riend of L'aina.
2nd November, 1816, high stations deliberately
F not decency, natally i
ove, feeling teen only of hourst in lignation.
Davis, Plenipotentiary Trade Commander-in-Chiel, thing else here, except the hosa hy governa, has adopt After a series of persecutions, form, but which after a while kong) Law at defiance-after a ahs diferced agams, a highly fibs Braish community, entered de pariance of that Subservien the Lagace Goverment which has ani w the sandal of his administra
Pony (la up the ingaange of his publising a dispatch on the very ove of Dronriure if the Overland Monk the poisonous Die of which have this gone forth to the world, novempel by a wand of contradiction, or expla
Thy trath bowmour cannot be always suppressed, parska Ba Ballinry's murepresentations escape
He Exadliner cominenses by instructing Mr Mac- gravur ke storm Me Compton that the Ordinance wder will be (Sir John) had directed Mix Mac- gregor to fine Mr Compton was dot Ordinance No, 2. Su Dziliaanse No. 5 of 1344.
It worthy of remark that though Mr Macgregor
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THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE
** Could great men thunder af Joru himself duen “Jorn would ne'er be quiet,
For every petting potty afficer
hesitate to expose INJUSTies and crueliv. The came to which we refer may be given in a few
words
the possessory rights of the thuison's Bay Company, and of all British subjects, who may be already in the occupation of land or other property lawfully & Incessantly would use the Heaven for thunder.
On the 97th of October a China boat got acquired within the said territory, shall be re You are very bend of thunder Bir Jom, but why
pected passage waste your bolts Were your logh now be Rng way ahule.before sunset on her
to the south of this island. She had on board oxerted on að great an occasion, and a prry fino only to be the result The God appears to rere ule of a crew and passengers in all eighteen Souls; purpose. The supernatural machinery has done no •some of the passongers are well known in Vie more than under the ordinary Forms of Law night torin, where they had been employed for a con- have been done-But, in Law, accusation and considerable time. In passing the native shipping viction are not quite the same thing. An unjust which usually congregates off the lower bazaar, Judgement of the Consular Court might have been the passenger boat got foul of another boal at revised, an excessive penalty might have been miti anchor, but wahout doing any damage. After gated So after all perhaps the God was necases some alteration between the boatmen, soine. y, and contemptible as is the figure he makes, let of the crew of the Jank at amelior got into their hun slink away with the balance of his themder,
gampan armed with two muskats, and gave
His Excellency proceeds to state tha. the Fing on Mir Compton was deliberately levied after the fullest enquiry. How full dhe enquiries were I know dot bin this I know, that sentence was passed without a little of evidence. The mere Fict of the Fruit stall having been upset resting unrely on Mr Compton's own ad nissim, which ought not to have been used against him; the other charges as ifginally mido of having beaten the Military Officer Re" hiving been abandoned and the Consul having dechoed to furnish Mr Compton with copies of what other evi dense had been brought forward-
Dare Sir John Davis call this a full investigation. And supposing for a moment that Mr Complen's knocking over the fruh stall on the 4th July did lend to the rigs of the 8th, is there a shadow of justice in attaching to trifling offences their remuto couse quences; those consequences too proceeding from
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An IV. The farms, lands, and other property of every description,belonging to the Puget's Sond Agricoltural Company, on the north side of the Columbia river, shall be confirmed to the said rom pany. In case, however, the situation of those farms and landshould be considered by the -States to be of public and political importance, and the United States Government should signify a des sire to obtain posscasion of the whole or of any put thereof, the property so required shall be transf red to the said Government at & proper valuation, to be agreed upon between the parties.
deals of their arms.
"Done at Washington, the 15th day of Jane, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun feed and forty-ax.
Art V. The present trenty shall be ratified by se, firing one or more shots. Unfortunately,
her Britaniic Majesty, and by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent it happened; a boat with a policeman on leard who was in search of a vagabond who
of the Senate thereof; and the ratifications s haf absconded after robbug his master of $250,
exchanged at fundon at the expiration offix month was tint fiilistant, and seeing that sampan in
from the date hereof, or sooner if possible. pursuit, joined in the chase, under the taipres
on that a robbery had been committed, orarios have signed the same, and have affixed the In with wher of the respective Plexipoton- that they were about to capture the thief they were in search of The poor creatures who were thus being hunted down, food that es- cape was hopeless, and in desperation they leaped over board and were capture, with the exception of five, who were drowned. is the first act of the drama.
