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JUST Received a few casks of Canel coal & for sale, also a prime lot of Pale Brandy in bottle,
PTOWNSEND.
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
inquisitorial and arbitrary character which has measures, distinguished it, Much excuse for may doubtless be drawn fro and diffical circunstan people so proud, Jealous, bigo
ance on this score, it strikes us that the spi rule is not that which pervades the Brit
STRAL AND HANGING LAMPS, oferthe
elegant patterns, lately imported and for sale
P TOWNSEND.
Victotorin, 17th September, 1844
by
CANTON PRICES CURRENT.
30TH SEPTEMBER, 1844. mis muuta
RIPORTS.Duty PAID Les
ále (bus, brands) Amber
vigate, or enter or embark on board of any vessel, or contract to do so, u Captain, Master, Mate Sur or Supercarzo, knowing that the vessel is ployed, or intended to be employed, in such und ade as aforesaid, or shall knowingly or wilfully insure or contract for the insuring of any property or effects whatsoever, employed or intend ed to be employed in such trade as aforesaid, than and in every such case the persons sp offending shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten thousand dol lare, and in default of payment of such penalty shall be liable to be imprisoned for any term not exceed ing two years.
tution and which should regulate all Colonial Executivesl no less than the Home Government lo no part of the world are British subjects so UST received quantity of
received a quantity of No. 3 and 4 Supc stringently coerced by absolute power as in the Chinese Beas, where Sir Henry Potunger, under his self-assumed character of Chief Douanier to 3. And be it enacted, if any person shall enter the Emperor, has imposed on the freedom and and embark on board of any ship or vessel as petty commerce of his countrymen, a more intolerable officer, seaman, or marine, or servant, of in any weight of disability and restriction than any other other capacity, knowing that the vessel is actually Deputy of the Crown would have ventured employed, or intended to be employed, in the trade to enjoin, or any other British Community have hereby declared to be unlawful, such person so SMALL Batch of Allsops English Bottled been required to bear. The costly and intricate offending shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars,a nd in default of payment shall be (India Ale) in cases of 3 doz each.
liable to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour Victoria, 8th October, 1844.
for any period not exceeding three months.
A
- P. TOWNSEND.
JUST IMPORTED AND FOR SALE. BY C. MARKWICK.
FOR SALE,
THE Ane Lorcha Albiona, No. 45, built only THE
six months, and can carry about 25 tons, she has a splendid cabin for passengers, masts, sails, rigging, and two anchors, and would answer, well to trade to Macao, Canton, or Chuck-chew. She may be seen, and terms known, by applying to
A. L. de ENCARNAC,ÃO,
at Messrs. Henry Humphreys & Co.'s Godown,
LONDON MONTHLY MAIL NNUAL Subscriptions received at this Office, A low extra copies, by each overland, for sale. Office FRIEND OF CHINA,
* 23rd August, 1844,
MR.
a
Betel Nut Canvas-
Scotch
Cochineal Copper, sheathing - •..
Corda
COTTON.Bombay
sh. ps. s. old
new
Madras,
New Tinnovelly 8.4 & 9T
Bengal
COTTON GOODS. White Shirtings, 40
Grey ditto Yarn, Nos. 18 to 24. Nos. 19 to 32 Nos. 28 to 42
Chintz Furniture METALS, Tin, Banca Straits
Plates Iron, Nail
Hoop
Bar Dull
250
18 0
per catty
For picul
per bol
ner
00 per picul
10 per piece
18 50 per picul
$16.50 16:00
6 0 4 0 0 per box 2:30 400. per picul -2 504 006
1. 0014200
440414.50, 5
0:00.
