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THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE.

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cely being equal to the profits of a respectable seade, and remitting the amount to the mercantile firm, yet with all this economy they po at Canton its local său cannot keep out of debt. The late Governor | pequ

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with goods entering or leaving the port of Ma-Lowes Family, 925, Ayers. Dent &Co. cao are examined by Chinese custom house of Tory, 608, Johnston.

Patna, 363, Clarke Feel and from the whole, tenor of the various Hindistan, 780, Bowen?

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clusion to the O Procurador e have been in b gnorance, until very recently, that for months past, you have been pouring out abuse against ourselves,our country- men and our colony"! Not knowing your lan. Our town as a place of guare—looking upon

ter insignificance. nd on yourself, as what are, we have exchanged our paper but, we have never taken the wit

an trouble of enquiring what your weekly issue ained Most commonly it remained on our table, unopened and if at times, in an idle moment, we for off the envelope, and saw in italies Friend of China, O Hongkong. and other prominent words referring to this paper, or thus place, we never once took the trouble of enquiring what you were writing about. That it was intended to please your contrymen, by reflections upon Hongkong, we took for granted; but anything so low any thing so far beneath the pen if the most degraded blot upon creation, as la contained in the translations now before us, we never could have imagined to issue from a public press. Men of your stamp, who reply to a good na- tured paragraph (the facts of which are unde, neable) with such expressions as, liar and blas phemer, are tog for beneath contempt to in duce us to despise them, though we may regret that man, fallen as he is, is so low as gratui tously to insult and rexile those who have nover injured him, and to whom he must be unknown. In your last issue you say the enlightened Editor of lies holds the butter cup of blasphenies in his hand, and when he has, poured it Gul Swe i

dos mail and t Maavicar, & Co.

Stork, 320, Miller and Duke of Bedford, 120, Thornhill Coromandel, 754, Cuningham. Sulimany, 784, Monk. Aden, 339, King Christina, 351, Primrose. Charles Grant, 1400, Wyld. Lady, 316, Marshall, ** Frances Burn, 261, Edington. do Amazon, 423, Abbott. Persia, 658, Morris St. Lawrence, Newlands, Alexander Baring, Hall Cleopatra, 357 Early, hạt Danish Oak (Dan.), Paulson Worcester, 636, Bickford. Duchess of Buccleugh, 350, Strakez. do. #iam Prose, Thomson. Ditor & Co. Circassian, 220, Hors

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John 17icktie 662, Daly Turner & Co.

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Oriza, 633, Christian, and turn do Penang, 369, Hawkins. Lindsay & Co. Mercury, Lawson. Fletcher Larkins & Co,:/ Mais, 350, Sproule, Holliday Wise & Co. Bahamian, Pearson. Gibb Livingstone & Co. Albert Edward Whitedo. do: John Bibby, Cawkitt Chatham 354, Gifford, Jamieson How & Co. Antaris, Drewett John Dugdale, 407, Milward. Boustead & Co. Earl Clare, $10, Scott. Caledonia, 710, Burn: S. Rustomjes, Black Dog 140, Barret,

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a man in every way respected made some awe important alterations in the tariff, which, had they been made at an earlier da have secured to Macao a respectable share of the foreign="commerce of China? • The reduction, however, was too late, nearly all the English merchants haying prepared to be genuine of the cargo a similar ons to the remove their “outsule establishments to Long Titan and to the Mandarin of Casa Bran kong, and since then the revenue has gra- Of the ship's departure, the Hoppo is informed dually dwindled away. In the early days of No regular Hoppo was for nearly one hundred and the settlement, through the improvidence or any years established, but two years after Kang dishonesty of the administrators, Maggo was he had declared the ports of China to be openca deeply debted to the government of Portugal foreign nations or in 1597, Hoppo-guards chased In 1784 Lazar da Silva Ferreira, by command a boat iated witly goods. In 1688, a Dutch ship of Mary then Queen of Portugal, examined the directed her course to the inner harbor of Mac hocpunts of the Senate and found a deficiency but the Bar fort prevent it by firing on her. In of 320,000 thels which had been fraudulently formed of this net of hostility, the Hoppo-chief sent lent by the members of government to their for the dendur and asked, " by whose authori friends and relatives. It was impossible toy dared the Portuguese olude the command of that strangers coming impose a tax sufficiently heavy to reimburse the Emperor, declaring, the Royal goyeinment for the defalcation of the to trade shall enter the port any whe the Whout ruining the settlement. The San From the north-west coast of America, being

