nanking a

when subscribed to, though the honour of our... Jarthup Matheson& Co verity, still the official cant is, that every condition

country is in a manner pledged for their fulfilment. of it will be scrupulously fulfilled.

We repeat, well may dissatisfaction prevail amon us, when we see the parental cares of Government only displayed in harassing and distressing those whose energies and money made the colony what In every enactinent, and every regula, it now is. tion of Government, we behold the principle—— grind down the Colonist; increase the revenue; and lay additional restrictions upon commerce, promi. nently displayed. We look in vain for one instance where the Governors have paid the slightest regardl to the feelings, the interest, or the rights of the governed, we look in vain for any Government institution, or regulation, for the preservation of health, in this malignant climato Jon the alleviation of suffering, or the moral and religious improve- ment of the people. We are wandering some. what from our subject, which is to pont out the absurdities of the 17th Article of the Sapple- mentary Treaty, and its injurious effects on Brush commerce and shipping.

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NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. No GeoLoGIST in our next, with the valuable article referred.to.

A CITIZEN rrites rather strong and is decidedly personal. It matters not what station men have raised. themselver from if qualified for that wich they now hold Our greatest characters often belong originally to the

We hear lond complaints from the Merchants of the working of the new system; and it is nd. what trade has yet been nitted on all sides, that done at the Northern Ports, has been under the auspices of a Hong system, as close as ever existed at Canton, without the advantages of the security afforded by the Government, and mutual guarantee of the Co-Hong. So incongruous have the ar- rangements proved, in the detail in working at Canton, that many hold the system is impracticable --in fact, that it is a total failure, and never can be carried out.

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But to return to that unfortunate document, the Supplementary Treaty With every desire 10 take a favorable view of Sir Henry Pottinger's actions, and making every allowance for the pe- culiar position in which he was placed, literally without any one possessing the slightest knowledge of cominerce, in the public service, with whom he could consult on the necessary provisions of the Treaty-too proud to ask the opinion, and advice the numerous influential and intelligent British Merchants of China, whom he had slighted if not insulted. His Excellency, with such assistance as could be derived from those holding temporary appointments as heads of departaments, boldly signed and scaled a compact sacrificing the ship ping interest of his country, and injuring the colony which it is his duty to foster and protect. We are yet in ignorance of the reception which this treaty has met with in England; but, humililo as we are, we would not bear the opprobrium of being its framer, even were the glory of forcing China to an honorable peace, to be transferred as an equi- valent for the shame entailed upon the contractor of this humiliating convention of trade. The copy othically laid before the public is denuded of many of the most prominent of it deformities, it, however, any one possessing ordinary acuteness would observe much that is objectionable. Now that we are put in possession of a true version, its blemishes cannot be hid to the most SO- perficial observer they pulpable. On first clauses for observa tion: upon a more minute inspection we shrink from the task it would be a more arduous one than we anticipated. We therefore place both copies before our readers, leaving them to make the unpleasant commentaries, which must occur to

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The hostility of the Chinese to foreigners trading at the Northern Ports, no doubt still exists; and although His Excellency Sir Henry Pottinger.com- polled them, by force of arms, to agree to those ports being opened, they have, by a superior know? ledge of mercantile and shipping affairs, induced him to sign a treaty, by which the privilege is in a great measure rendered useless."

The harbour dues at Canton on a vessel of 150 tong, is one mace per ton. This is about the best size for a coasting voyage to the other four free ports; could she visit them at the same rato, the amount of shipping thus employed would be immense. Now, however, Trom the heavy port changes to which coasters are liable, freight from Liverpool to Canton direct is nearly as cheap us from Hongkong to Amy, a distance of a fow hundred milos. –– Supposing a vessel to load here for a voyage to all the four ports on the coust which she must do to procure a cargo), and also calling at these ports for a return freight, she would in the course of six weeks of two months, have to pay harbour dues no less than seven times; onch

the same craft, if she had carried her cargo to Canton. For this short voyage, on a small vessel, these dues would ho somewhore about £100 ster ling Hero we see the working of the treaty. From the enormous port charges levied upon them, ships are compelled to demand freights that shippers cannot afford to pay, if they can successfully com-

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leaving the subject, we will hazard a few on the 17th Article, First as to the correctness of the translation. Second, as to the policy of agree

mand of every unprejudiced perspete in the market with similar goods sent from

an extraordinary coincidence, the most ob-

Canton, by inland navigation. Thus it is, that through simplicity on ono band, and cunning on the other, we have been tricked out of the privilege for which so much British blood and treasure has been

middle, and sometimes to the lower ranks of life. We clause of the 17th Article has been anin-expended, Thus it is, that wo have been disup-

doubt whither the publication of this letter would answer the purpose intended, at all events in its present form it is not admissable

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THE FRIEND OF CHINA, AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1811.

Our remarks oir the Supplementary Treaty have excited much attention in certain

When the Treaty itself was very severe animadversions were

home, thereon,

in the most talenter of the London journth

What will now be sald upon the mullated Sup- plement, may be inferred from what has been already expressed. The very favorable Gover ment version of the Treaty was deemed by for as indicatory of "a complexity of incompatibl objects, bio bunting to an after imbecility of pur- 7630 Ambat incredible

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ing to its enactments

By an tentionally () omitted, as was also the case

ase in the 18th Article. We allude to the last clause which is as follows

With respect to Fuchau and the other ports, as there are no small vessels of the || kind coming and going, it is not necessary to make any regulations." That is to say, vessels of 150 tons are permitted to enter the port of Canton, upon paying harbour dues of one mace per ton, but to the other ports, they have to pay five, being the same rate as largo ships in the European or Indian trade. This important clause, which strikes at the root of the whole coasting trade of China, which in effect will tend to confine our merchants to one port (that of Canton), is omitted-purposely or not purposely we know not, but in either case it is a shameful omission.

As a soldier and a dil matist, Sir Henry Pot tinger has served his country faithfully; but this convention gives undoubted evidence of his total ignorance of international commercial negotiations, It is incomprehensible how the absurdity of per- mitting vessels of 150 tons to visit Canton and not the other ports, did not occur to him. The object is so evident to every one who reads the Treaty, that we are alinost convinced that previo being gned, His Excellency was not noxious clauso. If he had English, that vessels from Hon.

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liberty of grading of the ugatory, or a mere nominal privilege.

pointed in our expectations of Hongkong's being the head quarters of extensive inercantile transac- tions. Thus it is, that thousands upon thousande have been invested in the erection of princely mer- cantile establishments, the owners of which do not transact sufficient business in the colony, to pay the land rent saddled upon them, and their household expenses.

We leave this unpleasant topic-nor shall wo return to it again it is always with feelings of regret, that we feel compelled to centre in the most remote degree, the notions of the illustrious individual under whose rule we now live. We are not in ignorance of the difficulties with which he has had to contend, nod can readily believe, that permission to resign his present appointment, would be, by him, gratefully received. If it has pleased Her Majesty to intrust His Excellency with powera more suitable to an Eastern despot than the Go vernor of a Bruish colony, the error lies with the bestower, not the recipient, but we trust it will Boon occur to the recollection of the Imperial nd- viser that the inhabitants of Hongkong ure fres bori

ind that they oluim lich no Goverment

The Treaty ure printed

We understand in ling been.

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They have