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Veneris, 31° die Martii, 1848.
That there be laid before this House, Accounts of the Receipt and Expenditure of the Colony of Hong Kong (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 261, of Session 1847):
Of all Lands that have at any time been leased, sold, or granted to the public in the Colony of Hong Kong; specifying situation, quantity, and rent of each lot, the rents received from each lot, the date of payment, and the arrears,
if any, specifying when such rents became in arrear:
And, of all the Lands which, by non-fulfilment of covenants, forfeiture of depo- sits, or from other causes, have become lapsed to the Crown.
bstract to Land Board
Extract to for 10 and 24
apers presented to
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With reference to the litter
from this befurtment detal
the 5th of February 1847
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to laid Grey the request that you
last
hill move the Forss Commiss.
Kessary
to Cause &
Riture, in conlineshor of
The Land Return of the hea having arrived from Hong Kong, I find that in order to complete to the order off
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the Horne, to have thea
d.
the Perbarnentary Passen & 261 of we ought also of the Themifts and
Retorne of the Revenue &
Expenditure : and I have disku
Disbursements of the
therefore requests that the
Colony
of
present draft might be Hong Kong up to the Catech
prepared.
Have
there
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already
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percoil to be prepared
transmitted to this office tho
enable his Lordsbife to comefly
with the terms of an Orien
and of the House of Commones
Expenditure but unless procured
We have Returns of the Rev: and from the Board
the Board of Audit
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they would not be
a
" continuation of the former
accounts which is what
the Order of the House
regeures.
They
are in
different form from ours.
Nevertheless if you
thd
kink that our accounts
will serve the purpose
I shall be ver
vary glad of
being thus enabled to
present them more
speedily.
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RETURN to an Order of the Honourable The House of Commons,
dated 26 January 1847;-for,
ACCOUNTS of the RECEIPTS and DISBURSEMENTS of the Colony of Hong Kong (in continuation of the last Parliamentary Returns), made up to the latest Period at which. they can be furnished."
ACCOUNTS of the RECEIPTS and DISBURSEMENTS of the Colony of Hong Kong (in continuation of the last Parliamentary Returns, Paper No. 264, Sess. 1846), made up to the latest Period to which they can be furnished.
1st October 1845 to 30th September 1846.
Land Rents
Market Rents
Rents of Buildings
Fees on grants of Leases
RECEIPTS:
Fees on appointment of Serangs
Fees on Marriages and Burials Fees on registering Boats
+
£.
3. d.
£.
13,402 19 7
1,642 6 2
701 4 3
320 5 4
100 10 11
50 7 1
124 13 3
1,550 17 7
1,091 18 7
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Fines, Fees, &c. in Magistrates' Courts Licenses to Publicans and Spirit-dealers
Pawnbrokers -
Auctioneers Salt-brokers Billiard Rooms Opium-farming Stone-quarrying
Duty on Sales at Auction
Police Assessment
Contribution in aid of Police Expenses
Sailing Letters and Passes, granted by Her Majesty's Superintendent?
of Trade
Sale of Stores
Sums recovered
AID levied in the COLONY:
From the Commissariat Chest
Salaries
-
TOTAL RECEIPTS
DISBURSEMENTS:
Wages to subordinate Persons in the Departments of-
Police
Marine
Land
Other Departments
Rations supplied to Police
Contingent Expenses of the several Departments
Formation of a Burial-ground
Formation of Roads, Bridges, &c.
Repairs of Roads damaged by Storm
Erection and Repair of Buildings
Commission on Sales at Auction
Hire of Buildings for Offices
Allowance to Military Engineers while employed upon Colonial Works Allowance to the Coroner for Two Years' Service
Allowance to Assessors of the Police Rate -
Payments on account of the Department of Her Majesty's Superin- Į
tendent of Trade -
PAYMENTS on account of the following CONSULATES :
Canton
Shanghai
Ningpo
-
Amoy
Foochoofoo
Macao
492 11 8 82 11 9 569 15 10
25 10 4,212 10
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2
569 15 10
412 12 6
1,276 14 2
614 12 4
39 7 6
43 6 6
18 18 4
27,348 9 4
60,000
87,348 9
£.
30,967 9 9
4,869 2 9
730 8 4
345 5 9
223 6 8
1,091 16 9
4,625 18 6
154 9 1
14,171 10 4
1,004
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2,743 5 6
1,840 5
106 4 5
191 14 10
200
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41 13 4
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63,306 12 3
7,509 7 9
5,786 5 5
8,009 16 2
4,481 7 8
4,399 7 4
2,645 5 5
110 12 6
TOTAL EXPENDITURE
Audit Office, Somerset House,}
24 February 1847.
261.
32,942 2 3
£.
96,248 14 6
H. F. Luttrell. Henry Arbuthnot.
Edward Romilly.
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Ontrack from
are Adler of the House
Mammour for
a returne
of all Lances land, sold in Hry Hory.
that in
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and there to request that yo
noby
will coull
ве
this Return to be
prepared in the
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the Coler &
specified in
that off
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will transmit it to me
(HONG KONG)
CHINA.
latest Period at which they can be furnished. Paper No. 264, Sess. 1846), made up to the continuation of the last Parliamentary Returns, MENTS of the Colony of Hong Kong (in ACCOUNTS of the RECEIPTS and DISBURSE-
(Dr. Bowring.)
Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed,
31 March 1847.
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Sam commanded by my Lords
Commissione is of the Admiralty to send you herewith, for the infarction
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of Earl Grey, a copy of bestructions which their Lordships have this day addressed to Rear Admiral Lie Francer Collies, respecting the measurer to be adopted for the suppression of Piracy,
for
and
the protection of trading bepels, on the Coasts of China,
be Copy of these bstructions has also be sent to the hajesty Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs den, kü La.
Your most obedient
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Sir,
Admiralty,
16. Nov. 1848.
Align! having
had under their
Consulerator the subject of Princy, which has
the Coasts of
for some time existed on
China, and the
has
system of Convoys
which
originated therefrom, I am commanded
by myhords (commissioners of the Adinerally
to communicate to
to you the following
Remarks for your information & guidance,
and my
Lords desire that
you
will place
these
yourself in communication
matter with 1M's Plenipotenting at
Hemptory with - now to
wishes of Atti's 7
CareAdmiral
Nong Hong
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out the
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the Coasts of Chinia is
to all Commerce; and
well to British
impediment
ious the afore yons
as to Chinese interests.
And their Lordships also think that a
wall regulated system of Co-operation
between the Chinese Authorities and
British Consuls and Naval Comen
would have
-Spect
highly beneficial
Political Relations,
Jex
and would tend to increase and
confirms the influence of our National
Power and Character.
In the other hand the Coast to
Miles
he guarded is of more than 1000 Mit
in extent, and in
is
pemarkable for
Rocky Soland,
Shoals and Currents
and
going facilities to a parauding
The Winds blow
Warfare. It
for Mouths in
Mamatly
Northern and Southem
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desiction
opposing difficulties to the
of Creugers,
& are often
free movement
ovement of Cre
dangerous from their violence, and the distinction between the fair Trader and the Pirate is not always
strongly marked
in
the Past, and
strong general puensures for the soffersion of Perncy are inject
abuse, I must be
Cantion.
ot to
regulated with
Muploads the Naval Force placed under
do not think that
your
Command should be responsible
for the general security of
the
Walles in the ammedente nechatonshir
y
of Hong Kong. This is a Colonial
catrust, & a Colonial floating Probin
interest,
Police
should
direction
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should be organized for the purpose, though the aid of the Ships Seamen
under
your orders should readily
be afforded to
any operation having
for its object the Capture
ait the Capture and destruction
Ships
Upon the Castion
under
the Castion Coast of China the
your
secasionally.
Command
might
do some good, though they could hardly pretend entirely to suppress Piracy without a considerables increase of Force.
hat Beitain is bound by Treaty Vessel at each of the
hae, Nerifpro,
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maintain
Ports of the
Shang
Foo- chow foo
ad
mfords doubt whether these
, and
Amoy,
Nepals are of
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to British Merchants
of any advantage
stationary
and Consuls
Consuls statio
in the Ports,
commensurate with that which would be
dorived from them currence of the
if
with the
of the Consals and
Mandarins, they
wese vec.
occasionally
employed in the protection of Convoys and in the suppression of Pening
this Pavid has already
Rend
Good Service of this kind has
been done
Espresse.
by HM Sloops Scout and and has been acknowledged
by the Chinese Authorities; and posibly, the double object of protecting Commerce & improving
Relations, might, with
our Chinese
new arrangements
and increased activity be further
accomplished. Mylords submit
these observations to
to you,
and
authings you to act upon theme,
desiring
desiring at the suure line that,
will make
suy
same y
you
observations thereon
which you may think proper
My Lords would further recorevend to you that. ho operating of importance should be undertakere without the
Commssence both of Mancarue
med Courel, and you will consider
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wwhether it may not be possible
to organize a Chinese Mustiary
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Fone such as many
ait at the
expense of the churrere Authiontier
under the mumeciulă direction
of our officers
Theer Lordships would- not have my equctor of payment made for the desire of our
they apprehend that such
quiting
excution might becomes souse
комн
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comept extortion in the hand of
the Mundaries.
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My Louts huviing subquitted to 4m Seizy State for Porciye Affairs
be
Copy of the above securks, Jaux commuted
Sum
by there Loulohipps to send
you a
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herewith a copy of a Letter
Stute for from the Murder Seize of Freign Affairs ductest the 31th of lust Mouth, stating
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theet cinomet Julevesstive
concurs in the liews of the Board of Achemically as to the
нее
Mensues which should
be taken with
a vein to
Cessels
portenting Bracing expels the China Consts frame
Piracy,
and that his
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Lordship will wishnet #MG Plenipotication to enter into
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with reference to bey Letter
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of this day's date, transmithing a Copy of bastinations to Rear Adinical
Lin Francis Collier on
the subsect
of the means to be adopted to check the prevalence
Seas, and
in the China Seas,
ofperacy
other
pouts of his station, my
Lords
Commissione er of the Adminatty hould wish to suggest to harl
вред
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bey the propriety of hotmctions being given to the Queen's
Advreate,
or other Law Affeces
of the Colony of Hong Kong, to
watch
the Interests of the
Public, with regard to the Bounty Meseven Merivale Ezg.
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Colonial Office.
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claimed under the bet of 6th of Ges. 4th, Chap. 49, for the captive, and destruction, of Pirater; in ar
m.ch, ar
it affears to may
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Londly, that, in some cases,
Bounties have been awardedh
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bithout sufficient Erden ce
being adduced to patify the decision of the Court, and their Lordships apprehend that
under the Instructions how
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being
shout out, and in the extendect
operations contemplated,
Bounties may
be awarded
in cases, which, although
Considered Piracy by the Clemonts,
sught hot properly to be
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The Board of Admiralty
enclosing a lopy of the
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Instuctions which have been
addrified by the Lords
Comme to Rear Admiral Sir Francis Collier respecting
the measures to be adopted
for
the suppression of Piracy.
and for the protection of
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Trading Vissels
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China Seas; and in
compliance with their
Feruship's wishes I haven
Er request that
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you
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of your Gooh to watch
own the interests of the
Public in regard to the
B: renty
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to vand
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Levereths for
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Letter from Rear Wound for Jet follier
Now last N°46 and of to enclosuse relative to the
seizure of the Schooner, Shee
the Schooner, Shee by Her Majestys Mous
Shilders
ma
charge of Piracy, and a Report that
"nooBill had love found by
the Grand Jury
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Hong Sony against the charter and from of the Spec,
and dam to requests you will acquaint Lord Grey
that
my
Lords consider formander Perman
have acted with perfect propriety
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Colorval (Department
throughout th•
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Affair; while this conduct
of
The Grand Jurys
: Hong viong, in refusing to find
a Bill against
the Sher, leaves too much ground to believe
that Vivatical practices
with the commianu
who are
growing up there,
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resisting their
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stress papers, you no
be upon
inflicted upver the exqpresors
where impunity will encourage similor attempts
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most obechent fervant
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with refie
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to the Admin altor pre information
found. Dit the seaper 2361 Work. & in fast prevented the Bill from being concitly reported, the Judge was mort in that it seemed to me, if the proceedings were Annexed. Lan said on 2561 Hong Kong
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shme by womens was you to witness who absconded to the forthcohding another till.
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laincy tried at Home Hong Kong, & whether if this is not the effect
the bill as it stands such a dans so without inconsemine
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Letter of the 30
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30 ultimes befor
Earl Grey, and I am directed by
to request you
his Lordstof
with breme
to the Lords fommi pioners Commissioners
of the Admiralty that he trees to that the
estice in
facture of justice of
at Hong the prosecution at. King of the Master and Crew of the Schooner Spec
on an
alleged act of
Piracy did not aise
Piracy from the cause
in
suggested
your letter, and that from information received
ponthe Governor of the Colony, his Lowship is more disposed to attribute it to ther arcunstances
not reflecting acey discredit in thie Goutteron
who served on the Grand
Jury
that occasion
although they suggest
serious deficivicces in
the Administration of
Justice.
Iam to request
will also inform
that you the Lords Comm. of the
Admiralty that Led
Grey
has instructed the
Governor
to cauche a
се
pest aidictment to be
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preferred in the event of
the Chinese tertress who absconded beinforthcoming
on ac
another occasion,
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the Officers of the Childers liigagion within each a
the effect of which, is a
the
trice Bill should be found, will procent ha Aufpicts from conturing within the range ofte Jurisdiction of the Carh. King
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With reference to the
Report made
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the
August last
Com&E Plesuridge,
Concridge, to the
Fords of the Admiralty
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the subper of the
4sc.
the Schoone.
"" flec" by WM S. Chil de es, Shausmit herewith for their Lordships information, à Letter from the Commodore,
dated the 18th Elle.
slating that the
G.
Ward Ess
feand
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Jary at Hong Kong
had found "to Bill against the master
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and Crew of the Sfec
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3rd Enly, which gives full particulars of tic
Cicurus tances under.
which the Newel was seized.
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17th Oct. 184S.
have the honor to forward the losegofa
letter which C Saddassed to the Secictary of the Romirally, eespecting the seigene of the Scharnce Sicer on the 22nd
June, ouache
charge of Onacy; and docilieg, to this case, I now beg l'inform you
the line of the bical of
the master & brew of the above Nosel was fixed for the Bad Joust. The
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Sir J. Collier
Commander
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Com? of the Cansubrian
and myself having, Seviously
acccived a
summons to attend as
Naval Comme issioners
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the Bench at the
bial.
After, howcase the fudge
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had made his comments
on what he was s pleased
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to terme the peculiarlies of the case to the
frac
grand Jury, they,
for sonce
having reliced for
time, declared no bill"
to be found, to the aston ishment of all present. Thus the
malter ended,
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the
Attorney Sen informing
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me that the Vessel should be returned to her
owners, which Com? Pilinan desired
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to do.
On the following day, softhe
Intl, Commander Pilman sailed hence
ہے
in the Childe is,
resume her station
at Shaughre.
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Wienny 3rd Light
Woosung
I have the honor to report
oming
to you, that on the
of the 22nd Ut: about. 6 AM, when standing for the Rugged stands, Sotsemed an English
Schorner, which afterwards Jured to be the Spec
I Hong Kong, working upt for the Eastern anchorage, under those Stlands, in company with a Chinese Junk. The wind falling at
fl: :). N. Cambell
Kong Kong
чер
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735 AM, we
ere
Alged to come babout
Lon
حمد
Imiles farm.
where the Spec
C
bank had anchored.
Istemed during the
forenoon the Schooner.
and
hunk close
2
alongside affarently lashed to each other, and the formen evidently discharging the lays out of the
Junk. Al 4.20 PM.
the Side having turned,
and a light
springing up are ished and stifled belle, lowthere the
Social
said Vessels lay,
auchored close to the Schooner. We found at this anchorage. theee Sueu of Wän
Chinese
Juntis. I
28
mediately despatched In Joshua Berkeley
beling
Inale
to boked
the sorid Schooner, &
to enquire what the
doing there,
was don
also as to the communication
she had had willd the
Junck durin
dening
the day.
On his reture he stated that the said
hunk
had been captured by
them the day fuevious,
and was a
fiirate.
Ithen sent for the
master to come
Ze
hoard
..
board with his paper & Log, & questioned him as to his right of being there, what authority he had for taking the funk, and if she had auslestial him in
to which he
anyway! replied, that his Pilot
had said she was a
Prate & that he had captured her the day, previous, but that she had in no way molested him. Stold him that Ishould detain him
and inspect the Schooner and Junk the mat
noring
In like
following noming
the
the 23rd
Elf Svisited
29
the Junk, and
inspecting her, she proved to be fishing, Sunch of Chinghae almost
every
Hoovcable anticle
had been taken out
f her except some tackle, and
fishing tackle
Sobrewed a number.
of Shot holes bille in ha Sails & Hulk.
On inspection Schooner Thee
the
of
Hong Kong Soun Hong holes & Log
her
licles
be totally inconect,
several men who were
board were so
вас
the delicles and
macy
weve
of there who
the Autieler
not forthcoming.
I found the Crew of the fishing Sunet confined in the forehold with
then hands secured.
Immediately
diately head them brought
deck
and perceived that
several were wounded,
when the master, mate and farmer stated that the wounds had
been caused
their
firing into them pour
the Spee, they also
1
с
stated that five
had been killed.
I took some of the
30
Junkenen with the muate of the "Spec" to the Chinese Admiral
to find out whilter they were pirates on not, he stated their
papers were quite conect, that they were innocent fishing people belonging Chinhae, he requested that would cause them to be liberated
and return there
ہے
the property that had been taken from
then
¡
C
them
Finding
that the
Apec had made
a munderous and
unprovoked attack
this fishing Jemt,
also that the she
was very heavily armed, which you will perceive the inclosed Sewventory;
by
ccount
able to
rud not being gincasalisfactory,
ront of their Pucccedings, Teansed her like brought to
This Port.
on the 29th Elli
examination
took
A
look
Fish Place
Inaster and the
adla
31
dest of the Crew before B. Alcock Espec H. In Consal See? at Shanghae, and they
have been committed
to to be their trial at
Take
công hạng
The Spec will leave
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the
for Kong hous 5.the Just. in charge. I Lient. G. J. Seaham
C
Before closing
Phis
teller, I wish to call
you
с
allation to the
tance
Several
Itver at su
سے
Vessels &
Lorchas carrying the
English Flag, whare Coustaully said to be in the habit of
summitting
Similar
outrages, such Reportt
having often reached one
through
various channels
but I have never had
sufficient proof of it before
to detain a
dec
Vessel. S
will now
lust you w
fil to point out to His Exc: the for? of Hong Kong these
2
circumstances that
he
may
be mabled
enabled
32
to take such step
to fuevent such acts
of atrocity being
illed
carrying Flag
by
Vessels
The English
which co
cirige
about the Coast
for mouthes togettion without getting
port clear
from
my of the Ports if
trade
The offices & Inen sent doure incharge f the Spec are
witnesses as to the
general facts ofthis
care
In
Davidson..
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wiver of the Schooner Spec" resides al.
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Commander
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to acquaint
for the information of
the present Requisition for Stationery
you Earl Evey that
you
in reply
Exquired for the service
of.
the Government
March
of Hong Kong for the year ending 31: tanh
1849 falls very considerably short of that
supplied in the year 1847 more
Especially
in the undercusationed Articles
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increase in
the quantity of Foolscap
Paper to the sebent
of 49
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for Yourquort- obedient
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by land Grey to convey to you
звездит
the
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for Juseaving and
Korey forreording to Hong Kong
the supplies of Stationery
required for the service
of thick Gooh for the gen the 31. March 1849
ending
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spuifier in the
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will state to the Lords
Commissioners of the Festy
that Lord Grey
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of opinion that this
Requisition may property,
with
be complied the expense
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of which will, as
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Office of Committer of Privy Council for Trade Whitchall 8+ Sept 1848.
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In reply to your letter of 5 July transmitting with reference to former Correspondence Copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Hong on the subject of the provisions of the Imperial Act for the Registry of Beilish bessels, I am directed by the lords of the Committer of Privy Council for Trade to transmit to you for the information of tail Grey the inclosed Copy of a Repost of the Customs on the subject, and I am to add that My Lords concur in the opesion therein expressed by the Commissioners.
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Mr Porter having by his letter dated 20th of July last signified with reference to our report to your Ladshifts of the 21 August 1846 N=443 despatch from the Good of Hong Kong drawing the attention of the. Gort to the manner in as hich the Imperial act for the Registering of Brilie lepers affects that Lalony; that bn (Mr Porter) had been directed by your tops to
our Consideration &
transmit to wo
for our
refort a further despatele from the Garrof Hong Kong upon
this subject.
Comm
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refort.
That weham considered the annexed des patele of the Good=
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from the Afinion expressed in our report to Your Loss of the 2 august 1846, & that
under these Circumstances win mercer the Colonial Treasurer, who in that Capacity receives the Revenne
on account of Goon
must be deemed to be the Receiver of Inties within the meaning of the
the Act 829 Vic. Cap. 89, & that
1
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att acts done
by him as a
repstering
tion with them
Afficer in compune tion
Gour af Hongkong must be deemed
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5th Feby 1848.
With reference to the former
correspondence regarding the transportation
Convects from Hong Kong to places within the Territories of the East India Company, I am directed by the Commissioners for the affairs of India to transmit to you for the information
of Earl Gary the accompanying copy
Each of a
the subject under date
a letter on
the 4th December last Nr 34. which has
just been received from the President in Council. The enclosures, which
numerous and do not contain
additional information, are not sent
I am Sii.
Benjamin Hawes Egre
Your most obedient and humble servant
Thurs. Inds
are
Elliot.
Mr. Meile.
As the arrangements exgarding the transportation of
Consisto pom. Hong Kong
do
not persecu
се
to the Straits are complete
& this correspondence adds
anything to our stock of information, or
that so for
as Hong Kong is concerned there is any need
for writing perther to the then to the Gor
salyeet. ABB. 7/2/48.
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of informing the Indian sur Baylon in mistichet
anodingly, but
the Julia Bond, en
дал suggest them for that the present letter to act?, exference to the concluding part to the despotic
verlooked
and that with desported backsed in it
from the Ousident in Council, the Indin toni de
acquariant that
frewarded in
suing
letter of
showed that the
Fesident
the Communications
Funcil saw 20 5th of Mongo
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Bestern & Computation
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Honorable Sirs,
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With
reference to the correspondence
per margin, we have the honor to transmis herewith copies
of further corresponden
which has taken place relative to the
reception of Convicts who
lo
may
transported from thee Majesty's Settlement of Hong Kong
2
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ananged at first that Chinese Convicts from Song Kong.
should be sent to Sande, and that: others being Natives of India should be sent to Singapore. The Right Honble the Governor General however doubted The expediency of making sunde a Penal Province for Chinese Convicts and the arrangement as agurds that Province
accordingly recalled.
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that a Law was
pointed out that a
Law was necessary
in order to legalise the reception in the Straits Settlements of Convicts from Hong Hong. The draft of an Ach was accordingly
read on the 1
The 1 May
lash
the provisions of which having been approved by the
Settlements
في
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Governor of those
well
After
by the Governor
General, the same was passed on the 7th August last as Act N. II of 1847.
communicating with the Commissioner in the Jenaperim Provinces, we have directed the reception of Chinese Convicts not exceeding 100 in number at Maulmein and we
have addressed. the govemment of Hong Hong requesting that ité proceedings with respect to the transportation of auch Criminals to those Provinces
should for the present be so
regulated.
It has also come to ans have yet received
notice though we have, no communication on the subject from your Honorable bouch, that the beylon Goverment looks to Malacca
do a
place for the reception of Convicts from that Solund and has actually despatched a party of beiminals to the Settlement. We have desired Colonel.
Butterworth
Butterworth to prepare the Resident
Councillor to receive them into custody.
We have the honor to be.
Honorable ders,
Gour most faithful,
Kamble Servants,
4.
Ind William (( Signed) 2. H. Maddock
4th December
1847.
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CHINA.
RETURNS OF THE TRADE
AT
CANTON AND HONG KONG.
(In continuation of the Returns laid before Parliament in 1847.)
:
Presented to the House of Commons, in pursuance of their Address of
February 10, 1848.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY T. R. HARRISON.
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Bo.
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LIST OF PAPERS,
No.
1. Sir John Davis to Viscount Palmerston
Nine Inclosures
1. Return of the Trade of the United States during 1846
2. Return of the Trade of France
3. Return of the Trade of Holland
4. Return of the Trade of Belgium
5. Return of the Trade of Denmark
6. Return of the Trade of Sweden
+
7. Return of the Trade of Germany
8. Table of Import Trade from foreign countries at the Port of
Canton during 1846
9. Table of the Export Trade from Canton to foreign countries
during 1846
2. Sir John Davis to Viscount Palmerston
Two Inclosures
1. Sir John Davis to Earl Grey
+
2. Statement of the Export of Sugar from Hong Kong from
January 1 to July 31, 1847
3. Sir John Davis to Viscount Palmerston
Inclosure
Comparative Table of the Export of Tea from Canton to British
ports, during the years 1846 and 1847
April
25, 1847
August
June
Page
1
2
r
RETURN to an Address of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated February 10, 1847;
for
Copies or Extracts of any Documents relative to the State of our Commercial Relations with China, which may have been received from the Governor or from any of Her Majesty's Consuls in that country, since the 1st day of July, 1847."
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My Lord,
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10,
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August 19,
15
No. 1.
Sir John Davis to Viscount Palmerston.--(Received June 29.)
Victoria, Hong Kong, April 25, 1847. IN addition to the returns* of trade already forwarded in my despatch of the 24th February last, I have now the honour to transmit to your Lordship nine more in original (according to the accompanying list), which are just arrived from Mr. Consul Macgregor at Canton. These relate to the Foreign trade, not British, at that port.
I have, &c.
(Signed)
J. F. DAVIS.
Inclosures in No. 1.
No. 1. A Return of the Trade of the United States of America.
No. 2. A Return of the Trade of France.
No. 3. A Return of the Trade of Holland. No. 4. A Return of the Trade of Belgium. No. 5. A Return of the Trade of Denmark. No. 6. A Return of the Trade of Sweden. No. 7. A Return of the Trade of Germany.
No. 8. A Synoptical Table of the Import Trade from Foreign
Countries at the Port of Canton, during 1846.
No. 9. A similar Table referring to the Export Trade at Canton
during 1846.
(Signed)
Victoria, Hong Kong, April 25, 1847.
A. R. JOHNSTON,
Presented to the House of Commons in 1847.
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I. American Trade.-Imports.
A RETURN of the quantities and value of Merchandize imported into the Port of Canton in 44 American vessels, of 21,915 tons burthen, from the Countries and Places under mentioned, during the year ending December 31, 1846, viz. :--
American Trade.-Exports.
A RETURN of the quantities and value of Merchandize exported from the Port of Canton, in 48 American vessels, of 22,723 tons burthen, to the Countries and Places under mentioned during the year ending December 31, 1846, viz. :-
No. in the
Denomination of Articles.
To what Countries and
Quantities.
Estimated Value
Places Exported.
Tariff.
in Spanish Dollars.
No.
in the Tariff.
Denomination of Articles.
Quantities.
From what Countries and Places Imported.
Estimated Value
in Spanish Dollars,
53
I. Raw Produce.
47
I. Manufactures of Wool.
10
12
Broad Woollens
Narrow ditto
Blankets
Changs
33
Pieces
92 246 1,500
550
327
+5
4,672
46
52
-292 99 8
1 Alum
Piculs
Aniseed Stars
55 11
Boston
109
>
1.18
Canes of all sorts
Cassia lignea
Bundles Piculs
6
New York..
80
7,464
New York and Boston
75,136
Cassia buds Rhubarb
2
Boston
37
>
735
New York, Rio, and Boston
29,630
Silk, raw
152
Mazatlan, New York, and
55
Boston
57,624
Sugar, raw
**
13
4
II. Manufactures of Cotton.
Liverpool, Boston, New
4,984 Valparaiso, Callao, & Sand-
wich Islands
25,643
York ..
Long Cloth, Grey
Pieces
51,719
White
J
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14.
Twilled .. Cottons, not enumerated Cotton, Yarn and Thread
2,505 191,171
Value $10,250 Piculs
2,012
55
Tea
23
120,767
New York, Boston, and
143,635
Valparaiso
7,488
56
Tobacco
20
New York, Rio, and Boston
4,756,265 178
+
576,526
10,250
II. Manufactured Articles.
62,763
4
Bangles, or Glass Armlets..
Boxes
2
Mazatlan
130
!!
5
Bamboo Ware
Piculs
93
New York, Boston, and
Mazatlan
1,250
III. Miscellaneous Articles.
8
Bone and Horn Ware
Catties
35
New York..
58
Raw and Manufactured.
14
China Ware
Piculs
792
New York, Boston, and
Sandwich Islands
14,842
8
Clocks, Hardware, &c.
Value
20
Glass, and Earthenware.
**
$3,215 1,860
3.215
16
Copper, Tin, and Pewter Ware
33
1,860
18
Crackers and Fireworks
30
Metals, Iron in bolts, bars, &c. Piculs
742
Singapore, New York,
2,187
"
Steel..
380
Boston
1,562
20
Fans of all sorts
**
Lead..
3,207
15,845
"}
45
Wine, Beer, and Spirits
Value $5,256
5,256
21
Furniture
3 2,091
Catties 21,707
Piculs
New York and Boston
162
New York, Boston, and
Mazatlan
10,125
New York, Boston, and
Sandwich Islands
23,134
110
3
Betel Nuts
10
Cochineal
12
Cotton
Piculs 19,958 Catties Piculs
Singapore and Batavia
75,522
New York, Boston, and
Sandwich Islands
2,560
5,418 12,370
New York and Boston
12,867
Glue
75
New York, Valparaiso, and
New York. Calcutta, Bom-
Callao
1,068
bay, and Rio
112,032
27
Grass Cloth..
Catties
5,221
New York, Boston, and
22
Ginseng, 1st quality
2nd
660 2,479
New York, Boston, Manila
Sandwich Islands
7,236
ditto
312,620
ditto
29
Ivory and M.-of-Pearl Ware
4,265
New York, Boston, Mazat-
9,258
**
32
Pepper
17
20
Singapore
94
30
Kitty sols
Boxes
15
lan, Valparaiso, Callao,
168
34
Rattans
15,239
Singapore and Batavia
54,256
31
Lacquer Ware
Piculs
253
and Sandwich Islands..
8,845
35
Rice and Paddy
27,341
Lombock, Singapore, Manila
53,844
35
Mats and Matting
8,591
Ditto
51,956
39
Skins and Furs; Land Otter,
38
Nankeens and Dyed Cottons.
26
New York..
1,624
לי
Beaver, and Racoon Skins.. Soap
No.
11,278
New York..
27,181
12
Oil of Cassia
5
1,267
**
**
Wood, Sapan..
Catties Piculs
11,000
Boston
2,040
41
Paper of all sorts
18
and Boston
250
**
982
Manila
1,762
43
Preserves
Boxes
4,946
24,736
34
Miscellaneous Imports, in-
44
Rattan Work
Piculs
666
New York, Valparaiso, Cal-
cluding articles not enume.
lao, and Rio Janeiro
13,570
rated in the Tarif..
Value $120,450 Manila, Boston, New York
120,450
46
Silk Thread and Riband
Catties
6,950
New York, Boston, Rio,
39,240
Mazatlan, Valparaiso, &
1,609,404
Piece goods
91,523
Cailao
906,522
17
IV. Treasure.
425,600
50
Soy
Piculs
6
New York and Sandwich
Islands
58
Total value of Imports
$2,034,004
59
Leather Trunks
Nests
250
New York, Mazatlan, Bos-[
5,167
ton, Ohio, Valparaiso,
Canton, December 31, 1846.
(Signed)
FRANCIS C. MACGREGOR, Consul.
Remarks. The preceding Returns of the Import Trade of the United States of America at the Port of Canton have been compiled from the Linguists' Reports to the Superintendent of Customs, and other authentic sources. These Returns do not include, however, the commodities transhipped at Macao, imported in lorchas and other small craft.
61
Vermilion
Boxes
320
and Callao
16,732
Miscellaneous Exports and
articles not enumerated in the Tariff
Value $122,600
122,600
Canton, December 31, 1846.
(Signed)
Total value of Exports 6,207,378
FRANCIS MACGREGOR, Consul.
Remarks. The preceding Returns of the Export Trade of the United States of America at the Port of Canton have been compiled from the Linguists' Reports to the Superintendent of Customs, and other authentic sources. These Returns do not include, however, the commodities shipped to Macao in lorchas and other small craft.
B 2
L
2 V ZADAN BOZEN V
4
II. French Trade.-Imports.
A RETURN of the quantities and value of Merchandize imported into the Port of Canton in 2 French ships, of the burthen of 505 tons, from the Countries and Places under mentioned, during the year ending December 31, 1846, viz. :-
5
III. Dutch Trade.-Imports.
A RETURN of the quantities and value of Merchandize imported into the Port of Canton in 6 Dutch vessels, of the burthen of 1930 tons, from the Countries and Places under mentioned, during the year ending December 31, 1846, viz. :-
No.
in the
Denomination of Articles.
Quantities.
From what Countries and Places
Estimated value in
Tariff.
Imported.
Spanish Dollars.
No.
34
Rattans..
45
Spirituous Liquors
47
Broad Woollens
**
Piculs
Bottles
923 1,496
3,326
in the Tariff.
Denomination of Articles.
Quantities.
From what Countries and Places Imported.
Estimated value in Spanish Dollars.
Changs
1,134
Havre, Singapore,
and Lima
867
6,829
Blankets Woollen
Miscellaneous Imports and ar-
ticles not enumerated in the Tariff..
Pieces
120
420
3
Betelnuts
Piculs
800
3,120
Value 6,742
6,742
5 Birds' Nests, edible, 1st and 2nd
quality
Catties
586
21,682
Total value of Imports
18,184
"
3rd quality
857
6,723
8 Clocks, Watches, &c.
Value
+
$588
588
Canton, December 31, 1846.
(Signed)
FRANCIS C. MACGREGOR, Consul.
10
Cochineal
Catties
500
1,056
12
Cotton, Raw
Piculs
532
4,837
23
Gold and Silver Thread
Catties
12
358
factitious
150
French Trade.-Exports.
A RETURN of the quantities and value of Merchandize exported from the Port of Canton in 4 French vessels, of the burthen of 1286 tons, to the Countries and Places under mentioned, during the year ending December 31, 1846, viz. :--
J
"
2,675
30
Metals-Spelter
Piculs
577
4,126
Batavia and Soura-
34
Rattans ..
5,007
baya
18,964
39
Hides, Ox and Cow
Pieces
652
763
45
Wine, Beer, and Spirits
Value
$127
127
No.
in the
Denomination of Articles,
Quantities.
Tariff.
To what Countries and Places Exported.
Estimated value in
46 Sandalwood
Piculs
523
5,840
Spanish Dollars.
47 Woollen Blankets
Pieces
1,062
3,128
Woollens, Broad
Changs 1,617
9,426
+
China Ware
16 Copper, Tin, and Pewter Ware..
*
Catties
2
Aniseed Stars
Piculs
165
+
1,627
4
Bangles
Boxes
1
65
5
Bamboo War e
Piculs
4
62
10
Canes
Mille
65
724
12
Cassia Lignea
Piculs
1,025
10,483
Buds
*1
7
**
>>
124
14
201
4,025
2
115
20
Fans of all sorts
827
960
27
Grass Cloth
25
29 Ivory Ware
*
38
28
+
31
Lacquer Ware
Piculs
Manila, Hâvre, and
96
20
35
Matts and Matting
Bordeaux
235
146
1,182
41
Paper
19
68
1,045
44
Rattan Work
4
105
45
Rhubarb
"
82
3,320
46
Silk Piece Goods
52
Sugar-Raw
Catties Piculs
726
3,715
513
2,602
54
Tea
56
Tobacco..
**
1,719 470
63,124
Miscellaneous Exports and ar-
4,832
Narrow
800
1,116
21
多想
Camlets
11,224
20,147
J
وو
Miscellaneous Imports and ar- ticles not enumerated in the Tariff..
Value
$5,675
5,675
Total value of Imports
$110,351
Canton, December 31, 1846.
(Signed)
FRANCIS C. MACGREGOR, Consul.
ticles not enumerated in the Tariff..
Canton, December 31, 1846.
(Signed)
Value 2,082
2,082
Total value of Exports $ 100,561
FRANCIS C. MACGREGOR, Consul.
54
}
Board
Dutch Trade.-Exports.
A RETURN of the quantities and value of Merchandize exported from the Port of Canton in 7 Dutch vessels, of the burthen of 2,302 tons, to the Countries and Places under mentioned, during the year ending Decem- ber 31, 1846, viz. :-
7
IV. Belgian Trade.--Imports.
A RETURN of the quantities and value of Merchandize imported into the Port of Canton in 1 Belgian ship, of the burthen of 300 tons, from the Countries and Places under mentioned, during the year ending December 31, 1846, viz.:-
of
Trade
No.
in the Tariff.
Denomination of Articles.
Quantities.
To what Countries and Places Imported.
Estimated value in Spanish Dollars.
ELF
No. in the
Denomination of Articles.
Quantities.
Tariff,
To what Countries and Places Exported.
Estimated value in
Spanish Dollars.
13
Cotton Longcloth, white
Pieces
260
768
12
Cassia Lignea
14
China Ware
Piculs
456
4,656
30
Iron, wrought
Piculs
605
1,916
508
15,720
32
J
Pepper
361
**
1,862
16 Copper, Tin, and Pewter Ware
13
702
47
Broad Woollens
Changs
857
4,726
18
Crackers and Fireworks
15
78
47
Longells
1,834
2,482
20 Fans of all sorts
Catties 1,096
1,118
Miscellaneous Imports and arti-
21
Furniture and Wood Ware
Piculs
34
862
27
Grass Cloth
Catties
769
2,716
cles not enumerated in the. Tariff
Value $1,586
1,586
Total value of Imports
13,340
29
Ivory and Mother-of-Pearl Ware
63
262
+
Amsterdam, Rot.
31 Lacquer Ware..
Piculs
6
terdam, and Ma-
351
Canton, December 31, 1846.
(Signed)
FRANCIS C, MACGREGOR, Consul.
nila
35
Mats and Matting
10
80
41
Paper
38
567
43
Preserves
Boxes
162
732
46
Silk Piece Goods
Catties
230
1,380
55
Tea
Piculs
16,133
642,302
59 Trunks, Leather
Nests
24
628
Miscellaneous Exports and ar- ticles not enumerated in the Tariff..
Belgian Trade.-Exports.
A RETURN of the quantities and value of Merchandize exported from the Port of Canton in 1 Belgian vessel, of the burthen of 300 tons, to the Countries and Places under mentioned, during the year ending December 31, 1846, viz. :-
Value
$6,782
6,782
Total value of Exports
$679,006
No. in the Tariff.
Denomination of Articles.
Quantities.
From what Countries and Places Exported.
Estimated value in Spanish Dollars,
Canton, December 31, 1846.
:
(Signed)
12
Cassia Lignea
14
China Ware
FRANCIS C. MACGREGOR, Consul.
31, Lacquer Ware
35
Mats and Matting
55
Tea
Miscellaneous Exports and arti-
Piculs
120
1,286
10
232
>>
25
627
*
+
Manila and Antwerp
2
77
564
•
152
5,638
cles not enumerated in the Tariff
Value
$967
967
Total value of Exports
9,314
Canton, December 31, 1846.
(Signed)
FRANCIS C. MACGREGOR, Consul.
55
8
Board of
Trade
V. Danish Trade.-Imports.
A RETURN of the quantities and value of Merchandize imported into the Port of Canton in 1 Danish vessel, of 305 tons burthen, from the Countries and Places under mentioned, during the year ending December 31, 1846, viz. :-
9
VI. Swedish Trade.-Imports.
A RETURN of the quantities and value of Merchandize imported into the Port of Canton in 3 Swedish vessels, of the burthen of 945 tons, from the Countries and Places under mentioned, during the year ending December 31, 1846, viz. :--
No.
No.
ELB
in the Tariff.
Denomination of Articles.
Quantities.
From what Countries and Places Imported.
Estimated value in
in the Tariff,
Denomination of Articles.
Quantitica
From what Countries and Places Imported.
Estimated value int Spanish Dollars,
Spanish Dollars.
3
Betel Nuts
+
Piculs 3,573
13,932
223
20
Glassware
Catties
4,295
1,918
19
Flints
23
Gold and silver Thread..
103
3,120
1,913
637
factitious
140
2,627
>
22
30
Tin Plates
Boxes
45
276
Ginseng..
35
3,525
39
Ox and Cow Hides
Pieces
150
768
34
Rattans..
45
Liquors
Value
$755
47
Woollen Blankets
Pieces
600
Broad Woollens
Changs 2,775
Singapore and Ham- burgh.
755
3,793
Liverpool and the
Straits of Malacca
13,475
1,526
15,628
Paddy and Rice.
4,934
7,724
Camlets
Narrow Woollens
3,866 800
6,841
1,486
1
Miscellaneous Imports and ar- ticles not enumerated in the Tariff
Value
$6,742
6,742
Total value of Imports
41,687
Canton, December 31, 1846.