Steel
5-00 Lead Pig
None. Quicksilver OPIUM, Patna, now. 750 0 47750 per dliest
Benares, new. 720 00:0
Dallest
"old": "0.000
mechanism of his Consular system, oreated entire on behalf of the Chinese Custom House, which no pockets a large revenue
ue without the trouble collecting it, hangs like & millstone about the 4. And be it enacted that if any parson offend neck of our marchants, who are thereby placed in ing no a petty officer, seaman, marine, or servant a far less advantageous position than those of any against any of the provisions of this Ordinance, other nation. Nor is it in matters affecting trade altall within one year after the offence give infor- alone, that his Excellency's multiplied and onerous, mation on oath before a competent Magistrate, enactments have worn an objectionable aspect; gainst any person whatsoever who shall have com we trace the same despotic and oppressive nature mitted any olence against this Ordinance, and in various domestic measures for the regulation of shall give evidence on outh against him before any the Colony and still the evil, as one ordinance Magistrate or Court before when such offender shal after another is launched forth from the Council be tried, or if such petty officer, seaman, marine, or room, goes on augmenting, Our. last Hongkong servant so offending, shall give information so that papers contain several documents calculated to such offender shall be convicted, then and in such excite just animadversion One of them, entitled case informer shall receive such part of any forfeit an act, "to restrain Her Majesty's subjects from ed sum of money as is hereinafter provided, and trading in the Empire of Chima, to the Northward shall not be liable in any of the pains or forfeitures of the 32nd degres of North latitude," is of a most provided by this Ordinance." arbitrary character. According to the invariable A despotic provision for the seizure of vesek old/ 0-0 0 0 practice of the civilized world, each power is left to sels, in order to their forfeiture &c. is made protect its own frontier by its own Douane, and to under. panish, according to its laws, all foreign parties. 7. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for detected in the carrying on of an illegal traffic. any of Her Majerty's Consuls in China, or the Com
Turkey 500 000 per picul When a French smuggling vessel is captured by manders of any of Her Majesty's Ships within one Revenue Officers on the British coast, or vice hundred miles from the Coast of China or any other Pepper 15:20 10:00
officers duly authorised in that behalf to asize and
2102 25 versa, no interference for the chastisement of the ice for alludication to Hongkong any ship or vessel Rice, cargo quality.
0 effending crew and master, or the pursuit of the sailing under the British flag, die master whereof shall Ruttaps, Banjormissan 3 600 owners who commissioned them, is asked by the appear on sufficient grounds to such Consul, or Sandalwood, Malabar. 11 6413 0 one or offered by the other power. The outraged mander or her officer, to have offended against the pro-Timor £.S.Isl. 4:07
Saltpetre State deals with them as her laws direct, and visions of this Ordinance.
So is it with smug
WOOLLENS. there the matter terminates. glers taken on the inland marches of the Conti-
Spanish Stripes nental Kingdoms. Each has his own protectiva
Long Ells, scarlet system, and each is expected to take the necessary measures for preserving the integrity, or punishing the breach of its Tariff law. It is sufficient that the country of the surreptitious traders repudiate all such misdoings and leave those by whom they are perpetrated to take the legitimate consequence of their fault, whatever it may be. As for making, GENTS for the Friend of China and Hongkong laws to prevent their subjects from smuggling
Gazetter
abroad, no Europeau power would attempt a work of such supererogatory and preposterous folly. Now this work it is that Sir Henry Pottinger has per formed on behalf of China, Not satisfied with
R. JOHN SMITH, of Macao, will receive advertisements and subscriptions for the Friend of China and Hongkong Gazette, he is also authorised to collect outstanding accounts due by the Macão subscribers. In future Mr. Smith will have a few extra numbers of each paper for sale. Price to subscribers 25 cents each,
non-subscribera 1 rupee.
Victoria, 8th June, 1844.
FOR SALE,—At the office of this paper,
Compradores cheque books, Ships Articles, with an abstract of the merchant
seaman's get endorsed on the back.
Charterparties, after forms by Chitty. Powers of Attorney, after forms by Chitty. Bills of Lading
ego Tariff of imports, and exports, for Chinegu ounting houses.
A
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The "Friend of China and Hongkong Gazette" is published every Wednesday and Saturday,
subscription $12, per annum payable in advance,
MADRAS
SPECTATOR, JUNE 5
Custom House of China and the collection of its
The follows a still wore arbitrary and ob- jectionable Clause.
Malway new 740 0
0.0
2046 250
1 0
per yard 8.50 # 860 per piece assorted. 7 50 760 Camlets, English, 200
Dutch. 28 0300
EXPORTS.-ON BOARD.
“8. And be it further enacted, that all ships or vea sels sailing under the British, fing, which shall have been employed in any way so as to offend against the provisions of this Ordinance, shall together with their cargoes be liable to be seized and sold to satisfy any penalty incurred by such emyloyment, and that all bills of sale, mortgages and other transfers of property therein, made within three months after such vessel shall have been so unlawfully employed, or within three months from the time of any suit having commenced against the owner or master thereof, for any offence Camphor
.* Buds against this Ordinance, or made at any time whatsoever Cassia to the knowledge of the purchaser, with the view to eraile recovery of the penalties herein provided, shall China Roots against the said liability to be sold for the purposes Galangal
aforesaid be void and of none effect,"
Alum
Amniseed.
Musk
The Act appropriately concludes with this Rhubark sweeping declaration, which brings under its SILK. power feminine no less than male participés crimines.
the Pottinger, a sacrifice sufficient to appease the late Chinese Emperor, for whose gratification more comprehensive measures must be taken. Neither does he wait until the fraudulent vessel has per petrated any overt not of smuggling on the Chinese shore enough if he find her thirty minutes north
distant from land she has contravened his dictum and must suffer accordingly.
