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The ratifcution of the regulations agreed upon last year between H. E. Kiying ind M. Pinto regarding the shipping and settlement of Macao, has been reosived from Peking. An abstract of theo regulations was inserted in our XIIth volume, page 556, but the new and official copy is here given, translated from the Aurora of the 18th inst. 1st. The official correspondence between the Procuradar of the Senate, and the local native authorities shall be conducted on terms of mutual equality.
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONG KONG GAZETTE.
BECTION Y.
would be difficult to estimate separately, taay be to remark, that of the 190,000,000 British subjects, reckoned at 1,900,000. The preceding analysis not more than 28,000,000 consume flesh abundant will convey a sufficiently correct general idea only about 10,000,000 eat of it sparingly, with 15,000,000, it of only occasional use; 9,000,000 this subject.
seldom taste it, and 70,000,000 live entirely on a So great a diversity cannot be expected in co-farinaceous die: and fish, Wheat, oats, and barley lour, as the preceding topic afforts of the constitute the principal vegetable food of about 180,000,000 people, not more than 90,000,000 are 31,000,000, pointoes, peas, and other vegetables, white, the remaining 100,000,000 being of various of about 6,000,000; and rice, maize, millet, pulse as, from the light olive of the Northern Hindoo, and several minor grains, of about 00 (100,000. to the deep sable of the Cuines negro, and Now With regard to fermented drink, about 5,000,000
use wino frequently; 25,000,000, malted quor Holland savage.
30,000,000, distilled spirits: 20,000,000, intoxi- ente or exhilarate the animal frame with oplum. beng (wild homp) or other stimulants, and about 60,000,000 may be said to confine themselves go narully to aqueous boverages
God. The tonnage dues on the twenty-five
The languages spoken are numerous among on registered ships shall be paid according to the now tariff, the same as on European vessels at Whan subjects in Asin. The Bengali is spoken by about pos, with a deduction of ono and a half mace par 125,000,000; the Hindoosten by about 80,000,000, ton, which makes three and a half mace of silver the Mahnigh, by about 10,000,000, the Tamul, for every ton. All ships that visit Macao, nnd are by 5,000,000, the Toloogon, by 8,000,000; the not registered, shall continue to pay the tonnage Carnation, by 5,000,000; tho Ooria, by 4,000,000, dues of the new tarifi, viz., five nace per ton, and the Singalose, by 1,000,000. Various other All ships tumbored, or not numbered, that shall languages and dialects, including the Burmese or visit the fire ports (now open to the foreign trade, Assameso, Arab, Turkish, Armenian, Afghan, riz, Cholan, Amoy, Eucheu, Ningpe, and Shance, uro used in different plaves. The Persian is ghan), shall also pay tonnage dues necording to the general official and learned language of nearly the new tariff at Ave maten per ton.
the whole native population of Hindostan
These circumstances may, to the general or su porficial reader, appear of infling importance, but cho philosopher and statesman know full well that
COTTON GOUDS.
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uses apparently minuta produce very great ef fects, and that the capabilitios, habitudin, shị | ir tomper, of misa are influenced by every day on currunces, which are, therefore, each and all de 3d. The duties on goods imported, or export The Buglish language in spoken throughout serving of relative consideration. Moreover, there el (in Portuguese bottoms) by Chinese merchants, the empire by 98,000,000 of its subjects and is, in the present instance, an essential object in shall be part to the hoppo (Chinese custom-house) Trench, Italian, Dutch, Greck, Spanish, and Porcontemplation in making such calculations; it is of Maono, necording to the new tariff. And goods tuguese, together with varing other languages to demonstrate that the British is not an homos not mentioned in the said tariff shall be charged | and dialect, are used by about 2000 DOU inhi. Igeneous empire, to prove that pocullar care is ro quisite in its government, that ordinary roles and ten or twenty per cent, ad valorem according to | bitants, their quality, without any additional chargo. The
abstract principles, though of unquestionablu jus- tice cannot be applied without great ouution to Portugueso larclins, furnished with prasports, are permitted to go up to Canton, on paying the ton-caution
vast and varied masses of men, under differom ango dues according to the new regulations
degrees of civilization, and it is hoped that by such contemplation the ruling authorities may be ins establishoal for cargo boats,
luced to examine, whether the present system of home government is the beat that can be devised for administering the distant affairs of so many, Fruch varied millions of the human race.
per
it your d
N. B. The burden of these lorechas having sidiary bean agreed upon al 75 tons for the smallost, and
extend 150 for the largest, and thuse not exceeding the uspethen katter figure shall be charged one mace ton every time they enter the port, and those measur-icient link f
bo charged, as resistant possessions. ing more than 150 tons shaf sels navigating the high sous, five maco por ton i and orches measuring under 76 tons shall be Of the other charged the caine as thoss of that burden.
Haron beneath thu
4th. The Poringuose shall be allowed to buying toties will
thegulatoriais, and employ workmen al
their
choice, whenever they shall find it ne cessary to construct now buildings, or vessels, or repair the old ones, without requiring chops, or Bronses from the local authorities; all fees und additional expenses which they word hitherto in the habit of paying bring abolished.