The second act opens with the appearance of the captives before Mr Hillier, arraigned on
man found them guilty, sentenced them to be fogged, and imprisoned for three months, with the exception of four, who after being logged were presented to the Cowloon Mandarin-a sort of complimentary exchange of civilities be tween the Representatives of two civilized powers l
This
drrys not content thinasation of ifis Excellency | the outragene violence of the Chinese people. If a charge of piracy. That annte young Geniler
hya desa na do what sir Jolen Daviy desires him to do;
Mr Compton comúntial an offence on the 4th July merely and without comment a Copy of the he ought to have been pun shed at once for it. The duparch
The facts and thus. On the 24th September, consequences cannot be accumulated upon him, or Mr Macgre fond Mr Compton Two Hundred Where is such a course to ead ? Sir John Davis says Dallara mader Ordinace No. 2; at the same time the peaceful relations of the two countries are still esting that he should not proceed to lery the fine dangered by this act; for any fresh events grow til the sentence was confirmed by Sir John Davis, of it Mr Compton then may still be held res, On the 6th October, Me Macgregor wrote to say be ponsible. It is an insult to men's understandings to
State such things had received His Excellency's confirmation of the sentence, which however Sir John Davis says was nat tangmited to him till the 16th of the same month, or 10 days after Mr Macgregor says he received a confirmation of it. Here are two statements on a simple master of fact. Both, cannot be true. Ope or other then. Mr Mecgregor, or Sir John Davis, says "the thing which is nut It is a delicate point to decide: but for ray part I believe Mr Mac- greor.
Believing Mr Macgregor, then we must conclude that. Ordinance No. & was never thought of till a very advanced period of the proceedings, when it was suddenly discovered that sad blunders had been commited. All the proceedings had been under un obsolete Ordinance, and none of the forms enjoined by the Lan actually in force. (made by those trouble- Bome Crown Lawyers) had been observed. But Is any one holding the high powers what of that? of Sir John Davis to be restrained by Laws?
shall be your warrant.
His Excellency's aversion to Law, and his notions of Justice being sufficiently malest. it is not surpris ing that we find him fororing the Cimanaby with an extract from one of his unpublished works, in which he very naturally an's to one of the muist despotic Countries in Europi for an illustration of his system.
It is not very clear whit Turkey has to do with the mater Early recollections may make it a fivorite subject, or it may be a pet coun try with His Excellency.
Inin not so fond of His Excellency's works as Elis Excellency himself appears to be, but I must quote entire the concluding paragraph of his Letter:-- "If the recovery of forty-six thousand dollars *private compensation from the Chinese Government at another Port, proves that have protected the rights of British Subjets, it is only just that I "should be equally firm in enforcing their obliga
The third act brings the catastrophe. · The bodies of the drowned men being recovered, the Coroner suminous a Jary, and holds an in- quest.
The Jury after a patient investigation, returned a verdict of manslaughter against the which occupied, the greater part of three days,. parties who read the men fn take the water.
An English Jury have this declared that the whole of the men were innocent, but in the "meantime they were stuurged, ironed and ins prisoned, by sentence of a person who holds the responsible office of Chief Magistrate of this colony !!
We merely introiluce this fresh atrocity, but after a careluk perusal of the evidence, we may find it necessary to extend our remarks; from personal atteiflance at the inquest, we are in possession of the entire proceedings before the Coroner and Jury, which we will publish in
ir next issue, as this is one of the most extra- ordinary cases on record.
THE OREGON QUESTION. The following is the text of the treaty between her Majesty and the United States of Acarrion, for the scilement of the Oregon boundary, sigued at Washington, Jour 15th, 1848 22
RICHARD PAKENHAM. [S] JAMES BUCHANAN."
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
OCTOBER,
ARRIVALS..
30, Chusun Laird, Whamopos.
30, Prince Albert, Thompson, Calcutta. 31, Afe maid, Gill, Manila. 30, Cleopatra. Early, Bombay,
NOVEMBER,
1, Thrriagtm, Nell, Shanghai. 1, Mazeppa, Macfarlane, Chusin. 1, India, Sutherland, Bombay,
2 Karl Bulcarros. Baker, Whampoa.
2. Viscount Sandon, White, Liverpool.
2, Lancaster, fallin, Liverpool.
2. Natchez, (Arn) Land, New York. 2, Foodstock, Nicholson, Liverpool. 2. Montrose, Furgusson, Hartlepool.
2, 11. M. S. Agincourt Capt. Johnstone, E, Coast, 3. Vizesing, (Sp.) Velleranda, anila. 3, Zoe, Miller Whampoa
3. Prince of Wales, Jones, Bombay 3, Duke of Cornwall, Whitehead, Bombay,
PASSENGERS:
Cartwright.