Marquis of Bike, 545, Banhatyne do vessel Queen magnaninrously cancelled the debt chased (1795) by an English armed vessel, in the and for the time saved Macao. Under the roads of Macao, run into the harbor. The Senate vigorous administration of Da Silva and his intended to make her a good prize, for Portugal successor, Anthoney, Pereira dos Santos, for a

was at war with France the Mandarin of Eleang. time a new order of things was established, shan, having reported the case to the higher autho- The revenue was economized and increased rities, an order was intimated, that Macao should to the year 1802, which was its maximum, the restore to the owner back ship and cargo, « you amount being 178,690 taels; from that period do other wise you shall not be allowed to remain it gradually fell off, and we doubt whether it in the place, on the same footing as before." The amounts now to 40,000 taels, or £12,000, Grand-hoppo collects the amount of measurement From the revenue of Macao we turn to its from Macao, and foreign ships, and the duties un

merce. Ih 1580 Portugal commanded the goods sent to, or coming from Canton.” trade of India, Japan and China, though their We pass over the intervening years, and pride was deeply shocked at the supreme in- bring our subject down to 1720, when a new era dawned on the commerce of China. That difference with which the Chinese treated them. Their atrocities at Ningpo and Macao, and year a few chosts of Opium were imported their subsequent servility had opened the eyes from the coast of Coromandel which paid of the Celestials to their true character, and well, and the demand increasing "the govern unfortunately for other European adventurers, ment of Goa (we again quote from the Swe: they had come to the conclusion that all dish author) strove to secure to Macao the ex- western nations were alike. The Senate of clusive market; but instead of affording con- Macao, complained to the Viceroy of Gos, of veniences, prohibitions were lasted, against the contempt with which the Chinese autho taking opium on freight, or buying it from the rities treated them, confessing however that, English and French, who were obliged to sell it was owing more to the Portuguese them it to the Chinese, at such a rate that, the price at they find a place of refuge, and earn money Lora Petre, Lukely dwa waumini with

The Chinese Macao became quite dull, languid and unpro were obliged to restrict the commerce of Porfitable. The quality also was very unequal, tugal to the port of Macao in 1631. A part some being worth only 70 taels, when a better nership was then formed with some Chinese description was worth 225 tael per picul. This dealers in Canton, who were to furnish exports disadvantage ceased when the British company and take delivery of imports at Macao. This scheme did not suit the Chinese; they were dissatisfied with their partners and speedily dissolved the connection. In 1637 a depu-

**** Had liberal measures been pursued at the of six gentlemen commissioned to negotiate

time any quantity might now be landed at for the liberty of again trading at Canton were

Macao, but about twenty years ago the abuse. despatched from Macao, but they did not suc- ceed in the object of their mission. The people of individual influence strained every nerve to of Canton petitioned the Emperor not to allow compel foreign dealers in that drug, to sub- the Portuguese to come there To this permit to restriction to which they neither could tition the assent of the Sovereign was publicly declared in Macao on the 11th of June 1840, Though legally debarred from Canton, the Portuguese continued to carry on an illicit trade; as Naverette, a Spanish missionary writes in 1659 that,"

*** the merchants of Macao having concluded their transactions at Canton, on their return, were accompanied by a convoy of ten or twelve Chinese vessels, and a guard of twenty soldiers." We again give from Ljungstedt two extracts, which throw much light not only on the trade of the place, but also on the state in which it was held in subjecs tion by China.

selves than to the Chinese."

resolved to take it

Pet under their own control. The greatest part came to Macao, the ships earned a good freight, and the city, import duties to no mean extent.”

nor would submit." The scheme failed and a convenient harbour was found at Lintin. The Portuguese merchants however continued the traffic and no inconsiderable portion of the revenue was raised from duties on the drug― one third of the entire in 1884 more than one revenue was drawn from this source.

We give one more extract from the Swede e people illustrative of the servile condition of of Macao, in matters connected with their commerce.

John Laird, 76. St. Croix. Fattel Mombarah, 1096, Moore, S. T. Mahomed, Sultana, 905, Wadge | Dadahboy. Statkart, 560, Dixon. H. Framjes. we inform you that, as heretofore we Rohomany, Kinsey Rustomjee & Co..ki have passed over your inrectives in silence so Buckinghamshire, 1600........ Rustomjeerde will we in future. Your voice is too weak to m reach further than the ears of your country BRITISH VESSELS AT MACAO. men, and even they will blush for your vulgar Latile Catherine, Rigby, Jardine Matheson & Co.

Ariel, 109.

Macfarlane,W scurrility they come here in their distress, Audar, 150, Vaux dont

CABLE 271 Teply to him. But. Kavoric, 329; Scadderway

support their families from the people against whom your impotent shafts are pointed.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE:

ALRIVED

croste 2-Fort William, Hogg, Whampoa. 2-H. M. S. Tris, Capt. Mundy, Macao. 2-Cursetjee Cowasjee, Campbell, Whampoa 2-Prince of Wales, Jones, Whompua. 3-Mellish, Fawcett, Whampoa. 3Lady East, Goldsmith, Whampoa.