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Hyson Young Hyson, Hyson Skin Canton. Gunpowder Canton, 30 Imperial Canton. EXPORT OF TEAS FROM IST JULY TO 17ta August. Green, - - 1,140.436 lbs. Black, 3,085,225
Total 4225,711. lbs. Cargo City of Dəry” included.
COTTON REPORT. Canton, August 1st to 31st, 1811,
Deliveries...
932 Deliveries.
having erected and made England pay for the revenue, at the five Ports open to our Commerce he has actually taken upon himself, by an enact ment more severe than any which Britain bears upon her Statute book for the protection of her
9. And be it enacted, that whenever this or any own coast, to relieve the celestial Emperor from other Ordinance, in describing or referring to the of all trouble with reference to British subjects, di fence for the subject matter on or with respect to which Every successive Gazette which reaches us from rectly or indirectly concerned in trading to any it shall be committed, or the offender or the party af- China, calls forth an aspiration of thankfulness other than the permitted ports of his vaat Empire. fected, with the offence, hath used or shall use words onore fervent than was the preceding, to that good All such offences henceforth proposed or coun-importing the singular number or the masculine-gen- Providence whereby our lot has been cast else mitted by our countrymen (and women), within der only, yet the Ordinance shall be understood, to in where than among "Her Majesty's subjects with, one hundred miles of its shore, against the Import clude several matters as well as one matter, and several males, and bodies corporate as well as individuals, in the dominions of the Emperor of China, or laws of China, are to be taken cognizance of by persons as well as one person, and females as well as the Admiralty Courts of Hongkong; instead of unless, it be otherwise specially provided, or there be within any ship or vessel at a distance of not more than one hundred miles from the Coast of China." being left, as everywhere else, to the judgement of something in the context repugnant to such construc- It is not the ignorant despotism of the Celestial the offended State. In bis zeal for the Imperial zion."
Now on a dispasionate review of this sin- brother of “Ophiucus huge" and the Great interests, moreover, H. M Plenipotentiary has Bear, at Pekin, which renders his Empire dis, determined not only to punish those actually engular enactment, we cannot but pronounce it pleasing in our eyes, it is not the fraud, insolence, gaged in the illegal conveyance of Merchandize one of the most objectionable that even Sir and cruelty of those auimated bales of silk, but to China, but likewise to seek out and mulet all Henry Pottinger has issued. England is not tons, peacock feathers and pigtails, who do his parties however remotely or slenderly connected bound to constitute herself the avenger of the Imperial dirty work, from which we shrink, it is with the adventure Vengeance on the Mariners, Chinese customs; let that people provide, as not even the peril and pestilence of that den of and the confiscation of their craft- which retribu do all others, for the security of their own Re venue ond the punishment of such as defraud. thieves and store-house of fever" Victoria fg.tire steps satisfy bis own and every other Govern- felix," that affrights us. All these though cerment in Europe are not according to Sir Henry it. All that could fairly be required of us under tainly considerable drawbacks to any pleasure or advantage derivable from a residence in China,
the late Treaty is, the discountenance and aban- are trifling when compared with one great and
donment of British smugglers in the Chinese seas; and by assuming to himself any further growing evil of British origen; viz. Sir Henry
connection with the matter, his Excellency has Pottinger's incontinence of ordinances. The Statute Book of Eugland is an awful volume, but
gone out of his proper course and established its magnitude was the growth of many centuries of the barrier degree of latitude, tho yet 100 miles a bad precedent. Why should we be the Twist, bales.. whereas that of Hongkong has swollen to a fright
Executive, on our own nation, of the Tariff laws of China, more than of any other State American, bales, ful size in less than two years from the period of
with which we have entered into a Commercial Bombay, its being a tabula rasa. The gallant Plenipoten- fiary is a legislative incarnation of the go ahead"
Treaty? There appears no special difference Bengal, principle of our trans-atlantic brethren, he coins
in her case to authorize such a remarkable Madras, laws almost as readily as do our Mints Rupees.