5th Portuguese ships what! be allowed to go. and trade as Canton, Manoy, Fucha, Ningpo and Shanghae, providet they are subject to the regu kations of the new init, with respect to the pay ment of duties on goods, and the toutage duns With regard to Fuchu, however, that port no being yet open to European commerce, the Per tuguese vessels must keep from it, for purposes et trade, until shall be open to all other (Euro, pean) foreign nations.
have already da colour as the thr Bot the aru of bean
of nepatriotic states. and with the mother tongue fer, overnment the very ill. bao al as a sub pat, na be dom mure comprehensive
will be bundan of
BBCTION 1
CHAPTER 11.
360 01 per plent Orius Bince the arrival of die Sylph there has beau some considerable excitement among the purchasers of the drug Puma bas gradually Tison Troca dom to $700. We hear of midd refusing to take low than #710, but we daght whether any bara de cash purchases lite ben at rates higher than the figure we quoid..
6:30 45 50 Pepper Rice, cargo quniųy →→ Kartans
960 Sandalwood, Mainbur 11 0
Timor,&S, SA§. WOOLLENS,
Spanish Stripes Long lls, scarlet
Assorted
15
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4.80 13 0
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120 per
100 per pices
340 4 8 00
Long Baa-Consideratio sales of good as nortments containing a large proportion of purp es Cainlets, Englan. 21 0 * 32 0 p 14 Aflarge sale of Lancashire at 21.
Dutch. 26 0 $ 27.0
There is no subject connected with civilization so ill defined, or so imperfectly understood, as that of governing uien, in masses; and for this reason, because, in the present state of mankind, the science (if it may be so called) of government is not capable of being reduced to fixed preples y and the varied habits, feelings, and sobial condition of our fellow beings require a peculiar discriming. Lion for the purpose of securing to authority that and bond, mert feally and attachment, without which to consti Fand the biumphunted power can long exist. If self-governance in existe. In ferful the case of an individual be difficult, and too often rooived its death-blow | antiained when opposed to the master passions, and in mcording the mil how much more complicated does the question of China Roots congrogated within the pale the government of a nation become, especially if Chalangal of a words govorumen, he hadonan congratulates that nation be for advanced in civilization, and at Musk his country that he is enabled to speak of them as the same time possessed of numerous distant cole. | Rhubarb free len, and is not huvallated to consider any nies in every stage of the sound compact, from the rudest to the highest grades of civilized life, pe, and them us:
happily of Chritia
outreke on Au
the British Emp tims of antabiusals,
The varied character, mathers, and austams of the colonists any be calmstad, it wo contemplate tha locality of the different countries, the effecto 6th. The number and quality of goods which that laws, religion and lan ngo hard on their the Chinese merchants are in the babit of import subjects, rotaries and adopters, and the innumer ing into Macao are unlimited. Such goods as table shades of thought, feeling, and action, which must pass through tho Canton custom-house, shall then pay the duties according to the new tariffariety of climate, food and drink, is capable of
producing.
and when sent down for exportation must be accom panied with a certificate of clearance from the said custom house. All auch goods us have not passed through that custom-house shall pay duties to the hoppe of Macao.
Published by order of the most illustrious and kayal senate, and extracted from the dispatches bat routed from the perial commissioner and other high functionaries of Canton, dated 13th April, and received on the 5th May of the current year, to which I beg to refer ––Chinese Repository
Joze MARTINHO MARQUES,
Acting Interpreter.
COLONI
szomery Martin Esq. ed from Mat Publication.)
BECTION IY.
The Inhabitant of British India, living on the verge of the Himalaya, is very different from the weller on the fertile, but flat region of Bongal The Mussula of Calcutte who cats animal food possesses far more aulination, bravery, and useful Intelligence than the disciple of Menn vesiding in the same olly, who lives on rice and other farinn, and the Anglo-Indian why luxurintos in a more generous aliment than other, is infinitely superior to beth; while the wine and brandy loving boor of South Afrien is equally contradistinguished from his more temporate fellow citizens,
When men enter into the social compact, they openly or tacitly surrender a portion of what is termed their matural liberty, in order that they may enjoy, with the greater nurity and advantage, the free privileges which they remain but the quantity necessarily surrendered, and the time or periods for so doing, have never been defined, and as long as the human mind remains in a fettered and degraded state, never can be
Some people, it is true have a greator aptitude for the acquisition of politeal froodom than others several quickly apprecinta its advantages but up. pear incapable of retaining it and too many prefor serving under some superior culs, from an inability to enjoy the inostimable benefits of an equal shares of liberty ditlused among their fellow subjects.