Corsair, Fraser, Macao. 4--Antumnus, White, Whampoa, A-South Stockton, Hitchens, Whampoa.

SAILED.

OCTOBER 1-Lord Petre, Lukely. Macao.

1-Alligator, Cook, Shanghai.

Amelia, McKillar, East Coast.. |--England's Queen, James, London.

1- Earl of Liverpool, Wilson, London. 4-Mellish Fawcett, London. 4-Pantaloon, Porter, Shanghai, 4-Aden, King, Whampoa,

UNDER DESPATCH: Prince of Wales, Siam. Fort William, Manila, I Anonyma, Bombay, p Antumnus, Manila South Stockton, England. Corsair, East Coast

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We shall, for the sake of information, record a case, demonstrating with what cautiousness the sivil government of Macho must proveed in respect to Chinese property, In 1718, a Chinese mer -The Portuguese being expelled (1639) from chant bought at Batavia a vessel, loaded it, hoisted Japan, and forbidden(1662) to navigate there were the Portuguese colore, and arrived at Macao. The at Macao, in 1685, no more than ten vessels awned Senate had intention to charge the cargo with du-

VESSELS IN VICTORIA HARBOUR. by merchants, whose stock was small and credit ties, to which the owner refused to consent; he less. Having no port to go to, the ships were offered his own terms, which were for the follow Anonyma, Thomas. Jardine Matheson & Co.

do. fered no freight, but foreigners letting theirs cheaing reason acceded to. Havin a pass of the Vice Gazelle (Am),, 115, Chase..

may, it was argued, strike the Defance 511, Hallo: (), /// do. per, Macao (1704) "remained with only two ships, joy, the Chinese that could neither be manned or fitted out. The Portuguese and hoist the Chinese flag under which Kelpie, Bellamy,

the vessel may enter the port an act that Harlequin, 292, Oliver, settlement was nigh breaking up, when a tem-

relief approached it came from a quarter neither the Senate nor the Captain general, can Red Rover, 250, McMurdo, ́ ́ do. body expected.

Kang-he had, in 1685, thrown oppose. for we (the Portuguese,) are living in the Good Success, 546, Leslie, «lvendo. open to all commercial nations the ports of bis land of the Emperor; nor can the Senate, from the Fort William, 1248, Hoggin do. vast empire and permitted to his own vassals the intimation in 1717. of the will of Kang he, lay any City of Palaces, 430, Major. Dem & Co. **** exercise of a free trade. This encroachment on duties on other ships than their own. Robert Pulsford, 545, Robinson, do, old custom spread a gloomy presage over men of We trust we have placed plainly and can- Swift, 140, Butrey, T. Scat pusillanimoms or acuto minds. A seh-prefect didly before our readers, the melancholy state. Euphrates, 6030, Wilson Jamieson How & Co. (Tsung-ping, 1. e. Lieutenant-general) named

of the finances of the holy city" and the causes Yonge Quene, 85. Fletcher, Larkins &Co. Chin-maou, presented a memorial, in which the for the decline of their commerce; but as new Lady Last 400, Goldsmith, Torber & Co. Europeans were dipicted as a people of an unruly arrangements were entered into, between M. South Stockton, Hitchens. WT. Gemmell & Co. aspiring spirit, and adventurous Chinese, living Pinto, and the government of China, only one Cursetjee Carasjee, 535 Campbell, D. & MRustomjee. abroad, of a dubions patriotism; both drawing an immense quantity of rice from the country in one year ago, it is but air they also should be Pearl, 150, Morison word. free trade was pregnant with dangers. stated. We quote on this subject from the These specious arguments, being pondered by a Chinese Commercial Guide" published at competent tribunal, an edict, dated Kang he's Macao in July. LVIth year. XIIth moon, 10th day, (1717) come" In accordance with the provisions of an out probibiting to his subjects all communication | arrangement agreed upon between Keying and M. with countries, southward of China. The Man darin of Heang shan intimated this order to Macao. A deputation went (1708) to Canton, patronized by Joseph Perera, a Jesuit, the Viceroy and his next man granted permission to navigate the southern seas; the very same year ships were despatched to Manila and Batavia. The concession was con- firmed by Kang-he, who, the year before,(m 1717) had made, through his Viceroy of Canton to Ma cao, the offer of becoming the general emporium of foreign trade, and that the city should receive the dulies on all importations; This brilliant pro- position, the Senate declined. 4 similar offer of Yang-ching, in 1732, was, by order of Count de Sandamil, Viceroy of Goa, also rejected. How many ships Macao owned at the time, when the anerchants had in their hands almost exclusively, the whole trille with Canton, I could never cer tain. By a command of Yung-ching, the ship ping of Macas, was restricted in 1725, to twenty five vessels: each ship was registered: her name and that of the commander has never been changed these hundred years past. An neomaly