(Signed)
FRANCIS C. MACGREGOR, Consul.
Miscellaneous Imports and arti-
ticles not enumerated in the Tariff..
Value
$1,962
Total value of Imports
1,962
$41,255
Canton, December 31, 1846. (Signed)
FRANCIS C. MACGREGOR, Consul.
Danish Trade. Exports.
A RETURN of the quantities and value of Merchandize exported from the Port of Canton in 1 Danish vessel, of the burthen of 305 tons, to the Countries and Places under mentioned, during the year ending December 31, 1846, viz.:-
Swedish Trade.-Exports.
A RETURN of the quantities and value of Merchandize exported from the Port of Canton in 4 Swedish vessels, of the burthern of 1256 tons, to the Countries and Places under mentioned, during the year ending December 31, 1846, viz. :----
No.
in the
Denomination of Articles.
Quantities.
Tariff.
To what Countries and Places Exported.
Estimated value in
Spanish Dollars.
No.
in the
Denomination of Articles.
Quantities.
Tariff.
F
To what Countries and Places Exported
Estimated value in Spanish Dollars.
10
Canes
Mille
12 Cassia
Piculs
10 590
116
5,022
14
Chinaware
1
وو
50
12
Cassia Lignea
Piculs
281
2,954
21
Furniture
1
32
27
Grass Cloth
Catties
2,400
3,527
18
Crackers and Fireworks
143
710
"
29
Ivory and Mother-of-Pearl Ware
215
810
41
Paper
Piculs
10
524
46
Silk Manufactures
Catties
43
Preserves
Boxes
120
45
Rhubarb
Piculs
30
Singapore and Ham- burgh.
584
1,264
54
Tea
Piculs
488
7,015
2,866
New York and Stock-
holm
256,562
46
Silk Manufactures
Catties
186
1,124
Silk and Cotton Mixed Stuffs
26
62
Miscellaneous Exports and arti-
50 Soy
Piculs
12
106
55
Tea
J
15
588
Miscellaneous Exports and ar- ticles not enumerated in the Tariff ..
cles not enumerated in the Tariff ..
Value
$2,260
2,260
Total value of Exports
$265,362
Value
$2,125
Total value of Exports
2,125
$15,934
Canton, December 31, 1846.
(Signed)
FRANCIS C. MACGREGOR, Consul.
Canton, December 31, 1846.
(Signed)
FRANCIS C. MACGREGOR, Consul.
C
56
57
10
VII. German Trade.-Imports.
A RETURN of the quantities and value of Merchandize imported into the Port of Canton in 3 Hamburgh, 3 Bremen, and 1 Prussian vessels, of the aggregate burthen of 1380 tons, from the Countries and Places under mentioned, during the year ending December 31, 1846, viz. :-
:11
VIII-A SYNOPTICAL TABLE of the Import Trade from Foreign Countries at the Port of Canton, during the year ending December 31, 1846; specifying the Description and Quantities of Commodities, as well as their estimated Value, and distinguishing the Flags of the Ships in which they were imported; viz.:-
Board
of
Trad
No.
in the Tariff.
Denomination of Articles.
Quantities.
From what Countries and Places Imported.
Estimated value
in Spanish Dollars.
228 FO
13
ELF
3
Betel Nuts
Piculs
150
573
Cloves
59
937
92
12
Cotton
1,019
13
+1
Longcloth, grey
Pieces
6.810
9,162 19,165
20
Earthenware
Value
$468
468
Glass and Glass Ware
2,584
2,584
4 Bicho de Mar
P
J
13
5
Birds' Nests, Edible
30
Iron, wrought
Piculs
2,123
8,496
8
Tin plates
Boxes
48
298
10
Cochineal
34
Rattans.
Pieuls
3,807
Hamburgh, Singapore,,
13,427
12
Cotton
39
Ox and Cow Hides
Pieces
400
and Batavia
2,126
45
Wine, Beer, and Spirits
Value
8784
784
46
Sandal Wood
Piculs
735
8,839
47
Broad Woollens
Changs
2,108
11,831
Narrow do.
2,475
3,324
Camlets
2,575
4,556
>
Miscellaneous Imports and ar-
ticles not enumerated in the Tariff
Value
$6,524
6,524
Total value of Imports
$93,094
No. in the Tariff.
Quantities, and under what Flag imported.
Description of Commo- dities,
British.
American,
French.
Dutch.
[ Belgian.
Danish.
Swedish,
German,
Portuguese
Lorchas.
Aggregate Quantities Im- ported.
Estimated Value
in Spanish
Dollars
at 43. 4d.
Sterling-
3 Areca or Betel Nuts
KA
Piculs 13,911
19,958
800
3,573
150
1,846 Piculs 40,258
142,655
ל
Catties
165 89
TH
++
352
517
16,538
++
1,443
4,286 Catties
5,818
137,782
Clocks, Watches, &c.
13 Cotton Cloth, plain
Value $ 20,786
3,215
588
Value & 24,589
24,589
Cattics
5,418
500
Catties 5,918
13,923
+
Piculs 545,438
12,370
532
Pieces 688,782
54,224
260
1,019 6,810
4,862 Piculs 564,221
5,095,407
4,110 Pieces 754,186
2,010,162
twilled
>>
}]
2,584
191,171
6,740
وو
200,495
605,498
Cambrics & Muslins
"
Chintzes and Prints Handkerchiefs
"
Doz.
550 14,219 8,672
FI
+
---
550
1,580
208
37
14,427
43,400
Doz.
8,672
5)
17,549
Stuffs not enumerated Value $ 65,940
14 Cotton Yarn and Thread
Earthenware
17 Elephants' and Seahorse
Teeth
Piculs 23,941
10,250 2,020
+
6,256 Value $ 82,446
82,446
2,274 Ficuls 28,227
923,859
Value $
1,256
468
Value 1,724
1,724
---
Catties 14,547
Catties 14,547
13,447
18
Fishmaws
-
Piculs
1,365
456. Piculs
1,821
78,945
22 Ginseng
24 Gum Olibanum
Canton, December 31, 1846.
(Signed)
FRANCIS C. MACGREGOR, Consul.
29
ceros
19 Flints
20 Glass and Glassware
Bdellium, &c.
25 Horns, Buffalo and Rhino-
Mother-of-Pearl Shells
30 Metals, Iron Wrought
T
6,690
1,913
8,603
3,062
Value $ 5,965
Picuis
1,860
1,918
+++
2,584
1,084 Value
13,411
13,411
3,139
35
620 | Piculs
3,794
378,485
"
2,529
HI
2,529
14,212
Value $ 20,745
590 Value $ 21,335
21,335
Piculs
123
22 Piculs
145
3,989
156
156
P
+--
ナラ
>>
1,280
10,898
742
605
2,123
80
14,448
52,235
Steel
299
380
679
---
2,944
**
31
Lead, Pig Spelter
730 3,207
632
כו
4,569
22,577
>>
577
577
4,126
J
Tin-plates
Boxes
2,248
45
48
Boxes 2,341
13,786
German Trade.-Exports.
A RETURN of the quantities and value of Merchandize exported from the Port of Canton in 2 Hamburgh, 1 Bremen, and 1 Prussian vessels, of the aggre- gate burthen of 1179 tons, to the Countries and Places under mentioned, during the year ending December 31, 1846, viz. :-
35 Rice and Paddy
39 Skins, Hides, and Furs
45 Wine, Beer, and Spirits
46 Wood, Sandal.
32 Pepper
33
Putchuck
Picula
959
20
20
361
978 Picula 2,318
11,610
7,415
H
>>
34
Rattans
7,352
+
923 15,239
5,007
}}
28,015
27,341
3,793 3,807 4,934
1,236 | 4,602
"
8,651
76,559
++
40,723
145,203
60,200
110,796
38
Sharksfins
+++
"
6,893
147
>>
"
7,040
130,246
No.
12,998
11,278
652
150
400
40
Smalts
41 Soap..
Picula.
115
---
+
---
+7
Carties
51
Value 8,300
+
Picule 15,637
Sapan and other
HI
Value $ 2,937
11,000
5,256 867
1,762
IH
2,041 No. 27,519
Piculs 15,130 Catties 26,181
64,915
115
5,171
4,152
127
+
755
784
1,048 | Value
17,137
17,137
523
735
554 Piculs 17,449
179,290
+
1,762 Value $ 5,735
6,461
No.
47
Woollens, Broad
A
Changs 113,936
in the
Denomination of Articles.
Quantities,
Tariff.
..
To what Countries and Places Exported.
Estimated value in
Narrow
**
485,227
92 1,134 246
1,617
857 2,775 12,024 1,834 4,666
2,108
2,226 Changs 124,745
746,811
5,050
6,346
"
*
Blankets
Pieces
1,500 5,247
120 1,062
500
200 Pieces
515,393 8,679
727,026
26,406
Spanish Dollars.
Not described
Value $ *,586
+
Value $ 7,586
7,586
*
Miscellaneous
H+
2
Aniseed Stars
Piculs
150
1,424
Totals
5
Bamboo Ware
២
15
1,335
12
Cassia Lignea
399
4,042
21
Furniture and Wood Ware
24
760
27
Grass Cloth
Catties
71
210
35
Mats and Matting
Piculs
13
104
41
Paper of all kinds
81
**
1,224
43
Preserves
Boxes
522
44
Rattan Work
Hamburgh, Singapore,
2,586
Piculs
and Bremen
160
45
Rhubarb
82
46
Silk Piece Goods
3,280
Catties
2,086
12,516
50
Soy
209,712 120,450 6,742 8,708 1,586 12,489 1,962 7,461 20,788
$ 9,997,583 | 1,609,404|18,184 110,351 13,340 41,687 41,255 93,094 465,315
REMARKS. The preceding Tables have been compiled from the Consular Returns of the British and Foreign Import Trade at Canton for the year 1846. They do not include, however, the goods sold outside the district of custom-house.
The weights and measures stated are those in use at Cantou. i catty is equal to 13 lb. avoirdupoise; hence 1 picul of 100 catties corresponds with 1334 pounds in England. 1 chang is 4 English yards nearly.
The value given has been computed upon a moderate estimate, according to the average prices of the year in the Canton market, including the duty and other charges.
Canton, April 1, 1847.
389,898 389,898
$12,390,213
(Signed)
FRANCIS C. MACGREGOR, Consul
Piculs
15
152
54
Tea
1
5,886
Miscellaneous Exports and ar-
225,442
ticles not enumerated in the Tariff
Value
$8,050
8,050
|
Total value of Exports $261,291
Cantor, December 31, 1846.
(Signed)
FRANCIS C. MACGREGOR, Consul.
C 2
12
13
No. 2.
Board
of
Trade
E.
IX. A SYNOPTICAL TABLE of the Export Trade to Foreign Countries at the Port of Canton, during the year ending the December 31, 1846, specifying the Description and Quantities of Commodities, as well as their estimated Value, and distinguishing the Flags under which they were exported; viz.:-
No, in the Tariff.
6
Description of Com-
modities.
5 Bamboo Ware
Brass-leaf
10 Canes of all sorts
12 Cassia Lignea
British.
Quantities, and under what Flags exported.
American.
55
-
French.
165
Dutch.
Belgian.
Danish.
Swedish.
German.
LJLI
In Lorchas.
Aggregate
Quantities
Estimated
value in Spanish Dollars
Exported.
at 48. 4d, Sterling.
Sir John Davis to Viscount Palmerston.-(Received October 21.)
(Extract.)
Victoria, Hong Kong, August 10, 1847.
I HAVE the honour to inclose for your Lordship's information, the copy of a despatch which I addressed to Earl Grey on the 7th June, respecting the growing trade in sugar which has sprung up since the commencement of the present year.
•
I beg to transmit a tabular statement of the export of sugar from the 1st of January to the 31st July, from which it will appear that 2,745 tons of that commodity, value 35,3021., have been shipped from Hong Kong.
The amount above stated is purchased by English firms, and exported by them in British ships.
1
Alum
Piculs
2,334
610 Picula
+
2,999
5,783
2
Aniseed Stars
96
11
150
24
446
4,405
H
A Oil
120
F
120
16,542
**
4 Bangles.
Boxes
69
2
1
34 Boxes
106
6,732
Piculs
79
93
15
5 Ficula
196
3,930
Boxes
223
10 Boxes
233
7.223
Mille
135
6
65
10
Mille
216
2,510
Piculs 12,461
7,464
1,025
456
120
525
281
399
2,052 Piculs 24,783
250,161
17
Buds Oil
259
268
*
4,773
1
110
1
116
27,967
F
13
China-root
165
165
465
14
China Ware
2,541
792
201
508 10
244
4,297
90,712
16 Copper, Tin, and Pewter
Ware
312
3
2
13
26
356
J
14,465
18
Crackers and Fireworks
692
N
2,091
15
143
118
**
3,059
16,110
20
Fans of all sorts
Catts.
5,326
21,707
827
1,096
180 Catts.
29,136
31,044
21
Furniture and Wood Ware
Piculs
397
110
34
1
24
56 Piculs
622
13,496
25
Glass Beads and Glass
Ware...
Boxes
1,913
26 Boxes
1,939
27
Grass Cloth
Catts.
2,873
5,221
25
769
2,400
71 18,867 Catties 30,226
28 Hartall or Orpiment
Piculs
482
5 Piculs
487
38,795 29,757 5,872
29 Ivory and Mother of
Pearl Wares
Catts.
937 4,265
28
63
265
2 Catties
5,560
15,206
L
30 Kittysols
Boxes
1,246
15
25 Boxes
1,286
14,751
31
Lacquer Ware
Piculs
35
Mats and Matting
279 3,652
253
20
8,591
146
29
6 25
102 Picula
685
25,791
10
77
13
1,458
11
13,947
91,182
38
Naukeens
and Dyed
Cottons
41 Paper of all kinds
214
26
**
**
F
2,452
18
68
38
30
81
67
240 2,754
12,580 37,243
Quicksilver
306
P
43
Preserves
Boxes
6,824
4,946
162
120
522
230 Boxes
306 12,804
37,244
57,714
44
Rattan work
Piculs
240
666
8
24❘ Piculs
45
Rhubarb
350
**
735
82
30
82
951 1,779
20,821
73.708
46
Silk, raw
+7
2,570
152
28
!
"
1
coarse and refuse
17
4,084
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2,750 4,084
1,024,990
387,560
Thread and Riband: Catts.
13
7,922
¡
*
Piece-goods
54,727
6,950 91,523
726 230
186
488
50 Soy
Piculs
408
6
FIL
12
PILI
2,086 15
52 Sugar, raw
t
277,814
!
54 Tea
Candy
*
38,584
31
306,980
59 Trunks, Leather
Nests
61
Vermilion Miscellaneous articles
---
356 Boxes
792 Value 282,276
4,984
126,767 250 320
513
*
1,719 16,133 152
15
7,015
5,886 3,698
**
5,268 Catties 20,140 3,880
133,846 Piculs 441
4,436 283,311 1,444,482 38,584 306,742 468,365 | 17,199,374
110,584
1,243,056
24
Nests Boxes
630
13,625
123,904 6,914 6,782 967 2,187 2,260 8,050 15,768 Value 449,108
1,112
57,554 449,108
Totals
$15,378,560 6,207,378 100,561 679,000 9,314 15,934 265,352 261,291 281,097
23,198,493
:
CMARKS. The preceding Tables have been compiled from the Consular Returns of Trade at Canton for the year 1846.
The weights and measures stated are those in use at Canton. I catty is equal to 14 pound avoirdupoise; henca 1 picul of 100 catties corresponds with 133 pounds in England. 1 chang is 4 English yards nearly.
The value given has been computed upon a moderate estimate, according to the average prices of the year in the Canton market, including the duty and other charges.
Canton, April 1, 1847.
(Sigued)
FRANCIS C. MACGREGOR, Consul.
My Lord,
Inclosure 1 in No. 2.
Sir John Davis to Earl Grey.
Victoria, Hong Kong, June 7, 1847. I HAVE the satisfaction to report, for your Lordship's information, that a promising trade in sugar has lately sprung up at this free port, and affords every prospect of rapid increase. The inclosed abstract contains an account of shipments made since January. The sugar exported is not the produce of this island (where, however, there are some mills), but brought hither in Chinese junks.
The entire absence of all port-charges and of every tax upon com- merce, the non-existence of any custom-house, and the shelter of the magnificent harbour of this colony, must all tend to create at no distant period, a flourishing commerce at this port. Indeed, the tonnage returns in the last blue book appear to prove that no inconsiderable amount exists already.
The harbour-master informs me that a cargo of 400 or 500 tons of sugar is now ready for shipment to England as soon as a vessel can be procured.
I have, &c.
J. F. DAVIS.
F...
(Signed)
Inclosure 2 in No. 2.
Export-Sugar.
ABSTRACT of Sugar exported from Hong Kong from 1st January to 31st July, 1847, in 10 vessels, of the burthen of 4,095 tons.
No. of Bags.
No. of Tons.
Value.
Destination.
188,33
962
£
s. d. 12,046 0 0
Sydney-New South Wales.
2,500
156
1,499 0 0
3,900
192
3,650 0 0
Hobart Town-Van Diemen's Land.
Bombay.
18,075
1,157
15,838 0 0
London.
4,178
278
2,269 0 0
Bombay.
47,486
2,745
35,302 0 0
Memorandum.-The above Abstract does not include 999 boxes (or tubs) of Sugar Candy, the value of which is unknown.
Victoria, Hong Kong, August 3, 1847.
(Signed)
WILLIAM PEDDER, Harbour-Master.
58
14
15
A STATEMENT of the Exportation of Tea from Canton in British vessels to British Ports during the period from the 1st January to the 12th August, 1847, as compared with the same period of the preceding year, viz.:-
Board
of
Trade
E.L
No. 3.
Sir John Davis to Viscount Palmerston.-(Received October 21.)
My Lord,
Victoria, Hong Kong, August 19, 1847.
I HAVE the honour to transmit an official return from Consul Macgregor, of the comparative export of teas from Canton during cor- responding periods of this and the last year, as the best answer to the assertion of the "Chamber of Commerce," that the expedition of April last had done "incalculable injury to trade."
To adopt the Consul's words in sending the above return, "On the whole, in so far as the amount of returns in tea shipped from Canton for the British markets can be assumed as a criterion of the probable extent to which British manufactures must have been disposed of, it is gratifying to find that under a combination of unfavourable circumstances the exportation of tea from the 1st April, as per inclosed comparative state- ment made up to 12th August, has exceeded that of the same period last year by a million of pounds, and that from the commencement of the year the excess amounts to six millions and a half."
I have, &c.
(Signed) J. F. DAVIS.
Feb. Lady Amherst Victor Roseanna
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59
1846.
1847.
Month.
Ship's Name.
Tonnage. Quantities of Month.
Tea exported.
Ship's Name.
Tonnage. Quantities of
Tea exported.
Jan.
Queen of England
538
723,202
Jan. Duke of Cornwall..
580
791,350
Woodbridge
516
85,642
Simon Taylor
431
239,800
Aden
340
439,646
Montrose
387
502,700
John Laird
270
357,552
Sir Robert Sale
741
742,450
446
533,400
Kestrell
325
357,522
338 457,900
Lancaster..
756
853,870
396
537,520
Appoline
512
605,600
W. Jardine
671
828,403
■
Viscount Sandon..
540
675,039
Mar. Greyhound
348
236,800
Feb. Hindostan
500
818,350
John Christian
390
462,941
Indian
591
706,400
Lord Althorp
233
309,712
Geo. Fyffe
444
610,600
Dorothy ..
311
361,381
A den
340
423,795
Fanny Connell
175
183,453
Ellerslee
230
270,550
Stag
678
633,000
Mar. John Cooper
660
659,300
W. Jardine
671
819,630
Othello
386
498,500
Cakier
226
268,250
Victory
385
501,364
To 31st March.. 4,972
5,517,552
To 31st March..| 9,383
10,978,070
April Chatham..
354
478,876 April Lady Amherst
446
533,494
Humayoon Regina
530
603,469
Inglewood..
518
584,115
800
684,647
Victor
338
491,400
Bangalore..
352
361,100
Tamar
556
618,700
Euphrates..
618
823,283
Maya
315
389,879
Isabella
356
409,400
Chasely
515
510,657
Lady Howden
318
427,700
Lascar
441
560,600
Prince Royal
543
Gilmore
500
624,800 621,300
May John Laird
270
371,900
Arun
309
355,400
May Buckinghamshire.. 1,731❘ 1,909,172
Patriot King
338
453,986
Wanderer
433
459,473
Humayoon
530
564,230
Earl Powis
300
340,859
Salopian
289
347,304
Prince of Waterloo
487
585,800
Isabella
355
478,000
Hebrides
646
707,419 Juue Queen
442
558,400
Monarch
551
679,019
W. Stewart
576
726,800
Sarah
381
491,900
Grindley
386
467,610
Symmetry..
293
352,888 July Symmetry.
293
432,500
June Queen
442
524,210
Romeo
596
806,200
Constantinople
317
386,708
Chatham
354
556,400
July Lanchester
333
377,300
Derwent
220
291,400
Aug. Alfred
294
292,574
Selina
316
404,800
Mary Sparks
544
725,400
Amy Robsart
347
447,400
Bangalore..
383
464,500
Chieftain ..
293
374 600
Glen Huntly
505
659,500
Wanderer..
433
449,900
Lanercost.
318
377,500
Aug. Swithamley Siam
727
901,600
455
569,500
From 1st April to
11,506 13,332,797
12th August
From 1st April to 11,411
12th August
14,283,775
Exportation of tea, from the 1st January to the 31st March, 1846, in 13 vessels
of 4,972 tons
From 1st April to 12th August, in 23 vessels of 11,506 tons..
Total from 1st January to date
Exportation of tea, from the 1st January to the 31st March, 1847, in 19 vessels
of 9.383 tons
From 1st April to 12th August, in 28 vessels of 11,481 tous
5,517,552 lbs. 13,332,797
18,850,349 lbs.
10,978,070 lbs.
14,283,775
Total from 1st January to date
25,261,845 lbs.
Canton, August 12, 1847.
(Signed)
FRANCIS C. MACGREGOR, Consul,
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LONDON:
PRINTED BY T. R. HARRISON.
their Address of February 10, 1848.
Presented to the House of Commons pursuant to
and Hong Kong. RETURNS of the Trade at the Ports of Canton
CHINA.
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APR 17
1848
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am directed by Riscount Palmerston to state to you, for the information of Earl grey,
that Lord Palmerston has transmitted to
Mr Bonham a Copy of the Letter from
Mr. W. Howes, communicated in
Letter
of
the 31th Altims, and has at the
same time mistracted Mr Bonham to
fake such measures in the matter therein
referred to
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after
communication
with the Senior haval Officer at kayking -
may seem to him to be proper. I am, Liv,
Your most obedient
Eumble servant,
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with reference to the Starley's
Letter of the 20th of hovember last,
cope of a Paper from
incloning a copy of
Mr. Karker containing
LOME
enggestions
as to the loking to be lursued
in m re
ad to
regard
China; I
our
Relations with
am directed by Viscount Palmerston to transmit to you,
to be laid before Earl Grey,
а
Copy of a Despatch from tin John
herwall Eagle
Davis,
de.
h.
hu.
1
Cou
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of
Trad
Mr. Marivale
Davis containing
Th
the
some observations.
ons submitted
by
inggeations
H. Harter.
I am,
Jour
most obedient
humble servant
Sin S. Davis uvuld I suppore leave
a
copy their despertet behind him; but if out, it might be descialle. to aquaint Mr. Benbarn with the views
This
Prexcupon on the particulin pants hacks my
Bm May I
8/5.
і торчаться то
Allehddington.
couse it is left
at Hong Kong
on record
Kutby-
to
b.b
Copy
No 23.
Msford,
in 957 Hong Kong 62 testonia hongkong...
Feb. 8. 1845.
Seaport, N. 143. of Rovember
д
2.3. from your hordship requires
to furnish such observations as occur to me on the statements
made
by
No. Hacker repreting
hobig tobe pursued
Canton.
the
Ree
ги
regard
to
Mr Karker's two principal
propositions seeme to be these. First a mere Blockade of Canton (in
case
of sccepity ) matead of more active
measures
and
of houbility. a differential suty on
lly a
secondly
the Dea's shipped at Canton in lacount Falmeraton. & M.
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favour
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favour of the other parts and of hongtong, that is a lower and more
favourable rate at these last, in
confanion with the first.
Jitte
object is
is to
to remove
the Grade
from Canton to the other posts and
bong Kong, such
may
The hard for
both these proponitions. Refforing
Blockade to be attended with
the effects contemplated (whatever those
maybe) it is preferable for
reasons to active hostilities. I chall panel Force would be
quite sufficient for securing the
the River, and no
entrance of the
Troops would be required. _ He chedding of blood would be avoided, and this I hold to be
an
an
important point on considerations
of poling alone, apart from there of humanity. difficulty in slaughtering any
There would be no
of the Canton people, but
sumber of the
ccording to their ou
own account
commenced
according then feeling of Contility with the iolence liffered by their
women from the befor Troops in 1041 and I apprehend that Lilling
some hundreds or Thousands
would hardly tend to reconcile the lurvivors tous, though it
them for would frighten them
a
time.
I have studionely avoided whing into collision with the people
ourselves,
Boa
of
Tra
64
and ahe
ournelves, and
always
held this
Government responsible, as the
hore
2
timate course.
legitimate
"nly objection to a Mochade
is this, that although it would
effecturally prevent heropean Clift and large fucks entoring
River, there are so
many
the
harrow
Drade
channels all over the bast Dette Below Canton, that a in small bative Crapi must continue, and the Harker's hopes ostarving the lity would
hardly be accomplished. In my Desfated M 219 of Dember 28th I proponed te_219.
Of
in addition to a Blockade, the retention ofDanes Island (an
abourable
admirable position at Whampoae)
me
in security for the fulfilment of Ereaty rights. Short of this might demand the poppion of sufficient space on that Irland for the residences and warehouses
Merchants, and propone фонг
entire capture of
the
it as the alternative,
The popepsion of Dave's bland, however,
seceparily includes the demolition
of the
River
defences
up to Whampoa
in
our sear
If the object it only quietty
bremove the Grade
from Canton to the other Ports and to hongkong,
I cannot imagine any
Letice
mode than the second proposition
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1
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of her Harber, that
Boa
of
Trac
duty
on
of
the
of bevering deas shipped at all the
other ports, and leaving
it is at Canton.
his would at least be
would not complain ofite remaining
it as
as
infinitely
preferable to the idea mentioned
in conclusion
by
t. Harker, that
of adding. 10. fere lent to the present Tear from Canton. It is
duty
oh
pretty unversally acknowledged
that the Era
much too
duty is already. high. Raining it on
Canton dear night, Lesider furnish the therise Government with a grievance, while lovering it at all the other Ports would
be a foxiting hook, and they
could
before at Canton.
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Supposing that her Majesty's
a
Government contemplate à considerable reduction in the Tea
duty, the differential rate suggested with reference to Cantor
may
be worth consideration.
I have,
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(riped) J. J. Davis.
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Davis.
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batter reap. Canton.
Remarks on the Markers
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Sir,
Forlign Affin
Septemben 18th 1048.
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with reference to your hitter
34
of the Is it of March, Lam dinlited
Viscount Palmerston to transmit
by
togon, for the information of larb
copy of a
ssey,
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despatch from
The Bonham, reporting
д
the Release
M. Veitor Howes who had been
detained by the Authorities on the
Coast of Cochin China
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You must obedient Kamble Slovant
Addingtons
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to Mr Howes & Oct/A
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Victoria Hong Kong
June 17. 1848.
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My Lord; I have the honour to lictualiz
the receipt of for Lowdships Despatch be.24 of the 15th of Apul last, with its inclommes relative to the Shipwreck of Mr. Victor Howes on the Cost of Cochin Chine, and his subsequent imprisonment
The Captierty of Mr. Howes having been brought to my knowledge by the for= & Prince of Wales Island, Pengapore and Malacca, I on the 28th March requested Captain Campbell the bemor haval Officin here, to allow to M. Ships Rigabit to touch on her long, to Pingapore at Faron
Viscount Palmerston 9.CB
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Boal
of
Trad
Bay, for the purpose of effecting Mr Howes
release, and I furnished the Commender
of
the refsel with a letter to the Authorities at the, I also with a Chinese linguist to afest in effecting his resence, the
tanclosed copy of a letter from the fovear
%
the Straits Settlements will serve to inform your Lordships that far. Victor
Howes was given up by the lochin Chinese Authorities & was on the 6th bilte at Singapore
I have not beeved any further
particulars relative to the teams adopted to effect the release of her. Howes begend what is contained in Colonel Butterontly letter.
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I think it right Your Londolip should be informed that My Predecefor brought this matter to the notice of the Lencion Naval Officer in there waters as for back As the std of March, but it appear that Officer was at the time indisposed to tate any active steps in the matter as will be seen by the inlovere.
I haveer
digned
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SS. Borka.
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Copy.
H... Malampus", Hong Kong
March 5. 1848.
69
" Thares the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter of this date with it inclosure, the "China Mail Bresterday
The information expecting the los of the "Little by tharine contained in the lettere published theren, is of much too bague a Character bowarrant my despatchesgone only disposable Seamer, in parsunt, object to all defined & replete with Embarrassment.
Dan
Furst - The Plow itself to ho determin
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or dumingly known, where the Catastrophe
occurrect
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2. Mclosures
Howes has been effectent.
Release of Mr Vector
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surf is to high as to lender any communica. tion with the shone ow that part where it appears the bekel in question was lost extremely
difficult. gooly Do
So long a period, big 4 months, has
Elapsed since the event took place that
there
're can be little or
or no hope of the.
Unfortunate Mr Hower, being still in the
cality
вод
Same locality, were los even fits enact position.
Theres ve
apuriel
(Rogued) Sno Camper Capitaine.
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Copy.
From the Governor of Painis of Wales Seland, Singapore and Malacca,
San
T. S. G. Bonham Exp Le La
Le La Xe
Singapore May 6. 18.
Shave the honour to acknowledge the leceipt of your despatch under date the 7th alt: intimating the steps you had taken for the release of M. bietor Howe from imprisonment at Jarrow Bay in Cochinthina.
The Royalist arrived here on the 14t Snot horfourmander having successtub with much judgement & great determination in effecting the release of Mr Howas whe is now.
hare, & apparently borggrateful for the pu Measure adopted by H. 2. in his behalf, and
я
Boat
of
Trad
I beg blender my acknowledgements for the "leady attention paid tomy communication on this subject .
Jam
I am grace bounderstand that the Senior
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Raval Officer in the Straits will order a passage Bo Honghong the provided on the Oriental Comfy s Steamer for the Cachin Chinse onterpreter furnished to the "Royalist, or I wont there
made the creepery arrangment to this
End.
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Shave Le W. J. Butterwort
Governor.
40-38-36
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1848 WKong
Forugh Offer September 19. 1848.
71
I am directed by Viscount Palmenten
to transmit to you, to be laid before Card
fees, copies of Despatches from Mr. Bochan respecting Piracy along the boast of Chine from Hong Kong to Shanghae.
Lond Ralinerston wishes to call the
attention of Lord free to the extent to which it appears from Dr. Borhans Despatet, that Piracy is carried on, to the impediments thereby opposed to the Courting trave, which is the great Incans
of transporting Commodities from Province Merciale Eye
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1
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to Province, and to the injury which thence must arise to Butish Commence
with China. Lord frey will obseve that tie Wnsequeme of the thability of the Chinese Sovernment to put down this Prays by their own haval Force, it has been a prevalent practive amongst the Chinese Traders and Coasters to apecable in lege
Fleets and to hire small European befels,
Vesels Gilled
or native Sorchas, with luropean
Cv
Macao. Portuguese Commanders, to give those Fleets Convoy and protection from Bort to Port. Land grey will als obene that from the defective nature
of
this
this system great abuses have arisen, And that acts of violence and of wrong are committed by the Portuguese and other who command these Convoying befels; that Theme detriment to Butish Interest рож
arises, because we are the Curopean Nation
Most engaged in communication And intercourse with China, and our character suffers most from Curopean Misconduct, as the Chinese are apt to ascribe to the English all that is done ill by Foreigners, and moreover there Portuguese themselves out as English
Wrong-doers give
In order to obtain impunity by
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fear which the Chinese have of Buticl
Power.
Lond Palauston Considers that
It would be in all ways advantageous
to Butish Interests, if British means would be employed to put there Pirates down, or at least to afford to the Chinese protection against their attacks. Our Commen would thereby be increased, And the respect and exteen in which
be ar
hell by the Chien would become greater; but the Ships of War which be
have on the Chinese Coast have duties
に
to perform bluch prevent them from
Soing
going
or
Much in pursuit of these Pirates,
• from giving Convoys to there boasting Fleets; although those Cruizing have Occasionally been very efficiently employed
the Capturing or driving away Pirates in Certain parts of the bea. Lond Palmerston would therefore with Lond frey to consider whether it would be posible to organize a Colonial Hotelle the purpose of giving Convoy to the Chinese Casting Elects. It seems to
for
Lord Palmerston that a small number
of
Arimed Vepels of no great tije, commanded by Bution Subjects, under
the
3
Boar
of
Trad
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the orders of, and responsible to the Governor of Hong Kong, would be able to
Under important service in protecting and facilitating commerce. That the
Good conduct of such repels as compared with the irregularities of the Volunteer repels, how used for Convoy, would probably obtain for them a willing preference in employment, and that Moreover an arrangement might be
Made with the Chinese Authorities, by which the bative Fleets night be
required to place themselves under the
Convoys
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Convoy of there Vesels; and it may
be supposed that if the fees how paid for Convoy to the Vefuls at present employed
On
that service are
sufficent to make it boult while those Vepels to to fly, the
for
Fees which would be paid to the
Colonial Guard Boats and whuil Might be fined by a regular Jauff
to be lettted between the fovernment
:
of thing Kong and the Chinese
:
Authorities, would be sufficient to
defray
Board
of
Trad
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defrags
the whole
Establishment.
I am,
Cart
Your most
of
the
obedient,
humble bervant.
as
Best
M. Merivale . I think it is impopitle to question the liberality of the spicit in which this suggestion is made, for it would be very houvalle to the Chinese Seass the British repretation to suppress pinay in com ding and in the long reen probably 2. profitable prove drays :finances are tainly could not sustain the Colonial finsuces the chaye which would be necpary to pay for fitting out a flotilla, and as Parliament can scar lespected to maintain a Marine for the sigh purpose of effecting that which the Chinese Govt either will not or cannot do themales
to me
it coppears that the preoporal is
inipicate cable one.
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papers do not afford any ground for
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would quad rise
to complaints.
on this party
of China
which
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le
Services . If the Chinese Got it. trublesome to adjust satisfacting. Moreover the British Merchants have not complained that. trade has been simpeded by theme Riester, so that the repels could be employed solely on Chinese
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The Clonial
for the protection
:tained that it had nothing to pay.
Joy Kiss Country, unless she is unde the overs ofthe Commen
on the Station, but that Board night not object if it was see?
of any repel being used for totorical Services at Hong Kong, when paid fo
on examcication. We know from experience that the Admiralty disappene Fora dipetion afforded to its subjects on defficently would be removed but it would be in proceding or perhaps objectionable
If Lord &'cly should
Governo, & the Aanziellyshould be com
thuit preopen to entection the preoposal 3. uppose the
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" med Joined in agine arduit it no doubt. The main question
would to one:
: mume the Mujn office more than omracters: homes the Chinese firmament corvent: kö it: ? In in oder to cany it out, I appichend it would h. kicepary, not merely that the Chinese Sovemment. should permit English refels of this description to act as conveys, but that they shared compet their own subjects to use them as
Conveys,
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Plotilla competing
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& Mer Bihorace for the Chinese.
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might
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buriten on colonial funds: hut was inasmuch as to offer to Lord Palmenton's scheme, & could wittingly further it hearded it
any fast
nepriations with the Chinese farther explicpain of demons hom his torchif whit this is appear to form the epential pctiminary, Land-Falmerston will pudes est
expect
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a stack of forcamps. & elpy of this coverpondence to the Coronor?
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the subject. Pushing
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flotilla for this purpose
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does not possess the necessary pecuniary. the original cost of the minune, even refury pecuniary fatt
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My Lord, with reference to that fiation
portion
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of Sir John Davis despatch $19. 18.of the 29th Jemmary last, relative to the convoys afforded by Refuels under But. Clous to Chinese funks against Puates, I have nar The honour to inclove for your Lordship's informaton Copy of a Deepated which Ihave lately, received from dny Coneal Jackson at Foochow foo, detailing the circumstances of the investigation & acquittal of the local Authorities of a Junk & her crew, detanseil & brought into that Post on suspicion of Piracy by the master of the British Merchant Schooner the "Aurora".
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The Consul concludes his Despatch by pointing our the wils likely to result from the commission of similar Acts of indiscretion, as that how reportet, by Vepels employed in giving Convoysto Junks along the Coast & suggests that a Public Notification should be issued with the brew of checking the unauthonged interference of the masters of But. Vefuel to emplized, & I have biccondigly Considered it advisable to some a Notification, of which the inclosed is a
copy:
this
I have formanded a copy of Notification to the Consul, with the request that he will communicate ito Contents to the Chinese Authorities, as
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-proof ther this proceeding on the part для of the Marter of the Aurora was totally unauthorized by the Brit: fort, & I have further directect the Consul to acquaint the Chinese Authorites that, were I not
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arose
satisfied that this unhappy affair laturely from a motake on the part of the master of the repel, for which the Chinese Junkmen were principally to blame, stipes would be taken to ensure the trial & pumichement of the master of the Aurora
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may Mr. Bonham
31.1848.
4:36
2. Mclosures
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with native Crafts.
Vefels, employed as Convogo,
interference of the Masters of
Relation to unauthorized
Copy
;
In 1848 W Kong
33
Siplomatic Depart
Government Notification
Whereas the attention of H. 2. Her Majesty Plempotesting &. D. has been called to the fact that Brit ! " Repels have heretofore been employed in conoozing Chimie Junks on boyages along the Coast of China, & masmuch as it has also been represented that acts of very questionable legality have later place while suck Convoys were to employed
#. E. decens it right to chrect
the attention of the Tharters of such conge to the serons liik & grave leponsabilities
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I whit they subject themselves while
engaged in this service on their
own
Authority, & to remind them that
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they undoubtedly under the malves liable to actions both of a civil & criminal nature for any illegal acts that they mag
Commit, as well as for all consequences that may ance therefor.
By Ander
Victoria Hong Kong May 29. 1040
A.B. Wharton
Copy
N. 20.
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Foochow foo
April.
84
10. 1848.
Referring to my h.10. of the 1. Will
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I have now the honour to transmit Copy & translation of a letter from Sich, Jaoutae, Containing the report of the Prefect of Forche On the examinations of the (rew & Pepenges bergers of the Junk detained by the trenchant Schooner "Aurora".
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I beg likewise to inclose copy of a aph
thereto.
It will be observed that there is a great discrepancy between the declaration on oult of Mr. Robertson & the lordine how transmitted, as to the number of individuals in the detained Junk at the time of Bounding her : - upon this Circumstance is laid great stress. S. Bonham Cape
auf
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But it should never be taken as a Criterion, for there Coasting Refels are known to Carry Many Papengers to & fio, whom it is difficult to distinguish from
their crew.
Fustead of from 20 to 25 persons jumping Berboard, & downing themele
to
Notwithstanding every effort mode t prevent them, as he unhesitatingh averred, it would how appear that Only two met that fate, & that they were jostted Borboard in the Confusion & alarm created by the landom Attack on Papengers's crew by the Schooner's People, with swords.
Allowing for some exaggeration in the Chime Statement from the irritated feelings of the injured Party, and,
presuming
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presuming Moreover, that the Authorities
At such suger
infer=
cannot but feel annozed at such
dicions Meddling with the pursuits of their Seafaring Countrymen, cateching Mrsing &
7.4% Emin upon innocent people, 7. to little trouble on themselves, I think the letter
from Such Taontae may be legarded exceedingly temperate."
as
The details of the examinations Must be assumed to be correct, femie be have to means of questoring them. And bender the cordene of the Chine венди themselves, Mr Robertion's imprimpled behavior on Claving this Port in beating People who had worked for heim on their applying for their wages, & threatening to Cut off their tails if they againacked heim for what was due to them, even
after
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of
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after his voluntary promuisto me faithfully to discharge their Clarins, added to certain injudicions expresions he made me of, relation to the detention of the Junki question, in the hearing of a Gentleman attacted to this Consulate has laved
Considerable doubt in my mind as to the degree of credit to be attached to his
declaration.
ill
His Conduct Contrasts bery with the punctuality with which the funk men dischayed them engagements to him for convoging them to this Port. Nevertheless in my replyt Luche & have endeavoured to make out as good a case as posible, with the brew of Alloying the irritation likely, libe fostered by the Complainants, were
to
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they left under (the impression that the injury done them was entirely, the fault of our countrymen.
Ihr Robertion Manifestent some doubt as to the correctness of his proceedings, heightened, I believe, by a lettin
of admonition from his owner a
owner at Amory, t whom he had made it known.
this declaration Atteals his anxiety
to shift the odium of of the detention on the Junchmen.