Per Torrington, Messia Sterling, Cenpon, and Gilbert.
Perifermaut, Messrs J. Tuit, and — Per Wazeppu, R. M. Moffatt, Esq. Per India, H. S. Horsburgh, Esq,
SAILED..
OCTOBER,
30. Prince Albert, Thompson, Whampoa.
31, Buboo, Barker, Cork.
31. Cleopatra, Early, Whunpoa. 31. Bonanza, Mossop, Whampoa. November
1. Ariel, (Bark) Burt, Cumsingmoon. 1. Torrington, Nell, Whamp
2. Zephyr, Mann, East Coast 2. Chusan, Laird, Glasgow, 2, S. Lurman, onkling. Whampoa. 3, India, Sutherland, Whampoa. 3, Natchez, (Am) Land, Whampoa.
* REPORTS. Earl Balcarras, Baker, Bombay,
The Woodstock spoke Trafalgar, from London
MANILA SHIPPING.
fiona. Ou no other terms can we maintain a beneficial intercourse with (hma, and on no other Perish the though The big sout of a Plenipo.
erms can I no Fertake to administer my trust." teadiary revolt against it. There has been a great
Rare Andeerty! 1 did not before think you a bongle-never mind-Me Compton has been tried far one offence, and sentenced another, and ho brave man Si John. Lanking gender an official did not know he was being tried and we will not shield to slander private Charae in a proof of tell bin what evidence was brought against him. anything but valor; but when I s. o yon thus com Fine him. Fine him, Kaying requires it. The placently altaling to a transact for which you Merchaos will not bleet. There is no hush-my-
cucht to blush ; a transaction in wi ich Braish Sub- ney to be got out of thean They will not be per. hats were mileted of their just ghts, the unjust *Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom aded to admit by a weak concessiou, right to be settlement of their claims being supported by Your of Great Britain and Ireland, and the United States wrong, nor acknowledge self defence to be culpable, Exer Honey, I stint astonished at your baldness, of America, deeming it to be desirable for the future →but here is a Man we can victimizo,and here isossibly however His Excellery my not be aware welfare of both constries that the state of doubt and an Ordinance. Never mind the meaning of words, that the Correspondence upon this matter, and the uncertainty which has hitherto prevailed respecting Sex Grammarians and Lexicographers at defiance, indignant, Comaruts of the British Community the sovereignty and government of the territory on Fibe him. Fine him. Here is my seal, and that therefore on the way to Her Majesty's Govern the north-west coast of America, lying westward for Sydney in La 35° 30 Long: 290 40 E.
ment, and will reach about the same time as his the Rocky or Stony Mountains should be finally therein will be very alarming to the British Governmutually asserted by the two parties over the said vaunting dispatch. Whether the concluding threat terminated by an amicablé compromise of the rights
ment and the British Legislature I cannot say. territory, have respectively named plenipotentiaries Your Excellency's services are doubtless highly to treat and agres concerning the terms of such value, siuce you are paid £5,000 a year for them, settlement, that is to say: - but I do not think Ministers will think it necessary Elur Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom try's Lawe, and their fillow subjects Liberties pointed the Right on Richard Pakenhamn, a mem to enhance that price by the sacrifice of their Coun-of Great Britain and Ireland has, ou her par ap
point between yourself and Lord Palmerston, the cil, and her Majesty's Earoy Extraordinary and Should there be a difference of opising upon this ber of her Majesty's Most Fanonrable Privy Coun.
actually threaten to resign-oh no Sir John you consequences apparently may be very serious. You Minister Plenip tentiary to the United States; and the President of the United States of America has, will not do that, so long as you can see your Salary on his part, funished with full powers, James Bu chanan, Secretory of State of the United States; who after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following ar ticles :-
Having sufficiently discussed His Excellenny's Ordinances and his application of them, let us listen to his parrative. Sir John proceeds to say that Mr Compton having a cause of complaint against a Chinese was bound to proceed to the Consulate and state bit grievance, instead of doing this his violence excited the frightfal tumatand bloodshed in
which three Chinese were killed?!
Really Sir John, for a celebrated Author, yo write serp badly. The other day you pointed out the terrible cons quences of homicide by fire arms, as if that were Torse than homicide of any other kind, and new you write about three Chinese being
Lifed-in bloodshed. I have however too serious charles to bring against you to dwell upon your style I say, that in the abort sentence quoted, there is an assertion directly opposed to the fact, and a stodied perversion of truth. First, Mr Compton did raake the complaint you say he did not make, and it is a studied perversion of the truth to state the cir. cumstances as you do state them. Mr Compton on the 4th Joly commited, a trifling assault on the keeper of a Fruit Stall Me MacGregor passing by was aware of his having done so, and listened to Mr. Compton's complaint. No rict followed; and on the 5th, and co the 6th, and on the 7th, Me Comp- ton repeatedly passed the same place unmolested, and the Consol thought so little of the matter, that no further notice was taken of the affair.
