True Copy)
Colonial Secretary.
Miscellanions. RECEIVE
4343. trong trong
Government offices, Victoria
Houghing, 30th March, 1881.
My Lord Duke,
I have the honor
to acknowledge the receipt, on the 27th Justant, of
your Graces despatches
Original
follows:_
[No. 4 to 11, the last of 10th Feby. 1861. Letter of
Circulars of 17th and 19th deer 1860.
His Grace
The Duke of
Newcastle
Duplicates.
Mos 2 and 3, and Circular
of 26th January 1861.
I have the houn tobe, My Lord Dune, You Hences,
most obedient Servant, Ummer Ge Robinson
July. 1120/5
The Duke of Newcastle.
Dir Aurcules Robinson
Hougtong, 30th March, 1881.
Received
February 1867.
Despatches to Will 710
licknowledging receipt of
This Grace,
411 chong chóng Confidential.
RECEIVED
Government Offices,
Victona, Hongkong,
My Lord Duke,
forward copies
30th March 1861.
I think it right
a Remarkable
gentlemen
Correspondence with resident in Macao, conveying which it may
information, I
Erdvisable that Her
Majesty's
"s overnment be put in Proséession.
Count Scala, the gentleman
understand, an
in question, is I believe a Frenchman, and a political refugee; he is, as his Etter will lead your Grace to
obfect of some Puspicion to other
foreign residents in China, by reason of his mysterious requisition of money. From no apparent
An unable to state
be, antecedents with any particulering boud he has the reputation of grant intelligences.
talent and in
· personally sustnown to
I have this honor to be
with the highest respect,
hond Butte,
Fan Grace's mat obedient humble servant
The Ruth of Marcoustle, Member Zellotinen
te, te, te.
Gourner aue Gunnandu - m
Mr Intercin
Its dons no affear that ca auth
with Count Kala
acts when I imagine the Indian
For more he perfect cafalle
of dealing
If he is not a
swordle he is remante
they unlucky tit
so like.
It Thear a
Autons mis-
Conception
of English
Charath trapper in a
clear mon & Refpon
Explast" Board" in likez tih Fatten in
a litten in the syste
a Dunar.
conoris affair
supfore it should to to the Ed
A. pretty widens sinferome, Fat
H.G. Ihr Winther glowconthe
Lie M. Robeisen to
Despaten from Gov.
Confidential
30 March 1861.
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Macas, 18th March 1881.
The Honorable
Mr Mercer,
Colonial Secretary,
Hougtong .
I have to Communicate.
Something of a peculiar nature. which may eventually affect;
high degree,
revenues
Lud British Commerce in China;
May I request you
Communicate this note to H.E.. The Governor,
and obtain, for me, leave to open.
Correspondence.
strielly private the subject.
سا ساگلے دور کے
obedient Servant
(Signed) The Scala.
True Copy,
Clonial Serratury.
Colonial Sustangs Office,
Victoria, Hongkong,
19th March 1861.
have the hover to
Actuwledge receipt of your letter
of yesterday,
to malle a
you propose
streetly powate
cation on a matter
Fear and
a peculiar
important natures. I thall be glad to receives Any such communication from You, and shall of Course keep it stocally porvate, provided always that the interests of the publie service be not affected by such
Reservation and reticence.
I have, te,
( Ligned f W. J. Mereer, Colonial decretary.
The Pount Scala,
Inne Coppy.
Jr. 10/11/6
Macao, 22 March, 61.
The Honorable
Mr. Mercer,
Colonial Secretary, Hongkong .
It being highly important for me not to lose time, I have forwarded per. "Thunder" to the "Board of Opium " of Calcutta,
letter of which the Enclosed
The terror of said letter with
point out the reasons of my having
visited Amigapore, Batavia, and
China during the last three
If with dice date many
at the same time.
years. other. things.
