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IENT NOHFICATION

Strom Carton:

R. JONESTON

14h July 1817.

Hongkong 13it July, 18:17 espatch No. 180 of the 9th

predine that spine had been edoction of Four Hundred

onel Campbell, K Fire and Legislative Pouncil gde si serior Companies being also about to embark.

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in Floo ander the command of Lleut. Colonel Simmonds, ne Lieut - Geacral feels it incumbent upon him, to record the apillion

Public notice cecarning he entertains of the state of discipline and good order which this excellent Corps has acquired, and condently trast the detachment now about to embark, will continge to maintain that character which the Ceylon Ride Rog bas carned during its long service in this Island

Font of the Mercantile Com- set and scattered elluations, tion was first drawn by BOIDE

of the body to the posun zal, adjoining the prevent English actories to the written opinions, find

The upon the very first conclusion of the Supplementary. nge to the Eselward of the Creek suggested count of their close proximity to the English sluch a smail bil lyt scross the narrow creek

make theint till more in mediately contiguous in

more poolsbetion of the pre DAS

Madaraus, Eequire

20, MC, Cantou.

F. DAVIS.

The Copy).

AR. JONH&TON.

The notice appeared last Saturday,

THE FRIEND OF ARTIVA

Sta Assistant Surgeon Dr. Clayton is attached to and wil do duty with the Ceylon Rifle Regiment from the 7th Instast inclusive

Dr. Clayton will embark on board the freight Ship conco On Wednesday the 17th instant, in Medical charge of the Detachment of the Geylon Ride Regiment for longkong E. CHARLTON, D. 1. G.

desparch referring to the renting of warehousea, St John Davie, in his reply to Mr Macgregor's acknowledges the reasonableness of the objections put forth to isolated spots in distant situationa. His Excellency points to the four Hongs to the eastward of the factories, now offered at a yearly rent of from $2100 to 87200. The rent itself is a fatal objec- tion; and although a communication could be esta blished by throwing a bridge over the creek, the Hongs would still be scattered, and the residents AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.

exposed to frequent tumults. Four Hongs are VICTORIA, SATURDAY, JULY 17ra, IN37,

quite inadequate to the demands of the community. Health and comfort require that Europeans should THE Pollinger with the Bay mail, arrived at 8 o'clo k have larger and more airy dwellings than they now last night. Her dates are, Galle, 28th June, and singa- occupy in the old factories, and this can only be pore Oth inst

obtained by a grant such as that on Honan, which it appears that Sir John Davis bas tamely given up. During the past twenty years the foreign population has more than doubled, but no provision has been made for the increase. They are huddled together in narrow lanes dignified with the name of licngs, and it is only a matter of astonishment that disease of a fatal description has not resulted from crowd ing so many human beings into such a limited Spac Some of the houses are scarcely bubitable, requiring props; and all of them-with the excep- tion of those fronting the river, secured by the Ame- ricans during the war-are unsuited to the climate, and unfit for European occupation. It is true, that the new English Hong has of late years bren added to those that formerly existed, but it stands on ground onco owned by the East India Company, and is not an extension granted by China.

Our readers are already las possession of the latest news, supplied as usual by the Extra of the Straits Times. We merely add from a slip of the Strails Tunes, in anticipa tion of is publication on the 10th, a short description of Lie Poffinger on the

The Pand O. Company's Steamer Pottinger which nr. ved here on Wednesday last is a magnificent vessel The Jullwing details have been obligingly placed at our disposal :

Amount of tonnage. ....

.100G 1401 No. 590 Feet 940

Horse Power.

Length overall Y

Width of Beam (extreme) Depth of Hold

GI 30

The Pottinger has four decks, two of which ran entacly fore and aft. The accommodations are on the mos! extrera-

Eant (we were going to write gorgnoes) scale, affording all the comforts and luxuries of a Boating lamern to 130 passengers, vhuse wants are supplied and whese spirits are cheered i

ouward progress of the savage by the former favorite conmander of the Lady May Wood, † aplain Cooper. The Pottinger cartica 400 ion of coals and consumus, an at aeroge, 33 tons in twenty urbansa.

**From and after Reptember next the Pottinger, Pekin, and Broganzu, will take up the line between Hongkong and Bombay, each in turn begig overhauled in the Company's dock at the latter pince. This arrangement will place as Constantly in direct correspondence with eylon and Rem. bay and admit of the ima vergele being properly cleaned for the voyage. On the bottoms of the Pekin and Pottinger a by to measure rate. Las e lected no o na considera.

impede prograss traden ine water

Tan regulations for planting trees on the Queen's Road have been made public, and will save those who intend availing themselves of the privilege a tedious journey to the office of the Surveyor-Gene- Ial. Some parts of the line where trees could be planted to the greatest advantage is still in be pos session of Government: for instance, from Messrs Lindsay & Co 's premises to the Murray Barracks; and, as the expense would be tiffing, it were advis able that government should show an example by planting such trees as are considered most suitable. 3. The trees can be planted at such distances apart as Proprietors may vee fit.