Several Repels under Caglish Colours are now similuly employed hingeving Convoy, to Junks along the Coast, o it is Mail to be feared that, in order to thew their geal, they may commit acts of indiveretion like the one how under Consideration, regardless of results, unles
t
they
checked
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of
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checked by some efficient & peremptory
Commands. Them Crews are mostly, Lascars, between whom the Chime a Strong Natural dislike exist, ret is difficult to prevent them from Committing brolence when they come in Contact with the latter in the apuned Character of Captors
I sincerely hope for the lacons stated that four Excellery will deem it propen to put a stops, by Public hotification to the injuries complained of, as well as for the sake of humanity, as ti Comornie the Chinese Authorites & People, that # M. foot will not wountenance Opprepine & Unauthorized Conduct on The part of Brit: Subjects.
I have
(signed) B.B Jackson
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Copy
Jess
My Lord,
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Victorian Bong Kong.
June 6. 1848.
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On the && of May had the honour to forward for four Lordship's information copy of a letter porn a Chinese Gentleman unding at hingpo, astending to show the Anarchy's Confusion that exists in that Quarter, & the absence of all power on the part of the Chinese Authoritis to uphold their Laws & to suppres Populer Outbreaks; & in coroboration of these brews, & to prove how entirelys powerless the Authorities at highe уро really are, I now foward Coffey of a letter from the Intendant of Circuit to the Consul of that Post, requesting that 6. Mn. Big losingle "May be seat out mount Palmerton S.C_B
t
Boai
of
Trai
E.I
to Clear the Comel- of Pirates, to enable th Fishing Boats of the Port to proceed to tea
their ordinary Avocations.
On
I also inclose a copy of a petition from a poor widow woman, unding at "Mighs requesting the Conent's cepestame
ро the rescuing her son from some Pirater
From previous Despatites Jr. Londolip tore be aware of the frightful latent to which Perang has been camed on,
b
still exuits, along the coast of China; &
it is how wordent that the Authorities
are entirely without power to suppress it, notwithstanding they were urged to
вра adopt tome prevention measures by a very significant exhibition of popular feeling, which in fart worked on the Authorities so effectually, as to induce them
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them to call on the Autish Consel for apsistam.
Der Consul Sullivans Berpatch waves
Conveyo
however all that paped between himself
and the Chinese Authorities bi to lucid And satisfactory a manner, that I blature to inclose it unmitilated for Jour Lordolip's information
The "Ropingle" returned to Port After a week's cruje; the bas unsuccesful in capturing any of the Viratical befels, but her appearance
has for the prevent had the dimmable effect of clearing the immediate bleinit, of the Piratical fleet, which previously infestest it. I have & Y
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(Signed)
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of
Trade
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Hel
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Victoria Hong Kong
6.
1848
June Mr. Bonham
4:38
5. Mclosures
Suppres populer buttreak.
uphold their Lawo'r to Authorities at Wingps to on the part of the local
Relative & want of power
Copy of a letter from t. 2. Lin Kwei, Intendant of Wrenit of Ming-po-for, Shaomhing foo & Jac. Chow. foo.to.
His Worship G. G. Sullivan H.B. Mr. Consul, Ming po
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The number of boats lagaged in fishing. Outride the Port of Chinhai Amounts to several thousands, & as I have heard that (to Ship of War belonging to Jour Honth- Country will soon proceed to dea to clear linefor
Humble
I how
(i-e. for the cxcrcise Ther guns, Uspectfully beg your Worship to requent
the howal Officer bis command of jour Man of War (to. Mis Roseügli") to guard
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them afarist Pirates & afford the
fishing Boats every protection agamet
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evil. The Fishermen'd the people to general will shew endlep gratitude for any and afforded them.
with this my requere I beg
wishes
4 offer My best writer.
New. May 9. 1848
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7th day. 4th Moon. 28 year of Thonkwary
A true Franslation
(bijsed) Chas: A. Sinclair Itupute
A true Copper signe. A. R. Johnston
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To His Worshipp
G.S. Sullivan
Consul of St Antein at Richter.
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of
The humble petition of thedeen thin of the Family of Choo Regarding the capture hir son by Pirates - Sheveth-
30%
That unfortunately on the 24th da 900 More (27. Asil) about home, her fatturks son, who was on boond a hong bout out atles, was seized & Carned away by Pirates; that his name is Levon & is 24 years of age.
That his companion in the same
странит boat Le. Ah- trang was cared away
with her ton by the Pirates. That on the 2nd day of this moon (4 May) when at
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a place named Kea-Ke the Printes Puratos
ondered Le. Ah-theang to Utara home,
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& make a demand of 100 Gollans for the Causern of her son, & that he brought be written Paper from the Pirater whack
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stipulatent that the sum should be paid.
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into the hands of a person hamed tang Kwany. Thing living at Kea - Ke ortid
outude
the bouth gate, & limiting & teren of six
days for the payment thereof -
And this in default of Payment at the exping of the given time they would not answer for his life
That Your Worship's humble
(and that she has no means of earning
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upon the cammings of her son Le war. Aut that how he is in the hands of the Pirates
who demand the sum of 100 bollens for his laucom. that it is imposible the can
Lansom.
collect this sum, of the if he be not
Cassomed soon, the dreads the deadly Consequences what will befall her son, likely to hooke his life
That the prefingly implores
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his
bonchips &. & Sullivan to afford her and
r support.
Presented May 9. 1818.
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11. 1848.
Siry of have the honour to make the
Subject of the present. Despatite the Welation
of an occurrence which has recently taken place, & whit appears to me to be sufficitly interesting to deserne J. C. perusal &
In
RECORD
My Serpatet. We7. of the 20. Of manki Cast I offered an opinion on the babchtig
of
the Chinine fort & the want of power on the point of the local Authorities to controal The People, which the Circumstances I am about to hanate woedence in a strong Mauser
"I should have prefaced by letter
by informing G. C. that for the het
G. Benham Que
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in
eighteen months the Piratical Vessels this heighbourhood have become to humours What the trading funks have found it Necessary to employ Lorches & small foreign Vepels at an enormous Monthly lapense to afford them Convoy Protection. bude Despatch he 1 of 80% Jan't last recently. however, this depredations have been Chiefly directed against the small fishing boats belonging to this Port employed in the Jellow & Cuttle Fishery in the Chusan Archipelys during four months of the year, when they are caught in great abundance, as G. C. will readily teline from the fact of there being about 4,000 boats this employed, & the description
Fish in question, after Rice, being the principal food of the pooner Clases,
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On the morning of the of to Instant. A poor woman Usiding near the Consulate presented the witt & Retition setting forth the Capture of her son by some Pirates near Bro. to (inclorure Copy, mes) and Imploring My apistance to obten his restoration. This document I forwarded to to. 2. the I contae, who expressed his sympatty refret, but deelsed his mability; to Do Anything in the matter, and solicited that I would lite Ony influence with Capta Campbell of H. Dn. Ship lepingle" to induce him to buit the neighbouring Islands for the purpose I capturing or driving away the Pirates, excusing himself from the non- explogment of then own bepels in this Servis on the plea of the Admiral's
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Ill. health and the Anticipated besit of the governor of the Governor of the Province to inspect the war Junks & folding, while
the bruth is that the Adrial with his Squadron are afraid to proceed begond Chinhai, it being commonly reportent that the Pirates are desirous of encountering his Fleet, which the Mandarins Admit, Are better equipped, more numerous & in every respect more efficient than the fort bepels.
During the day I heard that the Fishing Doats, to which I have before Allured, were apenbling at Chinhai in large numbers, and that their cros Amounting to probably 8. or 9.000
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in bain petitioned the Authorities for protection on them fishing grounds by
the presence of some War Junks, one Mouth of the fishing leason having expired, and
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being ajani fint off with specions promines, the proceeded in Mafe" to the Custom House & Rajistrong demolishing the Gates & pulling & Consiverable portion of the buildings; the local authorities in their flight retreated hattily & hingto to inform the Taoutee of what had laten place, who, danding further violine, sent over the Chief Magistrate of Chusan And another Officer with a note, enclosure hed, wrging & imploring me to requent that Captain Cambpell would immediately,
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Under there arcumstances I did not hesitate to write officiallyrti Captain Campbell, requesting he would lender ung afsirtame in his power, a copy of my litter that Offium's uplys I have the know to inclose, & I take this opportunit, of informing your Excelleny that shot only felt gratiful in Affording the davutac who is a very superior person, & with whom I have always been on the mosi
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a
devine also of practically Convincing the people of our wise & superior bystem of foot of the benevolent feeling of foreigners
in affording them that protection, whil thei's own Authorities are unable to
afford & which cannot fail I have the Tnost bespeficial effect in Umoving their prejudices & dislike to Foreigners, & every thing that is not pembings Chinese
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J.e. Javute that 40 boats to tow the Copeegle" down the River gesterday morning
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Churan and
by the Chief Majestate of Another Mandarin, whom the Scouture had
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set acrop at buwnice to bey that they should
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be received on bound the Bing, is onder that they might be seen by the Kicherer
in paping down the liver, which they took care should be the case, for they stationed themselves on the forecette, haranguing the People in the boats & stating that they woul how proved & tea in safety, as the Big
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was going out to look after the Pirater and to protect them.
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On reaching Chin hai I visited "The Majistrony (the Anthontes having ther courage to return). The mob ben volers in the extreme trwards them, having photh
before my animal broken in pices the Sedan Chair of the Refert, who everped ведом under the protection of some Portuguese Sailors from a Loncha, whom I found at The The been's purchasing powder and baiting for a chop to proceed to sea with the fishing bouts - in paping & & from My boat I was treated with the most thanked respect & civility by the
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In submitting the following two Despatitis with inclosures from W Consul Jackson at
to Prochon zoo, I am induced principally to do so
that Gyr Lolohp may be aware of the pitch to which Piracy has arrived's is carried on the Cocot of thing betious this folory & Shanghae.
between From three Papers Up Loshs will gather that nation Junks trading from the "Post to another, are to perfectly linable to protect themselves from the Pirates, & exceive Ishiite proaction from their own god. that they are compelled to xact in mumboot hire Iinale European vessels or native befels calledd Lorchas, with European or Mache - Portuguese Commanders to protects Carin: The persons commanding the for has
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Always plece Inisinformation on the part of the Chinese under their Conway for way Acts of violence they may commit it is unnecessary tomore than allude to the abuse to which this state of things. hable; and that evt only gros abuse, but also extortion has been practised will be obvious from the Enclosures. The Mclosures however, marked 2&3 will fully explain the circumstances to whil
I refer.
In the case
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of the Loochas uncer
Portuguese colours Ishall draw the
"Attention of the Authorities at Macas
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to the transaction; and from the character of the Governor of that Colony, Shave no doubt he will do all in his power to redress the abuse complained of by bepels sailing
from Mercas.
lis ergards the "bictoria", the belongs to an Inhabitant of this place, a nation
& Bombay ; he days that the form of the "Victoria " is a Portuguese &
"
£6 a month as
As loa
tuguese & Muires
loages,
& that his Lorghs.
at present earns $650 a months for Convoying Chinese bepels along the coast,
on
being made acquainted with the Complaint made against the Mester of the forche, he volunteered at once to dismiss him on her return to Port.
I shall also make further enquiries
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Ito my despartits No. 36. Of the 37t
1.36 of Ulto Shave abready forwarded for Gr Lochp's information copy of a notificatus that thad issued relation to this subject; this measured am in hopes may tund to ender persons engaged in the Convoy Trade more circumspect for the future
& it will also serve tosatisfy
baatiofy the Chinese
Authorities that these uncourrantable
Acts of Biolaner, whather committed.
committed by
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English or Portuguese subjects, Altogether unsanctioned & discontenaped
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by the British Authorities.
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" Theur the honour tolay before 4. E. Coy & translation of an official letter lately leceive from Lich Jaoutar, transiribing a export Made to the Provincial Treasurer by the Prefect of Fahning, complaining of proceedings alleged against I loglist bessels at a place called Sansha, Short distance to the northward of this Pot.
I have explained tothe Tamatar (Enclosure 2 that about the time this affair is said thave happened, a fleet of Chakiang Sunks left this Port under Convoy of Portuguese Lorches, and that there tours to English besed have G. Bonham Esq.
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Thave also explained whin that in a recent case of alleged infraction of the Customs Land the ciscredit there of was Attempted to be foisted upon an English befel by the Master of a Portuguese Lorbe. The proof Shack against him was a Note addraped to the (ustoms Offer at Mergers in Portuguese, which wouldthat
Certainly be used by the master of aw
English bekel or any of his people
On the reverse side of that note Ow was what was intended,
6 for a translation for a of it into Chinese, in which the writer imprudently assumes for his craft the :character of a vessel of the "great English Nation, & insultingly demands
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from the officer towhow it is addbreped the liberation of somebody belonging tohin,
of whose detention the said officer decland he knew nothing . _ The noto in question
was
forwardee for my perusal, and
Returned by
me to the Harkwaw.
In adverting to this case in
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Exply & Lich, I thought it proper to add that he would's later occasion
A quest that has
tomake knoww tother people on the boast
whom he represents as entertaining a violent feeling of exasperation agains the English in consequence of the alleged декамей
Acts of aggression, the facts above
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Adjacent coasts they have had little
but
or no intercourse with any smuggling craft, who are interested
the concealing this nationality, & Shifting the blame of their misdeeds show others.
The other case of mistaken deynle Alluded to in the Taoutar's letter is that made by the Schooner "Aurora", particulars of which are contained
my
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In the last of those Despatcher Iventured beall ly. Es attention to
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Shave received from the Iinancial Commissioner a Deapatid stating that the Prefect of Fuhning, Chweing Showke, had laid before him a Report made on the 5th Day of the 2nd month (Mark 29.) of the 28th Gear of Throw Thwany, by San Panchos, Police Inspector of San- she is the District of this - pos in the following terms;
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" On the 27th Day of the 1.20 "mouth of the present year (March 2.) " a report was brought tome by some
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" } the 2nd Month (March 6 . ) these " English bessels hearing that there were "Nation Prites cosiging outside in " Readiness to attered them forthwith " leighed Anchor & went out is permit " In the afternoon, as Iwas derreting " the Police to enquirs how matters ware proceeding. Theard in the
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belonging to the Common People were "Struck by shot.
I inmediately went, accompanied "by the Military, tothe Bay, benquire
" into what was taking place, & I
" was informed by the people there "that the English having seized a " fishing boat belonging to the Bay,
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" their bekel upon them.
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I thereupon, accompanied be "Military Officers with a Fores, procceded " to the Is a shore toquell the disturbance. "The English had by this time embarked "Carrying off a prisonins the fishermen " Naw - loo & Kew Gut, & declaring "to a loud voice their intention
"to decapitate them. While we were Engerring into the affair, the fishing " people began to pow simpations, and " as the disturbancer created by the
English was
owing tothis having
or
• been employed by the Corkiang
"Wood
" wood merchants, the people attacked "thase latter & beat them. We went
" forward and called out to them to "desist, but several of the number " had abundy been wounded .
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"In our power to allay it, we lefarend On board the English bessel, & hyjul
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"the liberation of Wanlos & his " Companion _ the two fishermen. The " English represented that many
Athen "Oraw had been wounded, & that
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"been toon toperces by shot: but they
" promised on payment of $200
$
" give up the boat & saleuse the men.
"We explained tothem again xagain the "State of the case, but they obstinatidy "refused to listen to us.
"
Ire than called before in the "The kiang Inerchant, Sie Yeu haow "I Se ching hung, together with " Chin king ching, Fran Meow Kew "I others, fishermen of the Bay, & "demanded of them a precise account. of the afferir. Sie Yew horow & hos "Companions becomingly deposed
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"On the 8th day of the 12th month of "last year (fant 13. 1848) having been "Eegistered & inspreted at. Mr
Mingai
cargoes of
"We left that Port with " wood for the king. The wind being "Contrary on the 27th of the late month " (March 2. ) we put into San the " & Anchonce in the Bay. " morning of the 2nd day of the Ind двоешь
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" mouth / March 6.) we learnt that these " Were Pirater outside, & the English
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" fishing boat which coas entering the "Bay. The English amistook her for a
" Porcite & captured her. This excited
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the displeasure of the fishing people
on the shore, & breause the English who
" ware authors of the mischief were thour " Unflay, they in a divordedly enanner "Attacked & brat tos. Five of our number
four " vero toounded severely & twrlor more "Slightly. We bey that these
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A list of the articles wehave
" lost, and prug that they may
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• The Bontonen Chinkingthing
" And Wan. know. New made the
" following deposition.
We are inhabitants of this Bay 2 gain a livelihood by fishing being " provided with a licence are 56 from "The Magistrate ofthedistrust. There "are in disorderly practices hat can "be laid tour_ charge-
On the I mely the Mouths (March 6 ) "While fishing out at Sea, wor "unfortunately fell in with "English vessel which was firing
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"Bland, having
one man. Wan-log-
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our
bessel. The
"English then seized her & towel
"has
& with swords in their
away, hands, they came ashore in persint
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" of ts. Thew Guk a mnaw of the Bay, :the happenced tobe on the spot "Welling fish, becoming alarmil " ook toflight, on which the
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"English, supposing him lobe a "Pirate, enade him Prisoner. This occurrence displeased the people "Of the bony, & they thereupon attacker
Bery. "the the keang Merchants & their "dailons & beat them. Tenly
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Hereupon taking the
" Wood dealers with us, we again " went on boares the English bessel "I repeatedly explainied to the "persons in her the state of the "Cass. At brugth on the 4th the "month (March 8. ) they liberated "Man los & his Companions & delivered
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"Subjects,
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the people tofight was nota,
Proceeds
" on their part, with a brew Bereating disturbances. We accordingly directed
" them to procure bail & get them at
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"The persons who commencal Affony we found to have been brang the eigen, brang Sostach & others " whom we sent to the District Magistrate
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"The wounds exceived by the the keang Sailor,
" who were attaukub were not
"particularly bevere. The wood dealers
Laron and his companion
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Laving asked that they might be
" given up to them in order themselves " to undertake their cure, their request
" as was expedient was granted. The "Missing articles have beux cecovered & sentiva "to their owners!?
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The Prefect of Juhning having laid the foregoing before the fourmissioner of Finaner, it was by him transinitted bine the Intendent. I have besides
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"It appears from the Statement "Of the Prefect of Juhning that the "bekel in question convrying in merchant
" Junks was not a British Ship of war "Lent to ernize after Pirates. that "The precipitatily & without our
"самот
cause captured a fishing boat,
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"thereby bringing about a quarrel & affray "betioun the Inhabitants of the Bayd
the Chakeung Traders. This is a kind
"of proceeding that should on no account "be longer tolerated; it would be light "for you therefore to address a com- "_munication to the loneulat "Too chow, arquesting him blay the " Metter before the Brition Plenipo- " Centiary, in order that such " practises be put a stop 5. "Await meanwhile the orders of
"the Governor General & actions the "Mandate after perusal."
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Number of 20. X occasioned the death of Deveral more - the particulars geheiß
Case having been investigated, wour Communicated boyow, the worthy Consul, as is on record. After aw
interval. Of only a few day, howener has a fishing boat in the Bay of Jansha
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buw mistaken for
a Pirate, & the multituule thereby
provokub boas attack uponthekeung
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Marchants & their tailorga to
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And though the coil Oficers
& the Military Succeeded in quelling the not & in bringing the matter be conclusion. Thews nrvortheless that the Inhabitants of that part of the last
Entertain a violent fueling of exas- -peration against your respected Coumbing
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This is strikingly out of unison with the Amity & good with that should generally prrouil. From the Appearance of things Carson lifear that this exasperation
too there seems.
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I make this communication the to request you blay the matter in question before the Planipotentiary of your respectedd Nation in order that the Masters fall bepels may be repreply enjoined henceforward to restrain there intermedelling which bringe de munt trouble & distress upon innocent People. By this means may unforese Accidents be prroented & praer & concord maintained unimpaired.
A very necesary communication to Jackson - B. B. M. Coment at Forched. Javukways 28th year. Bad mouth. 9th day
(April 12. 1848.)
Copy.
Brit Consulate Grochow April 17/68.
Jackson, H. B. M. Consul to marker
the following Communication in exply
Shave had the hourons to receive from
the worthy Taontas an official letter transcribing & Report made by the Prefect of Rihning to the Provincial reasures Complaining of proceedings alleged Against two English bessels at a place called Saw the in the District of This poo
About the time this affairs is reported Whave occurred a fort offhr keang Junks laden with timber left this Port under the convoy of one or more
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Lorches. There were no
English bessels here At that time. And as in the Report
of the Prefect of Fühning, no sort of
proof is furnished as to the nationality
bessels
of the conveying befele begone ther bare assertion of the thakeung Junkmen,
I feel almost convinced they were not
indend English bessel.
Moreover
cover a case tous lately
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Submitted tome by the Hackwan at hantas in which the two tom's offerah Mingkan alleged a charge of infringement of the [wstom's Lave agains an English wessel engaged in giving convoy to Junks_ which however I found on proof supplied to me by the backwar himself
himself to be a Portuguese Lorchad.
I took that opportunity of explaining
to the Hackwan what mvertheless he ought thars been cognizant of that there was
No English Bessel them in the Port Sindary engaged, & that most of the
дева bessels engaged to convoy nation Jacks love Foreigners, principally Portugueses over whom H. M. Officers & God. have no punsdiction oncontroul.
thave accordingly to request you will take proper measure for making this fact known to the people on the best whom you represent as entertaining a biolent feeling of Exasperation against the English.
In the meantime. Swill take an Early opportunity of representing the case tott. In Plenipotentiary in compliance with your request.
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Sing with reform to the componders with
reference
the Authorities of this City which I had the honour of lazing before G. C. In My last muntend Despatch, I have now to report the following particulars that have since come to my, knowledge respecting a Louche called the "Victoria "whil entered this River about the middle of the present mouth.
She is sand to belong to a berang
Victoria
hamed be. Me. deen lividing at Ketonin
Sic.
to be Portuguese built, & her Marling crew to be
Morty Portuguese.
The however hounted Britol
Colours & papsed for An English Kepel.
From Commmenden Loving of HMS. Scout I first heard of this Vesels having been
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From a respectable Pasenger in the Lonchae I had the other particulars. And in
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that during the whole papage the
Tracter was constantly firing upon every, hative
Craft, that came within range of his feins, & Otherwise behaving in an unjust & overbearing manner; as for example ondering up
to shoot the Pilot, in this Oliver, in arif
Munkets
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own terms.
On its becing Umarked that the People fled at his approach, & appeared Alarmed Thenever his Lorcha stopped at Any Roadstuart or anchorage, which the dil Almost daily during her seven weeks papage from thong kong, he exprefed
surprize that such should be the case,
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but added that he had heverthalep
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observed it without being able to account
for it.
I fully
believe it is to Characters of this
descriptions that be owe much of the odium
which is cast upon lighth Vefiels on there
Courto.
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If Authorgal & Carry, lughol Colours, which I am at a loss to understeed, it is incumbent on the master of the "Victoria"," If an laghal Vepal, so to demean himself as not to give like to reports & feelings inimicil to our Characlin's interests.
Daving Uncavel at Anchor only a few hours, though some clays sie the River, I doubt be can be held subject to the penalty, Card Jown in the gu Article of the feneral.
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her owners might not be proceeded agarnet the abuse of them, with a view to the
for
prevention of further Misconduct wherely
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верев reputation of our country's bessel is made t bear the burther of all the loghenes &
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The Loncha in question is said to
be giving Convoy & fucks going korthward, After which the is to return to Hong Kong
I trust you will see fit to give onders for Compelling her Master, on her arrival there, to under a strict account of his proceedings; : And that you will likewice consider the
lapediency of levying the Fire for cepaction of the 30. Art: of the general regulations for Antioch Vepels, on them arrival at the Consular Posts, in the love of the Victoria being wondered entitled to that demoration Unless reposons notice be taken of the lewlep proceedings of such Vepels, it is
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Letter
Ophitehall
10 Jaimary.
With reference to
188.
of the 10th Altino, dam directed by Secretary Sir Seorge
to thansmit to
Srey
the
inform
cation
the enclosed Me
for. of hard hay,
H Lint. Colonel Jeble, the
Ex
relating Honey
P.S. The Enclosures
Cotter are
with returned
the
Severa
to the Ricord at
Jir,
dang
Four Obedient Servant
R. Merivale degr
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Colonial Afferd
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of
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Mr Me
стоять
Jan11. 4. Jith me maanden is punched (as be himself stated to me) on buy insufficient in formation regarding
the plan & site of the purentis aff. There is no Estimato
Lo
the
perused Expense of the alterations
bystion : bit pesta biz tay
sould not quals cond
the cost of there bypake by the Committre affish? at Hay kay. It will ingens a dispaket to emborly Cite setti hiemannden.
But, after all, is hit this a
Fair
instance for the adoption of has hays meat sagestion in mans
to the Bermudas, & Employing
کے
that
min to consider the safety is done at the same time,
it is denrable to employ the convicts as much as
A
what
hointing
s possible on out door labour, & authorizing the expenditure
before a much as wohl bit for the carton f
be reefury to render the
most drechonable Wate
extreme dancer to health which must be oren entorty of offenders without the obtain the samet" of the Jy for these instructur
on many of the comicts/ats. beast those senhaud to hand (attur ) as perhitte,
on cut-dra. Barks.
$713. Murak 20.
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normit the
memnundum
to thiyur
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Entered
MB Jalis
1. 8. Frevelyan Gre
Forwardedby LANY
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رندا
۔ کسی کو
| Earl Grey
MRHomes 16
ABMonivule 15
Могу
22. Jan 1848.
Jam devited by lad
Grey
to transmit to you
traft to the God reguvis Lowes Commissioners of the Before this is sent the for the consistiration of the
to be preford
5
Treasury the accompanying
Extrck from
Despitet
Plans & Estimates of a
Hong inclosing a Ressert with from the Governor of Hong
Committee apported to
Consider such mussures as
as might be necessary fo
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!
1T
Board
of
Trade
E.L.B
eig
Securing the health of
the Pusoniis enforced
sin the Gasts of Which Colony.
I also transmich the Copy
of a Memoranducen drawn
the by the Sunny up
Gevent of Prisons to whom
Ford Grey his referred
subject
this subjub, logether with
the draft of Instructions
which he quopones, withe
their Loraships
to
Concurrence
address to the Gournian
of Hong Sony authorizing
that Officer to mee
>
r
121
Whitever amount of expense_
May
be considered absolutely
Necessary for rendering the
gast fit for the Custody
of Offen
dess without thick
to hesteh
extreme danger to s
to which it's present
Apilioneta stite exfores
them.
Their Luships.
вр
will
observe the it to carry
nite
effect the cucommendations
fores of Polonel Sett so far to render the Prisons fib
for the reception of its Surnated
surt
ffice
--
Board of
Trade
E.L.B
"ce
will noh quotably requil
Are
outhey exceeding to any
Material entish the Sum extech
of £545-bub Lord Grey is
: unwilling to limit the
Govenor to any pucise
amount until be shall
have had an
opportunity
of personally and queeting
the Presoux & cous-
consulting
his Council repon their.
His Luashup therefore would
Recommend thich the expenditure
which he Gropores the authorize
Mr Bann,
"presume this is what Lad fey is hard by his minuts on
79 Dory 10
on this accouch should
122
receive the Sauction of the
Lords of the Fresary.
there
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ì
the
Унисек
the sweer
ar
ffice
Board
of
Trade
E.LI
;
123
Thad not seen this chaft when I write
the chuft to the 54.
my minute on
God-Borkamby N. 10_Sie
9.
23 Jel
Sendore herewith
24 San
memnandum w the reporte
(copy of his opt to Ju
Mwarded by
Wtervale for 10
word wemmenrath by Kent.
M. Amon deyil. Cohnel Jett, Surveys- jancial
9.17
J1⁄2 $0.10 Jans-
of puimus,
and
The report
recommendations of
à immmittee aperth & to
examine and report upore
the state "/
the
Jas of
Fiumia at Hong Kong.
which report uste
faresmeded
to me by your peedenkir.
Loveinn Dani's in
+
desporth
:
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Cel
41
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تم
Boar
of
Trad
E.1.
:
dated I Nov. 1847. You
with chem that ist. Jetti
manorandum is drawn up
inspepit materials,
he had submitted to his
tes
remento information
respecting the plan and
site V
the pucent gait.
B1
His recommenschins haverne
Bore of
tary from thore
the
Committre in some particulus
to which it will be
insportant that
кал дж
shult
drech you attention.
It appears & me alo
E
deincable, not only with
new to the insufficient
A...
124
size & deficient accomumoschin
Suported to Ach affione
appear
by the pot to of
gast itself
从
de reperited on
by the Committee. Met also
to the dicipline & health
of the prisoners in such a
climate
Had of Kozy
ling, that they thines
I employed as for
6-7
can be done on action
work, such as
the
the
contention of round, and
other similar Catsen, be
ffice
cel
Boat
of
Trad
E.1
the puttie brests To
cary
into practice the s
recommendtion, hey much
of conure lunch briefiel
capeunstendence
must be
and
much expilame exercised in
perating distily consuch
1
And
conruation
amerzy
Mem.
This big acomplished, the
pusones sentimed & Lard
|
125
Thore sexterned to himprisonment
the addition of
only without, hard letour,
anting pisticer
if
the wit
there who eximise
Йи
similar
log
Marity in Hongkong
thick fish at
amy
hine,
asur
law of this country authorizes
Here in setting the posson
their lung aber incplored
on outdon wiki, an,
un
thmes they where to laton,
Ibjected to a he issupolled by
Office
1.
Retour may
be employed
they may
Be
manne V
1
alon mewhined
during a great hast of the
terms of their tentimes.
And come with resiput to
am
recution of their ra
ra hizi.
At the same home it would
h
I. ampany
to maintain
Ar
Confulton canfully
B
Ti
E
*
Office
cel
ees
ижел as circumstames would
a
Clow the distinction.
batween these & the class
sentenced & Zaid laten,
to
by making
of
Са
lip
their employment
severe Kikrome
character & keeping theme
as for a péfilter apart.
ar
that if
It appears to me
there recommendations
into effect
they
teen fully canied wit
hold chimi
wish to a
My comidnath sekit
скрение
the surfany expence of
Ират к сигрии
& aussporation.
126
The person would then beomie,
por alage number of funden,
Comparatively little mone
than a reuptake by night=
and more space might
Receper be dusted to their
then would sight-lothing
be fthith if they were
confined the whole day
day
within its walls. It will
als Bender more
The
practicalle
merkorny duthing a
portion of space to reparati
celly, in order to
into effect
cacy
set what has her friend
d.
17
A
Macey
Boar
of
Trad
the most effectucale nert
of punishment in
cumirals.
the can
E.L.
with these recommentation.
+ you will not however wear any
I have the details
The important du Gich in
haud a
Jun Trust
Phone & Jo
excutius commit: and
Wstatus exfence you may,
ultimate & find empreg to render the gart fit
be the entry of thalien JAAN
without that exhome
danger Whealth whic
han
othease beyond that which you may
find absolutely & urgently necpany
Munt lovasioned
пр
127
its presents went dictionall
Endition, I shall h
hupared bauthrive.
without previously transmitting to me You will them that the Mans of the alterates or additions
you propore to make to the existing Inson, in order that the sunction of H. Mi gost may be obtained before
my
much works we
undertaken.
rem which the Committing
by their Acfat sperity
nempary for the repanis
ar
+
immerlakes ugured amounts
to £545-19.11. and
that Lient. Col. Jett Wheir
Start his recommendations
can I camed into effet
without exceetlig
That amount
·
ffice
cel
¡ces
Boar
of
Trad
E.1.
And I tape it will he found
practicath not to excid it;
When the obsession direction,
herein contained usporting out don labour are attended
to. But I have ben.
unwitting
to linist gru
to this or my reise sum
Lan
until you have had the
opportuning of commelting
your
Connial repon the intjets.
Jan.
A
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24
ffice
col
J
129
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Boar
of
Trad
E.I
fice
CA.
Memorandum on the Report and=
li
recommendations of a Committée assembled.
examine and poport upon the state of Gaol of Vritarice at Hong Kong) -
вить
J K
Nem 1 .. The space proposed to be taken from
the
poems of the Gool & and converted into Pimies and southing
2018
J
rooms would be a
Accommodation and interfere with
other arru
arrangements for dividing the interior
of the poomes should it be considered desirable
to
separate the Prisoners at sight
Su
place of this sunde of providing privies and
washing
Aboms
would suggest.
outside Gallery or berandah
anade qqually
a
secure with the poom itself, in which
Pinny for
2001
recasional use and as worth
swight be placed. -
For
-
Mwashing,
ے میں
The the general use of Prisoners
「
sury
ffic.
t
130
Offic
6
B
Boat
of
Ishould recommend privies being cousticated in the Gards to which Prisoners should the afforded access boice
times a
day
where taken out for
Exercise
Stems 2×3 . - The proposed bistem should be
0442
placed the souter closets and wathing places .. If the Prisoners
Jo
are
Gael B.
b .
The observations I have anade on
Gaol 4.
A
B.
will apply generally to Gual B . - I would
neggut
lecare
horvener that the briandat's be nude
ky
made
iron boss and that the Prisoners
have constant access to the Privies. -
allowed to
Gavi &- appones
water
crie loa.
to the Privies in the Gurch, cioset will probably be sufficients - if not
3
5 will be required ..
344
Abundant
& ventilation
should be provided by breaking out openings
and near.
the exiting
close to the floor with the means of closing such as may
inconvenient
mient drang
draught .__
Cause our
It is desirable. that the appertices
air and the exit
for the admission of fresh air and
of fout
664
we should be sure such sumbers
to create a more
general crculation
throughout the whole interior then is
now proposed ..
to of in differcut construction to the others and to be divided into bells intended for solitary confinement which are stated to - he not large mangls for
most tive Prisoners. -
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جی رہی بھی کتنی جیسے جیسے
дене
On this subject dmill offer since further observations and seven confine amyself
to the suggeted oncasure of practing tive Treners for Puivies and washing places. -
I should pleommend instead that Pusiners should have
Civics
in
the Gard
livice access
and
40
days
b
be farmished with
a close possel in each cell for smagencies and with respect to seashing of
each.
Boal
of
Tra
131
Pasiner hus a small hand busin and that
a souter tup be fixed.
sitt be
1110
difficulty.
in the passage, there
in their
teashing
1100
then bells and emptying the stops when they
go
Jo
This to recreise.
anangement would he
and sune convenient and tune suuch of
found.
the expence that would be occasioned by
Eating
Ipenses. - Голос
The whole of the bells should
freily ventilated. -
With
}
be
4
a view to obviate the
terious purconvenience that would be.
sustained by the delay of
delay of a Reference for
further information I pould venture to
subsists for consideration of
consideration of Carl Grey that
Hong Kong should be
the Governor of Hong Kong
Authorized to carry
into effect all the
unks contained in the abstract, subject
to such of the alterations I have
suggested Jave
may appear to hime expedient not aware that the expence of what I will materially alter the
have suggested will materialle
تی مجھے کی مجمر
ལམ་་
amount
of
£646.
the Eestimate which as it stands
45-
19..
//
The penisal of the documents hat
impressed one with the convention
6!
of
the
necessity of calling the summediate attention: if the authorities of Hong Ting to the question of the dissipline and treatment of Prisoners
Without
referring
to the details it
may
Iffic
be sufficient to advert to the admission contained in the concluding paragraph of the exput of the kommittée from
which it
appears
Hint with.
an pucseracoded New Prison "the mumber
of Turnkeys
and the discipline to be hereafter.
adopted in the quals subject of exqulations
live Quak
tions not
Cliath
properly the
ander
consideration of the kem miller " .
The determination of these important pointi
should surely have pieceded the occupation
by such numbers
the page white baiently acquires
^
of Pusen 6. immediate step to place it on
footing...
es kome
a propen
Cels
Boa
of
Tra
El
As far as I can forms an opinion of
general constinction of the Pusons it is
most defective sie
the
3 untennected
"there being Buildings without any apparent oneans
его
maintaining, adequate control or
Kaving failed sin
of
supervision . -
obtaining detailed
Sence sencecly,
plans of the Prisons I can peacechy hazard a
suggestion for any general improvement ._
Building
اریک
it
so as
b Cr b
: possible to connect the
to economize the supeintendence. the port of the Prison officers it would be on chest. It should be impressed. прот
the authaities that of Prisoners are Associated they should be under emstent and effective control and with this vicco-
it is essential that offices should not only be present with the sun in the large-
but that should
Dois turn
during
the day
sleep in each flow to preacut communciatione
and disorder during
the
sright . _ it snight=
be possible in the biraudathi
in
the suggested external
132
of Gaol B and
6 gallery or birandahs
of Gaol & to construct a smale sleeping
A
officer having an inspectins into
tomme for an officer having
the room
I cannot ing home for it snight
be suitable in such a Chinate to divide
rooms into small separate sleeping
the large
Berth's giving
5 one
to ench
Shave
adopted this plan at Parkhurst with the
haw it
ام
bey to enterit
it 2
best effects, conds shawnig Sling Ring
все
whitch
might be effective at
There does not however appear
to be space for the satension of the Prison which would probably he necessary if the
lucyz
کیا
Aveins sucre shiided unless they be such a height as to admit of
of sich
Berths._
of Sleeping
Hooping Be. the
Five There
With reference to the occupation of
the bells in Gaol &...
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theus
are not
ffic
cel
Boa
of
Tra
EN
0227477
than one but it
calculatest for appoons probable they say
be accupied by
'.
2 Presiness . _ I would submit that it
should be intimated to the authrikes that
puless the suon are.
sutirely separated, sext
вы
less than 3 Ansoners should be placed in the sume cell, and as these beles
are not of
sufficient size to admit of it, anangemente
should be made for providing additional
This
recommedation._ appines
во
essential
also with reference to Guols A+B .. It is
Also
hery
deceltang
that took avons for
employments on theds fre Labour should be
سلام
constructed and there should be space
for
incuite of Prisoners.
I fear the bite will sut
such improvements
admit of any apprecully access. riccmstances B
me
ہم کیا کیا
and under all the
incumstances & poulds couture to suggest-
that if it were
j
sacrifice
possible mithants much
is appropriate the Good of
133
Victoria as it now stands Veetsien
to
any useful
горив
public purpose it would in the end be
a inne lutis,
Patisfactory
New Prison of
oncature
to ereit
a.
a construction adapted for
the Climate, and : for a suitable system of thenpline..
ما
We the question. of discipline adopted
sepress
erine
Aming
the Chinese. I dare.
not offer an opinion but if the authorities
би
the
x pot
made aware
are made
the
general principles of the systons which are
вы
tion in
operation.
Pourope these
если
Iffice
lees
he no
doubt they could apply them, and submit
for
Code.
Earl
5
consideration and sanction
w
of regulations calentated to effect that object. - At
- pecesnt the sidiseriminate heding baysther of all criminals cannot frd to vender them for
to
on their liberation thin tommitment to Putin.
HA
1824174
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Aangerous
their first
J. Jebt & Jucampai
do le
Seve
Сору-
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1.
134
Boar
of
Tradi
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ti
Aurad 23
Sir,
Victoria Hongkong 12th May, 1847.
Pursuant to the instructions of
nor con
conveyed
His Excellency the Governor
Letter of the 20 of April last, 20th
in your the
undersigned members
to us
of the Bourd
we
appointed to report upon the state and condition of the Tails and the additions
and improvements necessary to be made
therete to secure the health and accommodation
Jail's
of the prisoners, have this day met at the
accompanied by by
the Cedonial Surgeon and the Surveyer General. After a careful examination of the respective Jails with the assistance of the Colonial Surgeon
The Honorable,
Major M. Caine,
Colonial Secretary.
te,
де,
x.c.
}
Boat
of
Trad
2.
and
1 Surveyor General
we
have drawn up the
accompanying Heport which we have the honor to forward herwith.
Abe have
JC,
Cha Motley Campbell,
lo B5 Hittier,
Off& Chief Magistink.
E.1.
[ Signed) |
Acting Altermey General
.
(Signed) {
{
(True Copy)
;
C. G. Hooldforth,
(Signed) Sheriff
Maine
Colonial Secoitary
Jail A
In Ind David 1718747 thoughing
Red 22 hov / 47.
Report
leport of
hn
135
of the Board consisting
1.
of the Acting Attorney General, the Acting Chief Magistrate, and the High Sheriff,
assisted
by
the Colonial Surgeon
th
and the
1847.
Surveyor Ceneral. Dated 12th May, 182)
After a careful examination of the respective Sails the following report was
· the spot.
drawn up
on
This Building is situate on West side of the Jail Compound.
one on
of two large rooms, one
the
It consists
the
upper,
and
the other on the lower floor, with a small
on
the north side,
passes the Stair
room adjoining each
through which
leading
to the
upper floor.
The
on the
Case
room on upper floor is at present occupied by about sixty Convicts
under sentence of transportation.
The
Surveyor General stated that it was
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zes
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2.
originally constructed for forty persons. It is of Conveniences of any sort, neither
destitute
privies nor water. A wooden teeb is
Boal
of
Trac
in
one
of the
comers
EI
which is cleansed.
It emits
for the
use
is placed of the prisoners
every morning and evening.. a very offensive smell which
circulates thro hout the
room . The floor -
where it stands is saturated with the urine...