If E. The Governor of Hongkong
Knows much better than I do the importance of the Opruim question. in its relations, both with the revenues of
Indian, and with the quilibrium
the exchange betiveer
and Chinese produces. My desire to bring forward
H.D. in this affair
To facilitate
all Communications between this
"Board" and myself,
in case thei
Hip I have tatten should have the result I Expect.
It will besides save time, and the Secrecy of the affair, which I fancy, a great point
در مه کویر
the "Board" and
and for English
Commerce, setting aside the political point of view.
Should F... E. think it worth
investigate
white to in
ate the matter,
I-A ready to come. herops and Explanations.
to Come forward with
Mulit then, I remain,
every obedient himthe servant,
[signed] Et Scala.
True Boppy
Colonial Mustury.
Tucksure
Enclosure
in the foregoing for
Macas, 20th of March 1881.
To the Secretary
of the "Board
"Board of Opium"
Calcutta.
I then to ignorant of any thing
Connected with the "Administration".
in India, that I heard
the "Board.
of a few days ago.
not the names of the Members,
their rank
the administrative
hierarchy. – You will therefore Excuse me if I do not address you Your proper qualification, and
Iubject of the
I come at once to the
present correspondence.
I produce a smoking drug, Chemically identical with the best Opium purified by the Chinese.
During the last twelve months. I have, snigle. handed, manufactured and sold between ten and eleven thousand taels of said drug; and hand, orders to so an amount, that Imust
I have now,
Juggling.
look out for acitance.
about $1.00
per to. It would scarcely cost 50 Conts if
I were to act upon a large
To obtain such
I have toiled eleven.
a result
cance to Chin the years, rape the fruit of past labors. _
I have renewed inter
years ago
with Mongol
intimacy
Priners who exercise a great influence
in the North of China,
entered into direct communication
and traves
the South.
with severale Mandarines of
I'll talk plainly.
I wished not only
for wealth, but also for politicall
influence,
and I calentated thus:
1. The growth
the poppy is
limited, and opinion
expensive, in
spite of its adulterations, which
from year to year..
a Yet the Chinese Market would absorb
twenty lines the quantity produced
if the present day, if the article was this costly, that is
that of was
to say, if it did not pass through so many hands tiefen it reached the Consumer.
2. The tear and silks
have become articles.
isserssity
of Chin absolute
England, both for the population and for the Exchequer. "But the riport of British goods-in
heir is relatively quite insignificant; and the equilibrium of the Buchanges is maintained only with the help of. the Opruim of
3. Should the Indian Opcem not day sale in China,
any longer a ready
find any
the Commerce
Great Britain would
: receive a severe blow; for the Chma
Leao, at least, would still be in demand, and could be obtamed enly aganist silver _ an ex-
exchange
of which financiers well them the alter impossibility, when the actual proportion of gold and silver in Europe is taken into Considerations.
a Market 7 finding
For its main prade
aduce and chief Revenue, India,
India falls into
trouble, and the reaction is
diately felt at home.
(I am do certain of what
Ladvance that I'll at once clear.
Macao and
the position . _ The people of Stongking,
Canton suspect te Counterfeiting Opicem - they silent, because they have no proofs. Et. I am watched. Now if
to send to Hongthing 2 Levere drug for examination,
it's bustory
in the "Daily Press" the overland sheets would soon repeat the thing, and. Be Funds in England would fall af
Do Conacions are
the financiers in Europe that the prosperity of India, and therefore
the mercantile and pohtical supremacy of England in the Indian and Pacific
Langes upon
Ocenes Kangs
ufson that most slender
thread, "the Open Question
But this is a
Return to my Subject,
digression;
5. Any incumstance that would
in a given
in three
three years,
Spartially,
érmihilate in tote or even.
of Opium
the growth of
in there is oro market, there is no
productions
production _
would therefore
deeply wound British interests.