On the 8th July a riot occurred, which there is no cecdence wheter to prove had any connection wilk The trumper, anaut on the Frutnall four days be- fore, yet on John Disis in nabrating these events passes over the merval of toe, leaving into be, sup posed that the riot and bloodthed immediately fol and in doug to gives a due color to the whole tran ción from the mammer in which Sit Ordinances and writes dispatches, maren eseura10 TABV be trointen. aly that men blinder to conven
between him and Mr materi o veracity a
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THE FRIEND OF CHINA
AND HONGKONG GAZETTE. VICTORIA, WEDNE DAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1916.
Art From the point on the forty-ninth par- allel of north fatitude, where the houndery laid down in existing treatios and conventions between Great Britain and the United States terininades, the line of aboundary between the territories of her Britanic Majesty and those of the United States shall be con- gued westward along the said forty-ninth parallel of aorth latitude, to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island; said chance, they through the middle of the and of Euca's Straits, to the Pacific Ocean, provided, however, that the navigation of the whole of the said channel and straits, south of the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, remain free and open to both parties
NOTICE UNION CHIPEL Wifte open fin Public Wor. ship м 10 O'clock BM, and subsit-past Forlog the water mortis,
Yaetonin, 19th October 18.6.
ARRIVALS,
September 6, Joseph Somes, from Singapore; 11. St Paul, (Am.) from Salem; 11. Riflemang from Singapore 16, Cheerful, from Hongkong, 19 F. Warren, (Am) from Boston: 22, Mermaid, from Hongkong Flecha (Sp) from Hongkong; 23, Vizcaing, (Sp.) from Hongkong; 23 Spencer, from Singapore; 24. Fortuna, (Sp) from Amoy; 25, Narcizo. (Sp) from Macao 26, Berenice, from Sydney, 40, Cleopatra. and Sabine, (French) Pri. gates, from Chusan." October: 1, Sisters. from 11. Town; Ida, from Singapore; 1, W. Ackers fom Shanghai; 7, Halma, from Shanghai; 7. Helena, from Shanghai, 8. Dardo. (Sp) from Singapore
13, Victoriense; (French) Frigate, from China; 19, Palnama, from Hong kong, 23, Robin Gray, from Singapore,
ARBALLEDA
September 6 Giraffe, for Sydney; 9, Navigator, [Am] for Hongkong; 8, Inglehorough, for Fork; 9. Titania, for Philless; 9. Card Chevereux [Frch.j for Bordeaux: 10, Carthage [Am] for New York 23, Maid of Julpha, for Singapore, 23, Guess for Amoy October 8, Minerva, for Clyde 8, Kens ington, [Am] for New York; 8. Flecha (Sp) for Singapore; 11, Numancia, (Sp for Singaperr; 15, Stabler for Boston; 1, Saue, for H. Town 15, Cheerful, for Sydney; 18, Mermaid, for Hong- kong 20, R. Albeit for London; 21, Helen Al. gusta, [Am.] for Boston, 23, Sisters, for E. Town,
VESSELS IN VICTORIA HARBOUR. 27
ninth parallel of north latitudo shall be found to in-bearing the flag blue] of Rear Admiral Sir An If, From the point at which the fury. M. S. Agincourt, Captain W. J. H. Johnstone, tersect flie great nortbur branch of the Columbia Thomas J. Cochrane, C. B... river, the navigation of the said branch shall be 11, M. S. Hoff, Commander Gordon... free and open to the Hudson's Bay Company, and M. SI Ringdove, Commander Clifford, to sit Brush gets tracing with the same to the H. M. S. Dedalus, Captain McQuhae. point where the said branchem the matu stream HM. Festal Captain Talbot
understood. ne thus des
and thereo, down, sd-mata. M. B. Wolterene, Commander Hoy, cess into and H. M. St. Fulture, Captam Macdougal.
HC Str. Pluto, Lieut. Airy (Repairing.) He MT. S Sapphire, Master-Comling, Fittock. H. M. Tr. S. Alligator, Master Commanding King. IL M. 8. Minden, 2nd Master in charge smer, Hospital and Store ShN GUNA
Bosh and Co udaMachiar and Co
Macvicar and Co
Dept and Eb Whale ship
23 Matheson and Co bral maMacricar Lull Co Whitélikad, K. Macgregormod do Saker I Matheson and Do
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