The
apertures in the
are
the room
the
upper part of quite sufficient for the purpose of ventilation, but from the want of a current of air in the lower part to carry off foul air arising from the breathing of
many persons, added to the stench from the wooden teeb, the room is close and disagreeable.
The lower floor is nearly
upper one,
state as
the
in the same.
one, and is
by the convict chain
about seventy
men,
now
w occupied
gang consisting of This room is also
h
kind - In
destitute of conveniences of any
number of flat tiles
one Comer a ne
are
3.
136 these.
the
imbedded in the Chinam
the Chinam flear; upon
- prisoners discharge their wrine which is by a hole through the wall away by
carried
communicating with a set of prèvies on the outside of the Sail . These prinies though
intended for the of the prisoners confined
are not used, being very
in this
jail inconvenient and having
no
door of
communication with the interior of the Jail.
They will become very useful when the walls of the Sail are completed for seech
of the
prisoners as may
the
be
a
prison yard,
be allowed to roam about
but at present it would
unsaje to allow the prisoners to have. access to them, as they might with facility
effect their
here
as on
escape. Wooden tubs are used.
the
upper floor. There is no water in the Jail, either above or below
to cleanse or perrify the floors. The effluria
generated in the present crowded state the prisons, the breathing of
such
a
f
i
ict
}
4.
کی
Boat
of
Trac
El
multitude, the dirt on their persons and clothing (which cannot be remedied at present from the scarcity of water on the premises ) added to the exhalations from the wooden tubs and Comers of the rooms, render
the
rooms
resive, and in
and in the hot.
very offensive,
weather which is fast appreaching will
to cause a
pestilence.
p
probably be sufficient To remedy these evils the Board
recommend the
improvements.
1.
A
following
additions and
A space to to partitioned.
space to be partitioned off in one.
of each large
Corners
into privies with
a
of the
room to be converted.
-range of three seats
each to be connected
by
means
of pipes
on
with the leading drain of the prèvies the outside of the prison . The floors to be overlaid with lead and made water tight. 2. A cistern to be placed in the roof supply water to carry off the soil euch set of privies.
to
1 from
Jail B.
137
3 . The privies to be so constructed as to
admit of their being used as Wash houses.
This
can be done with little
or no e
o
expense
and
by making the floor water proof providing the cistern pipe with a Cock from which the water for washing
may
be obtained.
11. Tive apertures to be made in the north
partition wall with those
the
on
on
both floors to correspond.
the opposite end of the
rooms; same to be provided with strong.
iron bars to be inserted in the walls and
securely fustined.
5 : The lower pands of each
panels of each door to be
removed, and strong iron bars substituted
to create an
the foul air
of air so that
under current of air, so
may
be carried off. Each door to be provided with a sliding panel to be closed in the cold weather if required.
The Bourd found this Building
equally
destitute
of tonveniences and water. They make the following
6.
recommendations:-
6. The kitchen between Jails A and B to
Boare
of
be converted into a wash house
wash-house or store-room.
Trady
E:17
7.
As a hitchen, it is too small and most ~_.__
inconveniently placed, being against wall of Jail D.
the
At the south end of each verandah of Jail B. on toth floors a space to be..
divided off
and converted into privies and
wash houses, to be supplied with water and
as in Jail D. The same to be
soil pipes
iwed as
wash-houses also.
8. The Lower panels of all the doors to be taken out and strong iron bars substituted as before recommended with sliding panel. Each cell to be provided with a leaden or wooden utensil lined with head for the
9.
use
of the prisoners
on an
I same to be cleansed after
prisoners
which
are
ought
use
The
emergency.
when the
allowed access
to the privies,
to be twice at least in the
Jail C.
course of
of the day.
7.
138
The Board found this building in the
occupation of prisoners who are waiting
their trial
for felony
and misdemeanors._
The cells are not provided with
"
conveniencies or water. The cells on the
ground floor having been built for the solitary confinement of prisoners are not adapted for the most two prisoners. They-
a
more.
gre
than
one or at
at
present contain greater number than intended to do; the consequence
they
evere
is that the ventilation is
insufficient.
The following additions and improvements
the Board, viz: -
are recommended by
10. On the South end an addition of two
to the
rooms to be made to
building
one on
the expper and the other on the lower
floor; this addition to be in the shape
of a
tower, each
each room to contain
a
set of privies, and to be available as
Sur
įves
2
:
8.
1399
Board
of
Trade
1.B
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Ice
a wa
wash house in the same manner as above recommended to be done to Iails A. & B.
$ 4. The soil pipe to lead into the leading drain on the north of the Sail compound. 12. The lower panels of all the doors to
be removed, and iron bars substituted as
recommended in Jails D... & B.
A.
with a utensil
13. Each cell to be provided with.
as
before recommended.
For the general improvement of the
General
Jail the Board recommend the following improvements.
additions and
improvements. on the
13. ^ The cisterns
the roof of
roof of each
building to be supplied with water by a
force pump prisoners themselves.
15.
road. This stream in the opinion of the board will yield
ample supply of...
water for all purposes. It
to
seepply
the wells also:
Every
be made
may
cell and room to be white washed with lime and water once a month in
the hot weather.
16. The Sailor's house and the other
outbuildings to be removed to the higher
west of the
of the new Police Office.
ground
The front wall thereof to be built on the south retaining wall of the prison - compound for the purpose of Supervision. The Surveyor General
veral stated that the
Jailor's house
or more
to be worked by the
the
1. A Tank or reservoir to be constructed
at the South west corner of the
of the jail
compound, and the stream which runs
on the other side of the road to be drawn
into it
by pipes
to be laid
across
the
and that he
was
• purchased for $500
agrees with the Board in
agrees
e propriety of removing it from where it new stands . This building is scarcely
man;
the floor
fit for the habitation of is several feet below the level of the prison yard
and althe
although trains -
ffice
*
Board
of
Trad
E.L. B
eign
Acc
+
10.
have been sunk all round, still in the
rainy
140
The Board have the honor to suggest
that after
the
completion of the walls around
deason a
a great deal
of
water must.
J
the Jail compound
find its way
into the house. The Sailor
states that such is the case.
17. A kitchen of sufficient dimensions to
be constructed near the site of the present
Iailor's house, to be detached from all other buildings.
18. A long shed to be erected from the East to the West and of the prison compound for the protection of the prisoners from rays of the sun.
19.
The prison compound to be kept
clear as
the
as
possible from all small and--
unserviceable buildings.
ard to be
20. The divisions of the prison yard
left in abeyance until further directions
are
· given.
to
The above additions and improvments the Pours are of opinion will suffice
the health of the prisoners.
ensure
some
plan might be
adopted to make the prisoners themselves contribute towards defraying the expenses of
the Sails by working at their respective trades
man.
under the supervision of a responsible This plan has been adopted with success bith in the Mauritius and Calcutta. This subject, well as the number of turkeys
are more
and the
as
and
discipline hereafter to be adopted in the Jails
- property the subjects of regulations not new under the consideration of the Board. Nicteria Hongkong
12th May, 1847
(True Copy)
Cha Melly Camphill, [ Signed) { Acting Mur Gen!
6. B Hillier,
(Signed)
Off&t hief Magistrate. C.G. Hedeforth,
[ Signed) { Sheriff. Maine
Colonial Secretary.
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Cel
fees
Boa
of
Tra
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Inclosure to 3 in Desf.
No. 95 1827.
Y
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Report of
a
Committee
appointed to examine the state of the Colonial Jails, securing the health
with regard to r
and accommodation of the Prisoners.
12th May 1867.
141
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of
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142
RECEN
DEC.23
10440
9 Dev. 1848.
Sin
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ffice of Adriance.
18 DeJ. 1848. §
2.15
Shane the honors by com-
of this Martin General
and Brand
of ordnances to acknowled the receipt of
да..
que letter dated this 54 instant encoring
draft
of a dispatch the Secretary of State for the Colonial Department properes to addrep to the Governor of Hong Kong
new to the adoption
with
thei
meatnes for reducing expenditure of that Colony
the Mastic Queral and Bound request qu
will lay
before Earl Grey the cnctons Copy of a report from the Apistant Inspector General of Fortifications
H. Merivale Sus.
Colonial Offi
and
that
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celi
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Board
of
Trad
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will draw has Lordship's attention to that Officers statements, which, the Master Guneral and Brand
conceives, clearly shew the succesful effects of
this depart-
ment in reducing expenditure
appears in the estimate
p
1846-7, and also for 1847-8, and as will be further shewn
in the forthcoming estimates fü
1819
50.
Intructions have been forwarded to the Me
to this Respective
Officers of the Ordnance, and, through the buspector Queral
2-
of Fortifications, to the Commanding Regal Engineer at Hong trong. to afford the Governor all the information in their perver,
every apertance his Excel- lency may require pon iw and of the proceedings be adopt
and
in
carrying
views into effect.
them
ве что
may
Earl Grey's
I have the honour to he
Sie
most obedient
Jou more
humble Servant
Copy
Qugh it Aupart pat 23sung Inspector General
1846-7.
1849-8
In 2346/9 How honestant Fortifications - dated
7 December 1848.
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The expenditime eolich I understand from the Treaturg
1. Mauch was made
143
Litter
of 18 February 1867 with Bourdi referend
the Orduann prior to it but al
chargeable to tranghit
pinto Annual Estimate in the usual
way
e
was £14.6, 838..
S..
The Services to be subsequently, excented by the Engineer deportiments at Sharif Kang were brought unto tunnel Estimate for Parliamentary
Provision
ter.
the year 184.6-7, and
have been regularly reported to the Master General Boardé cultionty
in ranch Leveeding Lear
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8. £17,463: 13: 6.
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3..
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1.6
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best year
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28 Jan. 1848
16th Teb".
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are
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recuvio from the stations are
Pranam. To 17.957: 2. Barrack
1/1.
£64.
0 0 1 : 13 : 10.
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Board authority.
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of
tundir hey greatly to diminish the martatity; and Jucutive to observe that in Lard Greys intended Lether to the Govern
is made to the Military
refer
Medical
Authonties under those advice and
Regulations this Anommodation of the Troops, and the Consequent
expenditure by
the Orduans is regulated.
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13th commcory 1848.
With reference to your
doited the 30th Alline
Letter
147
th Alleine I have it in
commanel to cuqquaint You, for the
Treusway
-
information of Earl Grey, that the Luets Commissioners of Her Majesty's -
will signify to the Comm= of Audit their Authority for the Achmission on the Audits of the Accounts of the Colonial Treasurer at
сек
Hong Kong of such Expenditure, to con Cemount, not exceeding Oue Hundred and fifty Founds, as may
be incurred
in conformity with the Resolution the Coloniael Council of that Settlement forewenced by You, for the purpose &
planting Trees between the Town of
Victorice and the Barracks.
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of 22 bet a listene
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Minute queful of the Excentive Council of Stang
Song
the Su
subject of
Gelambing Frees
on
expord locality between the Town of Victoria and
the Barracks,
I have
to Convey to you
mumprary motherly
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Board
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JAN 21 1848
136 Bong Kong.
Treasons Chambers
20th Janisory 1848.
149
I'm reply to your Letter clacteal the
clouted
10th Instant I have it in comm
commend
to acquaint. You, for the informection of Eavel Grey, that the Lords Comm of Her Majesty's Inecessary the Sanction which his Lordship proposes to convey to the Governor of
ро
:
Nong Hong for incwering the extincte Expenditure of Five Uundred and night Counds ten Shillings and six Pence for the Construction of a Boat. House for the Police Departments; provided the Armounts of that Estimate chall not be found to be materically enhanced by any Modifications the Observactions
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Acquaint you that Her Majesty's Government.
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Approve the expenditure
proposed by
Sie Ihn
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12
No 95 of the 19 last Sep
to be incurred in the
construction of.
a
Boat
House for the Police Dept.
at Hong Kong provided the amount of that
expenditure le not Materially enhanced by
any modifications in the specification & charges.
which they
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FEB.22
184
Treasury Chambers 21th Febuary 1848.
151
In reply to your communications of
дома
2 cistant, I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
to
Earl acquaint you, for the information of East
that My Lords concur in the sanction
Grey,
his Lordship proposes to signify for the expenditure, specified in the Estimate submitted in Governor in J. Davis's despater. of 26 boor. Last, for supplying the Govermect Spices and
Government
emment House at Hong
Kory with Water.
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to
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the accompanying copy of
a des petite from the Goin
of Hong Shorey enclosing a dermand for Stores reperid for supplying the Godt_
Hork and Offries with
Water, and lam to
austmuch you
to place
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Ordnance with the ven
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153
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Jam directed by the Luces Commissiones
of ther may esty's Treasury to acquauit you
Imajesty
fer the information of Earl Grey, with
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reference to your letter off the & the dust! to
that My Lnds have not seew allsen
object to the arrangement regarding the hayment of the arrears of Superannuation contribrition due from Messrs may b Smithers of the Police Department at Hong Kong reported in the despatch from Governor Sir I Davis off 19th hovember last forwarded by you to this Board
& Merivale Espre
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154
Prassing Chambers 22 Hebry 1848.
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With reference to your
letter of the 10° hotant, Sam commanded
canded by the
Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you for the information of Earl Grey, that Mys Lads have authorised the Leymaster General to ipue to Mr Peter Smith, of the Colonial Office, the sun of Seven Pounds Five Shillings and
bis fence in reimbursement of a
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22. Trbruciary 1848.
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155
With reference to your Letter
daited the 22° Ultimore I have it in
and to auqueccent You, for the Earl Grey,
information f
Grey, that the
Luds Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury have not
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to
dissent from the Instructions and
Authority which his Lovelship
to the Governor
proposes to
convey
of Hong Kong in
d to the
regard
Alteration of the Gaols at Victoria and the incurring auch Expenditure as may be absolutely necessary for
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dering them Custody of Offenders.
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your
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Cham March 1848.
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You, for the information of Ecvel Grey, that the Luals Commiss
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in opinion with his Ludchip that this Requisition for Instruments und Dreaving Paper for the use of the Seeveyon Cmorati Department at Hong Hong, therein forvorded to Them, should be complied with; cand I aim to request that You
will
suggests to his Lorelchife
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137
14 March/48
Staring laid before Ford
Grey gown letter of the
13 letto Same drited to
Conver to you
his Lerastafis
Authority for complysning
with the Requisinin for
Instruments & Drawing
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Paper for the like of the
Luneyor General's Defib.
at thing. Herry.
accomperie, any
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letter to
you of the Eletto_
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18 Kharch who.
158
thekenning to your communication
of the 24th Wilt on the eubject of the accounts of the government of Wing
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Kong, Jam directed by the Luds Кенд Commissioners of Her Anajesty's
Treasury to request that you will state
to Earl Grey that my Lards await the result of the investigation the present geovernor of King Kong has beew directed by his Lunds hili's Despatction the 19th po to mistitute, but that
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the present feverior will not omit to attend the the suggestion in the letter
than
siam this deportiment off 14 the December vast in regard to limiting the expenditure
of the Government to such amount as the local Revenue with the Penlieumentary
Vote for the year in ay fennith the means of defraying
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With reference to the
investigation you
have been
test
directed by my despatite
& 9 of the 17 Feby : to institute
hq
pite the accounts of the
Gost of Hong Honey
call
I have to douch your
special attention to the
suggestions contained in
the letter from the Board
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Board
of
Trade
E.L.F
Pelg
Vice
of Leasury of the 17th
Deen list in regard to
limiting
the Expenditure
to
f the youn Good & such
amount as the local
Revenue and the
Parlamentary Vote for
The year may
furmish
the means of defraying-
A. Mis : Govermect
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1648
Treasury Chambers
March 1848.
162
you informed 22 Manch Ny
In reply to
your
letter of 29th all
I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Preasury.
that My Lads do not
to acquaint you
to the sanction for the Work, to which it has reference, at the Harbour Masters
Mer at Tony Rong being signified
the Governor, as proposed by
onder that it may
to
Earl Grey,
be proceeded with as
the funds at the disposal of the local
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Government afford the nears of executing
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Jam Sir
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1348
163
Treasury Chambed
18th April 1848.
Witt reference to your
letter of 12th
histant, I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majestyp Preasury
to acquaint you for the information of Earl grey, that under the peculiar
circumstances there in adverted to and his
the enclosed application from Mr. Hulme, My hands have authorized the issue of For Huline's Salary, as Chief Justice of Mr.
Hing Thong, to the end of the present
mouths as recommended
Fr. Perivale Ep.
Ian Sir
am
your
by
his dadship.
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WB. 19/4/40.
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Sir
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am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
to transmit to
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to you for the information of
7
to
Earl Grey, the accompanying copy of their Lordships Minute of yo mistant respecting the application of Mr. A. B. Johnstow, Secretary and Registrar in the Superintendency
in China, to be allowed to retire on a Pension.
7. Merivale Eey.
Ian Sir
your
obedient Sewait
leb hundangan
Merrinte
I doubt whether there is anything further to be love.
ponthis Letter_ Mr. Halone has rece
Solary,
to pay
him at the full rate
the Governa
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the intention
:
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of
Trade
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Mr. Meriale
The inference I support is
that measures
chuudbe
7
taken after a tione by within the Secutary offtate fattie for. Trege Affairs, po ponding
healthy climate.
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ses & appe
Mint this file
caleraded
Kian
Melame a
copy of the
minate has also been
sent to L. Palmerston
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41492 7 Copy of Treasury huileute dated witfuil cons
Write to W. Holdington that My Lords
веше о
attentively considered the several documents relating to the services performed by M. Johnston.
The Medical Certificates of W. Johnston's ill health state that a tropical
"climate is wholly unsuited to his constitutin
until the disease under which be is "labonning is completely eradicated."
the at midced "the malady seems to be in "In ocess of aggravation & may soon entively
"
fit the patient for the discharge off
"his official duties." If that " under
"any civem tamees a speedy removal
from
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from Annia, & vacation from business "are unperative while there is thill every "reasonable hope that his constitution
"Inary be renovated so as to enable tim "to rescue his duties with effect alsome "future period":
Ibabhears from these &f from other circumstances of the case that the state
ofr. Johnston's health is not such as to make it probable that he will permanently be incapacitated for the discharge ogl
of
afficial duties, but the at on the contrary there is reason to exficct that a change of climate of opportunity of adopting
the
the best means of restoration to health, will after a moderate interval, be attended with success, te foluster being now only 36 years
old; & their Lelps theasure do not fect
resent
106
theal they should, under [uescut cicamuskuray be justified in sanctioning the grant of
a premancut retired allowance to this Gentleman-
My Lords are howeve. pleased to abhuve for the fussent of a temporary
allowance being hand & hv. Johnstumattre rate of £460 a year, for two years,
abowyear,
years, witho hope that before the expiration of that ben od his health away be restored & that At his Secretary of State - may---
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by be flommit for tw. Joluisterly the expiration of the two years, by Lads will be fuckared to give then best consideration to hiselaim for the continuance off em allowance till becan again be restered Bactive employment in this senice.-
Then helps have derived latisfaction
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from kaming from the concludung haragraph of his fro Davis's deskaten A viset Palmerston dated 13 Augh last, that when her. Joleton's retirement from the situation of keretary dy Megistran a saning may be made by an
altered
167
altered distribution of the duties of the establishment of the Superintendency amounting to half the salary now attached to the office held by that sentterem If they rely when kisel Palmerston tating
dedicate the necessary steps to effect #hiis oled, in bla saning.
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Treasury Chambers
20th April 1840. FRECEIVE
C.D.
APR24 1843
Sin
Wilt reference to
• your
communicatio
Weap
bbor N28 of 2600pail /48
of 10th mistant, I am commandes - by the Lands Commissioners of Her Majestys Treasury to aequani's you, for the information of Eat.
that My Lords concur in the approval his
Grey,
badship proposes to signify for the several amangements relating to the Police Establishment
Hong Kong reported in Governor
Governor Sir J. Dan's's despatch of 25th January last.
at
I am Sa
Sin
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your
obedient Servant
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3. Merivale Exque
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Commissioners of Her Majesty's Taversery to treensmit to You
the
enclosed Letter from the Board of Customs, ductil the 14th Ultimo
Brition Copyright
together with Lists of Works, which have been issued from time to time for the Goverment of the Officers of their Deperrtment; and I
to mequest that You will move- Earl Grey to cauce the mussery measures to be taken for the propose of hewing the scuse forwarded to the Governor of Hong Kong Hony.
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time to time for tho
of the freins offthis
Governement
art Edepartment, including
all work in
Respect of wheat tothew have hers Reaved by the Board up to the 38th
December last, -
Shave it in command
an
to transmit herewith five copies of the Compilation in questions Signify the request off the Bound, with Reference &
& your Letter of the 4 Aug 18246, that their Lawships will causs the necessary
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With reference to your dated the 17th Ullions I have it in command to enquecint You, for the information of Earl Grey, that the Lends Commissioner of Her Majesty's Treasury have not.
to dissent, from the Sanction which his Lordship proposes to signify to the Governor of Hong Kong for the Correingements for the extension of Police Protection. to the whole Island, and for the Coolie Stands reportedt
excation
f
in the Despetite from Governor Sii
J. Davis of the 9th January last.
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With re
1096 Hi Kong.
JUNE 1
1848
Treasury Chambers
31 May
reference to your
1848.
173
letter off
6th instant, I am commanded by the Lords Commissiouces of Her Majestys
Treasury to acquaint you, for the informatia
Earl grey.
that My Lands concur in the Instinction he proposes to convey
J
to the
Governor of Hong Thong, by the despatel of which a craft was submitted to thems in that letter, in regard to a grant of Lands
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I presume, now
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Grey
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174
48.
you for the consideration
of the Lords Commal of the Rreasury the accompanying
Copy of a Despatch with it's enclosures from the
of Henry Morg
Gov
relative to the
grack of a lot of Land,
де
rent free, which it is
Juspored to make to a Steam Pachel Company
which is about to be
tes
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of
Trade
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established for the
Juurpre
of keeping up e regular
Communication with
Canton
Sam also to Transmit
to you the brest ofr
Despatch which Lord
with their Sordiliser concalage Grey Juspores to address
4 Gouna Bonhain
to Gover
on the subject_
Shere
14.1704/4
27 Seme
Sin
ED
JULY 8
1848
1352. Hang Kung.
I
Treasury Chambers JaJuly 1848.
175
am commanded by the Lands Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
the accompanying
to transmit to
you
letter from the Board of Customs with
the copies of the Supplemental bists, to which it refees, of Books of which the
Copyright
has been claimed. And I am
to request you
will move Earl Grey
to
cause the requisite communication on the subject to be made to the Governor of
Thong.
Trong công
3. Merivale Cere
I am Sir
your
our obedient
Sewant
سوله
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&
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of
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Mr Merint
a draft is annexed of the noual detter to the Governa
in such cases as
10/7/40
与
973.
176
I have it in com
ind t
Kanemit herewith Five Copies of
Supplements too 1 and 2 to the
Compiled List
of Books of which th Copyright has been claimed
and t
Lignify
the
ид
West
of the Brand With leference to your Letter of the 4. Augh 16, What the Lord of the
Beamry
Measures
will causi
the regmonto
to be taken for the pumpine,
of having the same
-forwarded to
the Governor of Story Kong
His Gelleray may
effect.
Get
Custas Amen,
within
in Ader that
I he enabled to give.
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of the R and 9 Vet CR 93
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Mioussink to you
herewith
five copies of hepplements
hos : 1 od 2. to the Liel
and
of Books of which the Copy :
: righh has been alacried, to
enable
si the
Govt.
to give effech &
under your
Colony
лел
to the Ach 8 and o
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Song Hong Trecesury Chambers
vay
20. July 1848.
In reply to your
178
Letter detect
the 5th Allime I have it in command
منthe
to
euquaint You, for the information of Earl Grey, that the Lovels Commissioners of Hir Majesty's Freeway
coneur in the Matruction which his Lindship proposes to convey to the Governor of Nowy Konz
in
regard to the Recommendtection contained in Sir
Sir J. Davis Diepeilih of the 13th March last, respecting the Acletition of Thirty Pornel's per
Arun to the Paleory of Mr
Сити
Riencecker, Accventant in the
Treasurer's Departments in that
Colony;
And Jam cct the accme
at
You will
time to request that You
further observe to Lord Grey that
83/sms reg of my
neen Merivale Ey
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My Lunds, cecverting to the Completion of most of the Works of importcence for the exicction of which it had been requisite for the Civil Governments to provide, and to the sufficiency of the Surveyor Genercels Departments for the Supervision of them, would
suggest.
ests that the further employment of the Officers of Royal Engineers this Branch of the Colonial Service
be dispensed with
may
zee
as proposed by Sir Jr. Davis.
ав
soul pl
Mr. Merinde.
convey the nexpary seaction to the Governon?
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Jam Fin
our obedient. Jenn
Your
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Transwoning Chamber
JUY27
1640
26th July 1848.
With reference to
179
проси
Letter
+
of the of the Illino I have it in cossemands to cuquecent You, für
the information of
Earl Grey,
Grey, that
Elor
the Levels Commissionves of
Majesty's Traceswry have been pleased to authorize the
Actmission of the Expencliture fur the proposed Works at Hong Kong referrect to in the Despectch from Governor Sir J. Dewis detect the 13th March last. (N=39)
an Merivale hy
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With reference to en
AUG. 4
1848
180
dactil the 3th Altine Theive it in command to cuquaints You, für
the informaction of Earl Grey, that the Lnds Commissioners of Uher Meijesty's Trenacory
pleased to approve of the Expenatiture for the Construction of a Server proposed in the Dispatch from the Governor of Hong Kong ducted the 11th April last.
neen Merivale Lots
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Treasury Chambers
1 August 1840.
181
Vide 14 Sor: 15 Auf 1/48 N. 48.
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With reference to
уши
letter off stre
5th life on the suby of the claims of the
Colonial Surgeon at Hong Kong Dan increase of Salary, I am directed by the Serces Bemmiss!" of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquauit you for information of lail Grey, that in consideration the additional duties which the increase
Дво
of the Police Ince of the extension of the Police
Itations have devolved on the Colonial Surgeon at that Colony, my dords will not obyced to
his receiving in addition to the Salary of $500 five hundred pounds per annum assigned for
that appointment, an allowance at the rate
mopased
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of
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proposed by His Lucesleick off one hundred pounds ₤10 her auum ei respect of the contingentchanges
referred to in the requesentation, while has been
forwarded by Governor Bonham.
Jam La
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Your obedicul Low ant
100
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Gersonen accordingly
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Treasury Chambers Gr. Aengust 1848.
In reply to your
182
Letter Dectect
the 11th Ultime Thewe it in command
to auquecent You, for the information of Earl Grey,
that the Lords Comm?
comever wie
of Her Mapsty's Trenowry the Sunction which his Lordship
proposes to signify for
the Ilire. the House referred to in the Despreetch from the Governor of Kong Hong of
the 8th April last until the Government. House shall be
completed.
Vial to Sou 19 auf/16 1AQ.
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183
Treasury Chambers
12th August 1848.
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With reference to your letter of
ommanded by
the 3 protaut, I am the Lords Commissioners of Her Majestyjs Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of Earl Grey, that my Lords have authorised the Paymaster General to ise from the Commisariat Chest Account to Mr Peter Suitth; of: the Colonial Office, the sum of £ 11. 516 Eleven Pounds Five Shillings and Six
Pence in reimbursement of to much: lodged in the Commisariat Chest
Norman Merivale Eag
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of
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grei
at Hong Kong on the 15° May last.
Sam,
Lir. Your obedient Servant,
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by Press Montes
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30th August 1848 184
Corr
FORD
OF
acted by the
Inds Commissioners of Uher Mejecting
Treveivey to transmite to You the enclosed Duplicate Query
Coppy to bor Soft Jus
Ausd. 8 March,
жоба.
Ene in riginal)
on the
Accounts of the Colonial Trensuren at Hong Kong for the Year 1847. which has been foreverded to this Bourel by the Commissioners of Audit; eindl I am to requests that You will exbinit the same. to Eevel Grey for his Lecleliifis information.
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Jenn
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your obeclient. Foun
GJ Pennington
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Hy 16 may
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185
1695 Whong !
Governor Bonham
Mong trông
B?
2
4.
In
Entered
140.
Treas : 30 Aug / 40
Sir,
Kw 54.
5 Sept 140.
Therewith endose
a Duplicate Query from the Commissioners of Audit
ow
تسهيل
of an Item in the Lean
Accounts of the Colomal
Treasurer
the
of thong for
You
year 1847.
will have the goodness to call upon that Officer' for the explanation request
by
the Commissuren
tramant de
aul.
delay
and
во
came to
with as lute
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may
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With reference to Letter of
of the 30th
your Letter
Angust last forwarding Duplicate Query from
a
the Commisioner of
Audit on an
Stemd
in the Accounts of
the
Treasurer of Hong Kong for the year 1847,
I
am directed by Earl Grey to transmit to you for the information of the Lords Commm.. of the Treasury,
che
accompanying Duplicate
Reply
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16983
RECEIVED
Treasury Chemis
36th August 1848.
187
unched by the
Innels Commissioners of Uer Meijenti Trevisiory to requests that You will state to Earl Grey theit My Loels have received Reports from the Offien in Cheirge of the Commissoring at. Hong Kong of two amoral Themes from the Chests under his Cheage. to the Colonial Truusuren, of Ten Thousand Bounds each,
and 21th of June lasts,
the pr
" required
to muts Expences of the Civil Governments of Hong Kong, the Superintenitency of British Treute
" and the Consular beliblishments
in China
not that You will Earl Grey to coesise My Lords
to be informed whether these Requisitions the Commissariat.
neur Merivale Longs
Chest.
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of
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:
Chest. howe been reported to his Indchip by Governor Bonheem;
whither any Explanation has
and whither
been fornished by that Office of
the circumstances under whichs an
Lo
large a proportion of the Provision
racle for the Services of the Ceverente Your, had this been recon from the Commissumiet. Chest in the Moults in question.
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M. Hawes.
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should be
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whether
any
explanation has been
received at this office of
the cercuristances under
which theo sunes
ま
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10,000
have been drawn out of
the Commisarial Check at
Hong Kong to departhe Expenses of the And Gut
that Colony, and the
of
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the
you
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31th August - 1848.43
With references to Mr Elliots Communication of the 17th Mstant-
Actvunce of Selery
respecting
cerc
mude to Mr W. Heweling Miles, Thine Clerk in the Treasury ats
Trong ng Colony
Com
f
For
his quilting that-
Sick Leave, Teem
neled by the Lads Comun?
Her Meijesty's Treasury to
requests that You will state to Earl Grey that in convicttraction
the
کرے
every
Inclisposition unster which Mr Miles would apprecon
his
کے
to be suffering, and adverting his alleged dependence Absentee Allowance of Half Sabory
Oce
for his Support, My Lovels will not
objects to his being permitted to
dreess
:
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dans that Half Salovey, leaving
the Acteurce which had been
authorized by the late Governor of Hong Kong for future Aeljustment
when
:hem it shalls have been ascertained
whether Mr Miles will be enabled
to resume the Ducties of the Office which he has held in that-Colony.
gemony, it
Should Mr. Baillie be instructed to pay Accordingly
AB. 1 Lef.
km/
Miles
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your obeclient. Than
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4
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190
& Sept.
Lam directed:
али
by hart Grey to
t
прои
his Lordship
andtunity for essining
to M. W. Miles, 3. fleck
the Colonial Treasury
of Hong Kong, the half
り
the
Salary attached
to his office at the
tabi of 4250 Sterling
per ann
It appears from
Mestoficate which has been forwarded to this
Dept
Weck
:
DAY..
Boa
of
Tra
Department by the Governor of the Colony
that the last payt
made to M. Miles
on account.
of Kalary
гда
was up to the 290
of February last
inclueme
I have t
19. 677-15
Vide to bor. 27 sept.
1823. Hong
RECENT
Hong Kong
Treasury Chaumbors
SEP 19 18th September 1848.
13.8
2
191
In reply to your Letter chartist
the 8th Matant. There it in command to aquaint you, for
Earl
the information of Evvel Grey, that the Luds Commissioners of
Majesty's Treasury conce
Evr
in his
Pereletiips Recommenctection that
Mr Hillier should be reimbursed
the locks incurred by him in
defending the Action therein referred to - Jam however to state
that it appears to My Lids that as the Provedlings institutid
against Mr Hillier
in cor
were autopted
of lects done in his
exequence of
Official Capercity, under the direct
Orelors of the Governor, it would
have been the
sen Mrrivale hy
завит
^
Purse that his
Defence
cel
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!
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Board
of
Trada
E.LP
Freig
fice
Defence should have been conductiol
by the Law Officers of the Colony,
in the love of
Prosecution
dd
against the Colonial
instituted against
Goverment.
Their Luclships would
suggests that the Governor should be instructed to adopts this Course. in the event of any further Proceelings being institutest by the Plaintiffs in the lose, and that Measures should be taken for recovering from them, on the peart of the Colonial Government, the Costs which they have been ordered
to pay, if they appear again in Court,
or
retion to the Colony.
Jun
M. Merial
Sustrant the Gou accordingly 19/9
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Treasury Chennai
2th September 1848.
evar
EP 22 16-8
mounded by the Lords
Her Majesty's
Commissioners of
Trevesury to transmit to You the enclosed Communication from the Boure of Customs, daited the 4th Istent, enclosing Cosines of Supplement N = 3 & the compiled List of Books of which the Copyrights has been clerimed; und Fem to request. that
I
You will move Earl Grey to cance the Leit, in question to be forvarded to the Governor of Hong Kong with the requisite directions
subjects thereof.
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Custom House London
4th September 1848
I have it in command to
transmit herewith five Copies of
claimed, and
Supplement to 3 to the compiled dist
no of Books of which the Copyright has been
to signify the segrest of the Board with referend to your Letter of the 4th August be that the Lords of the Treasury will cause the sepusite measures lobe laten for the forthe purpose of having the same forwarded,
botte Sovernor of Hong Hong
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Governor Bonham
Hong Kong. A6. thông
PIENTS 27 Sept
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Sir
194
Leave the honor
to tramount to you herewith, five Copies of
Supplement N.3 to the List of Books of
which
the Copyright has been Clanned, to enable you give effect in the Colony of Hongkong to the Act 8,9 Victoria Cap 98 Section 9
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2th September 1842 1843
Candida by the Levels Commissioners of Her Majesty's Taiwory to transmit to you the enclosed
Comen?".
Extract from a Report of the Com
of Audit; dated the 6th June last. respecting the Role of Remunerection. allowed to Mess? Meishwick and Neurrison for Assessing and
the Police Tax at Yong Kong,
Collecting
cenal
Remission of Rents to Mr Webster in the
Colony; and I can to reuect
decurre
the
that You will submit the sessive to level Grey and move his Indship to cause this Board to be informed whether the Rester of Allowance Remission of Rent in question heave been reported to und approved of by heim.
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We have the honor to represent to:
197
1848
to your
Lordships that in reply to a query from this office upon the accounts of the Colonial Treasurer at Hong Kong for the year
1845
ting deductions
calling for information respecting which have been made from the gross amount of the Police Tax in thist (olory as expeceses of
Collection, the Vouchers for these expenses have
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been forwarded to us for the years ending
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year.
and
June 1847, and
Salaries of a
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year._
June
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of 100
As regards the year to 30th
meids of
Salaries are in addition to the payments
Dollars to each of tivo Clerks in the Land Department; by whom the Tax had been collected for the
the Lords Commisioners
of Her Majesty's Treasony.
year to 30th June 1846, which
payment
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payments were reported by I in Johan
Sir Davis in
his Despatch of 6th June 1846 transmitted to us
in No= Trevdlejaus Letter of y = September 1846. _
As regards
the
year
to 30th June 1847,
we
have to urtice that in addition to these Salarie
Sub_ Collector and Schroff a payment of
of a Sub-Collect
£ 123.12..2.. has been made to W. Mashwick
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the Government Auctioneer, and to hos Aavorison
a (Wert in the Land department for their
the
wint services in assessing and collecting
to 30th June 1847, being year Commission at the rate of 6 & Cent upon
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gross
the
this
amount of the Collections, and upon it may be proper further to observe that the
tio
payment of 200 Dollars to the clerks for
& collecting
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the Tax in 1846 did not exceed the
rate of 2 3/4 & (cut. -
We have also to state that in reply to an observation upon the Rent Roll of the
Colorry for the
year 1045, in which we pointed
out
i
out that no Rent had been received.
cep
to
December 1845 upon a Lot (numbered 66.) let to ho= Webster in June 1843 at £ 59.. 15.8
& Ammmm, we were
informed that the lot--
had been resinned by Government, and
that the Governor, under the peculiar
circumstances of the dot in question, had
given instruction that the demand
for
Rent amounting to £ 149. G. 3 should not be enforced, but, as the reasons for
relinquishing
the demand are not stated.
we deem it proper to report the case for your
Lordships directions."
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Governor Bonhau,
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Sir
NUTE 24 deft
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21 Sept 1848
1
1847.
30
199
of
1 Oct 1455
I have the hover
to transmit for your information, the accompany-
my
the
-ing Copy of a Letter from
the Loras Comm? of Treasury, endlosing
an
Extract from a Report of the Commissionen of Audit respecting
the rate of
remuneration
allowed to Mess?
Mashwich Starrison for assessing
and
Collecting the Police
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and respecting a
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I have to instruct you to parnish and transmit to me for the information of the Lords Comment: the explanations required by the Board of Audit.
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Sir,
Treasury Chambers
September 1848
200
With reference to
your Letter dated
the 14th Instant, I have it in command
to acquaint
you, for the information of
barl Grey, that My Lords concur in
Opinion with his Lordship, that the
D.52-50 Repayment of a sum of Fifty two Dollay
fifty cents, to Mr. N. D. C. Parker, the brown Solicitor at Hong Kong, Account of certain Zees paid by him
into fourt in certain Suits instituted
by the brown, should be sanctioned.
I am, Sir,
your obedient Servt
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Treasury bhambers
4th
October 1848
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my
Siv,
I am commanded by the Lords bommisss of Her Majesty's Treasury to transmit to you, for the information of barl Grey, the enclosed bxtract from
a
Report of
the Commissioners of Audit, dated the 10th August last, relative to the Remission of Land Rents at Hong Kong; and I am
to request that in submitting the same to barl Grey, you
will move his Lordship to
cause My Lords to be informed whether any satisfactory Explanation of the bircumstances under which the Remissions
were made, or the Resignations of the
Herman Merivale begr
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Leases
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1097/48 to which Forward for the information of the Lecasny copies of these Beop!
and also of Governor Davis's Deep" Np of /47
and
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there Kents were
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the above Papers,
the letter to the Treasury also contain some
the necessity of the
brief statement off the the effect of Messure, somewhat,
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Report of the Commisioners of Mindet.
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203
• We have the honor to represent to youx Cordstiges,
Raat
we have received with the Rent Roll of the Colong of Hong Kong for the year 1847, transmitted to us in support of the suns brought to credit in the
Treasurer's Accounts under the Head of Land Rest, não statements of allotments of Land, held on frown Lease or
az a
otherwise, which the Holders have
petitioned to resign and have been "allowed to do
decision on payment of
so, subject to Carl Gregs decision on
Kent
up to dates specified in the Statements._
The Gates pure, in most instances, the treccination
реги
cases the
of the Quarter nimmediately preceding the date of the Governor's decision, but in some
lent is abandoned for longer periods, but est
exceeding in
any case, a Quarters Rent. _ The total amount of ammal Rental of the Lands resigned by the Petitioners is 21.149.17.4.
The Lords, Commer
and
of Her Majestys Treasury.
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Lever of the st
Instant, relative to
the remission of
certain Land Rents
instong Kong, Sam
directed by East brey to transmit to you
by
Tad fry 122-30 Octy the accompanying
"
plans the 9-22 Joped
I Lone Grey, 20-30
Bank.
Copies of a Correspondence between his Lordship and the Lovernor of the forowy
on
the
Subject
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subject of the Rents
to which you refe
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you, for the
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On the first occupation of Hong Kong
it was
proposed to
raid a considerable
postion of the Colormal Revenue from Rents on
ро
Town Allotuntists of Land, and wish that veen various Lot's were disposed of
at
public Auction. It was afterwards discovered the Purchasen
by some of that they has braden for their Lots more than they.
were worch
and many of these parties would
would neither
cimprove their Loss
nor pay to the bout
the
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of
the Stipulated Rent:
Under these
circum-
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Holders for pemusain to surender their
Lands. Considering
that the Lots
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question had been at the outset of the Sentement; at of Speculation, and when their real value
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and
looking to the
difficulty of enforcing Fulfilment of bargainct made under
a
such
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such circumstances
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Come is th
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to authorize
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resumption of these mimproved Grants
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condition that
the Holden should
pay up the arrears of Rent which had become due
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207
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With reference to your letter of the 3. May last
relating to the cause of his Poke, widow of the late
Cir't Enguicer of Clark of the Works at thong kong, Iam directed by the Lord's Commissioners of the May esty's theasury to acquaint you for thie
неу
information of Paul Grey that far. debuthnot of
this Office, has by their Lordships' directioris made
£50 a payment of fifty hounds to be. Poke out of the
Majesty's Regal Bounty
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that you
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I have the honor to travemit to you. herewith
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the
Supplement No4, to the List of Books of which the copyright has been Claimed, to enable
you
to give effect in the Colony of Honghong to the Act 844. Ketoria (93 See 9.