I have said
I wished for wealth and
influence.
political
To effect what I have
resummed in the five preceding paragraphs
Coubtedly Givi
would undou
Anywhere
me the second,
on the Continent of Europe_
As to the first I had made up my muid to obtain it, at once,
following
any further labor,
I must preface this portion.
of my Communication with a remark without which I could not make
myself well understoods.
I have passed nearly five
Mongolia
olia and Manchuria
in Constant intercourse with the
traders and military posts
tributaries of the Amoor.
the I traded
emuggled, as you please, Patna Opium, which
my Agents forwarded to me by Yankee whalers and by my
own ships, and which I sold at
prices varying from #26an to # 3000- per
chenmet and
a botanist, and I thought even at that time that I could Extract all
the Components of Opium from Varion, plants
Cominonly thread
than poppy is _Later in Paris,
the Seventeen
Streetly analyzed
alyzed the
components Known in Opinions; I Sought the Gonitalents at other
fources.
Sources than the poppy, and
found them.
Deficient therapeutical point of produce was perfect, and
even superior
Cho the best Patues,
wtailing
Churn and studied the position
I found Opicin Nome forbidden, yet all the Manially
Mandarins.
woeve pomillat out to me not only realizing mormones profits by their direct participation
the trade,
but also by levying heavy taxes upon the importation of the articles, and upon its sale in retail.
errande.
got hold of pelly Mandarins, go to the North, on my Through them. I renewed for
and made trown in
Connexions, certain quarters.
project by which
the revenues of the Mandarins of Empire and those of the Crown could
be increased
hundred fold -
The incidents of the huo last expeditions have caused one to lose tivo
years But the thinly is yet pending and the more easy of Wecution that the province of therang ting produces at the lowest rates mcredible the ingredient's required. quantities of all
Wealth is there - it cannot be
Frame but to come to n
final arrangement with several
Mandariles, whom I see, whenever I think pooper, exact from them a garantee for payment of any sum which I please to name, after
Reasonabl
leaching them the process, besides.
he may much less
yearly pension; and the whole ended in a few weeks, in much time than the answer of the "Board
of Opini
can reach
have attamed the thin
The natural answer to this is:
Why don't you
last until the end
I feel so lafe and fear to little to give weapons to be used agamit me that I'll now show the other side of the question, and enter into two Considerations of a peculiar nature.
I throw England and the Englishs. – My birth, wealth, and political position (I enjoyed the two I 1887) gave me access to many of the best families
the Tingdom - No-one respects and admine's more than I do. the individual Caracter of the English ; but on the other hand, education, national antipathy, prejudices of all sorts, had most foolishly to the tires, a bitter foe to the nation. That excunly
no thing;
made me,
Amounted ✡
it was stupid.
it was to
high degree. — Yet it was
dent desire to hurt-
England, vitally, by the same means that would restore to me a fortune even greater lost. It so happened that thes the hero y mr. love, my
than that which I have
which the late was made ideas have undergone.
Ruenced by injust
radical change
spoliations at home, and Cushied by
power which I execrated,
The feeling, novine, it little to my
I panted by revenge. ____
however, is so little inherent to was nature, that I would soon havd forgotten, had not persecution in
its lowest form followed Chuia.
Gradually embittered,
I have sworn never to return home,
at least to long as power would Uman in the hands of those whom I hate.
Still more :
aceus tored
to what is called "High life" foud" scientific pursuits, I can live bub in France; Prussia, Austria, on England;
England then and in
her laws will I seek for and for protection.
Ae that newly formed
resolution could not well
agree with the plans I had conceived, I reflected upon the motives that had you rise to them, and I acknowledged I then trickedness and then folly.
of the Considerations
That n'im
I have alluded to_
Now to the other
I have passed
The three years,
the Chinese have taught. Closes ng not to repose any faith in them Dealing with the Mandarins I'll
receive a large sum at Londonthedly
But I doubt the pension would
be paid beyond
Kevin is an
a year or two-
of Civil
of dissolution. To plan
: If not
the Frands
of the greedy mandaring a revenue
swich must necessarily
ot necessarily arise from my
discovery would render thems
towards strangers, and I verbearing would become the first bietin.