2 The centre of the tronk of tree must be 8 feet from the boundary of road, or i foot 6 inches from the curb atome when stone channels are built.

3 As it will be necessary to enclose and protest the young trees from tajory by a ralling and support them by Brats or otherwise, the railing of whatever description shall not exceed 8 feet in diameter; the struts or other framework for their support shall not project more than foot & inches from centre of trunk, or where stone chan- Des are built, the foot of strut may rest upon the curb, bat not in the channel.

Iflarge trees are planted and the struts require a mate extended base town stated above the inner struts must be horisontal, 73 feet above the pathway, and supported by the wall of bouse or otherwise, so that the passage of the public may not be impeded.

4. The branches of trees are required to be lapped or trimmed from time to time as occasion may require, and

on that they shall not interfere with the passage of the 5. Full information may be obtained regarding the plant- les of trees, on reference to a letter from Mr Fortune to the Colonial Secretary, and published in the hine Mail of 5th May, 1846; but it must be understood that the roots of some sorts of the trees therein described might in Course of time to very great damage to the fundation of adsining walls and also to the surface of the road: it is therefore advisable (bat these trees should not be planted, particularly the Banyan, as it might be necessary from the above cause to remove the tree altogether to a few years but where buildings or drams do not interfere, the Fanyan might be planted with advantage.

By Order,

putile, either on the path or readway.

CHAL ST. CEO CLEVERLY, Stryer Generel

Er following "General Order" was marked for publication weeks ago, but with some other ex- it was lost eight of The non-arrival of the compelled us to have reference to papers, and why this explanation for us delay, ying before the public Colin Campbell's opinion arrived from Geylon.

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control and

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1st have ample themoneve neusted

biliting the public.

against misappli int such meblic accountant sufficient authority. So, also the

neral of the Exchequer is check on the Treasury, it being his duty to take care that the warrania sued from the Treasury to

ment before be issues his wartant to the Bank of lum are in accordance with the authority of Parlia

England, where the public money is now paid in and issued out, instead of the ancient course of the receipt of the Exchequer."

The office of the Treasury, like several others of the government offices, forms a part of the palace of Whitehall, or the new palace at Westminster, the limits of which are declared by stat. 28 Hen. VIILE 12 (AB, 1538) to extend from the Thames on the east, to the Park Wall on the west, and from

minster Tall, and the gate of what was called the Charing Cross on both sides of the way to West Little Sanctuary, which stood to the west of the Abbey, so as to include the old place at West. The palace minster as a member and parcel of it. of Whitehall was formerly called York place, from having been the town residence of the Archbishops of York, one of whom, Walter de Grey, purchased it in 1248, from the Convent of Black Friars, to which it had been bequeathed by Hubert de Burgh, the Justiciary of England, and famous minister of Henry II., five years before. It is supposed to have derived its name of Whitehall from the addi- tions built by Cardinal Wolsey, who was the last Archbishop of Yerk by whom it was inhabited, and upon whose fall, in 1530, it came into the pos session of the Crown. Henry the Eighth," says Mr Thomas, "made divers additions, among which were the tennis courts, bowling alleys, and a cock- pit. It was the Cockpit that Charles the Second (when on his restoration he put the Treasury in commission) assigned to the Lords Commissioners for their chambers; and in this locality their cham bers have ever since remained. The present Tren- sury Chambers are on or adjoining to the spot where the cockpit formerly stood. For further information upon this subject the reader may be referred to a paper by Mr Weir in the 5th volume of London; edited by Charles Knight,' 1844. What was called the cockpit, however, in latter times, was a separate building from the Treasury, occupying nearly the site on which the Board of Trade now stands. It existed, we believe, fill after the com On his recent visit to Canton, bad Sir John Davis mencement of the present century; sad for a great personally inspectul the old Hongs he would have part of the reign of George IFL, it used to be the scen that better accommodation was required (a custom for the King's Speech to be read in the truth with which he must have been impressed at Cockpit the day before it was delivered at the open- the time, or he would not have made it the conditioning of the session of Parliament. The discontiner of sparing the city), and we really trust that this ance of this practice was at first much complained matter will not be lost sight of by his Excellency's of by the Upposition. The Cockpit was the tesi

dence of Cromwell for sometime before he assumed the supreme power; having been assigned to him while he was pursuing his conquest of Ireland by the House of Cominous, which, on the 25th of Fé briary, 1650, passed a resolution to the effect, "That the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland have the use of the lodgings called the Cockpit, of the Spring Garden, and St. James's House, and the command of St. Jargos's Park."