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Leasing Chambers
23 hovember 1840.
In reply to your letter of the 15 the Dust" enclosing
copy of a communication from two. Edward Michell refurting the death of tw. To o quiles,
third Cleck in the Treasury at Hong Kong, Pam directed by the derels Concmissioners of Wher lucyjesty's theasary & acquaint you, for the information of Paul frey, that my Luds do not object to the Instruction His lordship top ases to give hi
regard to the issue of the Balance of that Valary
which had become due to the late bw. Mils.
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215
reply to your
to your Letter dated the 16th Inst., I have it in command to acquaint you, for the information of Earl Grey, that the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have not seen Reason. to dissent from the Instructions his Lordship proposes to
convey to the Governor of Hong Kong in regard to
of the Duty on Auction
the Repeal of the Duty
Sales and the Increase of the Duty for Auctioneers Licenses.
I am,
Sir,
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Herman Merivale Esg =
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216
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In reply to
to your
Letter dated the 16th
Inst., I have it in command to acquaint
you, for the information of barl Grey, that the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
concur in the Sanction
His Lordship propoves to signify to the Governor of Hong Kong for the
Appointment of a Chinese Translator and Shroff to the Supreme Court at Hong Kong, reported in the Governor's
Despatch, No 66, of 28th August last.
I am,
Herman Merivale begr=
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Sir,
obedient Serv!
your
Ahundan
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217
Liv,
In reply to your letter dated the 11th Inst., I have it in command to acquaint you, for the information of Earl Grey, that the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, concur in the Approval which his Lordship proposes to signify to the Governor of Hong Kong of the Arrangements reported in his Despatch of the 24th August last, relative to the Increase of the Police Force at Hong Kong, in consequence of the Sickly state of the 95th Regiment.
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Liv,
your obedient Servṭ
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1. Dec.
218
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for the rifernation of fallrey that kup Luds
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expenditure of two hunched & fifty pounds for the rerecoval of Carwrites from Hong Kong to Deuaux reported in Governm Bonham's despakete of 15 th July last-
which was enclosed in your communication
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With reference to your letter of the the dust! relative to the proposed investigation with the expenditure of the betement of Hery long, Sam directed by the Lords Commitzuners of Her Majesty's heasury &derquaint you for the information of Paul Grey, that buy dandes have caused a communication to be made to the officer incharge of the Commissariat at that is land desining that he of the officers other persons under his orders will afford
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222
I am directed to acknowledge the receipt letter of the 29 Vebonary last enclosing rapy of a despatch from Ser John Davis, Sumending that several Military Pensioners serving in Rony Stony Police Force be allowed frees Passages to India for themselves and families, and
aquaint
Can't you that the Secretary at Was is
f. pinion that those Men who have married Nativn Women of India should be allowed free Passages to that Country, but that to other Pensioners the lterative of free Passages to one Colonies should be offered.
of the Australian
& Merivale Cres
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All Letters on the Public Service, for any Department of the War-Office,
should invariably be addressed to-
THE RIGHT HONORABLE
THE SECRETARY AT WAR,
WAR-OFFICE,
LONDON.
224
On Her Majesty's Service
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And if any further Correspondence on the subject of this communication is
necessary, it is requested that the Number, as well as the Date thereof, may be quoted.
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36.3 march was,
Your
Colonial Land anormigration Office
10th Dime 1848.
Sir,
We have the honor Backnowledge
letters
o
the 2nd and 10th Instant
Enclosing two Despatches from
the Governor of Hong Kong relating
to the resumption by The Crown
of pertains plots
of
Land in that
Colony.
Certain Lands held under the
Kerman Merwall Sof
Crown
ひ
at
Boar
of
Trad
2
E.I
Rown by a yearly rent have
30
' ?!
Vice
much fallen in value,
that
the
point distinguishable from
Those
226
polders
are anxious to be allowed
to resign them to The Crown. And
the Governor has accordingly been
authorized to release these persons from the obligations they had
contacted,
on their paying the
arrears of rent and surrendering the
ground. In many instances this
has been done.
The present cases
appear to be in any
do no farm
material
ponit
already disposed of, and we
have therefore the
recommend that the
hovor
to
Chinese
Ching-zin-san and Mept Oswald
and white be allowed trelingnich
their Lands accordingly.
We have the honor to be, Le
Your Verent
Binmble Lewants,
Hot Bendoch
Redinilogen
Board
of
Trad
.1.F
weigh
Phice
:
be to enformes
Born June 12
174
was.
moy
Sherels the
примуть
:
1371.
*D
227
Kany
28 July/45 N 42.
Colonial Land & Cumipation Office
12. July, 1878.
Siv
We have the honour
letter of the
to acknowledge your
3rd Instant, accompanied by
N. 8. 18 Amich despatites from the
despatets from the foremor of
1848.
View to.
Song hàng,
Kong, relative to the
Petition of Chang
Show
له
praying
for the tennission of the Rents due by
him on
certain lots
of Land in that Colony, and
Herman Enlivalo Caf
ke
ве
for
be
Board
of
Trad
ELF
yeigi
ice
for the redemption of the land by
the Crown
It is dated that
the Petitioner was not the
real owner of the ground in
question, but that he took out
leases for his late employer M. Pope. who paid the necessary fees, and has since died insolvent.
We
concur with the Local
Authorities in
thinking that the
present application is one which
may
be moperly complied wits. We have the honom tobe,
شهدا
Your obedien humble servants
The Sundack
228
i
:
Drei
Boar
of
Trad
E.I
Mr. Wist
Should the proposed remission y the rents be
пор
lioned ?
heter
AB: 13/7.
9 Hank 10.
14.
2.75.13/7
with the reconst
Z
Aug/40
mis & no 49-10
1506 AK.
El
REFI
1848
3
(Colonial Land and Imigration Office
31th July 1848.
Gov:
In compliance with
Earl Grey's directions conveyed
to us in
по
your
letter of
The 13th
" of
April, we have prepared the Enclosed Return relative to Lands at Hong Kong in answer
to the
Address of the House of Commons of the 31th of
3107
March,
of which an Extract accompanied
Jour Letter.
Kerman Messiall seg
и
ངས།
The delay in
The
2.1.
2
!
F
thes
20
Bot
0:
Tra
!
2
t
229
the preparation of this Return
the
has arisen partly from pressure of business at this
Office, and partly from the
inconspleteness of the information
in our
Subject-
possession
on the
no perfect Land
Returns having jet reached us from Hong Kong.
It will be seen that in consegnence of the late cause, we
are unable
than a
to supply more
part of the information
required by the House of Commons,
and
and even this
part is
incomplete.
Inder these circumstances
we presume. it will
de
: necesary to request the Governor to supply the Returns called
Shoned for by the Address.
this course be adopted, we
would suggest that the Statement We have prepared (which Lord Grey will doubtless consider not sufficiently complete for presentation to Onliament) should be forwarded to him,
in
!
Boar
of
Trad
E.I
Freig
fice
in case
guise
it should be found
in compiling the
information in the Clony.
M
We have. The honor to be
Your bedrent,
Aumble Lewants,
Thorndor
Ish
M. Elect
the Order. Whether the risumation Hawes will be able to despertoen perhaps from the the Commisioners home supplied is sufficient.
• if it is not the alternative must. I originatory.
suppose be adopted y
Ihned with both stag,
Celercy. Ws). 4/8.
and lay
the Rotun
Jay
Complete Answer
пририт
привы
ས
Complained of tho' the Mover
pent.
2.7.8.4/5.
ん
my
til we
referring
in
с
هده
my of Cam
7
33
ماء
Hong
Đảng trong
Return of Lands leased.
Date
buth July 1843.
From foundation of Colony
the
Situation
Youn Lots
Nos
مراد
+
#
#
کی
Ralfoz 10
"
*
13
foundation
or fronted
RE
ADG 3
to the Public1848
of the Colony, speciting the intiation,
each Lot.
size, & rent,
Size
Cent
shuare feet
15
16
11.025 L:20
not dreified
11.025
Remarks
مو
A row of Chinese Propet Pilt Develling house built
Lange hotel built
Develling house & washouse built China Shops built
Built on
Dwelling house built
C
Warehouses and drilling house built Derelling
hence Built
Cling houses brist
230
2
3
11.025
11.025
11.025
20
20
20
Develling house built
$
11.025
20
11.020
20
11.025
20
#
7
11.025-
20
J
11.025
20
ら
9
11.023
20
5.512/2
10
10
56/2/2
10
11.025
20
"
12
+
41.865
11.86522.1 10.6 £21.10.6
China hondes Gril
14
添
Develling house built
$20
11.025
20
5.51272.
10
18
5.57272
10
11.025
20
20
#
4:21
5.5127 5.5/2/ 11.025
10
10
20
Caigof. 22
5.512/2
10
Clumine houses Fruit
久久
5.5127
10
No 23
11.025
20
مه
مر
*
24
11.025
20
Develling Louse Sint
25′′
*
not truped
26
11.025
2:20
Gaver brist
27
11.025
20
Warehouse Aust
28
11.025
20
功
29
11.025
20
30
11.025
20
لی
11.025
20
32
11.025
20
¿
33
11.025
20
Shops built
344
11.025
20
گون
11.025
20
#
*
36
11.025
2.0
37
11.025
20
+38
11.025
20
ツ
39
11.025
20
+40
*
41
11.025 1102.5
20
20
China bonose built.
Turn over
19
Heifof. 20
Board
of
Trade
E.1.B
reign
:
olony)
40 6th July 1843
contiumer
Date
Hong sương.
Return Contined).
#
2
77 78
79
80
مون
مراه
#
8/
82
83
84
дом
86
11.025
not speiped
11.025
not orified
مله
مع
مرغ
by Fir Eta Pottings.
finement as 20 Tenure, Aent ke
or by the Land Committee, intset to it piroues of
Situation
Live
Rent
Remarks
Town Lots
Anare fest
antinued
1.42
14.175
£25.14.3
Quilting house built
43
11.025
20
Hotel built
Green bult.
44
11.025-
20
#
4
5.5122
10
Imall house bulb
46
11.025
20
47
not op papild
42
11.025
20
Large drilling house Milt
#
49
11.025
20
50
51
menaly
defendet.
*
J
$3
11.025
20
7
54
not specified
55
11025-
20
Rona Battistic Shape and
A
dutching house brukt.
Buils on
Large dresing house bilt
#
گاک
11.02.5
20
+
*
sy
11.025
20
11.025
20
፡
+
#
64
4
#
"
66
a a na aa aa
11.025
11.025
11.07.57
20
20 20
Dwelling house links
62
11.025
11.025
20
20
Dwelling vous. built
11.025
20
11.0257
20
11.025
#
67
11.025
68
11.0257
20
20
20
Divething house built
69
11.025
20
70
11.025
20
7
11.025
20
*
#
72
11.025
20
773
prinde limits
not marked
China tender Cricht Built on.
Cliniese bazaar tuilt Clunese bazaar bruist
p
74
م
#
73- 76
11.023-
not specified
Baptist Chapel, bhool & dwelling house Ends Large direlling house built Dwelling house Quilt
Bazaar buikt
Focisty
Extend is buildings erseted by Marison Encation Dispensary of built by Medial Anjoriy dorily Bildnings weetedly Committee of
Herjeebley Fiopatat
42
43 44845 1446
47
No Lots 48,49,50
not defined
com foundation of folding to 6th buty 101/3 (conturned)
15
"
168817 18819
20
21
22
23
2425
26,27,
and 28
No Lov 29
N:30
No For31
Mo32
Đang động
Return Continued
Date
Situation
Size
Kent
Fremarks
231
Marine Lots square feet
محمد
Continued No3
about 7.800
64
مرد
4
6.900
65.40°
"
"
5.400
50
5,000
77
2
#
7.500
43
50
Workshops & erected
8.100
بری
*
9
10
11
12
.13
8.400 not Hale
22
#
9.600
52
Large warehouse built.
11200 10.600
02
38/105
10.800
32.10
22
#
14
13.000
"
15.900
1
20
16.200 14.400
111
150
*
15.610
140
11.800
-
/
8.200
160
مرك
مر امیر
4.644
35
8.755
60
8.000
57
34 No Lot 35
No36
No Lot 37
4038
No Lot 39
No.40
..4.600
25
ل العالم
7.616
57
6.000
f
75
41
T
9.700
95
Extensive maconale & Foreting ticht
Warthende Guilt
Abandoned &forfeited. Made a
hert landing place.
-China hon20 buch
Recensed by fort 2016, for a
No16, for a market Three Lots were reclined, but a portion
iltin was afterna do pande. I, as he 183354.
Grail th
Stald
Extensive warehouses built Very extend is dwelling & mos showdes
Adnane Fores Abander 28 by Leses. Romanz Commiformat Fores
Abandoned by Life Lovt Tinker Yard
Randmed, and fourride released
ao Ai 65. dondon's by Lekee. - for Tumblr Land
Small house built
Abandoned by Lesker. He leased
ar No 64.
Exter sine monitionses thrift.
11.500
100
t
Lige mashonal built
0
16.500
115
..30.600
265-
г.
35.000
250
51
J2
205
not specified
می کند
48111.610
90
87
82
11.025 11.025
20 120
Develling hona bilt
24
54
*
24.768
192
کوک
+
*
56
12.096
Jo
5.418
42
N°1
Marine Lots
about 6.700
80
2
"
7.0001
80
Jary
ވގ
87.54.4 17.344
136
136
Jerantut Ushule
Warehouse built
Extensive range of waltonses bust
Thrown wists outlet
Very extensive mattonces built Lytenoid warehouses Sorvelling cond
Large prankhouse built.
Large Avelling homes brist
Large washings britt Waverence Erict.
built
$
59
2.322
18
Jun over
Continis.
From foundation
-"- -
Board
of
Trade
E.L.F
mon foundation of Eylong to 60% Shiny B...
(continued)
"
72 73
Bazaar Lots
Nos 1 to 118 (Upper Bazaar)
đang ng
Retum Contioned
Bate
Situation
Size
Rent
Remarks
Dlate
Situation
Size
Kent
I share jest
Marins, Lots
Aquare feet
گے
Q
contenut
9th
the July 1
No 60
61
62
63
abon 4780
6.321 6.966
7
"
49
Work obops huls-
Clima houser built
2.322
#
+
#
64
8.514
66
Surrounded ti
a 102. sall
65
18.060
140
"
No Lot 66
7.740
60
68.
10.062
78
#
6.
10.062
78
4
not out. 20
Franked ty
or in th
Divelling hond briht
Bazaar bril
سال کے
Find Polling granted for a Bazaar, but
hamiz beber bricht ihres resumed. It
forms for t Market 4.2.
Land Committee. méiertost
top seif 35 terms of
forcement art
franted in exchange for live othed to Themers, in a bih ali lich hinteamled
are given use by ts Rebels,
which was
Craket
خوند
Hong Kong - Return continued
7.130
£2300
"
•
4
33
Al
34
во
40
284
148
41
Remarks
232
have
The portionlove of this call home not been receivedly the Land and Cumipation Commissioners. The produce of the sales in thated to have been an ditional ammals rental of £2.300. The previous sales had realized. rental
of
£7.230.
AL
Lots 202 to 2/34 one described at detached Colo cituated willing the Climess pout of the town of Vritiria
They was leaved to
Chinese Settlers, and realized
in all
4
antart of
of £286 pann
Lov N. 202
10.945-
$305
203
13.650
180
204
205
2.646
855
#
44
18
*
206
Sala of
207
208.
2nd Deer
1844
+
209
4.400 3.600 3.360 4.960
#
210
211
*
19.990
212
11.350
2.
213
214
1.000 1.000
59.472
107.13.6
Price Lilo are let to Clinical Amants. The size of each is: 504 28: feet (14 feet (36) and the but 18/544.
Inland
No 215
8.340
£36.16.114
216
35.000
27.12.52
Nos 140 150
120.000
168.15.0
(Lovers Bazaar)
Also let to Benisser Tenants. The sire of each ist is 800 08: feat (20 feet in 40) and the cut £.1.2.6 fr. A
217
39.600
377.18.44
218-
1.840
27.1.0
#
219
220
6.810
67.4.174
H
6.810
78.4.144
Suburban Lots
Aereo
J:1
کی
है
10
Sale of
221
52.000
17.13.0
24 Bobber
222
4.050
19.15.44
3
+
q \ a q
+
+
10
122
7
13
14
15
b b b b b b b b b b b b b b
10
Tiro divelling houses built
1844.
Marine
No bry
6.780
120.6.2
10
68
+
7.000
106.10.34
10
69
7.000
10.4.5.3%
10
#
70
4.269
76.1.1044
10
71
8.600
68.8.4
10
W
J
72
#
773
7.000 5.400
$5.15:34 $2.17.25
10
Dwelling house bindt
10
Small house buil
Jay Buty
1845
Hers Coty as
sary $8.000:-
£97.19.4
10
Exchein Exhibenty te dilution од
Veteri
avé fritavas 450 by 80.
10
10
10
-
J
to to
کی
#
+
A
16
17
18
19
not specified Land Committen
10
10
Say Only,"
1845
from Vitoria
Frankoly
20
Do
ontact tots
Three divelling houses binds
The
Its pentienlons of these lots and nonorated in detail. They mee leased under thecins cirunnotante,
is Prokien Settere, as the average price of similar lots of land.
"It can boten not calet | Pentfle | This pant was made to Presi
from Bombang for
a place of sepinstons for stein richt.
+
plexorne
21
Do
み
of foremondent
22
مه
as to Tunis
Stenoze limbs
12 Der
Do
23
Rent Se
Bungalows bult
1945
4
Inland
No 75 269
12.500 9.000
£22.18.62
34.10.0
Continet
f
Board
of
Trade
E.1. B
Freigh
icc
Kong Kong.
Pretum Continued
Hong Kong - Return Continned.
Da it
Situation
Lize
Rent
Remarks
Date
Situation
Live
Kent
Remarks
233
thuare jest
Sale
of
Inland
Snare) for
Inland
12. Dec. 1845 Lot N. 270
9.000
238.10.0
291
5.000
£35.3.0
continned
بھی رکھے
13.517
12.10.2
292
5.000
29.3.0
67
16.800
13.10.0
293
5.000
25.3.0
68
16.800
15.10.0
294
5.000
32.13.0
69
17.220
14.7.6
Sale 65
295
4.850
40.0.0
4
59
39.600
5.13.0
14 Oct 1946.
32
8.715
24.0.0
275°
3.600
5.13.0
31
17.370
39.8.0
/*
276
3.600
5.3.0
38
6.000
13.12.6
277
3.600
5.8.0
39
7.000
30.0.0
278
3.600
5.10.4
"
279
3.600
3.1.4
Inland
280
2.600
#
290
5.200
3.15.4 12.1.6
Sale 17 26 April
300
800
3.2.6
"
4
271
3.600
6.3.0
Bry
302
800
2418:44
272
3.600
5.3.0
303
1.600
3.2.6
FI
273
3.600
57.8.0
304
1.600
3.2.6
(075th. Mon)
This sale is stated to have been
"
274
2.400
3.10.6
305
1.600
3.6.8
205
25.593
46.13.7
306
1.600
3.6.8
281
3.045
282
4.252
6.0.6 29.11.6
307
1.600
3.6.8
Corse orders of Chiness.
undertation diefly with a new to provide for the wants of the
30 Ja
1.600
3.10.10
283
2.500
9.19.0
309
1.600
3.19.2
284
2.500
8.4.0
310
1.600
3.11.0
مرکی
285
2.500
8.14.0
311
1.600
4.3.4
286
2.500
8.4.0
Full of
312
1.600
3.10.10
8.4.0
5th Mons 1847.
313
800
287
2.500
288
2.500
8.14.0
314
800
18.9
18.9
"
289
2.500
8.9.0
315
800
18.9
316
800
14:7
Marine
317
800
14.7
318
800
14.7
کھر کی
45
2.500
£20.0.0
"
49
2.500
19.15.0
50
2.500
19.15.0
51
2.500
19.15.0
2
59
2.500
19.15.0
60
2.500
21.0.0
"
75
2.500
23.0.0
76
2.500
21.0.0
77
2.500
21.0.0
78
2.500
21.15.0
79
2.500
22.0.0
80
2.500
20.5.0
"J
2.500
319
800
14.7
320
800
14.7
321
800
14.7
322
800
14.7
Inland
1.200
5.4.2
"
مو
مو
20.15.0
Nocê. Dsappears pron. Sii d. §. Davis'é Despatin, No 116- 24 Sehr 1846, Chav the follerving amorunts of Pente haid been collected between Anly 1843 & Am 1846
From Buly, 1873 20 Dem. 1874 - £5.991,15,5′′
Half year to Frink 1945_
5.326.0.3 7.039.1.5 8.002 5.11
§ § § § § § § § § §
800
2.18.4
800
3.2.6
800
3.6.8
800
4.7.6
800
5.16.9
800
5.16.8
800
5.8.4
Do
800
4.7.6
800
800
3.19.2 3.2.6
Farm
36.000
8.10.10
800
3.2.6
Do
800
4.3.4
Deer 1845-
June 1546.
Pale of
Inland
800
3.10.10
Do
800
3.10.10
Continu.
De
800
2.18.4
Continued
i
Return Continued
situation
động đang
Kent
Linare feel
Sale of 7th June
Inland
800
25.4.2
مو
1.600
6.0.10
184
1.600
07.16.8.
Contine
1.200
5.0.0
Do
1.000
4.8.671⁄2
Board of
Do
1.000
4.16.102
ملة
1.000
4.12.8%
Trade
Do
800
E.1.F
Freig
ice
į } { & & & & Z Z
مو
مو
مل
800
2.0.0
3. 15.0
1.250
4.11.0
1.000
12.5.10
800
5.14.8
1.400
7.12.1
1.100
2.5.10
1.100
2.1.0
600
1.0.10
6.750
6.2.8
800
2.18.4
800
3.2.6
Premarks
I
234
REALIED
SEP 21 1848
Vide to G. P.I..
Oct 140.
Vide to Ser 266ets N°6.
Colonial Land and Erinigration Office
20th September 1848.
We have the honor &
Acknowledge your letter of the 8th instant Kansinitting copies of a corespondenes relating to is proposed grant of land to the Hoy
фоть đông
and Canton Steam Preket Ampany.
Original Enclosures Terenti relunet
This Company appears #lanc
taken the first steps to igumige a
Steam communication between Hong Yong
Kermen, Mervall Ove
and
¦
E
225
:
Board
of
Trad
EB
reign
and Courton and in February last
apperen to Sir J. Davio for a grant
rent free of a lot of building ground
in the sea shore.
bearing
tot € 181.0.71⁄2 & numbered 64.
Sir
i reus
This Lot was considered by J. Dmiss larger then was measury for their purpose mo the opposed by the Owners
grannt
Wad
77
the arjoning
tara; hut Sir J. Davis recommended A Low Spey that they shoned be
Allowed popession of mother pest of ground distinguished as Loto 27, 30
which the rental was £ 88.18.150
This
grant was sanctioned by Lov
This grant
Grey
on terms which amounted to
a condition that the Company should
pay rent when they ceased to run Kamers between Hong Kong and Contor.
It appears, however, that the proposed Lot of Land is very small for their purposes, that part of the ground is irregular
and
woned require considerable outtary to make it available, and that it would be
necessing for their to reclaim part of it
Ander
mo to build a sex-wall,
these circumstances they pray to be
lot of
allowed popotion of the bet
land
original's
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226
Boai
of
Trac
E.I
Riginally chosen by them (the proprieton
of the neighbowing band having with drown
their objections to the grant) and the Governor Kranssinto
the request to
Lord grey resumending it to his favorable consideration.
The primaple of this conspin, has, already received Lord grap sanction, and the ongremoning question is that of amount. Considering therefore the importime of this undertaking to the commercial progress of Hong Hong and that the Land prayed for does not
seem
A
see more them
mary
be
reasonably
required for the purposes of
the Ampery
while the bot inginally offered them does
not appear well suited for their use, my have the horror to recommend that
the proposal of the foveur thould
be sanctioned and that he should
be authorized to put the Company me
propesim
of
Lot 644
on the terms abrazy
suggward by Lord Grey in respect of
Lett 29, 30.
It may however deserve consideration whether, before making any
depinte grant to the Company, it
Imight
:
24F
Boa
of
Tra
E.
150
might not be desirable to come to some understanding respecting the terms
In which the government mails are
to be carried by the Company into
whose hands the communication
between Hong Kong
ano Cauton may
be expected exclusively to fall..
He have the hona totie
Sir Jor Obedient
Aumble Sewants,
Auxanderwood
Redecitogen
237
Board
of
Trad
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M. Meninle
Should the lead applied for by thien
now leased to them
Puhops it mag
Compeery
be adiivalle to appicze
the
P.B.
the intended youn
lease with a
times for
view to
hermis
the
congance of the Sails beturer
bury Grop
and
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RECEIVED
OCT 18
1848
228
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Colonial Land and Emigration Ofice.
17th October 18248.
رسانگ
We have to acknowledge the
11th Enstant receipt of your letter of
accompanied y the copy of a
1250. 24gue ward. Dexpatch from the Governor of Hary
Kong, submitting for the favorable
Consideration of Earl Grey, applications from the Holders of four Lots of Lend in that Colome to be
allowed to give up their ôts.
Applications similar to trose have been before received from
Hoy
Face & Elliot Eve
a
4T
Board
of
Trad
E.LE
eigh
ffice
Hong Kong, and the applicants have been permitted to resign the Land of which they held
Leases, on
condition of pasing up the arrears of rent then due.
appedes to no that a similar Course thould be puroned in the present cases, and we would therefore submit that the Governor if Hong Kong should be authorized to allow the Folders of the four Loto now in question to resign them on their praying up the arrears of cent due up to the Expiration of the last Midonumer Quarter.
Gre have the donor to be,
Fi omevedient #suble Lewants
The Mundach
"Redeci Rogen .
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Board
of
Trade
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this advice to the God
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RECEIVED
NOV 25 1848
240
Cotorical Land and Emigration Office
24th November 1848.
22104.88
1848
1. We have the honor to
acknowledge your Letters of the 10th Instant
N° 60. 22 August 1808 accompanied by towo despatches from the It 62, 25 August the Governor of Hong thong, with their
enalounes, relating
Hereunto returned
Orignal Sudomier
си
application
of Mr Johnston, the Seastary in the Superintendency, for a lease of a
J. Fred. Ollest kapn
дома
Mest
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Board of
Trad
E.L.B
reign
Mec
glot of ground on which he has birth
a house. -
2. From these Papers it appears
Mz
that in 1842 Mr Johnston applied for a piece of Land
on which to erect
a House for his own residence, that his application was conceded by fir
H. Pottinger, the then Governor, that
soon after he had built his House
he was compelled by illness to leave
the Colony.
and then let his Konse
lorry, and
to the Colonial Govenment for the
reindend of the Governor
очь
very
moderate
termo paying
to
Government
↑
Government the ground rent originally
agreed upon, but that no lease was issued to him, apparently
it was uncertain
because
whether or not
the Land would be neauted for
Civil
or
Military purposes, It
has now been finally decided
that it will not be required for
either the one
or
the other, and
Mr Johnston requests that his Littl
Buds
may
be made out.
3. It is proposed however by Lient: Colonel Philpott, the Commanding
Argal Engineer that although the
property
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242
Board
of
Trade
E.I.B
reign
Pice
property is not likely to be required for military purposes the Colonial
Government should retain it's right
to the ground, in order that at
some future time
the Adiamee
may be enabled to enlarge the
Parade on which it is started to
project, suggesting however that in
consideration of the improvements
which have
have already
been made
in that part of the Town by the
Ordnance, the Colonial government,
and not the
Adnance should
" indemnify Mz Johnsston for any
lop
be might
night mear. But the
Govenor
イ
Governor is of opinion that the
Government ought not to be
Colonial
put to this expense as the grout is not wanted for Colonial purposes,
and as
the property has been
offered by Mr. Johnston to the
Adnance
nt a fair price, and
the Ordnance have refused to purchase
it, he considers that that Geuthman
has now
a
fair claim to a
on the usual terms.
Lease
4. We conour with the fovenor
in thinking that Ine Johnston, who
appears
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Board of
Trad
E.L.F
Creig Mec
}
appears to have acted throughout with
every
consideration
for the wishes
尸
the Alonial Government is entitled
to a
Lease
of
the
ground as proposed
P
by the Govenor.
We have the hover the
Jon Obedient
Anmble Lewent,
Hol Mundoch Resendoges
243
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Board
of
Tra
ELE
reign
ice
1
I presume Lorde Grey
Report
For Ellert
гу что
eight
luch
my
thish case will it
will adopch
to send the white ca
a se to
the Endname with an expression
of his Loraslips opercon
✓
25 han
W
quite
agr
agree with
te Comm's. It appears plain hat Mr Johnston ought to have the Lease, and I have chserved that the Military & Rival authorities have
from the beginning been
I
Lab
г
s
Hy so y
yoyons to my so we
11/52 st 2. my no to reach
рус б і гопирено пур аз дитя
busy boy so yo
very
reasonable in the Claims
were
disposed
to set
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NOV O 7
1843
Hong Kony
244
Vide to Sor A Wee/48 Pyt
olonial Land & Emigration Office
Lr,
November 148.
We have the honor
to acknowledge your letter
of the 10th Inott, transmitting
64.26 ayt wad a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, with respect to the present tenure of Lands in that Colony. -
Crignial encloomes pereunto Returned.
The Governor stakes that he has requested the principal European Inhabitant to give him their opinion
Herman Merivale ng
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Board of
Trade
E.L.F
!
2
245
on the suggestion oford Rey that instead of reducing the Rents payable to The rown in that Colony,
which
as
are complained of excessive, the term of the existing Leases shoned be extended, or perhaps that the Sand should be granted in perpetuity. Hitherto, he has received
110
answer to his request; he states, however, that none of the Residents are
able
to propose any
means
br. which the reduction.
the
the Rent, desired by themselves,
carried renitaba
coned be
into effect, and desires permission to extend the
term of the Leases to such
as His Lordship shall
period as think fit.
This request is, in fact,
gromided
suggestion
on
Lord Grey's
and We presine ергенте
that the Governor shoned be authorized to extend
the term of these Leases
to inch
a period
ад...
the
himself may think fit, leaving it to his discretion.
whether
1
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Board
of
Trade
E.L. B
eign
Vice
4
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RECE
1948
NOV S 7
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246
に
Copy
to Sens, 6 Deephs.
Сору новой
No yoy of t Wee fa 3.
тр
olonial Land and
Fir,
27th November 1848.
Emigration Office
RECORD
OF
acknowledge your
We have the honor to
letter of
57. 21 any + 1868 Governor of Hong Kong,
by a Despatch from the
the 10 the Instant, accompanied
herewith returned.
Orignal evelormes
Lots of Land by Government recommending
the resumption
certain
in
that
with the request of the
Colony, in compliance
Verman Merivale des
Proprietors.
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an
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whether some additional Fee,
20.
should not be imposed
Grey, some increased Rent- as suggested by Lord
in cases where the Tenant fun to
perpetuity.
receives a Grant
Geant in
We
We have the honor to be
Lir
Jour védent
Reduin Rogen
Grumble Lecanto,
Hoffrendoch
4m N27.
Ice Lord Lay's monito nơi trong Kong
1.20 Iny
6. See
адика
virtual perfeturty
as at dingesture. Approve
Ging
ти пороче
I believe it is
agreed
best course is an extension of the term
cade
that the
but with regard to the length of that extension the Govr sent home the for Ford Grey's
I should doubt whether it
way
to
directions and
will be thought the best refer the question
back to hime
an endeavour should
or whether
made to select
some term ins
Coventry. I confer however I fee
unable
I feel
this
ally
thought of this might not appear abready
7.7.5.28/11
hould be. I had origina
Proprietors who
ang gest
Whet
but
any con Jungble concection
for 75
would
to 999 gran if desired. But I shall sucesors by Esharing these terms
very materially embarassing its I doubt whether Gorrond
I very much suspired if book is considued mey
parties who what.
their unte
сто
Ellish
Land Grey with adosch the
in of the Comitt to leave the
lension of the term of the
Leased to
discretion of
the Goon?
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Board of
Trade
E.1.B
reign
Lice
2
3
247
With respect to
With respect to Lots. 148
63, held by Mess Zurner &C, and Lot 40, held by Mep's Mc Vicar H., We do not see any objection to their being resumed on the termes recommended by the Governor ; a similar course having ' already been adopted in
several similar cases.
With respect & Lot
With.
87
the circumstances are rather different. This Lot.
was
originally granted to the
late Mr. Stewart
on
аг
anmal
annual rent of £76.18.6.
The property
was subsegmently
subdivided into three parts;
one part only.
called
"Helen's Bank" being kept
by Mr Stewart. The Executors
now
of that Gentleman request that they may
be
allowed to retain this part
of
au
the property, on which expensive house has been built, at the reduced rental
of £19, being about 1/4th of The original dent. The Government resuming the remainder.
We
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Board
of
Trad
E.L.F
Freig
Vice
4
No
bey leave to report that we do not see
any
objection to the arrangement which is recommended by the Governor, provided that the proposed Rent
of the
part retained bears a fair proportion to the original Rent of the whole
Lots,
original
# # #
having regard to
the value of the different
portions of the property independently of what the may
from any Buildrings
-have derived from my
or improvements made since
they were first-let.
We have the honor to be
onr
got frumble ferrants, Nothindoch
Resendogen
1
248
Boa
of
F
30 Nor
to the opinions of the Govt & comme in but take the opportunity of
Agree
Governor, cases,
AY
suggested
70
2040,
these particular
instruc
that these resumptions
cannot be indefinitely continued. It was well enough to allow them when a Exrge
part of the Community
that they
suddenly
discovered had offered two nuch for their
lands, but it would be open to
q
1750. glaring
nuuch
objection
that Partes siöl
Right of
the whole have a
PW
and
Gland
they pleased
yet inrrendering
any part of
when t
it might
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447 N
and it adopted, the Land Board. approved, I would stretch a
dingly
and Fre
right to receive a copy ? 2.78.56/11
Am N35
suit their a
courte
be
ull'
で
Ento
Sir C. Trevelyou
Mr Elliot
Best 1848
1
W. Merivale
Mr. Slawes Earl brey
2
-7
+ Teasury 1534
249
14. Kurg.
Sin
6. December 1848
With reference is Mr.
Elliot's letter of the 18th of October containing
ам
explanation of the circum: :stances under which the Owners of certain Town Lots st Victoria and Hong Kong
had been allowed to
surrender part of their pro=
- perty and obtain a cor:
: responding. Rent, I
rencission of
are directed by
Earl brey to acquaint you
for the information of the Lords Comen of the Treasury ?
theat
Bo
oi
Tra
2
that finding that this
system continues to be made
Me
on
of, and deeming it spon
grounds objectionable
to various
djiction X
that
it should be indefinitely
prolonged,
His Lordship
proposes to address to the
:Governor the Instructions
!
for its discontinuance of
which a draft is enclosed.
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250
Colonial Land and
Einigration Comun
Goutlines
Des
6. December 1848
With reference to
your Report of the 27th salt,
on the surrender of part
of certain Loto of Land in
Sony Sang trọng,
I am directed
by Earl Grey to acquaint
1
you
that he
agrees
in the
have
opinions which you
therein expressed, but that
at the same time His
Lordship has judged that the period has arrived when the practice of allowing
these
1
Board
of
Trad
ELB
Freig
nice
these surrenders of parts of
Lots let upon Lease, should
come
to an end, and that be
therefore proposes, after Communication with the
Board of Treasury, to issue the Instructions for its dis =
: continuance of which a
Draft is enclosed for your information.
I am
Muscellers Offices
251
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Tra
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Cees
Wititall.
Vidle to bor 186707 Oct 24/48
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16
General Dost office.
17th October 1848
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کا
I have submitted to the
Posturacter General your
letter
of the 5th instant, transmitting for
his Lordships consideration, copies
of a correspondence between the
Secretary of State for the Colomies
J
the
and
Governor of Hong Kong, relative to the grant of
land.
grant of a piece of rent free, to the Hong Kong
and
Canton Steam Packet Company.
In compliance also with your
request, I brought under his German Merivale Egt
...
Colonial offere
Lordships
7
253
Board
of
Trad
ELB
reign
fice
!
Lordships notice the proposition.
of Earl Grey that before making
any definite grant to the Company,
it would be desirable that some
arrangement should be made with them, in order to ensure the transmission
of the Government Mails between
chung đang
and
Canton on
th
Company in this Country, together
with a copy of the beport on that proposal which the Portmaster General addressed to the Treamy
on the 6th December last.
I have the honour to be
ر سنوری
Your obedient
humble Servant,
most favourable terms
I am directed in reply
transmit to
to
to you for the information
of Earl Grey, a copy of the offere made to the Treasury in November
last by
the Agent of the Hong
Roug
and Canton
Canton Steam Jacket
Company
į
Board
of
Trad
ELE
Greign
nace
W. Must
0%
theat the repruestion teen the General & the H. Kong & Canton Steam Packet lis replete, but neither do I understand the P. Office to shiect to do not understand from these papers
Y
should have the same ternes
the proposal of Lord Gray that the Company land they want at Honey kong
which a
ALO
of ground was granted to them June last. If dare right in this impression all that pisce
reymon of of ours in of corn and pu
glot 64
named in Lord Gray's dashb
ront on the conditions of the month of
A
Abs. 19act: 140.
My infusion
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In 19943 Hong Kong 254
40
To the Right Stonourable to Loras Cammessioners of the Trajesty's Lenny
Greary.
My Lords
your bustling
du returning to Mr Beanies letter of the 5th ultime
3
offering on behalf of the Canton Steam Packet Company to Conolly the Mails between Canton
aux
tang Rang, provided &. M's bosst will faciction the such an allowance to the
payment as
Company
as will remunera to them for
que to
Service, they leave
beg Lordships to my res
repor
15 Felting, on the en
Portab ar
Ru
the
refer your to of the
subject of the
anx to urge strongly
=
arrangements at Canton strongly the mic.
political yout
portance, in a
good come
y
view
estableiting
ay
unication by
bong
Kain
theans bessels between
B
TY
Rang
a
Account
and Canton without serbipulout regard to the Jon
Revenue to be devices
from
the Cortage charged on the car. respondence conveyed.
I do not however, Conside that the Government should.
pay
more than £1000 ayear for th of a Mail daily
Conveyance of
from each place at hours axaptex to the convrience of the Post Office.
How for
for it may
it may be expedient
that a Contract Shaula be
made with the Company represent
ed
by MW. Braine, is a question which I would beg leave to suggest that the
opinion of
ирого
be taken, parke =
Admiralty men been higormed
cularly as
that the Peninsular and overtal
theams Rangation Company
uitend
intend to place a theam
255
Bessel on the lame line in the early part of meat Gear
shave the honour
(signed)
Clauricorde
General Post Office
6th December 1847.
T
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Cappy.
fiss
1
In 1994 Hong Kong
48
Rayal Each : Bd.
13th November 1807.
With reference
reference to any
9th bust and to
to our
256
letter of
a personal
Communication of this morning,
I may bey have to wait on you
with
e
copy
M. Pitcher
те
agreement with the Ship builder, thus =
two bessels
ing the character af
building for
Sam now
9 for the hair =
gation of the Canton River and bewing that, by Contract
also
they will be
rea
their destication early ment gear.
ady to start for
As I have already stated to you, I learn by a personal interviews with Colonel Maberly that the Post Office is favourably disposed
sex to
an ar =
raugsment for carrying the mails by Steam bessels between Canton, and bang Rong,
C. E. Trevelyan
Treasury
as well as
the other
Stations
stations in the Canton River, &
I would n
Keregne beg leave
пар
which Grind
to enquire. d. The 405. would be
pleased to authorge a Contract to be made with the
with the Company:
to whome these two Boats belong- wiffy may be permill
ры
I
regard
might be
permitted to observe to any extimate which
made
by the Post Office, from luch
as to probas cource that the effect of
probable income Navigation
Steam
igation all over the Morld, has
nivariably been to increase post-
tal Communication,
more the
be still more
where in the
=
аид какиев
the case in China
no
207
of
by: consequently as calculation income founded
would be at all a fair approx.
Cystem
ca on the pres
imation to what might be reasonably
on, under the improved
counted.
made a
Je conveypue
may
be
that besides the advantages which
the proper to and
4. I1⁄2 bost and the Mercantile Community, both in China & Europe, will derive
regular
аидш
pom such
pom
Commu=
eproved com
nication, the Ressels being efficiently
armed aux
otherwise
equipped, will
materially contribute to the
suppression
The
and
present imperpet an unication by
irregularity comm
their
" Quiese Boats, many parties
own
Expresses, without the untervention of the Post. which they
use
of the Post Office.
would cease to have
any object in doing when Steam
Boat
may
be
running regular
Gy
of
Pirates with ot
Canton waters have been
and
long so much infested.
will further be, at any moment available to assist in protecting
life
дале Pase of
te
property
in Canton, disturbances, the dough
of which, experience thews to be
Considerable
B
TY
Considerable.