Another togestion presents
itself _ " Why do I not keep booothing
I have done untit
merensing only the Juan
o my prove
The leaton is soon told. I may come to that, but only if I can not.
do otherwise.
I have Easily obtained the ingredients I requirs, to long
Evanted them in kwall
quantities. however it seems that & have Excited the Cupidity of "Good many persons.
I am watched not only by the Chines and the Portuguese, but also by all the Strangers
ros in the South of China
Some of these have even,
gone length of Calling in chemists from Ausser, from S. Francisco, and from Australias, but good analytic chemists
they have not yet
are rare,
able to discover the origin of any of the ingredients weed by me- My drug
Almans with their and with Chriese No! Anothing opium pronounce it Persian, others Malwa; I tell them it comes from the taction
Coast of Africa -
Besides this, as I have said, I am I have Single-handed - that is to say an assistant, a friend, who manipulates m of the Compounds of my drug, the most bulky
But he throws
literally nothing of the Concerns, and quite incapable of going through the departement. I have attotted to him,
Ricovery
my helping him, chemielly
through every phasis of the manipulation
Should I wish to increase the -duction of my drug,
emplay great many
hands, and
teach the process to European Overseers; and the thing is of such a magnitude, monetarily speaking, that no chance friendship could resist to the strong impulse & self
aggrandrsement; in which case would have m'a
very short while
Competitors who may
Command.
capital and undercell produce upon the market.
I have told the whole as
could, and I now mater
following proposition to the Board of Opium "of
I'll enable the "Board" b
increase the import of Opeum in
-multiplied a
Chiin upon a gigantic scale - The export duty
on the prepared drug, hundred fold, will necessarily increase the wealth of India, and the Enchequer at home The mcreased productions will facilitate the purchase of Chmise "produces - A divination in the Jerne
of the drug, justified Possible by the low rate of its Components, all of them to be plentifully found in India, will largely contribute
to increase its Consumption.
To repay this:
:ed and rendered
Will the "Brand" Geri en
what I would have
acked at
the hands of the Mandarins??_
If so, I'll expect an answer by the next mail, that will start from Calcutta after the arrival, to that port, of the steamer "Thunder" which carries this letter.
With said answer, I likewise expect the Confidential cherish of the "Board"; to make him test
Components, and reason
thing with me,
member of the
"Board", fully siverted with powers
to treat.
all labor
Mutil then, I suspend
Failing the answer
I'll of course make this best
bargain I can.
Love Copy.
Colonial Pluntary.
efederten 7. Thenisle Seg.
Youard MAY WElliot Mark Rogers
Fortescue 9
Conterede
3 June Wotto.
I am dis? by the
Duke of Newcastle to
havsinil byer, for the
_ information of the Leegy Pate for India in (omnil, copy of a Conferential dep: 3 from the Ger. of H. Kup
with it's Enclosed cor.
ee with Count Scala
Who is stated lole a Freehmen Uiding
eesiding
Governa Sir H. Robinson
H. 4 to 43 Sunuary to March.
Volume 1
14 January Reporting execution of the Criminal Abdullah None
Reporting Sale of Land at Aberdeen and Apleechow, on the 374 and 4 t Instant.
Replying to Mr Fortescue's Despatch 19103 of 8 November last, respecting free passages ordered for two Sisters of Charity sent to Honghong by the Framenverein of Berlin -
Acknowledging receipt of Despatches to Ne 106 of 26 November,
Transmitting Quarterly Returns for the- quarter ending 31 December, 1866
Original
Forwarding Lord Elgins Proclamation announcing transfer of Noroloon to the Government of Hongkong.
Reporting-appointment of Mr. May
to be Civil Commissioner of Korsloon.