"Hoppe. This is a tribunal, that has in charge the collecting imperial dues on navigation and

Finto in Oct. 1843, the 25 registered vessels allowed to trade at Macao, and also vessels from Portugal, are to pay tonnage dues at the same rate of five mace per ton as all other foreign ves sels at Whampoa, but in consequence of the old regulation, by which any one of these 25 vessels which had once paid duty was subject only, to one third of the original charge, the present rate of five mace per ton has also been further reduced; and this reduction is applicable to all vessels belonging to Macao duly registered until the number 25 is filled up, there being only 19 ships at present on the cuoq is very triffing, however, list. This thus, a vessel of 300 lons would pay only about Ships importing 110 taels, instead of 150, nothing but rice pay no faunge dues.

By the same arrangement, Portuguese reels are admitted to the fire ports in the sate manner as the ships of all other nations. It was also stimulated that all goods entering or learing the port in native craft must be examined by the Chi nese custom-house officers according to the new tarif, whether from the interior or from chróna.

By this arrangement it will be perceived that even to the present day, all native vessels

Hersey, Easterby. Anderson, Chalmers & Co. Osprey, 140, Huut. Lindsay & Pampero, 268, Roberts, do Antumnus, White.

Royal Albert, 050, Scanlan Macvicar & Co.. Sam, Taylor, Fox Rawson & Co. Tuscan, Blackett, Bell & Co. Corsair, Fraser. Rustomjee & Cỗ. Uruguay, 340, Kelso. Oswald Disandt & Co.

DadabhoyRustomjee Prince of Wales, 326, Jones, Dadabhoy R

HEZ MAJESTY SHIPA Minden, Master Commanding, Wellington Hospital

and Store Ship Puuver th H. M. S.Iris, Caps Mundy, a

H.M. F. Str Archmiede Com. Paris.

BEITISH SHIPPING AT WHAMPO.

Jardine Matheson & Co. Madras, 624, Sack Edmonstone, 624. -- Surgie, 574, Barnett. Scalesby Castle, 1603, Lemon, do, Malacca, 523, Sheller.

Eart of Balzarras, 1452, Baker, do.

do. Walmer Castle, 656. Campbell do. Elizabeth Amaiz, yster.

do. Charlotte, Liebschwager. Mateo Duran, Widicombe, do.

Ania Eliza, 254, Grainger.

Anglona, 108, Lain, Macvicar & Cb, Jovin Corina, Dring. Gibb Livingstone Mermaid, 65, Gill. A. A de Melio!

Isabella Robertson, 350; Kelly. MET Linnet, 100, Phillip, J. Smiths Pokimas tył Hiina Pryde. 202, Monkhouse. A Lataellade. Ruparrell, 318, Dean, A D Futdomjee. Wild Irish Girl, 197, Jamieson. F. A Vegis.m Isabella Thompson, Kitton P Merwarjes & c Plancius, Rotgans. R. J. Gilman,de del Ellen Rodgeran Hall & don; Arun, 320, Dare, no pudo 12 Harlequin, Morris. Jamieson How & Co. Sophin Fraser, 293, Williams, Bell & Car Wanderer, 400, Smith. Smith VIL Anna, 109. C. W Bowralich in borong

AMERICAN AT WHAMPOA AND MACAO US F. Brandywine, Commodore Parker Eagle, 328, Sherman Russell & Cost Paulina, Sweetlinatus, Hobi idovlati Pioneer. Unbune indo, quaɖone Heber, Porteronthedo Houqua, Palmer,

glaydohitta

Monlauk, McMichaels, Wetmore & Co.

dom George Hallett, Knapp.

Wissahickon. Webber.

St. Paul, Allen,

Hannah, Chuverain

Oneida, Fripp. Nye Parkin & Co.

Henry, Salher. Olyphant & Co. Beludera, Easterbrook, C. S. Scholefield. Mary Ellen, Dearborn; A. Heard & Co. Lady Adoms, Hare. Wm, Buckler..

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FRENOK adno blast. H.M.FS. Cleopatra, 50; guna, Rear Admiral

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HM. F S Syrene, 50, Capt.. Chamberin H.M.F. S. Alcmene, 32, Capt. Duplari H.M. E. S. Victorieuse, 20, Com, Guinielle, H. M.F. S. Sabine, 30.kdo od dj plung, die falls

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