As stated in
my last letter the
parties by whose order lave build.
these Boats have
ing
20
expectation
of
looking to the limited number Passengers likely to travel by them,
That same
that their income pone will be either considerable,
busceptible
та
h micrease, and considering the maneject public advantage which will arise pron their establishment, they hust W. In boot will be pleased to
I
sauction a for the
liberal allowanc
The conveypuce
and thus assist in
from Public Funds which is
of the Mails, eupporting Funds an undertaking
of general capable of being Mercantile
one rather
utility thaw capable profitable as a speculation.
lamy
be
Bsigner Senge & Bracin
}
Copy
258
Dimentions and Specpcations of
Zwolteams Ressels.
Dimensions
I but
Length between Perpendiculars 135.6
Breadth extreme-
Depth in hold
Roon
до
альд
Burthen
مل
Space in Exquire
peward & Agt. Teens 25044
6
Spenpection
-19.6
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Econ. 2
2
4.
Keel. _ To be ay Eighth or American rock El 10 mis square, tapered forward
-
and
aft
as usual-
Frame - To be az Eughit dat
heads the length of the Engine Roomd & fitted into bor from thence
thence Forward & Afton
on a
&
parallel live with the Keel, to be
in Enquie Room at the Herl
sided in
Engine 8 wiches forward and Aft-quis- at 1st Suttacks 7 : Jouard and Aft Jine?, 2t Buttock, 7. Jonward ragt
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6: Jouward
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Exquie
B
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ly
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suis
to 3'r mis, a
1 Gunwall
and to 3 iis peward & Aft.
4
Coochian tiff. To Lave 2 thakeray is mis, ay suis
And above.
receive
the
721⁄2 ts ends of the diagonal Plans Coques forward and aft the whaling Mahogany.
to have to thakes wis that Malcade agonal Hand to be speis
4
Expered forward & Aft to & uit.
Blackstrake of uns: 3 Chur shakies 3 ins, _ lapene preward & Ayt to 2% 2 % ins with a plank sheer suis- The whole
of East Indice Leak.
яс
To be siis tapered forward & Aft Rotton
to 2
2/27
down as
East India Leak as low
1st Futtocks heads, and
from thence to the Reel of American
Block Im. -
To be 3/1⁄2 mis East India Teak Toprider
. moulded
вий
of
Want to be a fuis theck in Exquie rooms and, & dit forward and Apt sittaport worked between the Floorhead
Haff, and Clamps, the whole as Bahagans a Seasonal, to be worked acros. the Frame Works 3/1⁄2 broad and 1/2 iwis thick from the upper edge head staffs. belange of shelf piece down.
Con
Beams
2
the
To be as Mahogany lixen puis, to the thelf piece hanging lever at each and
moulded bus dowelled batted
vice and an Iron
To be liked 10 uit omontare bris they Pain stemway to bery East brain tu
at upper exge and wins at the
Lower rage to have & Shakes of
Zins. Clamp and 1, 072%1⁄2
772/1⁄2 under
1.072/2
toxuna frward and Aft; the
tapered
Flole of Mahogany
or
santic Pure, in two thicknesses the under one quis thick and fartened down to the Beams
Floorhence
Bo
Tr
200
with Iron Spikes, and the a one parte and the upper ip thick fastened to the. one with caf
Copper
Renews.
To be sins by 4 mins
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Rock Ele.
To be
under
2
?
rings and Eye bolts, arming staw=
chions de nue
кожен
for sew.
necessary
of American Ach, Anushree Ran Capper. To be comper pastened
-
Rougher Rai
1/1⁄2 thick of dantzie Pine Perthing beay dantyce Pine suit theit.
to be witt
to
9/2
Crossed
and pitted between colliquis Rams
Room Bulkhead.
beay East brain Leak 10 in
Leak 10 mis equare Keelson properly botted through the Flours
and Feel.
To be of African Rak, in life & Engine Beard
bedirected by the
Form as may
Engineers properly bottell throug the bottom and clenched
Outside plank.
02
The
Mock to
to fit thems
Males to the any
heel, with the
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Immails, and the bottom Covered prone the 7 foot onark Anyonwards with
283 Copper theating as isumal with like bessin in St. T1⁄2 Senice,
Heelson faciers to be neatly enebory a cuthon
board &filled within with Saloon & Leaves Cabin Aft + 2 == class passengers Cabin forward; Cabin chefing Berths for Caplacin Afficers and Crew together with all pantries, cabooses, deck Houses, Nater clown, locks, tunge &c., Plumbers, Painters &laguers work as is usual with seminar Bessels in H. In Service.
To be of Mahogany, in lize
hagany, in bize and Pradle
bidirection
& spu
Form as may bexicctia by the Beams_
Engineers.
To have all hooks, Cutches Pariter & other knees as usual with bessels of a like gescription in 4. R. Service, together with all rings
Frow WorkBull.
не
To be fitted with shening
Remerar
shul
Zillar, Muialass, Quarter & Boati davits, deckseat, loader, Mast
Jards
T
1
Jards, Anchors, Jails, Boats, Pumps complete for Lea and
similar in tessels
of
lorry respect to
like description an
H. R. Lewice!
in
Есл
To have two Beams or side levers Engines
aud
of the Collecting power of Is horses with
wrought frow boilers gudgeon Crossbars & cafti.& as much of the pame as possible
que
shafts.
with Copper Commeg & Blow.
out
es
the whole of the very
best Materials & wor
& most approved construction. To be equal to any of adimiter Speed description in d. th.
Gravy,
and
certified if required to that effect by any Officer in the Engineering Department of that service
To be made at all times by any
all times by any suspection other Officer of H. Th
Dockyard, who
Builder, or
for that
purpose,
may heapponitio
aux who is at
liberty to regiet any gratenallon
Works =
201
workmanship, not suition to the purpose required, and to whom is to be referred all differences, that
"may arise in respect to tho
Constructio
of any of
of this Specizication.
the Chime whose
and w
on tho
on in coriting shall be buiding and Conclusive Parties Concerned.
Payments. One prostl part of the whole but for the Two Ressels, on signing the Agreement.
One puth
sel when the stali be in Frame part for each bes-
the Keelson botted.
Que other pourth Part for each Vessel when the shall be the Beams in the pick said.
e planted-
And the remaining founto put for each bessel when the chall be complete
for vered once to the groper pleson
Lea, and delia
appointed to receive her.
I hereby aque to builse at any my Dockyance
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Vic
Boat
of
Trac
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dackyard in Worth That in the County of heat for 47 Brance & on account of the Caution theand Packet C: Lis theam bessels,
in all respect, enth the pregoing dimensions and Specification, and to deliver the pit state to proceed any Agent or Agents
according
wing, in all
Love in a
to Dea, to
анка
before the t
receive their oud April 1848.
For the Cum of £20,500. Twenty thousand & five hundred Soundt-bigen) Wer Putcher.
acid
aquement being a correct copy
ние её
possession signed by
M. Mom Pitcher, Shipbuilder of North Glut in the county of text
part
the
nuxentals for my fulfilment of the conditions
Thereas so far as (signed)
they apply to me
.
George. J. Brain
ее
7
Call
22
H. Kr.
Extemal Ristepricks Fund
RECEIVE
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Dut. 30.1848.
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Authibi & Casterbury,
viour capacity of
Treasoning of the Colonial Bustofuck's land, to
informe gun Ludskif,
прип
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202
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in asson to the exquinis
таталт
of you Lashes expecting the moment in what
фут
the indinmest of the Bustspruck of Hong Kong
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is to be funded " _ that, we have a Capital Tus in hand or effecturally secund of 1g0ort and upwards, and that the Epercopal Committee In the Endrament of Colonial Bitefucks have sichord to appropriate from their Gesend Fund the own of rest per annums; sheit when added to the istiust to be reused home the sand 1900st with it is Lofood calculated produce
income of or about 1000t for.
crown.
to these mones, the tour a son of 2000t in Land to what we expect statty additions at kast equal imamennt, to be affled to the cuction of a Collage, of what the future Bistof is to be Warden and in shat he is to han a Residence-
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My Lud Jun
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te de
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J. J. Colidge
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Hi Jan
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see tht be legally secured-
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advantage. Employment ander Nordeument transmited a -monial from the. Parveyor beveral of tong
chong trong had heislaid, and an that formed my
which
you Chick hope of sucues. in what has become com. mon Essential to me any auficty, is get more Painful.
Leannot. at all gratify
tanity but if you
unin
could place in
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this impor-
titration
hday.
with the smallest Eriolument it would be.
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any gruttide._
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a request for couployment.
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I am connected with a family harming tonn. influence with Me Poroke Concal Gueral of Bornes whose patronage Ishould, with to-
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if
might revie
you is a reference
Apologies, in the trouble.
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your
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Your most obedient.
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по опени
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Fisherie in
&& petitio
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newpay stike te taken with a cin-f-
the cas
accomplishment of
This Objects, by
the creation of
the intended toe.
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the
Lorary
might bu
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ier his opomnien,
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противол
to proper at ome
7
take the necpany steps for the evation of a which the Seat shoved by King
Bishops
Kiny
See
of
lepon that comm Ирина
I hair ascertained that no
at the Foreign office.
2
моти
be
proceedings were take
I am unable to vabrict to your Lindshif
any report of the steps which
have brow
may
taken to avcertain the nature of the pervision
which might have have re
Colonial Binteft. Bishops
3
There Bishops were,
selected by the Committer for
for the last
палачуму
excepting, horror, the Bishop of
Bishopin
Melbourne.
The mode of providing would be to desine the
Inuni Advorate to prepare an draft
Patent for instituting
Lo
would weiter leave.
Bishop's
Letters
Se blank for the
Bistrop's parme, or insert the
10 Deca
Mor Merriale
VJ
:
"BARE"
Mr Louth
Was Sanctioned? Is it not weusary that the
to "ade to some of whi I am not aware
And there been any previous conserpon...
creation of new sees in the colonies what steps were taken to us certain that un endowment had been provided before the a pointment of a bishop
on this subject? The words theve under ach a seem In the recent.
• can be done towards creati Berhot and
Selected before anything.
A new fee?
This
has bre
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cones ponderes
subject upon which then
the Archbishop of Canterbury
Colonial
taller
the
my
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between
amthi
the
Lord Aberden.
1045.
of July of
the months
that
рожено
محمد سمير
refer
year the R. of Canterbury
p of many of your that the Committee for Caterial Porshoprich,
An official
But before rong stats vor
forming the Archbishich
written to this letter in-
answer must be
2301
Amy Kony
269
had record promises of large
for the
Lud Stanley
not
когда
of mamay
t of the propond Sec
imbering
required for any
that the Bishoprich
oby cats
this Colomine service, refund the
Aberdeen, by whorn
Davis.
question
tion to Lord
med to die Ste
by
and the batter having reported stungly
the
of
Mr Gladstone
to b
Foreign Office in January 1846, stating
b the
that
vin H. M. to Awther the
ый
of the respond Berkshire for necessary steps for the aut
if
necessary
and
endowment - have been provided funds for the
i
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but that us come Former
more in
difficulty
еки ч
вам
wronkering from what somey We volery coded be making
la
" of the new Bishopric is to be prind frovided for in order
Intifactory for arrangement for the payment of the suby of a Bishok after his appoint sment. I think that it will be novisable in the fuit misting
Arist
officials as informe
that no downt
A has
have been
it
may effectually secured.
exeit Mat
been effectually
270
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Whe
th be pin to me
as to the
Thanner in which the endowment
i
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This Grace
271
21. of December 1848.
TED
Cre: Ch: May 185
The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury
Forwandati
1848 Dec
aff Smith | 20 GPRWericale 20
12
FanGrey 21
My Lord Archbishop
I have the honour to acknowledge
the receipt of your
"'s letter of
Space's
the 14th instant,
in which
you
recommend that
the necessary steps be taken for the
of
erection
a
Bishopricts in the
:
Boa
of
Tra
Island of Hong
Rong
Understanding
as I do from your Grace's
Com
municatio._
to me
zz
this
a
a
subject that found for the endowment of the proposed Bishoprick is at the disposal of the Society for propagalling the Gospel, and prepared
272
to advise The Queen to in-
stitute the
Bishoprick ; - but,
some diffi-
as
one
вос
a
occasion
а
culty perienced preceding in making satiofactory arrangement
payment new Bishop's
for the
of
a
salary after his appointment, I
|
7
have to request that your grace
will transunit
Arr
official
to me statement as to
the mannen which the
in
eu
of the
dowment of
new Bishoprick is to be provided for, in order that no doubt may exist that
it has been
effectually
secured.
His Grace
что
t
273
F. of January 1849.
The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury
Forwardal 1849
M. Smith A MEMerivale MBHawes
Earl Grey
fe
6
My Lord Archbishop With reference
to the letter which I had the honour
to address to your Grace under date
the 21st ultimo,
I have now to
acquaint
yyour
Grace that I have received from the
Treasurers of the
Colonial Prislop
ricks Fund.
طلعات
Boa
of
а
statement as
to the manner in
which it is pre- posed to provide for the endow ment of
the Bishoprick to be
erected in the
Island of Hong Rong, and that, upon that state- ment, I intend
to take the
necessary steps for founding the proposed Bishop-
ricte .
Before, however,
the fist Bishop
274
is appointed to the intended See,
I think it will
xte
be right that the endowment of the Bishoprick should be legally secured.
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Having attentively perused:
the tréport of the Select Committee of the House of Come mond on our kommercial Relations with blunar
ørdered to be punted six July last,
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perceiving
that there is a
great paucity of evidence on of this Government; I deem t
duty
behalf :
to subinct for your consideration) the accon
accompanying Hatement of facts,
coluch are so materially opposed'
to the testimony give... befar the Committee that it necessarily beames
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a matter of much importance to
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place you in possession of debuilt
sufficient to enable
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clear and unbiassed judgment as to the amount of credit due to those interested witnesses whose
evidence has been lakew without
any proof adduced on Aliene part- to substantiate it: anai
many of the
afsections of these witnesses trave been borrowed from the offusions of Colonial Newspapers (one of the Editus like.
our love
many of on the Emopean
"
inhabitants is a puuaway from? Sydney / a live proceeded from disappointinent and initation
arising
or
W
a great aventure from
their never having been subject to
1110
k
contioul whilst in Pluna, prior to their settlement in this
Almy-
:
277
Colony. All rules of Government were
to such persons most irksome and
offensive, and
engendered a feeling hustite to Affions of the Ironment,
which fed by
the analicious and.
unfounded statements uttered
the Preps, led many
otherwise
by
upright and honnable persons to believe in assertions similar to those
Mess? Gibb. A Mathe sou
anade
ly
and W. Scott.
The Houble F. 14. A Bruce,
General
late Colonial Secitary, and M. Sam! Fearowe, late Registrar Gouerat, & the former of whini was lately
England
land, and
lately in
and the latter is Professor
of Chinese in Ning's bollege Sonden but whose destinong does not appear
to have been entted for) could trave given
true and satisfactory evidence
opposed
į
Board
of
Trade
E.1.1
Freig
nice
1.7
278
!
opposed to that of the three
persons
above named, as well as to that of Mr Martin and The Neo? If Janish;
The latter named.
' gentleman
doubtless believed tumself to be afterting facts, for having like sthert
so often
heard.
reports
corts adverse lo
the measures of the Government of the Colony he would; scene to have given theme full credence.
7
legat advisers to the brown
and others recommended that neither
any of its Officers
the Government nor should attempt to prosecute for libet: here; because it was certain that
01.11
Stong Kong Sway could find for the Planetiff. I refer suore particularly to
Awr instances where I was most.
ombeans be prosecute the Editors of the Friend of China and "The Hong
Roug
Kong Régister for lebel against myself, and in each the legal
*
l advice was do
arot attempt it; ∞ verdict in your from is hopeless . "The English Law-against- libel of this descuption.
i v a
therefore
practically inoperative heves
Bring the oldest buil suvant of the brown in this bolony, and having
been located here from its commencement
jw 1841, most arduous and fatiguing
duties devolved upon me. I have oftes
for successive mouths patroled 3.
ard our
guard
in the week to
Mids
3 nights
our people from :
: Midnight Robbers, and
Pirates, and M
M. Fearon then interpreter and
afterwards my assistant has patroled
nights. I have been
the other 3
subjected to all sorts of contumely from
W bred, disaffected, and in many instances vagabond population, and
although
:
Boar
of
Trade
E.1.7
Freig
ce
although I am thankful to say that
my
conduct has met with the
approbation of the whole of my superiors, the unpleasantness of my duties contrasted unfavorably with
a period of 28 ajours in which I
Sovere
wus
premously sewed my Sinugu a the capacity of a soldur. I may
I trust, without the charge therefore of egotism, be deemed of sufficient - standing and experience to form an opinion of the means requisite to coerce to good order those placed. -
and to be believed when
under
I affirm, as I now do ; that if it were
et er
tune to be similarly my misfortune to be situated, I should most probably
adhere to the same determined and.
stringent measures which I consider to trave protected the lives and property of the British public here.
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W. Hitter the present Chiefs
Magistrale has had
equally hard
lash to personu . He has patroled
might after aught
lvet Aw nov mote
Soeure times; and I would beg
particularly to draw your a
hit
attention to
lus recorded decision, vide appendix
F. 011 ease
set aside
by the Judge,
in
when M : Hittier then Setz. Chief Magistrate was publicly informed rive Court that his decisim was illegal. On thus rccasion 14. Lawless puffians
and were
let loose upon the Colony. I would Ser, as one fit to
respicesfully ask you judge; 0
and discuminate on so harsh.
to
a procceture, if tus was the way support a Magistrate, by repredeating his decision in the presence of the while assembled mullatude : I hell you Ser, that the reproof nearly
-
broke..
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!
i
Board
of
Trade
E.L.F
Freigh
+
:
I
broke Mr. Hitters heart, and if it had not been for the persmal influence I
exercised over him, the Colony would have lost a most zealous servant; whi
by this talent, and ability has rendered
hammself so perfectly
Chinese korengenge
conversant with the
that he is able not.
only to speak with fluency, but to
conduct bus examina
ations in bount
Clunese: He alsi scads and writes
the language with ease and
correctness.
Shee
only
other Banister
in the Colony when this occurred was
of & different opusion with Sudge Hulme, on the cases
· referred to; and when M. Holley Campbell was Acting - Attorney General the self same sentence was carried through by M: Hittier, at his instance. It remained,
unaltered and Judge Hulme found,
No
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· further fault .
1 for you
to be.
I am most antious for
informed of the difficulties under coluch
we have labored, and although
ive At
Frave fatten into
!
errors, nove many
may of.
them have arisen from wilful neglect
obstinney, and I
in
May you to bear mind the position of this Island, the
peculiare advantages it offered to Pirates
and Robbers, and indeed still offers, for
ate here
many runaways from the Chimese congregate here,
, as can be sherons from the - ummbers of delinquents anosted by us and handed over to the Chinese Authorties;
a small pair only of what would have been delivered over had all such requisitions been complied with : mineteuths of our Chinese subjects, and about love European inhabitants have been
a
one
half of our
in
most depraved condition, so regardless
of
Board
of
Trade
E.L.F
heigh
fice
of bush that circumstantial evidence has
been
to their duces evidence on
preferred to their
oath, and it is painful
+
to add that
these difficulties Stitt ebest; and must
continue, do
long as the people
чене скелет
in their present state of summorality
and total absence of principle.
I trust for thus eucuraching
upon your
valuable linie, as well as
for renturing to address you, quasi-
privately, on subjects of public business,
I may be pardoned.
pardoned in consideration
of the interest I naturally take in this Colony, of the position Soccupy; and of my desire to explain the
2. Subjects contained in the enclosed; with:
which
another person in
-person in the Cot
the Colony
be so completely conversant :
281
Jam Dear Ser
Your's very
obediently
Maine
Colones Funday
B
Tr
-1944
202
My dear frine
In reply to your
holt-bad.
its suclosure from torturs, Seams only afpers
his solispection..
seat
with
Lince I have been in China, hat mit with * pleaser that his conduct in
fullet
apportation Shave
hod-nutrons
ale woteins of otmring his gest. &
personal
fantifications,
of his sensissons with to obliges & person- mution hin who did not
und Shave never heard one
minsity vrchnt..
is sppointricat is groun Slot
Thope the rumors - of.
Sperates
losing
and tholla
M. Merivale. In 50, so far
Anal
A
my
ythe
Sie sehen.
the
· limited means of unformation want I was always of opinion the many of the statements made before the Committe of the House of Commons on thins Trade. were, as regarded the public Officons of Kong King, the conduct of affairs there, extremely loose aut prejudiced. And it would seem that Major Caine, who is a highly honorable & excellent Officer, comes a similar view. Davis has already / 599 Hong Kong, /599 Hong Kong / sent his descreations on Eindere taken before the Committe; but as they were addrefed to Ind Palmerston it rested with his Lordslief to decide whether they should be comman canviated to Paclita not- In the present case I support that of the Governan defence is not made public, neither can the be: Whether they should both be Laid lesse Part! deserves perhaps a further careful consideration now that the
Secretary's
question is submitted with greater
thes public
bright in consquince of Officers of high standing having
Made the Evidence the sulit.
through for. Dosham Davis
W-Haur
I do not gristi undestand in what shake this comes to vou :
: not
a Main Stadly who I understand with condut the forment like dir I rather conclude it to be inhorld. as a
Donkam
of their represcontation's
2
Gost AB. 2 May. 1840.
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hiivate communication?
In May 3.
Zubery
ry you
papay penny,
mess you may y group gap
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I think that be have string public / as wild Initify that the peaceing
Private
claims to advausturut-
I shall ser to his bring naturalized my arrival in England and if it be popila I will get it more.
In
haste
(signer)
is a trus
283
L'in kenny Hottingers original note to Major (pice as written on the 19th June 18484-
Gourmmost émely
Victoria Hougthang
20th Date 1818.
William Fedder
Harker Master and)
Marine Magistrate-
I
like tots.
you may put this
note into Wrathur's hands so containing my
opinion of him in every respect
(Signed) $.80
Lositifs that the foregoing
His Lacetting the Henry Rollinger Bart. J., St. He
Lignin, faine
Chief Magistrate
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Boa
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of
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Copy of a note from. Fir Newry Pottinger West Glo to mayor faces. respecting his opinion of Mr down. Abr
starbor Master_ written ow
The 19th June 1844-
Inclosure
B25.
in letter from Mr Lena.
No bys
of the 25th. Desten 18118
in
855. Hong Kong | Chi 11
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Observations on the Aplies of
Himnesses
284
ال تقديم
as detailed, in the Minutes
of Evidence saken before a Select Committee of the Abuse of Commons
appointed in 1847 to enquire into:
the state
or Commercial Relations
of our
with China se se.
ノ
It is here placed on pecord, that
Officers of Government have been
reported quilty of oppressine, and extortine; offences which if perved would of course ruin them. Yet Mr Gibb does not being forward one fact in support of his statements, made
Boa
of
Trac
E.I
Vic
arot even
does it
4109
the absence of the accused; does give his authority; appear that he brought the reports to the notice of any Colonial
Officer. If such reports did exist - I believe them to have been entirely
groundless as regards any Officer of Gwernment:
The Opian Farm was sold by No 694
Tublic Auction, and there was
great competition for st by European
and Chinese bidders, any person
could therefore obtain it who chose to bid for it; and comply with the condition of sale, which was simply, security for pagnent of the license duty. only protection afforded to any,
was
The
No 673
285
was that of the law as contained in The Apium Ordinance No 3 of 1845; and the Regulations dated 12 th duly 1845-copies of the Ordinance and Regulations will be found in
appendise A.
Regulations
By see: 6 of the
no de
seizure
can be
made without special Warrant
from a Magistrate.
Mr. Matheson / Since dead, and Mr. Suddell, at present an Auctioner at Victoria, were the Europeans who held the Opium Farm, I was then Chief Magistrate . M . Matheson previous to the sale brought a letter
lo
my address from Mr Hexander Mathesm of the firme of Jardine Matheson &C. . I then expressed to
S
⠀
!
1
誊
Boat
of
Trad
E.I
Frei
rice
"Mr. Matheson
my opinion, that
No 718
he would not be able to escape
loss evving to the extreme cunning of the Chinese, shortly after they
had purchased the Opium Farm,
A
question arose, whether by the terms of the Regulations
restriction was laid on
ок
a
the retail
of Opium for exportation. I was
of opinion that there existed no-
Acase
such restriction. A case was
brought
ht on in m
my court, and
I decided accordingly - sec-copy
B
of this case in Appendix #1
There has not existed
local lasation for keeping Roads in order. The only
any
No you.
the
assessed tax is that for the
Support
dupport of the Police .
Acqui resides at Hong Hong
286
with his wives and children, and
holds land from the Colomal Government, paying
an annual
rental of £200. He has enemies
among the Compradors of English-
Merchants, whose interests are opposed to his om. If he were connected with Pirates therefore, it
is impossible that it would long-
remain undetected, and certain ruin would follow such detection. It may reasonably be supposed to be his interest; under these circumstances, to ressam from
such piratical conne seion. He holds bestemmials of character from
Captain
1
}
Board
of
Trade
E.IF
reigt
rice
Captance Elliott, through whose aneaus he was established here, and from the late Chinese
Secretary
at
Mr Morrison. Ste
accumulated his capital, not
Hong Kong, but while engaged as a shep comprador, by supplying provisions to vessels before and during the war . He was dessounced by the Chinese Officers,
and purchased for a large sum - the rank of Mandarin, in order to proteos his family from molestation . The only complaints against him, save one, that have
come to my knowledge
"my knowledge are those
in the Colonial Newspapers,
which ma
may
be readily
traced
チャー
X
+ Aequis not the Opciem Farma, but the securit
Lee
<
vo 731.
to the matter Merchants, and Shopkeepers, with whose pitty
287
dealings in opium, and those of their Compradors the trade of Aqui must- interfere. Of the one case that was brought to the notrée of the Invernment the particulars will be found in Appended C. Mess? Jameson :How sb. The complamants will there be found to state in their letter that "We know of no law- "either evil or criminal under " which Acqui is punishable for "the acts imputed to him or his "people". The reason of their complaint
as one
against Acqui is not therefore sufficiently obvious.
It is stated that a Chinaman
must
Boat
of
Trad
breis
E
must be registered after 24 hours
May
that
on the Island, and in 732.
rt
man whose business will›
not occupy
him more than 10 or
12 hours has to wait for hours
at the Registrars Office, and finds it a serious mconvenience. It is difficult to conceive their
motive in
Registering themselves
when by
Law they
were exempt.
The inconvenience if incurred.
all must have been incurred
voluntarily.
lone
at
man does not rent the
whole of the Markets. At the time.
- gave his evidence
when Mr. Gibb
there were 3 Markets let to 3
different persons,
sous, now
now there are to
No. 845
Markets
Markets let to 11. different-persons.
288
The purchase of provisions in the awarket is quite optional with the
Meat generally, and Fish
purchaser
I believe almost always is sold in the
markets; other provisions are not exclusively sold there. Fish could
probably be offensive if sold in summer in the streets; but there is no prohibition
against such sale; dealers lake it to the Market from choice. Pack it
constantly sold by hawkers, and both Beef and Park are now sold
opposite te
there is no
Spring Gardens
Gardens daily, when
market; cooked meats
vegetables : so are to be found in great.
abundance in the shops.
It is difficult to conceive lno- a
duty
!
Board
of
Trade
E.1.B
reign ffice
Be
1
duty of 14.4 in the
year, or
about.
a
halfpenny a day could have caused
M
the
great deal of distress among "Bextmen", this reply is surely it's
refutation .
: This reply is altogether erroneous,
Alere
never has been
any.
Farm of
mads
Fishery. All Fishing giends in
China where Mauding nets are
to the
crected pay a yearly duty Mandarins. This duty for the fisting grounds of the belony, it
cvas endeavoured) to transfer from
Yo 846
the Mandarins (who had no night + the Frohumu
to it ! to the Colonial Govenment &
"The
following facts relation to
are well known
Chinams property.
to th? A Matheson, yet he has
trade
Volunteered the
payment ! .
No 1943
289
made no mention of them: Chinam,
the only wealthy Chinese Merchant, who
ever settled at
$1.
Hong Mong, unfortunatily
died before his buildings were completed. His investment of anoney however, there is reason to believe, pioved & most profitable speculation to his successors.
The house and warehouses were
for a
Sime in the occupation of Europeand
long
who paid-say lugh rents for them, and
-occupied by a blincs trading
firme. A street of Chinese shops was
afterwards added and has remained fully decanted since at I believe profitable rents. Mr. Matheson has stated as facts coming within his
· Knowledge that the Police practiced various modes of dessanding" "committed
all
Boar
of
Trad
E.I.
reip
Mec
:
1
་་་་་
r
290
;
all
" of atrocities" "plundered " Boats and Sunks &'estoited fees of all
kinds under false pretences", I am
not aware that Mr. Matheson,
brought to the notice of
of any
Volonial
Officer instances of such misconduct,
all emmplaints against
ivere
the Solice
investigated as fully & s
possible, and volation of duty suot with severe punishment when
detected : but I cannot call to mind
1
any such instances as those
mentioned above,
tor 012
refering
to the Police Records can I find.
mine than one instauree
(484 of
1846) in which the Police were
charged.
with
any such offenses.
In
this case has Europeans
were
charged,
with.
!
!
:
- with extorting money from & Chinamar under false presences & they
were
committed for trial and acquitted at-
the Sequeme Court. With Junks conding Hong Kong
way
reference to
on their
to the West boast and passing
to the southward of it, a sufficient.
may be obtained by a
audiver nиал
to the map
where it will be
reference to the
seen that a Jack on
way from Cantin to the West Coast must depart-
her
from her course about 40 miles to reach Houghing, which lies that distance to the Eastward of her track and therefore need not be passed
even
sighted by her at all. The
"
Native Ion which Mr. Matheson asserts
sprang up at Qumsing
:moon consisted
of
]
L
?
Board
of
Trade
E.L B
Freign
Vice
of a few that sheds; and what he has
ed as an Hotel and: Billiard
designated
rated
Room was a small boarded shed. I
am not aware that buildings of a
more substantial nature have ever
been erected there, or
that
any ships have auchored there save the Opium Receiving Ships, and those blippers
as
that supplied them with Opium, and remained only so long was necessary to discharge the
quantity to be delivered there.
The buildings mentioned
by Mr
Hatheson as havin been abandmed
having
were in the hands of the
private
proprieta's when he gave his testimony The house of Mr Mercer was deemed so unhealthy that no person could
!
be induced to reside in it, Mr. Mercer and several others having died from fever supposed to have been contracted
there.
Mr Antheson stules that he
Gad a serious consultation about
201
abandoning his property at Hong Kong
and removing from the Colony. It the lime when he gave this evidence Sardice Matheson sC = were hulding
magnificent dwelling house, costing about $30,000, since completed, in the ground. of which he speaks; this would
appear incompatible with contemplated abandonment of it.
Wr Matheson Mates that each Farmer.
keeps up & preventive device for more expensive than the Government rent, There are Hire Fanners, the Opinus Farmer,
все
the
Boat
of
Trad
E.1.
+
the Salt Farmer, and the Stone Farmer,
only
has a
olle
of
these, the Opium Farmer
ex
boxt for the protection of his Farm?
the boat inild also have been required
under mA
him to
acy
cucumstances le cuable.
convey to its destination Copium purchased at the farm.
The robberies alledged to have been committed by him will be
treated of hereafter.
Mr Matheson says that the
#
Opium Farmer owns whole streets
of houses which are rented as
Gan
Gaming.
"Houses se".
In the early days of the
Colony gaming
as they
houses ere tolerated.
are arou v Aux
were
Chmese
lities,
shough prohibsted by Law: Fray
bil
202
one who has passed through the suburbs
of bautou must trave observed that
gaming is there conandtex with
show of concealment. In 1844 however a Colonial Ordinance; Noth!
Searce
H
was passed enacting severe penallus
agamist gamblers; and there is not tong thong
PC
gaming house
known to the police. Since the nactment of the Ordinance I find ly afcrence to the Police Records that 1970 persons have been convicted under it. Mr. Mathesons assertions on thus head must be consequently
erroneous.
Six Solve Davis tord his watch..
Holon from live by me of his flimete
sewants; but it was not returned at
a.M.
!
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!
....
:
203
Board
of
Trade
E.L.F
yeig
b
18. The Opiume Farm did not
exist anhl the following year, 1843: see the date of the Ordinance.
The Opiums Farm was not the ruin of the European (there were
2. Europeans), who farmed it, indeed
by
Mr. Mattie sons Batement in
Yo 1949
Lie
was a arran without
capital and therefore had nothing
to lose
That he could get
redress from the Police Courts is also incorrect. In the Police Records Afered only 2 bases in which the European Farmer applied for the assistance of the
low to enforce thew rights; one is
she case
eade fore
B
forming appendix 4
already attended to. In the other
No. 1946
No 1989
Chinese was charged with retailing
License; he was
Opium without-a
convicted, and fined $50; on the
evidence of
one of the Furmers, and
others. Yet Mr. Matheson in No 1949.
gives a different account of the obstacles which led to the failure
of the speculation of these Europeans: but again
he affirms
in No 1950-
" that were these obstacles removed
the difficulties could remain .
Such obstacles alone
ivere
to account for the failure.
I am not aware that
1
sufficient
any persons
quolibeted by Government from
+
bringing provisions to Mr. Matheson . I think such a probubition in the
higlust degree improbable.
3
!
ו
Board
of
Trade
E.LB
ace
B
Thus
answer may
be preved
No 200€.
sucorrect. A very small proportion of the provisions consumed are produced in the bolny; therefpe
the price of provisions in - general
suust be necessarily
vily dearer
dearer than
at the place of production by the
cost of carriage. But Beef is a s
cheap here as at Macao; and
Mutton " cheaper than at either
Panton or
Macar:
сало
"This is quite a mistake ; the
Population in 1846 was 21,835
No 2003
1847
23.872
"Three of the Marker · licenses
No 2012
for 5 years, not for 1 year; the fourth
is for 1 year.
The Ordinance for licensing Serangs. No 2046
204
( 2013. of 1845. was not enacted to prevent sexmen from boarding shere they choose ; but to prevent persons from opening houses for the express purpose of boarding Seamen without- the kunoledge and recognition of
Government.
No 2043.
The fee
Vo 2045
No 2051
a
marriage, is $5 art.
and
$50, as M. Matheson affinus.
There is no
blugyman of the Cluich of England at Macas ;, threspe
· unless she parties were married after the customs of the country which does not appear to be Mr Mathesons
meaning they could aut be legally
married there.
No boat's are
are l
requned by the
:Registration Ordinance ($107 of 1846)
T
C
Board
of
Trade
EIB
eign
ice
B
to be Registered, excepting those plying for here
here in the waters of the belong,
ying passengers between the
Colony and the neighbouring pats.
is
not carrying
All trading vessels passengers, all fishing
free .
boats
I am not cuvare that any
attack has been made.
te are
such
No 2057
E
}
C..
To beatman that I am
arvare
No 2058
of has ever been flogged at Hong Kong
for being found without-a
Whew
pass.
robbers, and pirates.
, No 2073
gangs of robbers,
flocked to the Colony for the sole finspose of plunder, the Merchants (and those who have given bestimony
among
the number ) their persons and property being unsafe, were
205
the first to cry out for adoption of sturgent measures for protection, and to impute to the Colomal Authouties, unbocility,
and undue fear of responsibility, of the seventy they propounded was thought mexpedient. Mancy plans were devised to prevent the resort of Colony,
bandoned characters to the Colo
as the
· growing
wil was acknowledged
all, and that plan was adopted by all, and that plac
which appeared to combine the
greatest efficiency with the least- expense ; & method was also required to identify persons who had been
previously convicted of serious offences, as the features of the Chinese were found,
particularily at first, to be
very
defficult to recogniuge ; the mode of
vire
AVPUT
296
Board
of
Trade
.1.B
reign
vice
Be
L.
swearing
the hair presented an
obvious method which was taken
advantage of, and identity was
secured with disgrace indeed to the offender, but without bodily.
haire or lasting injury. Aboliwa
گار
it to be the most effective and merciful punishment that
could have been devised, and
that it has freed the belong
face auxiy
from: many notorious offenders.
It has never been inflected unless
for serious cume, a in cases
where unusual severity was
bring of the
accessary for the well Cununity: the fortowing List is extracted from the Record of Police
exing pom the
cases, commencing
side Appendie
establishment of a Police Court siv.
May
1841 . to the present time, and will show
at one view the extent of the punishment- and the nature of the crimes for which it has been inflicted. Sai
et been inflicted for
110 case has
now registration,
The punishment of shaving the head
has been adopted only cic cases colier the offender had been previously convictio
Mawass-
and was a notorious character. A must-
chief Magistine, be remembered too, that for a long
timme the powers of the Chief Magistrate
arrant.
1 0 0 1 0
necessarily very great; and that
being
the only
his bount
Court in
the
every case curl or comminal.
bolong, every
was brought for his decision. He was instructed and indeed obliged
aw most
cases however serious to decide summarily
E.11.
and?
i
Boar
of
Trad
E.I
and the difficulties and responsibilities
he thus incured were neither few
for
: liglet
the rest were refered
a similar summary decision?
M
to the Governor for the time being.
of the botony.
List of the number of Offenders
punished by Tail butting 157 Being for the following. Offences
بار
1! (Princy, robbery, burglary
and assault with
intent to rob. -
Q. Rist with others armed
3
Rogues
and v
vagabonds
possession of house :
breaking implements
offensive weapons re
///
3
!
:
Brought forward.
weapons se for felvicious purpose
4. Retailing spirits to solding
5
b
being unlicensed
Causing notions dings to-
be taken with intent to
do bodily harm
6. Holding an unlaufut
Assccubly (of Tread Society)
and demanding money
with menances.
7 Perpiny
8 B
in a public
Being found in
ganung of fine
house (m default.
Assault of police
297
44 457
$2
2
彡
12
in execution
of duty, in default of one 34,
کوک
Canned forward 224 457
for.
44457
Boa
of
Tra
208
Brought forward 224 457
10 Knowingly uttering
- feit coin (being also
counterfeit.
an idle and desordeeley -
persons
Laveen,
11 Larceny and knewengly
receiving Molcu goods.
-232
437457
2085
No.2090
The Appendix \ will show the
authruzed scale of fees levied u the Chief Magistrates Office from 1841 to 1847. A chinese tianslation of the table of fees is hung up in the waiting poses at the Qluef,
strates Court and a notice,
Stiageshi
also in Chinese,
Chinese, is annexed to the
Table, purporting that these fees are
Not 2084
oba
No 2106
not extacted in Criminal cases, or in
bint when the plaintiff is tos poor to
hay, and
requesting
suites to
pay
them, when demanded, into the hands of the European apponted to recouver them, and not to à Chinaman, in
order to prevent extortion. By the appondise it will be observed that the first table of fees, was in force only froue Souciary to July 1844.
I have
MEVA-
heard of such
M
case as this M. Matheson says it is 'n matter of aretruely (ane No 2002) yet he does not particularze : the
afsertion is to the best of my behef
117
er rou e cud.
he not
Salt- though
not landed at Hong
Kong in any quantity is frequently
not-
sold
Boa
01
Tra
sold there several English vessels have brought cargoes of salt from the Exst
beast of China, and sold them in
thus belony . An English. Muchaus
is at present pauctionbally engaged
in the Salt Grade here
It is Acited that the Auction
Duty prevents damaged goods aneving
ships being landed at trong Hong fu sale by Auction. A apperidité A in Sex : 2 of the supplementary muintes of Connoil will be found
au exemption from Auction Duty in
#
fawn of goods damaged by shepurch Hus exemption has been invariables construed to extend to all goods damaged by salt-waters; and
Jardine Matheson Hb: have been
No 2113
Yo 2127
et seg:
extensive vendors of such
such good
زمل
209
the
assections of Mr. Matheson cannot
The value of Goods
therefore be correct :
sold at Auction in 1847,
duty
wluchi no
تجھے کہ
was payable. , amounted to £23154. ared of those subject to the duty P10200
The Government has never levied
Lab
, a derived any revenue whatwer
from places of ill fame. In the
consequence of the
ear 18/15, in const
year
mereasing prevalence of disease and sive in that part of the Sown called Txi : ping : shan, which has been
notorious sunce the establishment
of the Colony for deeds of riotsuce and
violence
disorder, it was considered
ly
some
persons desirable, either to endeavour
to drive away altogether the Females
ex:
who
Boa
of
Tra
E.
|
who pursued their wretche vocation in that locality, and who formed the principal part of its inhabitants,
or lo devise some means for the
Shey
amelcoration of their condition. first resorted to boats; but it was then
found that munders were
and detection more than
frequent,
ever
difficult. A design was formed
volunteered:
of establishing a Sock Hospital which the Colonial Surgeon to attend. The prostitutes raised
by mouthly subscriptions (the
ANVIO.
mount of which was fixed by themselves) the requisite funds
for Medicines, Chinese Dockers, Watchmen; Nurses &, and hired buldings for Hospital . The subscuption
air
Wad
300
was collected and managed by themselves, under the Superintendence of the Colonial Surgeon, Dr. Dill : the Government had
further concems with it ; of these facts been coguizaut;
Mr Matheson must have been
they
were all known to numbers of
persons, and were adverted to in the Olina Mail of May 22 1845 Nott.
nd
he was also aware that the probily
admit of
of Dr sill was too well known to
the supposition that he would have leut himself to any
scheme of the kind, had he not been persuaded of its utility. I know that-
Dr sills avotive was most benevolent,
He is dead, He would have been able thus subject...
to furnish full details on
After this measure had continued
in
2
יו-
PRINTA
ᅡ
1
Boa
of
Tra
E
301
in operation for two mouths, it was deemed proper, in consequence of
: malicious reports, put forth, exaggerated.
and distorted by the Edito's of local '
newspapers, to discontinue to
countenance et; several persons visited the houses of ill fame for the express pecpose of eliciting. from the wonnen all the information
that could be obtained, and the
kuowledge
thas
plus derived came from
living under the protection
of Europeans, and who particularly
belonging
objected to certain bothels bele
to them being subjected to Medical examination. I am informed that she prostitutes still support the Hospital thus established, and
that-
No Wo
No 2204
that a private European practitioner
attends it:
Mr Matheson paid no Police.