Reporting appointment by Ford Elgin of
a Commission to investigate claims on Kowloon
Forwarding Relinn of Revenne and Expenditure for 1860 with comparative Statement for 1889 and 1800
Acknowledging receipt of Sundry Duplicate
Despatches
No of Date of purpatch Despatch
Subject of Despatch
No of Inclosures
Original (Continued)
29th Jannary Reporting proceedings connected with.
the release of Mt Moss from the Hong Kong Gavl, wherein he had been recently confined pursuant to Sentence of Her Majesty's - Minister in Japan.
Applying for the refund of £ 26, 4.0. –
incurred with the maintenance of 2 Soldiers sent home, in April last, by the Marchiones
Londonderry".
Actinowledging Despatch N2 95 of 1514 October
last, and conveying fidge
Adamo Luggestions
for amending Proceedings in Admiralty in Small piratical cases. -
Transmitting Schedule of Despatches addressed to His Grace during the year
Recommending Letter from Mr Mercer, applying for the Government of the Straits' Settlements.
Letter from Chief
Duplicates
84 February Acknowledging Despatch N9106 of 26 2
November 1860, and reporting transportation. to England of the lunatic Dysoner Mac Codd
Reporting death of my Cooper Turner, Crown Solicitor of Hong Kong...
Reporting appointment of Mr. Hazelana to be crown Solicitor vice Cooper Turner-
deceased..
Conveying remarks on General Grant's Despatch to the Mar office, on the subject of the Knylom cession. Acknpoleaging receipt of Despatches to No 108 of 26th December 1800. -
Reporting Mr. Caldwell's resignation of the office of Registrar General.
-Original-
Conveying suggestions from the Acting
Attorney General for Proceedings in admiralty in small piratical cases.
Forwarding Correspondence with Sient General Sir Hope Grant, respecting the 2
3. Seikh soldiers Convicted of manslaughter in Deck last
and stating reasons for sharing to haidon.
Forwarding
Justice Adams, on the subject o
Japanese Jurisdi
Colonial Secretary.
No of Date of Deep: Despatch
Subject of Deep alth
Original (continued)
26th Febmary Reporting 6 month's leave of absence granted
to Mr Inglis to proceed home on account of ill health, and recommending his application for a
a Pension
Acknowledging receipt of Despatch N°1 of 10th Jannary 1861, and Sundry Circulars
Reporting that the duty of attesting Emigrants Contracts had been assigned to Mr Inglis..
Reporting appointment of Mr. Thomsett, &or. as Acting Harbour Master and Emigration Officer.
Fransmithing Statement of Assets and Liabilities of the Colony on the 10. January 186
Confidential 9th March Report on the currency of the bolmny, withs
dation for its improvement.
Forwarding Requisition for Postage Stamps- Applying for instinctions as to the necessity or otherwise of passing an Ordinance for regulation of the Post office at Hongkong-
Deferring his opinion on the Report of Commissioners respecting the disposition of
land at Kowloon
Recommending etter. Callaghan's application for the office of Attorney General of Hong Kong | 13h Aarch Forwarding Requisition for stores for the use
of the Surveyor General's Department.
Forwarding Correspondence with Liant General Sir Hope Grant, on the unauthorized appropriation of land at Kowloon by the Military Authorities: Actinowledging receipt of Despatches trokes of
No of Inclosures
Forwarding Correspondence with Major General Sir John Michel, relative to the resumption of the military works
at how low by
ussion from the Gover
Recommending Dr Legge's plan for the establishment
Victoria and applying for.
a Central School in
Faustion of the outlay & to
for ins and
Respecting want of trustworthy Interpreters and recommending scheme for the establishment of Colonial Cadetships.
40 26th March dipity observations on the Report of the
Kowloon Land Committee.
On the subject of the Defences of the Colony -
Forwarding correspondence with Rear Admiral Jones subject of the Naval Works at howloon
Acknowledging receipt of Despatcher to MP, 11 of 10 February 1861.
marked "Confidentialitate
Also one
Despatch
Count Scalas upplication respecthings.
for Opisum