departure from the ordinary inernational, prac- During the paper war about the disjunction of
tice. Moreover, the new statute is dispropor- Belgium from Holland, which took place twelve
tionately searching and severe: like every law years ago, Lord Palmerston, we remember, earned
made by Sir Henry Pottinger, it has an all- for himself by his prolific pen, the sobriquet of
tocratic relish about it, that would not suit the * Viscount Protocol," and in like manner also. Mr. Wallace, M.P. for Greenock, through his vexa- 2. And be it enacted, if any Subject of Her Ma palate of an English Parliament and people tious practice of pestering the House with uselessjesty within the dominions of the Emperor of Chi- have under very pressing circumstances: but as propositions, he has come to be distinguished, or within any ship, or vessel at a distance of it is not so much the detail as the principle of the there by the title of the Man of Motions. On not more than one hundred miles from the Coast of measure against which we protest, this point the same principle, it appears to us. Her Majesty's China, shall export, or carry, or contract for export need not be further insisted on. Satisfied as present Governor of Hongkong should be known ing or carrying, or shall slip or embark, or con- we are that England has no concern at all with liereafter as “Sir Henry Notification". There is tract for shipping and embarking, from, in the the breaches of the Chinese Tariff and Treaty something terrible in the celerity wherewith law limits aforesaid, any treasure, goode or merchan effected by her individual subjects, otherwise treads on the heels of law in that settlement, as dize whatsoever, or shall fit out, man, navigate, than to repudiate hoth the acts and their chiangs fellows change in the imagery of a Kalei-equip, despatch, use, employ, let or take to freight authors who are amenable to Chinese justice, descope. Its inhabitants never know when they or on hire, any vessel, or so contract in order to it were useless to discuss the merits of the * tire to rest at night, what new enactment may embark in the trade hereby declared unlawful, or ticular mode wherein Sir Henry Pottinger has hedge them in upon the morrow, neither can any shall knowingly and wilfully lend and advance or interfered further than became him. man tell whether the tenure whereby he enjoyshis become security for, or contract for the leading or 1.berty and possessions at suprise, will endure until becoming security for the loan of money or effects, the evening or give place to some unexpected and employed or to be employed in such trade asafore equally unwelcome legal novelty For be it from said, or shall knowingly and wilfully become gas us to depreciate the services of Sir Henry Pottin- rantee and security for guaranteeing any agent ger in China, his able conduct of the Opium war employed, or to be employed in conducting such and statesmanlike arrangement of the Commercial trade as storesaid, or in any other manner engage Treaty and Tariff to which it led, will ever rauk or contract to engage, directly or indirectly there him high among those public servants who base in, as a partner agent or otherwise, or shall know. I promoted the best interests of their country and are ingly and wilfally ship, tranship, lade, receive or entitled to live for ever in her grateful remembrance. put on board, or contract for shipping goods, money As concerns his Excellency's government of recent or effects to be employed in such trade as afore date- however, we must except against the despot c, said, or shall take the charge of, or command or na-
"1. Be therefore enacted, runs the ordinances by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, and Superintendent of the trade of Her Majesty's subjects in China, with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong, that all trade whatsoever by Her Majesty's subjects in, to, or from any part of the Coast of China to the Northward of the 32 degree of North Latitude, shall be, and is hereby declared to be unlawful.
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Another of his Excellency's arbitrary pro- ceedings, viz, the unfair-resumption of land sold by Captain Elliot to the Mercantile hoses and others at Hongkong, will demand our further notice, but for the present we must take leave of himself and his administration: with a brief reiteration of the sentiment ex- pressed in the earlier portion of our article. Thank Heaven that we are not exposed to the despotic caprices of a notification loving Go vernor like him who represents ller Majesty
in China-
including
Stock.
3,565
Stock.
27.094
01.054
7,816
8,752
3,233
18,037
Taal 33,143
117,893 England's Queen.
PRICES OF BULLION.
small, 1 to 2 ditto Sycee Silver, large, 25 per cent. premium Spanish Dollars, Ferdinand. par Republican ditto, 4 to 5 per cent, discount.
Haputa Carolus, 9 per cent. for sclécted,
EXCHANGE.
Bills on London at 6 months sight, ds. 3d, Navy Bills, 4s. to 4s. Id
218 Rupees per 109 Mexican dollars, H.M. Plenipotentiary on the Bengal Govt., Treasury
Court of Directors accepted on ditto, 50 days, have been offered at 225 per $100 Difficult of Sale
FREIGHTS,
To London or Liverpool, £4 per ton of 50′fl. To Out ports, 108, per ton additional.de, käy To Amoy, 86 per ton of 40 feet*** To parts north of Amoy, 28 diuo
SHTES LOADING FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM. Mats, Earl Liverpool, South Stockton, England's Cuizen,
Donta, John Dugdale and Oriza hid on Mellish
Alexander Bacig. Hindostan, Pinang. Marchionems
As The Friend of China and Hongkong Gazelle Edited. Printed, and Published by Jons: CARB, Printing Office, QUEEN'S ROAD, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 1844.
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