Let it not by suppozed, however, that any man is by unturs so imperfect, as to be insonsille of the blessings of liberty freedom of will je upresory. edly given to all the exercise of it roomine, with the individual, its dormantness is no proof of its non-existence; but it is a feebly, so partially, and so irraglarly exercised, that the unsa of mankind remain, even after centuries of good example, in
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EXPORT OF TEAS TO DATE, 1st July, 1813 to 31st May, 1814,
Eleven months. Congou Cuper
Squchong,
Hung Muey Pekoe,
30,781,015
494037
1,554.408
273.827
453,227
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With referenco more especially to climate and soil, the differencn both my mind and body between OF THE BRITISH the inhabitants of a low, hot, und damp region, and RE
che people of an elevated, cool, and dry atmos phere, is too striking to require comment: indeed, state of comparative barbarisni and slavery, in many nations, although the language, howe ro- Man makes or mars his own happiness; the good ligion, food and drink may be the same and oven created for his bliss, he too often perverts unto the variety which distinguishes » popu- the lineainents of the countenance may be con- evil, and then laments over what be erroneously on superior in numbers, industry, Intelligence, mon to the highlander and to the lowlander, yet terms the dispensations of Providence: the free and wealth, to that which Rome in ber most ox is there very little affinity in their tempors, genius, will bestowed for his advantage, too saldum, alas.l alted days over possessed, the various forms of re- and character. These offerte of climate are not off is governed by the influence of rensun, passion Bigion are not the least remarkable.
o and as this recent observation: the Greek and Latin histo- Triumphs, and sin and misary eusue. work is being written with the hope of conveying rians ascribed the proverbial stupidity of the For a man to be politically free in the highest jaformation to posterity, as well as benefitting the Boeotians to the homidity of their climate, and social state, he must first be, as an individual, too- prosent generation, a rapid enumeration of the it was even then noted that the Britons were really so no species of real liberty can different creeds congregated within the pale of one markable for the longest, and the Egyptians for sceptro, may not be uninteresting As round the least extended life. But whatever be the hid ambers will be used, and only the principal sects den principle which in Buences the character of mained, the reader will boar in mind that the sub man-how much soever he may be modified by jeet in touched on solely with a new to general circumstances around liian as regards his place of reductions, and as affbeding materials for thought, nativity, or the manner of his physical and moral
The creed possessing the most numerous ve training of dus we rily by assured, that no turies, it that of Brham or Brahma, which amount cording to the germ within him as wit be the pro- The rules that are applicable to indi geuals ap- 10 nearly seventy millions, among the British sub duct. We may by cultureby enriching the soil ply with a great, if not greater forte to them, jerts in Asia. These are again subdivided into by pruning the branches, and concentrating the when cougregated la society, the object of which nesta bulding different tonots, but agreeing in os sap augment the size and improve the flavour of is self-protection so far as it is consistent with the Twist bales. sentials, and reverencing Monu as their inspired the apple, until we raise it from a small and sour to prosperity and happiness of their neighbours; and
w giver,
a large and nutritive fruit, but it will never be any therefore until the Influence of free agency be The Mahometana residing in our East Indian thing else. Thus
the hundan 100, the possessions may be
generally felt and rigidly noted on, any attempt at enumerated at 20,000,000; but i innate
hlored ; } fixing government as a scienae based on immutablo the disciples of lamism are divaled into two they may be impr
the principles, to be darried into operation under all be obtained. Umes muist nace
Brood with poi
sopta, as much opposed to each other if not more almost
so, than the Protestants and Roman Catholics no arti
The various tribes of Bheels Cloud Assamese, od
&o, &c embracing the Tarubs, may be estimated
*10,000 CM.
The Budlust or Janis in Ceylon, and there.
Ultra Gangelio territories, are in number about vous Jowa, and 1000000
The Christian inhabitants of the umpire: en Wind
bracing the people of the United Kingdom, ton.
st of $8,000,000, possessing Various forms of ines woramo iz 26,000,000 in the United Kingdom, improv 1,200,000-11 North America 200,000 in tho fest Indier: 140,000 J Afrin Rod Australas 100,000 Indi, Kaylow, c. 300.000 m Pus YOUR FRIENles – the minst numerous delodies on that of the Lutheran or Reformed ini hat the Wesleyans Baphots, &o de) amount 10. about 30,000,000.
The pluimandre of the Roman Cathol (amongst wind include the athe Orock Church in the tonlau Tujkoda nord of thine of the Srine Church an
0000
the same
long exist without the doctrine of responsibility being ex- parienced in its fullest force responsibuity rosts on selfagency, and a human being seeking happi- pess Individually, socially, or politically, must be consclous that its nttument is within his power, and that until he internally understands and up preciates it, ho nover can enjoy it externally.
CANTO
BEL NY Lanvin Ear and
ention of huth, and
528,865
3,631,060
538.219
1231,748
8803,77
Total, 49,210,25
370,83
Grecian, London, Black, 360,923 Groen, 1,000
Total, 1981060 COTTON REPORT Canton, May 18 10 31st, 1844.
1,46 Daiveries.
Amorionn, bales. Bombay, Bengal, Madras,
Stock
6,021
097 7ו.
10.053 490 3.579
17,288
Ton 16420
109.808
Ship Begins included.
PRICES OF BULLION. Nycee Silver, large, 3 per cent premium
small, 162
Spanish Dollars, Ferdinand, par
Caralus, – pår cent, for moncle
cent discount.
Republica dito, 3 to 1
* Very vochta –
EXCHANGKA
Als on London at 6 mouth 1 4d..
ry on the NudiGora, Tran
Dill wew
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