Rates . In consequence of the distance of the Establishment of Jardine Matheson $ 6. . from the Town of Picciria proper, and the number of private watchmen there, it was exempted from payment of Police
ear) 1848.
Kate until the present year
The Farmer by but Aquits retros
any vessel without
any
wanaut 9905 "t
2205 A
pass is not required " 2210 I shuck it it an abuse " 2211 " not sauctioned by laie yet 2912 the Government clothes num
his
#
with authority to board vessels, it is : puvilege as fanner _. The fact is that a fanner could never
a part of his
bound & vessel without a special
legally bourd a
Manaut -
*S
Gaia
!
i
Board
of
Trade
E.L.I
Freig
fice
Wanaut. See clause 6 of Regulations.
· Xppendix B
Goods are cons
constantly
landed at Hong
No 2311
Hong, and warehoused there.
The best explanation of this is the
I
case itself as contained, un apsi
ever
peceded B. This is the only exse of aileged abuse we brought agruist the opum Fanner. The Captans was not fined, but the Attorney for the defendants threatened hum
with a
Civil prosecution for false
imprisonment.
The defendant
were tried at the Supreme Court -
and acquitted ; they affirmed that the charge had been falsely
made
by a comprada named
Wong Asoo, otherwise Lin tin Jack
in
No 2337
6718
50 2340
No 2369
302
in the imploy of Sardine Matheson =
The Merchants seem to have strangely
supposed that Aqui was the Opicor "
Farmer, whereas Attai was the famed
and Aqui simply me of the sureties for the payment of the licouse duty.
Itus policoman; paid by the farmer, was allowed by the Government under the quipressions that he would effectually check ingularites.
lacities on the part of the
farmer, and he was provided with copy of the printed Regulations
The
incorrectness of this has been
before show.
may
The value of Mr. Matheson's evidence
be tested by companson of his statements when actuated by conflicting interests . This comparison is afforded
in
다
1
1
Board
of
Trade
E.L.F
fice
¡
in some degree by No 1943 already
commented upon, in which it is said.
that Hong Kong "would inevitably have become a place of great trade
← see below) and the statements on
is
p: 385. where in a
Att
from letter proue Sardine
Matheson 16: 4 others, Hong Kong is represented as totally without.
#
Courmerce to be held rather as a
Military and Naval station than
place which under any "'encumstances can be expected
%
To possess
an extensive Trade
.
If further Mr Matheson's brilliant. statements of the natival
as a
advantages of Stong Hong place of Trade, such as at No
1943, that nothing
can exceed the
303
advantages of its harborse. It would
"be
a cential point for the whole whaling
" hade in the Pacific as well as
for the
" general commerce of the East ranging " from Singapore to Ixpan, and thence " a long the West coast of America to " Cape Now including our Australian " Colonies, the Phillipines, Sumatra,
"Savo so; x
M
сер
export for Sugar, Cassin,
· Camphor, to wluch
of
maxy
becomes
one mest flourishing as well
" as valuable possessions se be · compared with the statement of Mr. Montgomery Martin No 34908 "Hong Kong.
rrever
• could become a Commercial Dopôt
- it is insectable for a Colony" "Hotally
inefficient for the protection of Trade
#
a uretched spot No 3909 "no Depôt
ad:
ند
Board
of
Trade
E.L.F
pice
" is likely to be formed at Hong Kong
" for the purpose of canying on trade "
"410
3993.
"there
never has been
a.
respectable in habitant on the Island
ajes
in noon he proposes to constituite
them
" indeed is delusion or a
304 deception to talk
of stong King becoming a Commucial "Emporium", and so forth, - such
conflicting declamations unsupported by facts are valueless.
the Clinese inhabitants
No 2871
whom there never was as
among
respectable person, a petty Bench)
et seg:
also at page
1152. "Whatever braide
" will be cavied on here suust be
" brought by adventitions occurustarices
" and will last a cease accor
se according
to
乡
" accident .
" Hong Nong has nothing
کھو مجھے
" in its position to concentrate. "Commerce", "There does not
appear "the slighest probability that under "any discumstances Hong Kong would " ever become a place of Trade, It is
indeed
Mr. Smith here
asserts,
that the
opnine farmer and his partner
are the only opulent Chinese settlers, and that they obtained then wealth at Hong Mong
there
A ve v C i lo
aud in No 2872. that
opulent Chinese before
the opinn farmer. As all the other Witnesses appear to have been under the impression that Acquis was the spium Farmer, et
may reasonably be presumed such was also Mr Smiths impression . "Here
therefore
:
}
¦
Board
of
Trad
ELF
reig
fice
therefore i
we have a sequence which
nust seem manifestly
-manifestly inconect
every person who resided in the
Colony previous to the establishment
of this Farme, voz. that Néqui
became opulent only after such
establishment, which wasio
July 1845. The fact in question
AS
of sanatt simportance, but she little dependence to be placed
on such evidence is shown
ly
this and numerous other
instances that must occurs to
every attentive reader of the.
minutes.
"Lung Afå spoke with great No 2876
indignation of the textment to
which he was exposed at Ang-
"Kong,
be
305
did not apply it to the Police:
" altogether", he was ne
nearly
ruvover
ly
" a horse wantonly, this seems suall evidence on which to form an opinions of the misconduct of the Police . Ine opposition to all the assertions of the inefficiency of the Police, we find in page 427 Sii Solin Davis speaking of it as a
body
whose
efficiency
has bee
#
lly admitted; and whose
"generally admitted;
0
Juretection few are wewwitting
enjoy:
No 3387
I should
sa
to
say that the driving
"away of respectable Chinese is
"attubutable chiefly to the Police."
No 3388
"We have
rever
had any
respectable Chinese in the Island,
Mong
This
"this is only
one
of many such
contradictions. No Chinese of a
Board
better class
of
Trade
E.L.F
reig
Lace
than
present
shoptexpers have ever · migrated
r
to she belong, but these remain
is
with us, therefore it it to be enforced
that sheni pemaining is profitable
to themselves.
3 3
Invertlict that Investigated $10.9991
this case to the best of my
ability
but I cannot find any note of it among the Police Records. A
conclude it was not of sufficient.
consequence to be recorded. It is
pincorrect to
say
su
Aliat monotic
was taken of it. If the Comprada was reprimanded I must have considered him deserving of the
re
Nos 3639
3645
No 3661
reprimand, and in such
M
306 acase the
opinion of the . Magistrate would seem
preferable to that of a prejudiced person.
Adequate resour
remuneration was given to these, as can be proved by the
Records in the Land Office. The object- of the removal was to secure a
great
Public benefit by the improvement of the central part of the Town in
health, appearance and rest: ctability.
The measure was
s generally
approved of by the residents; and-
011000111
say
with brush that
the expected benefits have not been fully realize.
This is incorrect. Chinese shopkeeper
are more numerous, and their shops
are much better stocked than formerly:
but
Boat
of
Trad
E.L
Frei
but few Chinese Houses and those
in bad situations are do let, and
anany
aune have been built and
recupied since Mr Scots
gave his testimony. : and it may be added that some wild speculators have over built, and the absence of profit by this act of felty induces
them to cavil at and find fault.
with Government.
sny
M: Scott is the only person to
knowledge,
1, who ever discovered
such a
prejudice; if Registration be highly offensive to them and repugnant to their prejudices / M : Gibb 732 says that Chinamen " have not the slighest objection" "to Registration)) then must the
laws
No 3668
307
laws of bluna be likewise so; for Stanton's penal code of China Title
Fiscal Laws pp. 79. 80.81-
Registration
rules will be found munch mine
shringent than
any
enacted here.
No 3646 Sec 7344 as to the object of Registrations
Vo
No 3684 No person has been punished to
my
" Kunoledge by corporal punishment-
This has been already proved
" for simply
MOU M
registration)"
No 3689
they
incorrect -. If Mr Scott Secu
saw these
probably felons under
sentence by the Supreme Court;
men
whose hair is cut close shaved
or
by prison regulations ; and in
Such case
on their
they could not have been
way
to the flogging post;
as the punishment of Flogging
has
not-
1
Boar
of
Trad
E.L
Fei
not at all
any
time been inflicted by
the Supreme Court.
I never heard of this case: the
No 3699
however
facts linvever can be readily
ascertained in England by
reference to the then Registrar,
V
Professor
of Chinese in Kings College London
Mr Fearow, who is arow
e
Mi case bière
eferred to witt be
Yo 3701
3702
found as appendido &.. The facts relative to the Inquest these.
are
The Corner, who was invitediately afterwards dismissed for his misconduct, sureptitionsly obtained the depositions before Magistrate, read parts of them to the Jury, and commented
the M.
in abusive terms on the conduct-
of
308
of the Magistrate. I belive the
- proceedings the Inquest were also.
021
published in the Friend of China
he ver
newspaper verdict of the Eng
given under the directions of the berma was clearly contrary to evidence), and was quashed; as I am informed, on that account. The Gadge
daid
that he reversed the sentence of the
Magistrate in the ground that for
the offence in question
question a punishm : of 14 days imprisonment (without- labes! or a fine of $10 was provided
by
Colonial Ordinance. No th of 18475
Sex: 12, and that consequently any excess of that punishment was illegal.
The Magishate urged.
02.1
the
other
J
!
:
T
Boaf
of
Tra
other side that the offence did not-
come within the meaning of the
Colonial Ordinance, as it was
ananifestly a case of felonious possession provided for ly
IV. § 83. μder which the
prisoners were
5 900.
wrs wvère punished, and
:
that the Colonial Ordinance) was
not intended to apply to cases of
The Attrinicy General
this nature. The
was then absent; but the present Acting Judge, who arrived
subsequently and acted a s Attorney Gew, has supported the Magistrate's opinion), and
he Magistrate by his advice the M
has continued to apply the
English Act of Parliament,
not with.
· "7
No 37766
No 37.36
309
notwithstanding the decision of Judge Huline. Mr Scotts authoilies for
These misstatements are microspapers
and a letter!
The only Farms that exist aro those abrendy mentioned, and they
are sold by Auction?.
by
These assertions have been refuted
abvie. There being to Markets held
by different persons there ancest
probably be computition".
wtition. Gloverun
would also have added be the
de
number of Markicts if such
extension
avere desired, and
persons were found witting to accept-
the management
Aenus.
e
No 3739
Ion
on reasonable
This is a most unfounded assertion,
the
310
Boa
of
Tra
E.
The nature of the Fat has been
already explained).
The feet on the Registratio
of bouts are fixed by schedule ly
Ordinance So 7 of 1846, and an as
4 5998
follows,
Large Mst-beats
Middle size Dr.
$10 pan:
کرد
*
3
Smalt
Do
50
Sam paus
i
General
Vo 3907
"I think the Atorney
and myselfre" this a most
crroneous statement.
Mr. Martin here evidently confounds the Ordinance for the
Society
the Grind rever
suppression of the Friad,
^
enforced, with the Registration
Ordinance; the proposition of branding
on
No 37475
No 4002
on the check had
with Registration
not seem to be
no connexion whatever
Mr Martin does
aware that British
Soldiers are Fundied for desection)
tions are folatly
These assertions
are
opposed to facts Security of life and
property has wilimut doubt increased.
and in histound there is
nothing-
to complain of in this respect.
If the Municipal system
of Clima be perfect, how is it that the Impure, and the province of
Riwang Sung
·
in · particular, is
infested by bands of robbers. In the neighborhood of banten they
known to plunder in open day,
x70
and on
The West Coast they
daring .
are even
There it is a constant
J
.
:.
Boa
of
Tra
E.!
DE CUVIence
that houses and more
frequently paunbrokers shops are
robbed of a large ausount of property by gangs of pobbers who set the
Inshorties at defiance.
Ivese are
the mistatements.
that have chiefly
attracted
my
have been
notice : doubtless many
passed by . The evidence abounds
with contradictions.
In venturing
to make these
observations, I evould not be supposed
to give it as
my
opinion
that all..
the assertions of so many witnesses,
with some of whom I was on towns of intimacy, and whom I always
considered honorable men, are
entirely groundless ; probably many
abuses
- abuses existat that have escaped my
311
notice; all that I urge is, that there has been such exaggeration, that these measures have been adopted-
for the general welfare, and protection
the inhabitants, with good faith
of
and the best intentions; that I
leave striven to the utmost of any
fiviver, and I can say the same
of all the Officers of my
late Depart:
ment, as well as of others of the Government, de rectify way
Heat has come
abuse
to
my
snowledge.
jand
that I leave always head, and
continue to have épite of much
calculated to abate
my
ardour, Mie most earnest desire for the prosperity of
the bolony; believing that by forwarding.
ی است
the
I
Į
!
the interests of the Colomists I shall
best fulfil the biomos able trust that-
Bo
has been reposed
Tri
in
me vos one
one of.
>
it's chief Officers, with love to her
anost Gracions Majesty, and to
the satisfaction of any
conscience,
do:
Wlonial Funding
点
:
in 855. A kory / Chinia)
312
Chief Magistrati: (ffien 204 April 1846.
e
Before the Chief Magistrot . Case Nr 286..
Ayaong.
RECORD
boatman in the employ
Opium Parmer. Le
9
X 2 Tohing, dr:,
·2.
Zut.
Nney to
Atai, de Jung Atai, di Ison-
Acharng. To and Se Kohup, des charged with robbery with arms in the Harbor of Victinid=
Luis Barretto Broom states. I am clerk
board to Romanjee Hormnajie in behol Mess Jardine Matheson
On Friday lask
147 lipid the 174 Instant about 2 Offleck, the bout of
prisoners
Came
had
alongside with two other Mines to purchase ofinem. & Amall just whiel bet been anchored actern of the ship.
got under weigh
لیے قمر السلام
-igh and steered for the opposite
Shore- the two inen
men were
by prisoners who imme
the Surall junk.
Ship
chase
left on board the thi diately went in oben Esaw her chreing
Qui
***
1:
313
+
small
"
not see
Idis
clothing.
junk over to the bowling shore. Std any thing of an attack or pobbery....
board
About 5 öfleck, two Chinese came on, the ship and reported that the small jantl had been robbed by the prisoners boot the beerved prismers boat
next morning
of the Romanje
ajie lent
the shore at for- Korn for, and the maste sent his boat and brought her alongside the ship . Specognized the prisoners to be the men who were in her the day before. they were afterwards delivered to the police - Ido not know why the
over -
k r k w
small junk,
row away
when
they saw prisoner
boat, but I imagine through fear of being Aqueezed. the best wa
the Bomenje
5
passed
Reized as she found
on her way from Bor-Mer for to the town - Ro the prisoners bout belongs to Aqui of the opium farm. Dimmaginét tel
the
men
of the junk
Know whether an
perc
that
afraid. I do not
any of the Stobe property Chasing
Chao.
found. I saw Cherny beze branching the prisoners boat ._ The broker named des
Pintin
Dack tolk
120
that the
11. had been robbed
w junk
of three pistole, a piece of craps, and some
clothing
i
he did not state the amount of loss.
( Signed, Luis Barretto
Charry beze sworn status. I came here on last to purchase a chest of spinum. I board the Bomanjee by the broker
-Spitay last.
was taken
in
• Aoor, and paid for
told Shad
7214
to go
one
chest of Malwon. Kerr
to the opposite show in the
and
jurna
engaged. promised to send the
Opiner to me
Iwa-
in another boat. As I was under
weigh, the prisoners boat chased me and brands
my junk when I
I got to the opposite show. My
robbed me of 12 covide of crope, 6 pieces of Clothing 3 cloth pockets, & pistole, 3 pairs of large basket, all valued about.
shoes, and one
fifteen dollars. =
Ka
( The witness being a Ho Ke mar,
finde diffiently in understanding him, and Len Asher is called to interpret.)
The property
junk by
was taken on shore from the
me and my
zuen,
and we
were
followed by the prisoners on shore and the
articles taken from the prisoners to Agoing and
shore. Precognise
and Le Achup whe
took
3
took the articles from is, the other prisoners were with them. the articles were all put in a
basket and carried by Young Acharng
t
Bo
if my
Firen
the
prisoners did not attempt to
beat no. I do not mean to
Day
that the
prisoners branded the junt at all. lifter the
returned b
を
property, they
went
prisoners took on Monghong and Jand
my
Znen
to Cowloong - The boat dengaged.
ver
le serall fishing boat belonging to Cirling,
She had
of
Ну а что
M
by
Isung Charry
s. W
bond...
sworn states - Pam servant
the last witness. Frame over
over with himm
帆
Friday lost to purchase opium. we paid the
money
the
to the booker and went over to the
to the opposite
ед
shore in a bout we had engageds are observed prisoners boat in chase and as soon as got on shore, the prisoners all jumped
We
on shore and chased
10
-
Bcarried a large basket with clothes and other articles which
was taken from Iwas obliged to drop
it
I was chased, I did not see who took it _ the prisoners said they wanted to search
So you
episom.
314
for emuggled s firm, and if we would not let them see, they would kill us.
no and
до
on
we ran away.
this
frighten
the prisoners did not
board the bout, they did not offer to
Assault no.
they
were all armed. (Corrobonatio the last evidence as to the articles lost).
Wharng Asze being
Asze being questioned states.
The next morning when prisoners bout brought to the Romanju,
her, but could not
was
Iwent and searched
find any of my property.
Case remanded._
Aigned, W. Cand
2.12.r. April 184. Case resumed.
-
Fam.
Chern Yoong chan sworn states - I am
a husbandman at Cheem sha teori- On-
17th. Iwas at work about
or u
the
the
about this
time ( the watch being looked at, it is to fact 12.) when four or five
paseed
me at th
distance of about 200 Croids. Isen abent
or
twenty
other
Nun
following them with men ran off acro
fifter the first four or five
Arms.
айо
315-
T
༣ ་༤
Bo
C
the others followed. I saw two of the.
take
up
A
Iner
basket which the other men
dropped, and returned towards the beach. Seould not recognize any of the
Cannot de
whether the prisone I
the number . I think Jean
-
rner.
تم مجھے دے مجھے
Recognize
the
Complament - The distance from the beach
to where the basket-
dripped
Wis
bout
where I
the distance from the Magistraef, w. ben now, to the Queen's Road. Sar a bout
lim
-near the
the beach but could not day scription of best it was. I did not see
either
land from any
party not count the
New
in
others. but I believe they
number._
here
Veung Moze
he
were going
farm boat.
over.
landed
we
were
chased by the
on the opposite shore,
and the boatinen landed with arms ands
chased
A12
it was then about
bear
recognize the prisoner Achup as one of the
who chased
men who
them. Sand
A
A basket conta
no,
there
were
about ten of
Carries
man named Le Aven carrit clothes, shoes and three
ertaining
pictole which
we
dropped
A.
we wer
running
away and the prisoners took it away with
what de.
them and
land
on
bout
new,
bost-Idid
pinenit of the
farm
but when
were about 20 in
we
sworn states - Sam servent
we come over
in the employ of Complainant,
the rifth to purchase opium. A broker board of an English ship when
took us on
my master paid for
¦
told
ns
to
до
one.
abeat the brother over to the opposite shore
And he would send the opium aften
us
Jan.
2
we did not
the
breakfast.
gave up pursuing the opposite to get away from
but to get
out
eve saw them land and chase us.
take our property.
they said
said they would take our,
Le Asen sworn states. Iam servent
over
in the employ of Complainant - Same vou with
master from Cowloing
17th
on the 17/04 board
Aw
my my to buy opium - we were taken on English ship by a brows Neer, and my master purchased
chest of Malin -
broker
Ame
The booker said that the people of the ship
were too busy to give us the Opium
n thea
but
Bo
0
Tr
!
:
!
i
but told no to go
to the opposite shore and wait there as he would send the opine
we neared the shore, we
tone. ho
the opium farm beat following
hve
landed the men
observed
10.
after
of the Jarm bout landed
we
told them
said if we did not
we
habe
give it
a.
afraid
with arms and said they wanted to search no for smuggled opium, none, and they up, they would murder us- we were and van away leaving a basket containing Mother and other things behind which Jand the last witness had been
4 been carrying - boatmen took to their boot- there were about
this, the
20 of them. Scould not recognize any of them. this took place shortly after the midth of the
Wong
caine to
Asor
moun
the day
sworn states - The Complement the 17th Instant to bery opeinen. Stook him on board the Bomanjee, having tried the opium, settled and paid chest of Malwa ._ The Complained
for
one
lee, and
said he would not take the opium
that
1
day, but that he would come the next
4 day
1
for it - he then got his boat under
weigh
at
- at this time, the opium farm bout
Came
316
along.
- side the Bomanjer to buy a cheet of opium .
As soon be the men saw the Complainents bost, went in chase of her... The officers of the Ship acted me
if the Complainants had ang
they
thing in their boot, I said they had not. They
over to the opposite shore. This
chased the bout
was about 3 P.M. A little before 4 P.M., the Complainant the opium farm boat men
inant came
again t
to me and said that had robbed him
Sreported
vous clothes and other article. Preppe the circumstance to the Captain of the Romanje- and the next morning
ners were
morning as the prisone
A s
passing in the boat. the Captain Lad her Seized. Sacted
Interpreter to MiCoater the Master of the Bimanje. the Complainant searched the prisoners boat when the workingen. but did not find any thing. The priorners all denied having robbed the Complementin
Lum Apoor proen states. I am a bration On the 17th Instant the Complement and four other mon
bout at Cowberry engaged my to bring them to Wonghing - they told me &
i
J
I
Bo
0
Tre
i
317/
+
!
до
to East Point
and
alongside of a lost which they pointed out - A man went on
R an longlish ship will them where the Complaiment paid for a Chest of opinem - the Complainant
kn
told
INI
to sail over to the opposite
was tri
Captain of the ship him the opium then. I got tailed across, a fact boat with me, she had five Ilanded the five
AA
Defence
The prisoners being asked how
bend
to
earry
the-
busy to give -
weigh.
under
sailed in
or six
In en
tw
and
company
pulling,
men at Cheem sha trooi
and the fact boat which was in company
with
bay
me, went sound a small point into a where Handed and I lost sight
near W
of her, I then went back to Cowlsong.
could not recognize
recognize the bout again.
I know that the prisoners
her. The five
ren
were
the
not de
inen
whom I carried over,
had a booklet containing
And two or
come clothes
ето
We sailed
three small gins- together. No words passed between the men in the two boats. If any word had passed Imust have heard them, she did not - chase but went abreast of no.
no
on
they
wich
their defence, state that they wish
the prisoner. Lo A yerng to speak for third Me... 6. Motorgung appears on behalf
P. Metorquey
of the prisoners..
As Againy
он
etates. I and the other prisoners
are in the employ of the Opinion Farm - On the 17th Instant, we trok hos Chests of Patna to East Duit to deliver to a salt junk - afte
we went
doing so.
alongside the Bonangel with two Clerks from the Sharon to purchase a chest of Malira Opium, we observed four
ven
with two brokers.
board the
five Bomanje bargaining for Opium . the mon
went into their boat and sailed
we had not
away.
we
gone very
inspected her of having smuggled opium, and went in purenit, for when an English beat fout off from the Bonangel ofthe no-fering
the Captain of the ship would be angry with us for giving chase to a bout that had been alongside his Ship, we gave up the Chase and steered
for
the
H
:
Bo
Tr
i'
t
י.
t
the Opin Parm in the Lower Ragner which we
Bazaar
reached at /1⁄2 past 3 P... our bout is a small fact bost . The next morning having been to the temple of
Soo-Koon-pro, hailed
to and
we were re
ere returning
us and told
to
when an Eaglish beat
Co me
they ordered no to
the Bomanjee -
deck and our
We knew it was
to.
we
did
go alongside
the Captain ordered us on brat
was no use
was Kept alongside .
to refuse,
as the
lish boat would have seized
English
boat
was searched all over
數
Ohr
by Complainent
and some of the sailors of the ship... Any opinion is that the broker Wong Nem- who deals in opium with bratmen, has brought this charge against
do
And
away
st no so as to
with the Opium Farm Guard beeb
bout
in
thereby enable him to sell opium= small quantities with impunity. - We
board the Ship until
were detained on
about four oflock when some policemen come and took charge of our boat.
had
breakfact that
not allowed to
laccar
move
morning до go into
.
our
tu pa
are
were
boat.
ded no, and when we mond
For lassers guarded
موقر
318
again...
The...
to walk, they pushed no back English best contained seven- Enghit Mon-
Signed, Se Ayarny
Case remanded . -
(Signed, W. Maine-
22.08. April 1846.
Case Mr 2860 resumed.-
Luis Barretto is called and
states. A Brother Lintin Dark
a
A questioned
Who
moking
some
bargain with Complainant to sell him so opium . I supposed it must have been for one cheet as we do not allow any quantity lis
Chest to leave the ship. The opine
than one
not sold to Complainant, he did not pay for it.
Joan
culy suppose
that they
went
lar
77 from fear of the Shard Boat - The prisoners
bout some alongside the Bomanje to punchner Opium. Ketween one and two oflock, they left two mene on board to buy the opium. Isaw the prisonus the bows of the Complainant's Coats- I did not see theme board her. The opporternity
boat
was
cross the
favorable if they wicked to board her. &.
}
2
Bo
0
Tra
14.
next morning Frok
Pack
the Complament and Lintin
been
came on brands, and Complainant stated through Linton Dank that his boat had bew boarded by the Crew of the Dast boat. About sent from the Bomanje
8 block a bout
was sent
to seize the prisoner's boat by orders of Motectin
Crew
mew, and the Sunner
Edward Crates, the master. The boats
convicted of six Manila- of the ship who steered her. Mr Coates told the Gunner to
seize the boat and
да
and
bring her alongside, which he did. As soon as the Bunner got alongside the Past Boat, he
on
the crew
went
were detained
board of her and conducted her to the ships.
of the Past Boat were ordered on -.- deck of the Romanje. and detained on board by Captain Conté's orders. They from 8 Oflock in the morning nutil about 21/1⁄2- when policemen The ship's boat was . under command of Francis Seers the Cunner, It was through the interpretation of Linten Suck and Afron that I understood the Complément had
said that his boat had been boarded.
wen lame.
The Complainant searched the price and bout. but I am not aware
that.
any of the property
said
319
said to have been stolen, was
found
[n]
bound of her.
(Signed) Luis Barretto
Wong King sun sworn states. On co-
the 1st- Instant Incent in priorner's boat to a Sunt at too. Koon - po and delivered two chests of - Opinn toker .. "We then went alongside the Romanjee, and I and another
deck to purchase
man went on
a chest of Maliva. It
was then
very long
towards the
about 3 oflook. Thad not been on board when Sobserved the Past Boat cailing Lower Regani. At about 4 o'block I left the Romangue with a chest of opium, and when I
arrived at the opium Farm, the prisoner's boat was anchored there ._ When the fast bout, first left the Bomanje, her hedd was in the direction of Cheem the terri, but she afterwards turned towards the Lower Bazaar - Idid not observe
other boat
netr
the
aay
the priemer's boat, but as
towards the opposite
was
sailing
prisoners bost show, an Auglisch bost put off
the-
from
about &
Boncengur after her... When the fact boat gelaten, half carofs," the changed her course and soild
thaight
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straight for the Lower Bazaar. The ship's
سر
bout seeing
her alter her
course, returned to
the ship. When I returned to the Farm.
Aaw the prisoners in their boat. I did not
Speaks to them. _ They
must have been at anchor
some time as the Mat awnings
were al
Spread out - Under the circumstance of the direction the fact boat book, I should consider half an hom
to the Lower Bazmer.
a good passage
The could
I do not think the Opium Farmer would. Keep the prisoners in his employ if he e not trust them.
( Signed, Mong thing bun
Amoon sworn states . Sam
Lerng Amon
a
Verry-brahman - On the 17ft Instant about to pact 3 oflock. Swas
ar
my way from bout
Cast Print to the town when prisoners
overtook
me,
Ave
Kept company
until
we
came to the Mentral Market where Sparted
and the prisoner's boat continued
Company, and the
in the direction of the Lower
the Lower Bazaar.
overtook me
about 100
the
yards from the
"Bomanje" on the bowtrong side, but new
nearer
towarder.
towards the town. (Witness is requested
320
point a distance . He does so, which in the
opinion of the thief Magictiole is 400 Garde Ipict thered the firiemner's boat alongside the Bomanje. Idid not see her chase any
Paid boat. I did not as the Complain a até brat, or
the prisoners.
any bout
nar
(Signed)
Complament acts no
Wern Ayon
Sworn,
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Y
Witress track.
Witnesses
questions of the britious
stater. Iwas
from Cheem the terri in
in my
returning
my Perry bout on
the 17th. Instant - As about & past 5 when I had got half, wng acresß
way
far-
the harbor,
seiling
s
in the
I met the prisoners boat which was up the harbor towards the Lower Bazaar. I first saw the Fast boat sailing direction of Cheem sha teori . Then she had got half way across, the altered her and sailed up
the harbor, and shortly after
we met together. There
sailing
near
were
about, but I did not observe
Course
plenty of boats
acy
sailing
in
the prisoners' boat, as the was
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of
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in the direction of them sha koi. Swan-
Į
soning from the opposite shore. the prisme,
boat did not touch the opposite shore. If
she had. Imust have seen her .-
(signed) X
Witness Marth.
Compleuvent states. On the
the morning of
the 18th Iwent on board the Head Salt- - weighman's Boat at Cast
Boat at Cast Point to see if I
could get any tidings of my property . Que
Į
of the
bound told
men
on
не
:
firefer to the
Achaong is called into Const; Complaines Cart page.
states that he is not the
had
money
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any thing
been taken from
me.
MAI
an)
that if .
I
else, it would have
Ireported this to the
Captain of the ship. Dould not recogings
the
man
again
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Signed) Witness Mark
Case remanded._
Aignet, W. Caine.
April
April 23rd 1846.
Case Mr 286. resumed.
Jee
321
Richert Edward Coates enron, stabil Dam the Commander of the Bomongue Hormigue On the afternoon of Friday last the 17th when I came
board the ship, Lintin Duck pointed out to me the boat of Nequi in chic
of another Chinese trat - They
on
were within
chass
about forty fathoms of each other. Acqui = boat troying to "out off" the other. that is not sailing directly after her. Splaced a Lascai to watch their motions, and went to dinner.-
After dinner, the prosecutor and others camer on board, and stated that the prisoners hat robbed them. They said that they has
with a
escaped
portion of the articles in their boat, but that the prisoners had plundered a part- of what remained on board . The proecutor that he had fought with one of the prisoner.
that morning. Svow the trat (boquié) pass the ship. Isent
bij
to call her
my
alonguide Fordered the Aren on deck. Frone of the Chinaman
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Boare
of
Trade
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examined the boat. Swent to Mr Matheson
who advised me
Luestioned
to apply to the Police offin.
stioned by Mr. McSwyney. Attorney
for defence. -
Sunew that the
one
bout was chasing
view
the other becauce having from my fixt on of them judged that they
they were.
Ssubsequently
by
saw the pursued boat alter her
course
steering more in shore, and a corresponding deviation made by the
by the purening best. Whit
Confirmed
me
in m
my
opinion.
bout, which
Swich to and that Mr. M. Gregor the
Inspector of Police told me
a person then in his
on
custody
that he had the stolen goods.
and the
Monday that
had
confessed
mentioned
were commined by the Chief Magistrate in
this point )
The boats were near enough at first to
Glas
be seen without the aid of a Spy bless.
Signed, Pellatio Rebates.
Francis
Francis Seers eworn-
322
Gunner of the
Bonenje Kommige (unimportant).
-
Lo Awae. (Witness for the defence ) - Accountant at the opiner Farm. I have know the prisoner six Months. From the paper which I now produce. (produced) Sam of opinion that opium is sold
board the Bonanjer Hormuaji :
in smaller quantities thaw
one
chest. The i
paper allerded to is to the purport that
curable
opium is procura
and that 20 or 30 men
In
good
board the above ship,
should club together to
Chest as they
purchase a. Chest
by retail.
Prieb.
cannot purchase
(Signed) Lo Aren
The Risoners
are committed for
(Signed) C. B. Hillier
•
Assistant Magistrate of Vokie
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of
Trade
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Friefen & Pes 18.
Tuesday 28th April 1996.
Before the Chief Magistrate..
Examination of Chaong Acheong relative
to his teowledge of the property said to have been stolen in Case ho. 286.
states In
Angl. M. Greger dispector of Sibie sworn sequence of information resived I went to the defendant Chaung Acheong's bout Sunday the 17th That at about & ifleck and
acted him ift de tinew where the property which had been stolen from the Compt Chaong Aeze in the above case was-
be said it was not in
his boat but that he would go and show
board my book
to the town I acted him
where it was.
he then
and on our way
where La.
was going.
Le ther
be this caid he did
not know any thing about the property-
in
con
Le spoke to
me in
good English.
3: sequence
323
of his prevarication I derved it right to tatte him into custody and
bail for
afterwards look his appearance in the Sum of $250.
(Ligen) &. dr. Berzer
Sederick Hoods sworn states. I was in
company with Mr. M. Inger on Sunday the
19th and when he went on
much on board
board defendant
سنگ
Chaong Acheong's boat & followed keine - he acted defst if he had the I pistols, and
wearing apparel.
apparel on board his book which
Lad been tatter from another boat. the
offth laid in broken English that the property was not on bourd his book but that he would go with him and
and show him - he came into the boat which we had
the
and Mr. Mr. Fregor
Site Suger then went alongside th
Bomanjes" with refst I do not know whather defôt showed M. M. Gungor the property or
noh.
(lyn) Suswick Word..
Defendant
F...
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dant stakes. Where the Inspector
(Defenda
fendant
Cave
board of my book he acted me about
Corve
clothes and son
and something else which I did
not understand by the eiges he made with
his hands it was som
thing about a foot
long, Lasted live what Clothes and he
said some
thing about Abye's boat. I told
kim that mine was not Algé's boat but offered to take him to the place where the was at are how. I did not there throw
Louve
that she had been seized. I understood that the Suspector was looking for clothes in Atya's boat. I told him that Iwould show him the book and went with Line for that purpose...
(Signed) Chaong Acheong . -
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By His Excellency Sie Hunny
Pottinger Bart,
l
Majestys
Bart, Her ell
Centiary
te
ve
Minister Plenipotenti
charged with the Tronment of Stong Kong.
Periding Hu Majesty's
further pleasure, I do herety constitute, and appoint - you
ས
William Caine Esquire Brevet-
Maja
324
and Captain in A4 10 26th or Camermeant Regiment of
to be Clue Magistrate.
er
Infcentry,
of the Island of Hong Kong
its dependencies : and I hereby
and
empower and require you to exercise
- 20a April 1946.
Av. 2′86
The Queen B
?
Robbery with arms
Ayanig &ers.
Witness
Ssung
Le Ascen
Chum Fasze
Seung Chaong
Chaong asze
Luis Baretto
Wong Asoo
Shan
ха Личае rea! Woods.
Hugh Mc Gregor Na Ear Coptes.
Wun Ayow
Laong Amoon
Lumi Jepoon Yong Ring Jun.
authority
Bo
Tre
authority, according to the Sours,
Customs and usages, of China
as near as vir
as may
may
be, (every
descriptime of torture excepted) for the preservation of the peace, and) the protection of life and property,
over all the native unliabitants
of the said Island, the shines
and labors thereof.
And I futher authunze
лед
and requine ayou,
in a
accy
case:
to
where the crimes, aven
acending
Chinese Laws shall involve?
punishments of such degrees
of severity as are included in the annexed Seale to remit the cuse for the Judgment of the
head
of the
Grvemment for the
time
being :
Seate
7
325
Imprisonment with or without hard
laber
fo Penalties
mone shian six months.
en allies exceedi
exceeding . 4100 Dollars Cuprial Pinushiment exceding
100 Mokes or Lashes.
Capital Punishment:
And I do further requier
in
you ex all cases followeds by Sentence, or infliction of punished.
to keep a record co
a
conte containing, a
briep statement of the ease, and
copy of the sentence).
And I further authorizes
and require you,
to exercise
Magisterial and Police Authinity
hatever
over all persons aliatives (other
shan
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Boat
of
Trad
E.I
than natives of China dwelling.
on the Island, or persons subject -
to the Mu
Mutiny
Act or to the
general law of the fleet, who
shall be found convenitting breaches of the peace on shore) port & dependency of
in
any
this Island or breaches of any
regulations to be issued from
time to time
by
this Govenment-
to the customs and
according usages of the Butish Police Law?
And I do hereby authorize you for the Police purposes, hewin besse specified to arrest, detain ;
discharge, and punish such
offenders, according.
eviding to the practice of General British police
to the principles &
Law
- Law, and to inflict on any
such
326
Offenders, Corporal punishment, to
the extent of thirty six strokes or
lashes, when
you may
consider
that mode of punishment called
for ly and appropriate to the
offence.
And all persons subject to the
law
-Muting Set, or the gunnal lou for the Govenement of the Phat;
Fleet;
found commetting pelice e othe offences, shall be handed over to their proper Military superins for punishment.
And I do further authorize)
and require you
to detain i safe
custody any person. found committing.
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whatever
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Govern
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Boar
of
Trad
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Government of Hong Kong, cumes and offences amounting to felony xcending to the Law of England;
forthwith reporting your precedings how in, and that grounds then of, to the Heads of the Government for the levie
being
And I further authorize and require you to investigate and Du
Ammmarly
to decide all
claims for debts, not exceeding
the sum of Fifty dollars, ove hundred and twenty five
Rupees, that
:
may be brought.
before you : investigate when so
and further to
your
when so brought to
notice, other claims for
debt
327
debts, beyond: that amount, and
not exceeding - Two hundred Dollars or Five hundred Respees, but referring, in all cases, such large claims to the Head of the Geven : ment, for the line being, for instruction. And I further
require you, as oftew at you
1-necessary lo
may
deern
t
of
confine deblois, with the view enforcing your awards, immediately and specially to report such decision to the Head of the Govemment.
And for all your lawful proceedings in the premises this
Warrant shall be
your sufficient
protection, and authority :
Given
Given
1
ven under
List of Prices
hand and
my
seal of office at Hong Kong
this twenty fifth day of April.
in the
agents.
1842.
segned Newry Pottinger
LS
By the Chief Superintendent charged with the Tovemment. signed I Ret. Murison
Acting Secretary
and Treasurer
A true Copy
Weeton
por.
nol. hail
Pricee
Charged.
m855. Whony 6 was /
328
A Statement of the prices of the principal articles charged to the Foreign Consumer = by
of Provisions
the Campradors at Canton, in the
Articles.
year, 1847. vig
Unity Prices) charge charged
" of Prices in the Central Market
Hongkong __
Articles
-
ild duck (large) - ove or prigion Haloes.
coa.
weet frotatoes
eh frestid
Do
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Do Do
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reen peas. hite Rice
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fur. Northern.
Paisius. billies
andles.
Write peas ..
J.
@ per 17/3 the
1/4
Bread.
Beck
A
77
#
#
each
"
#
#
3
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3/2
car bayes
locoe
Carrols.
Flour
quols.
Fruits
Selluce.
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194
要
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1/4
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173 th
Rice
#
#
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1⁄2 #long
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04
Catty
12.
02
Picul
2
Cally dogen
02
09
Carty
15
06
16
Milk Mutton
Onious
Pork & Porkfat. Potatoes
sucti
Sugar (course)- -Do- (fine sweet potatoes Yame.
The prices
are
04
4
02
the quart
Catty
#
#
#
40
02 16
05
04
12.
of
09
Freul
2
Picul
2
quoted in Spanish : oilars and Cents . The fricul is 1333 ts: and the catty is 13 the avoirdulivie,
but this
cally weights of the Compradores selon éxceed
English Found.
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Dees of Chief Magistratie Office from May 1941 le Beauber 1847.
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Sterling
fel
329
Year
a Mouth
Boa
of
1841
Tra
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1842
1843
1844 January -February-
March April.
48 63 3 40
477190
70
May
June July August. September. October
4160 2095
145
3 25
00
150
5 20
F
herdellar
November. December.
January
?
700 25558
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:
1845
10
February
4 25
March
725
Wilson April.
May.
875
June.
250
:
July-
750
August-
700
September-
875
October
975
November.
3751
the Suwit December.
£17507
725 8175
:
77
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Board of
Trade
E.1.1
Feig
Vice
Tus of Chiq Magistrates Office from May, 1841 to December 184 7.
Year
Mouth
1846 January.
February March
April. a May June Sulv August.