SUCCESSUA

On Wednesday we laid before the public two a grant cases of extortion, to which ive will again Refer in an early publication. We are informed that certain parties are threatening the Chinese with imprisonment if they dare to speak the shameful way in which they have been plundered.

Today we would recall to the recollection of our readers a former exposure of a not unjust and ille- gal tax imposed upon an unforultate class of Chi- ness fermales. The subject is a delicate one; but it is the duty of the public journalist to denounce such abuses, as they are not only censurable in them selves, but they convey to the natives an impression that this Government is profiting by the wages of infamy, The women referred to pay monthly one end a half dollars; and this system has been in existence for about two years. The laws of England do not sanction the licensing of iniquity, the raising a reve nua from it, or, indeed, its recognition in any fern, unless it be to draw the victims from its vortex. These laws extend to all Crown Colonies, though Colonial Legislatures may pass such local acts as are required by circumstances. We look in rain for any ordinance providing for the tax referred to, and we ask, when and by whom was it imposed? How are the funds expended? who collects them? and to what party are they accounted furt

totally opposed to British law and British principics, T'he tax itself is an arbritary and unjust exaction, It is to be condemned by the religious man as well as by the moral man. "It is an outrage to our Suve reign whose representatives thus sully the dignity of the Crown by fishing for lucre in streams of pollution, The funds are partly expended on an hospital, into which Chinese patients will not enter, preferring their own doctors and their own medicines. But a sal part of the fund is so laid out, and we repeat the question, how is it expended?

We are informed that the police are employed an tax gatherers; but wish to know who is the recipi- ent of their collections, and to what member of Co- vernment the recipient accounts for the funds. Perhaps some of our friends can throw light upon this point. We are further informed that since the appoint ment of a Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry, the tnx has not been collected. Be this true or not, the merits of the CSD are the same the tardy dis continuance only showing conscious guilt somewhere "It is to be feared that this soar of the numerous cases of extortion with which it is to be deeply re- gretted the names of members of a British Colonia

overnment have been associated. We would be reluctant to charge any man with such crimes, we simply polat out the abuse which is known and discussed openly. It is for Sir John Davis to purge his Clovernmers from the filth with which it is so ciated to disavow Buy connection with such impu His Excellency requires to do ore. No math would acclise hin of lerving private revenge From the natives but There is a servant c servants of the Crown ether pected poi, such crimes in their mbark the subject of over anons

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5th March 1817

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The Treasury used to be presided over by a great officer of state, styled the Lord High Treasurer, who was constituted such by the sovereign's deli very to him of a staff; and who was also Treasurer of the Exchequer, to which office he was appointed by letters patent. From the time of Elizabeth, however, the Lord High Treasurer began to dis- coutine acting personally in the latter capacity; although there is evidence that he still occasionally did so down to the removal of the Exchequer to Oxford By Charles 1. in February, 1643.

thereafter appoint two commissioners (or Junior. Lords) in nd lition to the number which might then by law be appointed. Since 1714 there have been always two Joint Secretaries of the Treasury who go out like the Commissioners, on a change of miniatry and since 1805 there has also been a gaz manent Secretary, called Law Clork und Assistant- Secretary, who cannot sit in parliament,

The Sovereign Mr Thomas states, "occ sionally presided at the Board of Treasury until the accession of George III, when, partly owing to his youth, but probably more in consequence of the personal interests of the Sovereign being the general revenue, owing to the establishment of a for the first time disconnected from those of the

separate Civil List, the practice was discontinued; but the royal throne still remains at the head of the table,"

The office of First Lord of the Treasury, bog ever, is now one rather of dignity, authority, and patronage, than of the actual management of the revenue. The Board of Treasury sits daily; bot the business it traceacts is now only that of a parti cular department of the public service. The fact," observes Sir Henry Parnell (Financial Refora, 1832), which is admitted on all sides, that the Treasury has for many years ceased to exercise the control that constitutionally belongs to it over the public expenditure, makes it even more than pro- bable, that, if it (should) resums and rigorously enforce its rights over the departments, a great den! of useless expenditure would be put a stop to." He then quotes from a manuscript Treasury document a speech of the late Marquis of Lansdowne, deliver- ed in the House of Lords on the 28th February, 1797, as proving that before the administration of Mr Pitt the Treasury exercised a general and ac. tive control over the public expenditure. At the time when the spoke. Lord Lansdowne complained, "every office seemed to be the Lord of its own will, and every office seemed to have unlimited power over the purse of the nation, instead of their being, as the spirit of the constitution directed, under the constant check of the Treasury. It used," his Lordship continued, to be the distinguishing f ture of the Bush administration, that the Trea sury was its feart;

parts, and every thing flowed from it as the commanding centres the other departments were necessarily subordinate in point of fact, in former times the heads of the great departments for the management of the expenditure attended the Board of Treasury with their annual estimates, for the purpose of examination and of explanation previously to their being submitted parliament. The estimates were fully considered in all their details, and the officers who attended were questioned and heard previously to the fing decision and approbation of the Bourd being entered

nourishment to the stributed the necessary.

on its minules 21s was alone with the

ancient and constant and uniform system of check and control which had been invariably

exercised

by the Treasury over the expenditure of all the departments, in all their branches and in all their

details"

The business of the Treasury Board is describet by Ale Adolphus, in his Political States of the British Empire, published in 1818, as being to consider and determine upon all matters relative give directions for the conduct of all boards and to His Majesty's Civil List or other revenues; 10

persona intrusted with the receipt, management, or expenditure of the and revenues to sign all warrants for the necessary payments thereoul, and geliemily to superintend every branch of revenue belonging to his Majesty or the public. The expense of the Treasury, including the Commissariat Department, in 1827, was £80,542.

The Commissariat is a department of the Trea sury, the business of which is defined in a Treasury Memorandurn by the Assistant-Secretary, dated 6th March, 1844, to be, to raise, keep, and disburs according to fixed regulations, the whole of the funda required to carry on the foreign expenditure The office of Lord Treasurer was for the first of the country that is to say, principally, in time time put in commission-that is to say, was ap pointed to be exercised by Lords Commissioners dependencies. The Commissariat officers," says of peace. the expenditure in our colonies and other by James I, in June 1812, after the death of the the Memorandum, "ne, in effect, as sub-treasurers Earl of Salisbury. The last Lord Treasurer was to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury in the the Duke of Shewsbury, who was appointed, in foreign prestasions of the Crown The Cou retuarkable circumstances, on Friday, the 30th missariat," it is added, also provides, keeps in July, 1714, two days before the death of Queea store, end issues the provisions, forage, fuel, and Anne. I was at the meeting of the Cabinet, already light, for the use of all the different branches of the set presented themselves so unexpectedly. Aftercessary supplies of water; provides all land and noticed, at which the Dukes of Argyle and Somer service abroad; furnishes the troops with the be the two Dukes had taken their seats, one of the inland water transport, and, in the absence of Council, Tindal proceeds to relate, represented how properly authorised naval agent, takes up all the necessary it was, in case the Queen died, that the freight required for the conveyance of troops and place of Lord Treasurer (from which Harley, Eastures by sea." Sir Henry Purnell conceives it to of Oxford had been suddenly removed three days be an objectionable arrangement that the business before) should be filled; "to which," he adds, "the of providing bread, meat, forage, feel, and candles, whole Board assenting, the Duke of Shrewsbury for the army and anillery in the United Kingdom, was proposed and unanimously approved, as the and fuel and candles for the troops on foreign sto fittest person for that high trust. Sir Richard ons," should be under the management of the Blackmore, Dr. Shadwell, Dr. Mend, and the other physicians who were examined, having assured the

Treasury, Government," he states, "wished to Council that the Queen was sensible, the Chancellor, the providing of other military stores was transferred transfer this business to the Ordnance in 1822, when with the Duke of Shrewsbury and some other Lords, to it; but the then Master Ganetal objected to it were ordered to attend her, end lay before her the unanimous opinion of the Council; upon which sho

The peculiar unfitness of the Treasury to transact said, they could not recommended a person she require that the transfer of it should not be longer this kind of business, and the fitness of the Ordnance, liked better than the Duke of Shrewsbury; and, delayed."' giving him the Treasurer's staff, bid hirm use it for the good of the people. The Duke would have returned the Lord Chamberlain's staff, but she de aired he should keep them both; so the same person was at once possessed of three of the highest places of trust, honour, and profit under the Crown of Great Britain, being Lord Treasurer, Lord Chain berlain, and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland" The Duke was confirmed in his office of Lord Treasurer by George I, but soon afterwards, on the Rib of October, 1714, a patent syns issued, appointing Charles Earl of Halifax and other Commissionera in hie room and ever since then the office has been in comitoisaloo

since the commencement of the reign of George II. The succession of First Lords of the Treasury

has been as follows:-1757, Thomas Holles Pelham, of Bute, 1788, April, George Grenville. Esq.; 1755, Duke of Newcastle: 1762, May, John Stuart. Earl

Joly Charles Watson, Marquis of Rockingham; 1766, August, Augastos Eliary Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton 1770, Bahruary, Frederick North (Lord North): 1722 April, Cheries Wasson, Marquis of Rockingham : 1752 Jun William Pety, Earl of Sheld

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