·September
Cets her
Novamber. December
6
00
5 23
3.00
1 25
в со
4 75
5 50
5 50
0 50
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Sterling
Goremment, Notification.
Kees
330
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The following table of Jess to be taken in the Chif Magistrate's office having been approzed, of by the Exocetency Governor in Council ar published for General information -
By
tremment House Victoria
Hong Kong, 18th Junecary 1844
order
(Signed)
Prichard. Weesname
Table of Fes to be tature in the Chief Magistrated for,
Lees
Cases
of Thespass to person,
11 19
the
NI
Office, in
2
b
or in immovable property.
1847 Jamary
February- March
April_ May June
July August. September
25
525
6751 77 50
8100 14.441 625
12 25
1:
00
Dctober
875
November
975
December
400
98 19
20 917/2
Warrarst to apprehend, before
Summons Served
After Summons served, 89%efendant not appearing in time
Tummans to every witness
Every
}
case called on for Enquiry.
Swearing of Every witness Every order of Arbitra
Arbitration or
Deciding Every Case
Compromise
"Warrant to seize Goods
Ponudage
the
- per
N 2
6.00
رحم الكبير
о
50
9
r
50
cent on Arsount levied.
Sable of Les to be taken in the Chief attagehat's offer.
in cases where the sum
claimed.
of not more than $900 is
Summums
A.
Summons ....
Wavant to oppulinna before summons served.
Board
of
ivery
Trad
ELF
ice
Utter Summons served, and
Defendant not appearing in time } -
Case called on for Enquiry
to
Mitness
Every Every Witness
Sweasing Every
Every order of arbitiation or Compromised Every Case decided
Warrant to seize goods. Prundage.
In cases
One
$ cts
/
00
مریم
00
4
影力
A
410
40
10
دستم بالرحيم
کے وسیم
per cent on Unsount levied where not more than 450, is claimed, one and whow not more than
half of the above Fees,
quarter thereof.
one qu
N° 3
than $20
Sable of Sees to be paken in the Chief Menginteater offices
swhere the amount clained exceeds $200.
Summa
Warrant to approbend, before summons served
After summons served, and Defendant not Oppearing in time
Jumnzons to Every witness-
Every Case called on for Enquing
бе
Every order
Swearing every witness
Every case decided
of Arbitration or
Compromise
Warrant to seize goods
Frundage
me per cent on the Amount levied
Read and approved
Comple
approved of 1904 ?
$ cts
4
11
20
/
2.0
4
0.0
0-0
In Council, January 14th 1844
}
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Clerk of the Council
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Comp M
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Government Notification
EC
331
"The following table of Fes to be takers in
the Police Magistrate's office having ben
of by His Exellency the Governor in "Council is published for general information
uppuved
Affining Magistrate Seal or Signature.
2
Administering an Oath- Summers
ons and Service Search Warrent.
Wanant of Distress & execution thereof_ Warrant of Amest and execution thin
Celenial offer Victoria, Byerder
15th July 1244
Line Copy,
1
4 ch
51
D
25
25
1.00
1.
W A Bruce
"Vigned) W. Caine
Chief Magistrate
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of
Trude
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Chief Magistrates off,
Table of Fees
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in 55 Whone.
N 239
Sin
Colonial Office, Victoria, pe
Hughing. 46 May 18450
kong
332
Inforvating has been giver to this Excellency
that Acqui- who
The Govergoe
is Concerned in
love
Ofuum faren, interfares reith the trading Junks that anchor in this Warbour, alleging that be abou is licensed to deal with them in piume in whotion be purchased;
it ma
quantities it may
are in
and that vessels
hime
His privilege, rebirt consequence driven from the harbour..
"Excellency is ready to
to give
every
at the same
proper protection in enforcing the privilege which he holds from the Government, but at the time he is equally determined not to allow bime to pervert it to purposes for
purposes for which it was never intended, and which may materially affect the trade of the Place . __ Wes Excellency, honfor that you
will institute an enquiry into
al
general requests
there
and report the Consolerin
cation, and
the truth of the allegation,
the which your
to
Come tw
Chine
&
फ
The Amorable Major
8
the subject..
She
Board
of
Trad
E.L.B
She
complaint has
has been made by
Mess?? Tanrieson How & C2, and it will be well to request them to bring forward.
any
evidence they may
have
in its support.
have the bosses 75
hover
reign
Vice
Comp
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Lederick Piqued) Frederick W. U. Bruce Colonial Secretary
N
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Gentlersen
In
Chief Magistrate's office Victoria, 5th May
of a
12hs
Commununication
from the Nevorable The Colonial Secutary, Iam
instructed to refer to
May possess
!
"
Made
you
by you
you for any evidence regards a Charge
Sagui, for interfering
against a Chinese mamed, i
with the Lading Iunds that anobor in this Harbour,
that he alone, is licensed to deal writh
alleging
them in
lium in
be purchased .
.
in whatever
quantities it may
und
consequence driven
that vessels are in
from this Harbour
driver fre If Thursday
be convinient to
L.
weyl at 12 o'clock will
day went
you to produce
produce the ovidence
in support of the foregoing charge, Inill summon the parties connected with the Opisene Farm to appear here at that time. that the matter in question may undergo
Meess? Jamieson New & C
Victoria
Strict
Boa
of
Tra
+....
ation - Should however, the
Shiot investigation
you.
day I shall
[
you may appoint;
hour I have named not suit be willing to adopt any
time
puvided it does not interfere with the public
Service
I have the horror. 88
(Signed) W.Caine. Chief. Mergistrate of Police
9
I may
be Farmer is
as well to remark that the Attai and not e
Acqui
thium has been
enoucously stated -
I have the hover $ &
The Hourrable FW. A Bruce
Colonial Secretary &&
Victoria
Signed f
W. Caine
Chiefelbagistrati of Sotice.
·
Victoria 1th May 18s
D
"We have the honor to acknowledge the
Setter of yesterday's date.
CA 29
Chief Magistrate's office
Victoria 5th May 1845
Sir
Sir
wept of your
the
Opicem
Fammer.
of
In
In consequence of your
N
communication & 239 of the 4th instant I
addressed Setter
N° 28
Yesterday to
x
Moss ? Jamieson Hew XC and now have
the bevor to enclose for the information of > His Crettmoy The Governor, a copy of the reply from Mess : Jansiesen Won &C, this
How day received
It
selating
to the alleged undue influnce excroised. by Sygni,
J
and inviting the production
that in the
evidence before you . officially
In uply we have enly to say absence of the vessels which his people niited we do not see how legal prof is to be clicited,
The Wenerable
Major W Caine.
"Chief Magistrate
Hough
!
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obvious.
though the farts of the
Case are see
sufficiently
ના
the Colony.
Board
against
of
Trad
E.L.B
eign
nico
Chinese witnesses, resident in dare not venture forth with
evidence
a man of Acqui's character and power of intimidation, and such European exidurce as be addward would not be technically legal
before your
tribunal.
вс
Auvever lamentable it may that the interests of the Colony should be so -
une
we know of no Suw, Civil
Materially prejudiced as they
by the pium
Minopoly,
Bon
for the acts impected
hime, or his
M.
וי
C
Criminal, under which Acqui is punishable
to
people, and
"being perenaded of the fatility of the proposed
stigation. We decline.
Magisterial investigation.
You
decline giving the trouble of entering into it.
We have the houve to 400
Jansieson How
Signed) Sunvisor Here 20
Prisoner
1.24
Chief Magistrate's
"Victoria 22nd April XE.
Before the Chief Magistrate
Case N. 32%
He
s
335
Chenny Arran
Charge Charged with Breach of ofsiune regulations
uddell
sworn -
States
Greige Endwall. Opium Farmer supre stores
Janner "My charge against the prisoner is for appropriatin Shop x 259 for the retail of opium in less growtities than 1. Chest.
John Waggett private of police
were se
sworn states
I was colled by Compl. this morning to oppulend some chinese who were
setting opium without license. I went to the house of prismer and saw almam in the shop with the soll of shinm
he
was a chest
now in Court in his band. He told me that had bought it for 16%. 4. and there with 30 Bolls of opium in it. Reduces mmey, and popers regarding the sale of the ball of fium The board now produced in Corest is
produced in Court is the one Stick down from the Front of the shop : "Ying tree" setts Patua & Malwa Opinum in small quantities this shop only selle to Strangers, and not to be used on the Istaine
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Defence
The Ball of Opium which I sold this morning was to go to Toong kom if it was to have been used here I would not have sold it . I asked the person when be
the shop where he
intended taking Tring
Koon.
came to the
the opium,
Decision
and he told me to
Cure dismissed - prisoner realeased
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Michaelmas Saturday the fourteenth day of November 1846
Term 1846.8.
337
In rê Cheung Apeon
and Wrong Afrong & return to the Habeas Corpus be- Mr. M. Swqney moved that thes
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filed, but a proper retuon not having been made (the trit being imperfectly served) the Court ordered the prisoners to be remanded, and the return to
Wednesday the 18th day of November current. Mr M Sisy ney Shyney
then moved for Writ
be
ma de on
of Certiorari to be directed to the Chief Magistrate for production of the depositions taken in this case at the police Office,
-Granted .
Michaelinas Wednesday the sighteenth day of November 1846.
Cheung Asseon 13rought up on
Habeas Corpus Hong Aforng S. on the Motion of Mr. M Sogney The Court ordered them to be discharged together with the other prisoners in the same Warrant, having suffered all the imprisonment authoused by Ordinau.co.
Certified Extrust
Rollern das By Registrar of The Supreme Lowes
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Victoria by the Grace of God of the United - Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Descudex, of the Faith.
ཤྲཱིཎཱ་ཤ་ན།
338
Ho James Collers, Keeper of Her Majesty's Gaol Greeting
We command.
you
that you
have before our
right trusty and well beloved John Walter Hulme, Our Chief Justice of. our Supreme Court of
Houghong immediately after the receipt of this Writ, the bodies of Cheung Asseon. and. Wong Afrong being detained in your custody- under duress (as it said) together with the day
of their being taken and detained by whatsoever name the said Cheung Assern and Wong Aforng may be called, to under and
and cause
undergo
As
I receive all and singular such things our said Chief Justice shall then and there -- them in that behalf.
consider
off au
cerning
and concern
have thew there this Writ
and that you
Witness the Honorable John Matter.
Hulme
at Victoria the 11th day of November in the Teuth spear
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our heign.
of
(Signed) John Walter Hulme
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bxecution of this mit appears in the hedule hereunto-
In the Supreme Court of Honghong
Babear
cmexed
(Signed) fas Collins
Reepen
Corpus
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Schedule
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I James Collins, Keeper of Her Majesty
of the
gaol of Hongkong in the writ to this schedule annexed named, do certify and return to Our Sovereign Lady the Queen, that, before the coming to ane the said writ; (that is to say / on the 28th day of October 1846, Wong Asson and Chum Asson - (whom I believe to -- be the perso Cheung Asseon and Mong Afoong / were committed custody by virtue of a certain to arraut commitment, the levor of which is as follows.
Hongkong) To the Keeper of Her
to
my
of co
rsons named in the said writ as
to wit
or his deputy.
Receive into
Majesty's Jail of Houstong
Custody the bodies
your
in their
of Yuen Atoong, Chun Ayoong, Chun Azee, Low Aman, Chaong Achay, Muck Manshing, Wong Afoon, Leang Aen, and Chun Asson.. this day by me convicted of having possession a quantity of arms and gunpowder with intent to use the same for a felonious. purpose, and of being rogues and vagabonds without any
me aus of subsistence, and adjudged by. me to be imprisoned with. hard labor for the term of three Calendar mouths from the date hereof, and thei
ostensible
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imprison and keep tohard labor for the said term of three Calendar months; and for som doing this shall be
your sufficient warrant Given under hand and Leal of Office~
my
this hocuty eighth day of October in the
thousand eight hundred.
year of our Lord,
bue
and forty six
(48)
[Signed) C. B. Hillier
340
Off 9 Chief Magistrate
of Police.
And these are the causes of the detaining of the said Wong Afoon and bhun Afson (whom; I believe to be the persons named in the said
Cheung Apeon and Wong Along) whose bodies Shave here ready,
writ. as
said Writ Sam Commanded.
(Signed) Jas Collins
Freeper
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28th Oct. 1846.
13 Prisoners (names as under) cha
a
under) charged with having been
found on board of a boat with a quantity of arms gunpowder & cc. with felonious intent at 8p.m. & with being rogues & vagabonds without any ostensible
of subsistence (a quantity of spear heads Yea as by attached list produced in bourt) _ 341
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Robert Duncan sailmaker swom states - Yesterday during my
absence
about 200 dollars were.
a
stolen from my desk by I believer
desk by I believe sny Cook, who m abs-conded - thinking I might find him on board - some of the boat's I obtained the assistance of a un policem an, and in course, of our search boarded boat pulling towards Green Island (a. Ha kow) from " jumped overboard _ the prisoners were
seized the remainder escaped - I am sure the
I am sure the prisoners
about 24 to 30 meu were in her who all
werd toere
all in the bout. I saw the boat searched and the articles in Court found in her
Cook - we
.
[Signed / Robert Duncan-
Police Constable John Jenkins sworn. I went with first Witness yesterday Evening to look after his lay to off the West point station - we boarded two or three boats - seeing a small boat pulling in shore to the westward we pulled __ after her - and on going alongside about 20 men - jumped overboard, and made off in different
directions - we seized the prisoners who all belonged
to
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to the boat some made their escape. _ two men were found in the boat afterwards when we seized her- the articles in Court were found ou board of her _ I observed that a number of articles had been throure overboard bamboos, pieces of boxes, clother 400 - one bag which had been filled, by the wind I picked up & formed to contain a chopper & a number of __ pieces of bamboos - while we were chasing
chasing the me. who had jumped overboard, I saw several things thrown out of the boat which must have been large 4 heavy as they made a great splash in the water the list read to me (attached) contains a true account of the things found in the boat.
[ Signed / John Jenkins.
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that
Francis Manuel Marques Sailmaker sworn states- I went with the two last-Witnesses yesterday Evening- when we boarded the prisoners boat all the who were in her except 6 jumped overboard, after seizing, some of them we went back and seized those who remained on board the boat, several articles.
board - I went to the station with were found the prisoners - By the time we picked the men out
we came
dou.
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of the water the boat had pulled half way to the opposite shore we pulled after her and as- alongside again those toho remained inns her endeavoured to escape by jumping overboard but were seized. I saw a quantity of clothing thrown, overboard - saw something
something like a chest or Cask floating but not having hands (men / could.
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not pick it up - we were
out of the water.
Cheang Apo
busy picking the
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[ Signed] Frau". Manoel Marques
Lorcha was -
-eang Apo boatman states - My Loccher anchored yesterday evening
mear
the Western
Market
Q.
Bakow was a
auchored
me an ADA.
Qu
goon
saw upwards of twenty inen go on board of her
and a quantity of fowls duck's Price put on board they passed our Loecha they got foul of us
speaking to their they abused us - I
as
and on
-
being
told the Portuguese who belonged to the Lorchia that I thought the boat was a pirate & they went after her - the men all jumped overboard on chased _ I went in chase and saw a number of ~ bamboo pikes in the water - the men embarked from the landing place of the fish market in the Writere
Market.
X Chinese mark.
Yaong Chaong nguw,
a number of men go o
OLL
boatman states - I saw,
board of a Hakow last
night they took a quantity of things on board but
being dark I could not see what they
were don
went with last witness and the Europeans in-
chase & saw the
que u
in
the water - a quantity
of things were thrown overboard, but Seould not
distinguish what they
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Defence
I
tenregiskred Soo luck fong, maker of paper offerings stater Swas
going to the West Point last night from the
Western Market as I was walking along the road- when I was seized. I live in the market
Chinese marks.
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( The Market headman does not know the prisoner) Solice Constable Bartow states that he seized.. the prisoner that he had to go up to his neck. in the water to do so and that when prisoner was brought on Shore he was quite exhausted Yuen Atoring . pork butcher, unemployed stateed
went on board the boat last night to ask the Captain for some cash which he owed one, being now out of Employ - I fell asleep while waiting for his retorn and was
awoke by board jumping overboard. I did so too not knowing
what was the matter.
Chum Ayoong
awo
the
-Chinese Signature
Musician in a brothel states
my passage on board the boat to go to
Aberdeen to request my Cousin
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I took my passage
bury my
the
men.
seized
uncle who died a day
to go he
home to
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hoo
Woken.
in go
jumped overboard I did so and was an
(c) (bhinese mark) when I went on board
the two last prisoners were
ou
board.
Le Ashing book out of . Employ (not registered ) I
was going
over
to Hong Kong to look for Employment
& Chinese mark.
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Chun Ayee seller of fruit states - I took passage)
F
in the boat last night to go to Macao - Jashed
the boat people where they
any
where ou they said
yes
were bound to they said as king if they would go to Marcas
+ Chinese Mark
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Muk Asze out of Employ (not registered) states Sarrived here two days ago and was going over to Aberdeen last night to look for Employment.
(c) Chinose Signature
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Low Aman seller of fruit now out of Employ states not being able to sell fruit in the road having ban ordered away by the police - I thought of going over to Hong Kong to see a friend and took a smalle bout to look for a passage boat - the boat took
me to the
one in which I was takew
Chinese Inark.
LeAwa carpenter out of employ (not registered) states - I received a letter from my brother to come) down here to get Employment - Parrived here- two days ago
but could not find him I do not know the name of the shop I have been living
friend hearing
I wanted to returne
in - a
me say
to Sun ling printed out the passage boat to me 4 said Scould get home in her. I went on board of her and d jumped overboard with the others.
× Chinese Mark.
occasion
Chaong Achay carpenter states = Having to go to Macas, I went to look for a passage -
boat
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nousy from
man there - on Enquing of the boat from which I tried to rscape they told me
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they were going
and I took a passage in her
Chinese Mark
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Muck Man shing, Carpenter states - Iwentover to Hcoughong a short time ago to get some mondy from a boat builder he did not pay me and as I was returning to Victoria I was robbed on the read. last night two friends proposed,
going to Heonghong and I went with them and the - boat in which I was seized saying that they - were going to Hcoughing we took a passage in her. - not being able to swim swas seized in the
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boat.
Mony Asson Carpenter out of Employ states Aman named A you living at thongkong.
I went to a passage boat
owing
me some. None
A
ey
last night to get it from him - Swent on board alone. when I got on board I saw the last
prisoner
ou
board Iknow him to be
Carpenter - Ido not know
prisoners
w
any of the other
(c) Chinese mark
Laong Aeu Carpenter out of employ states
I went on board the passage boat last night
to Hongkong to lock for Employinent.
to go
& Chinese mark.
Chun
Afoon.
Assistant Cook to Colonel Neguolt
Jed
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states - Hearing my brother who lives at Houshong was sick I took a passage ou
last night to see him -
seeing
board the boat
the people in the
boat jump over board I did so and Cost my clothes.
C Chinese mark.
Witness for defence.
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Chum Ayee purchaser of bad money states - I have been here about one Month I know the prisoners Muck Asze, and quen Atrong. they are good men & Sam willing to become - security for them.
Chinese chignations
Case remanded
(Signed) 6.13. Hillier
Decision
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1 double sword.
2 daggers.
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HONGKONG,
ANNO NONO
VICTORIA REGINE.
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No. 5 of 1845.
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Y His Excellency JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Esquire,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, Her Majesty's Plenipo- tentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British. Subjects in China, with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
"An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 21 of 1844, and Title. "to make better provision for Licensing the Weighing and Brokerage of Salt, and the Sale of Opium, Bhaang, Ganja,
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Paun, Betel, and Betel Leaf, within the Colony of Hongkong, "and for the Licensing of Pawnbrokers and Auctioneers, with
a Table of Fees on Official Licenses and Signatures."
(12th day of July, 1845.) WHEREAS it is expedient to raise such Funds as may be necessary to defray the Civil Expenses of the Colony, and
to amend the said Ordinance No. 21 of the year 1844.
Preamble.
Ordinance No.
ed, no person to
I. Be it therefore enacted and ordained, with a view to the part performance of such objects, by His Excellency the 21 of 1844, repeal- Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative act as a Broker or Council thereof, That said Ordinance be and is hereby Weigher of Salt, repealed, and that no person shall, within the said Colony of or retail Opium, Bhaang, Ganja, Hongkong, or its Dependencies, or the waters thereof, carry on Paun, Betel, or the Trade or occupation of a Broker or Weigher of Salt, or Betel Leaf, without barter, sell, or retail any Opium in a smaller quantity than one Chest, or barter, sell, or retail Bhaang, Ganja, Paun, Betel, and Betel Leaf in any less quantity than may hereafter be deter- mined in manner hereinafter mentioned, without having pre- viously obtained a License for that purpose from the Governor for the time being in the Executive Council.
a license.
II. And be it further enacted and ordained, that it shall Powers of the be lawful for the said Governor for the time being in said Governor with re- spect to the grant- Executive Council to grant by License to one or more persons ing of such licen-
the ses.
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the exclusive right and privilege of exercising the trade or oc- cupation of a Broker or Weigher of Salt, or of selling or retail- ing Opium in any quantity less than one Chest, and of selling and retailing Bhaang, Ganja, Paun, Betel, and Betel Leaf in any quantity less than that which may be determined on from time to time hereafter by the said Governor, with the advice of the said Council within the Colony of Hongkong, and its Dependencies, and the waters thereof.
III. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the pecting the grant- ing of such licen- said License or Licenses shall be granted to the highest bidders for the same respectively, to be ascertained by Public Auction, or by tenders to be sent in, in pursuance of public notice to that effect, and on such conditions relative to the giving of security for the payment of the sum tendered, and for the maintenance of good order, and the prevention of riots or disturbances among
the persons engaged in the Salt Trade, or on the premises of persons retailing or selling Opium, Bhaang, Ganja, Paun, Betel, and Betel Leaf, under such License or Licenses within the said Colony of Hongkong or its Depen- dencies, or the waters thereof, and subject to such other regu- lations in all respects as from time to time to Ilis Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the said Executive Council, may seem fit.
Penalties impos- ed on unlicensed dealers.
Power reserved
to the Governor in
from time to time.
IV. And be it further enacted and ordained, that if any person, without having obtained such license as aforesaid, shall exercise or carry on the trade or occupation of weighing Salt within the said Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, or the waters thereof, or shall sell, barter, or retail Opium in any quantity less than one Chest, or sell, barter, or retail Bhaang, Ganja, Paun, Betel, and Betel Leaf, in any quantity less than may be so determined on in Council as aforesaid, or shall infringe any of the Regulations after public notice thereof, from time to time to be established by the Governor in Council under the authority of this Ordinance, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 500 Dollars, to be recovered in a sum- mary manner before any Magistrate of Police, and in default of the said penalty being duly paid after conviction, the same shall be levied by distress and sale of the offender's goods and chattels, and if there be no sufficient distress, every such offender shall be liable to imprisonment for a period not ex- ceeding six Calendar months.
V. And be it further enacted and ordained, that it shall Council to make and may be lawful to and for the said Governor in Council further regulations from time to time to make such further regulations or orders as to him shall seem fit, respecting the weighing or brokerage of Salt, or the sale of Opium, Bhaang, Ganja, Paun, Betel, and Betel Leaf, with the power to enforce the same by such penalties
penalties as shall seem expedient, provided always, that such penalties shall not exceed those hereinbefore imposed.
VI. And be it further enacted and ordained, that it shall Powers to Go- and may be lawful to and for the said Governor, with the advice vernor in Council to make like regu- of the said Council, to make hercafter all such rules and regu- lations for the farm- lations as to him may seem expedient concerning the farming, ing, selling, and re- selling, and retailing of Bhaang, Ganja, Paun, Betel, and Betel tailing of Bhaang, Ganja, Paun, Be- Leaf, and that in the making and enforcing of such rules and tel, and Bete! Leaf, regulations, he shall be vested with all and singular the powers as for Opium. and authority hereby vested in him with respect to the selling, farming, and retailing of Opium.
Auctioneer,
such purposes.
or
VII. And be it further enacted and ordained, that no No person to act person shall exercise or carry on the trade or occupation of a as Pawnbroker or Pawnkroker, or of an Auctioneer, or shall keep a public Billiard keep a Public Bil- Table, without having previously obtained a license from the liard Table, with- Governor of Hongkong for the time being in Council, which out a license for license shall endure for the space of one year from the date thereof; provided always, that every person taking out a Pawn- broker's or an Auctioneer's license, or a license for a public Billiard Table, shall pay into the Colonial Treasury such sums as to His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Exe- cutive Council, may scem fit, the said sums to be paid previous to the granting of such license or licenses.
Under penalty
VIII. And be it further enacted and ordained, that if any person shall, without having obtained such licenses aforesaid, not exceeding $200 carry on or exercise the trade or occupation of a Pawnbroker, or Auctioneer, or keep a public Billiard Table, or either or any of them, or shall be convicted of exposing for sale, or putting up any thing whatever to Public Auction, or of taking any thing whatever in pawn, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 200 Dollars to be recovered in a summary manner before any Police Magistrate, and in default of payment the same to be levied by distress and sale of his goods and chattels,
Discretionary
IX. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the Governor in Council, if he see fit, shall be empowered to levy Auction Duty of an Auction Duty of 21 per cent on all sales by Auction within $24 per cent on all this Colony.
sales.
X. And be it further enacted and ordained, that every Auctioneer to make Quarterly person who shall act as an Auctioneer in the said Colony, shall Returns on oath, make and give, at the office of the Colonial Secretary, once in and deduct the every three months, a faithful and true return on oath of all Auction Duties- the books being the sums received at sales made by him as Auctioneer within liable to inspection. the said three months, and that every such Auctioneer shall, from every sum received by him on the sale of any article by him in that capacity, deduct the sum sanctioned under this Ordinance,
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Table of Official Fees to be levied after the passing of this Ordinance.
Ordinance, and pay the amount thereof into the Colonial Trea- sury quarterly, and the books of such Auctioneer shall at all times be liable to inspection by any person or persons duly authorized by the Governor; and it is hereby declared, that any such Auctioneer failing duly to comply with the provisions of this section, shall be considered to have forfeited his license, and such license shall be absolutely void by such neglect or default.
XI. And be it further enacted and ordained,
and ordained, that the following Official Fees, as set forth in the annexed Table, shall be levied and made payable from and after the passing of this Ordinance-all Fees so levied to be paid into the Colonial Treasury,
TABLE OF FEES.
1. For granting a Marriage License, $5.
2. For the Signature of the Governor, $5.
3. For the Signature of the Colonial Secretary, $2.
JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS,
Governor, &c., &c.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 12th day of July, 1845.
ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,
Clerk of Councils.
HONGKONG:
PRINTED BY AUTHORITY, AT THE OFFICE OF THE CHINA MAIL.
REVISED REGULATIONS FOR THE SALE OF OPIUM BY RETAIL, Made by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Executive Council thereof, on the 12th day of July, 1845, in pursuance of Ordinance No. 5 of 1845, entitled "An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance "No. 21 of 1844, and to make better provision for licensing the sale of "Salt, Opium, Bhaang, Ganja, Paun, Betel, and Betel Leaf, within the Colony of Hongkong, and for the licensing of Pawnbrokers and Auctioneers, "with a Table of Fees on Official Licenses and Signatures." I.-If any person not being duly licensed by Government shall within the limits of the said Island of Hongkong and its Dependencies or the waters thereof sell or retail Opium in smaller quantities than one chest, such person shall be liable on conviction before a Police Magistrate to the following fines and punishments, namely: For the first offence to a fine of 100 Dollars, for the second offence to a fine of 250 Dollars, and for every subsequent offence to a fine of 500 Dollars, the said penalties respectively to be recovered in a summary manner before any Magis- trate of Police, and in default of any of the said penalties being duly paid after conviction the same shall be levied on the offender's goods and chattels by distress, and in case there shall be no sufficient distress every such offender shall be liable to imprisonment for the said first offence for two months, for the said second offence to imprisonment for four months, and for every subsequent offence to imprisonment for any period not exceeding six months, and shall morcover be liable to a further fine of three times the retail price of all Opium proved before a Magistrate of Police to have been so sold or retailed contrary to the provisions of this section. Provided that in no case shall the fine or fines hereby imposed exceed the sum of 500 Dollars. 2.--The number of houses to be appropriated for retailing Opium in smaller quantities than one chest or for smoking the same, shall be determined by His Excellency the Governor in Council, or by such Public Officer as may be duly authorised by him for that purpose. Such houses shall adjoin the street and may be open from daylight until 10 o'clock at night during each day except Sunday, on which day they shall be closed. Such houses shall not be kept open nor shall any Opium be sold therein between the hours of 10 o'clock at night and day light, nor at any time during Sunday, under a penalty of 50 Dollars, recoverable from the holder of any such house, on conviction before a Police Magistrate; and all persons who may be found smoking Opium after the hour of 10 o'clock at night in any other house or place (save and except their usual place of abode) shall on conviction before a Magistrate be liable to a penalty of 20 Dollars, and the holder of the said house or place shall further be liable in the like sum, and no place shall be licensed for the sale of Opium in smaller quantities than one chest, or for smoking Opium, other than the houses so appropriated as aforesaid.
3.--Holders of the said houses so appropriated as aforesaid shall not sell or dispose of Opium except for money, under a penalty of 25 Dollars to be paid by the holder on conviction before a Police Magistrate.
4.--No person shall be admitted into any house so apropriated as aforesaid with any kind of arms weapons or edged tools under a penalty of 50 Dollars to be paid by the holder of the house on proof of the same before a Police Magistrate.
5.-If any person or persons are found riotous or quarrelsome in any such house, the holder thereof shall apply to a Police Officer and deliver such person or persons into his charge to be dealt with as the Law directs.
6. Every person duly licensed to retail Opium as aforesaid shall be at liberty to go on board any vessel at anchor in any harbour within the said Island of Hongkong and its Dependencies or in the waters thereof for the purpose of searching for Opium illicitly retailed contrary to the provisions of these Regulations, on obtaining a search warrant from a Magistrate to be issued on the oath of the person licensed that to the best of his knowledge and belief such Opium is being retailed on board the said vessel for consumption.
7. If any person not being duly licensed as aforesaid shall within the limits of the said Island of Hongkong and its Dependencies or the waters thereof sell Tye, Chandoo, or Opium dross, mixed with Opium, he or she shall on conviction before a Police Magistrate be subject to all the fines forfeitures and penalties im- posed in Section No. 1 of these Regulations
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8. All persons in charge of houses appropriated wholly or in part to the smoking of Opium or to the retail of the same in smaller quantities than one chest shall take out and hold a permit from the person duly licensed as aforesaid, and in default thereof shall be liable to the fines and punishments prescribed by section No. 1 of these Regulations. Provided always that the said licensed person so granting the said permit shall have regard to the power retained under the 2d section of these Regulations by the said Governor for determining the number of houses to be appropriated to the retailing or smoking of Opium.
9. And it is further declared and ruled, that in all cases not above provided for, and where any penalty is imposed, the said penalty shall in the first instance be levied by distress as before mentioned, and that if there be no sufficient distress the offender shall be liable to imprisonment for any period not exceeding Six calendar months, and that the presiding Magistrate or Magistrates before whom any person shall be tried and convicted for any breach of the foregoing Regulations or any of them, shall have in his or their discretion power to commute the amount of any the aforesaid pecuniary penalties, or to shorten the respective periods of imprison- ment herein before prescribed.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 12th day of July, 1845.
ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,
Clerk of Councils.
J. F. DAVIS,
of
At a Meeting of Council held at Government House on the 15th January, 1815, it was resolved that the Auction duty of 24 per cent, imposed under Ordinance No. 21 of 1844, should be remitted on the sales bereinafter enumerated, and that the same be published in the Gazette, for general information.
1st. That in case the real Owner of any Estate, Goods, or Effects, put up to sale by way of Auction, shall become the Purchaser, by means of his own bidding, or the bidding of any other person on his behalf, or for his use, at such sale, without fraud or collusion, then, and in such case, an allowance shall be made to such Owner of the duties arising upon such bidding, provided Notice be given in writing to the Auctioneer before such bidding, both by the Owner, or his Agent, and the person intended to be the bidder of the latter, being appointed, and having agreed accordingly to bid at the sale for the use and behoof of the seller; and such delivery of such Notice so signed as aforesaid shall be verified. upon the Oath of the Auctioneer, as also the fairness and reality of the said transaction to the best of his knowledge and belief. Provided always that no such allowance of the Auction duty shall be made, unless such Notice shall, at the time appointed by Law for the Auctioneer's passing his Account of such sale, be produced by the Auctioneer to the person authorized to pass the Accounts of such sales, nor unless such Notice shall be left with such authorized person; in case any dispute shall arise whether such purchase by or for the owner was not made by collusion, or in order to lessen the full sum appointed by Law to be paid, or concerning the fairness of such transaction, then, and in such cases, the proof thereof shall lie upon the person acting as Auctioneer; and on failure therein, or in case of any unfair practice, then no such allowance shall be made as aforesaid; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
and
2nd. That the said duty of 2 per cent shall not extend to, or be held to extend to, any goods distrained for Rent, and sold by "Auction, or any Estate, Goods, or Chattels sold at Auction, under the Authority of any Sheriff, or under- Sheriff, for the benefit of Creditors, in Execution of any Judgment had or obtained; or any Estate, or, Effects of Bankrupts, sold by order of the Assignee or Assignees under any Fiat in Bunkruptcy, nor to any ships, or their Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture, or the Cargoes thereof, which may be taken and con- demned as Prizes, which shall be sold in this Colony, by or for the benefit of the Captors thereof, nor to any ships or Goods that may be wrecked or damaged by shipwreck, and sold by Auction within this Island for the benefit of the Insurers or Proprietors thereof; or which may be sold free of duty to defray the charges of salvage; nor to any Goods damaged by Fire, and sold by order of, and for the benefit of the Insurers of such Goods.
Victoria, 28th January, 1845.
ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY.
Clerk of Councils.
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My Lord.
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amount to £15 - 137 to Xapier promistry payment
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The Memorialists therefore humbly trust that as the appoint. :ment of the Hincurable Gentleman is cender your Lordship's controut, : Your Rordship will exercise the necessary sabulary influence over kim so that he may pay his past debts together with the syfences caused by his litigiousness before leaving Firat Birtain
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1848
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and instructed
Governa
Bonhamn to
take immediate measures
for your
reinstatement
I have to inform you
that it is his Lordship' =
wish that
Wheat you
should
peruse all the corresponden
which has ensued beloven
the Governor and himals
ne
this subject.
I shall
theresse be happy to
D
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any day
at this Office
that is moch
Convenient to
to you
the hours of
between
12 and
in order that you
have
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Grey, despatch & Jovernor Bon touche) parue that the rule.
Copy
any
laid down for the prapment of
ад
my Lalary on being reines tal is_" that if I return to Hory hon within six months Grour the time Any departure I am to be
Salar
ented & full sa
but
that if Jackly for 2 Obtain
further leave of absence I
Aur
383
Board
of
Trad
ALF
Qu
to receive outro half Lalary from the time and of leaving, Vangkan.
Is the State of
my ball after having prosed
four Summer, in that Colony renders it advisable that Ithand
Chouts
have
aftly to Bark Grey for t demain in Eusland beyond
the six amorithis I am auxious
Jam
to learn from His Lordthis, whether talking into antideration сиделовая the Jart that before returning to Hong Kong Ithall have been put to an expense of всем £ 6oo. (tokery anothing of additional Jamil sxfentes)
a
Somewhat more liberal seale
must be extended)
of allowane may Time that I may be permitted
to
my
half
+ receive Jute Lalans for six-
Juli mouths irrespectively pany beton to Hong Kong beaving h Lalary to Date Grom the expiration of that period
There is another Subilet
to which I am desirous feathing His Lordship's attention _ a subjät-
ason which thad mucation
to address His Lordship, while
ゑ in troux hous. I allude the
вры
Kong.
"Mcation"
As Lauctioned by
the
Board
of
Trad
E.LF
The Home Authorities, there existed
е
ups to March 1847. a vacation during the suoritter of July Achet September & Actober. Previouth
to that time
my
Lord
Aufent
Hah
Lad upon the representation If Sir John Davis directed
Z
that an additional Criminal Lessions should be holden
to that act more than three So
morites should intervene betin any two Criminal Lesions
Pursuant to the
directions of this Lordship, it was asteed
in Council that- There should
be a Criminal Lesions in July
aur
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Aur
384
ajair in October. But
although this was all that the Council afted upon & indeed the matter that the Comic
only
was called upon to arctider Lin John Davis sized the offorting
ях
of of Banging from the Rule of Court the whole of the exception as to the sitting, ofther Jude at Chambers the attend ame of
Officers at Court
The
The consequence of
こ
This exfunction has been to thread the Land business of the Colony over the whole of the Year beading the judge the Officers
B
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of the Court exithout a single day (Sunday, Holiday, xested) to call their own
Although the alteration
with retard to the Criminal Lepin
hat the effect of limiting the Vacation as originally established to two mouthes & a half all I thould with to atk if that alteration is to be adsered to
is that at least the resulation
refulations
at
for the lettering, of the Judge Chambers of the attendance of
ma
may,
The Officers at Court m. remain as Lerett fore.
а
A wo
し
385
comparison of The 3? 4th of 5th Sections of the
two Rules of Court of Michaelmas Leren 144 Nov. 1845. & Batter Jeru
1th March 1847. will prove the. correctings Buy Statement without troubling you with
a
more
buy thened explanation
I have the honor the
sir
Your Most Predient- Humble Servant.
John Walter Walue.
B. Hawed 8x1. Mr. P.
Under Loretory for the Colonies
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and I do not know
Mr. Merivale
Upon the pest point - that of the salary which the Halme asks for - San to Lord Greys addition to the despite to for Bertem, &
only refe to the 8 Clause of the Estonial Agulations unon the head of Solucels R2s;- repon the second point which relates to the
Etion
Rory
of the officers after Supcorne Count of Justice of Hang James the preivous correspondence, & abstain from
Merong
wich be much
suppation's
asyon
better a tre the
413.23/3/40.
W Bains
The pist matter
la do
you
with
hu ulates to a discution added by Lord frey humiseel 15the draft
Cute deshalck of 2% thanh,
sundar
Mum 25
For but in the
to by
refund to (23)
That Lo Grey will den
Any reason to
Change his view?
Kelme
lan
4 to the second, the rule in question is No 4. of the new milix of 1 Man L 1847. and W to informnd that instructions respecting it have already ten jion & No sextanna, (with whom I had conversation on the subject life he left England. ) It is Bue that the mile Wirhaps tough in addictine in the haren of it, deprim the Judge of all vacation, unreasonith, t which is of course I stand to as Auline as Lahey's Primion
thei
may
2
despartate refsend
hv. Otacted.
Bruc
hand to Come
regulation referend
годи Sec 2
MS.
W. Huber's was pension
bas bulmny. He acted puttin the list.
wit upperend for is untethed to
popaber lanse of ubrance
вил
live
the Enguany, & then.
It w? We
& his belang pe thes
heavy th
in self defence.
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it, it we then the
12 July pre ten
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to the and
wey
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If I Hulme and determined upon neturius emine.
chiately on boring to-metatud how dearly have been entitled to full Intury, but when he woke for a prolongent of, his leave
health his absence becomes,
pound of health
The
comes one
of the ordinary
the
qwerth about the rules may be character & he can only have of Iulary from the date refined to the convident" of the God expreff the spin appute By Mr Marvel - 9.27
of wir departure
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Sir
سعد
326
37. March /48.
and laid before harl
lever of
I have received
Grey
mah
the 2. Instant, and
Iam directed by
his Lordship to acquant
you
Kong immediately returning to Stong
after your reinstatement.
determined upon
chat if you had
or if, a
as stated in
the
387
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Board
of
Trade
E.1.B
elli
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Bo
:
the Despatch to
Governor Bonham,
you
should return
" to the Colony with in
six months from
the time of your
snopension, you will be entitled to
the full Salary of
your office, but
should
that if you obtain a prolongation of your leave on
the ground of
health, your absence.
+
pom the date of your departure from The Colony
will then become
one of the ordinary
Character; and you
+
Can only receive the half Salary payabli
to all Officers enjoying
that indulgence.
With
regard to
your vacation Sam to state chate, Lord. Grey is of opinion
that the rule which
laists
on
that
subject
mnot have been
framed inadvertently.
ao
it
seareely
Can searc
have
ļ
Boar
of
Trad
E.1
have been intended to deprive the Iudge
and the Officers of the Supreme Court, of the opportunity of relaxation which is
usual in all Courts
of Law. Instuctions, however, have been
given for remordering
the
question, and
Torebely hopes that
the result may be
satisfactory to you?
Shave to
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Mr White 21 March Co. 31
Sir
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30th March /48
Dendore herewiths
for your information,
the copy of a
Corres :
•pondence between
M. J.W. Bulme, and
one
of my Under Secretarits of State,
on
the subject of
his Salary during
his absence from
Hong Kong, and of
the Rule which
depines
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Board
of
Trade
E.I. B
Fee
Boar
deprives him, and
the officers of his
Court, of any vacation.
cannot but think that the Kull
of which he complains
mnot have been
-framed inadvertently,
as it could not
have been foreseen that the effect
would be to deprive
the Indge, and the Officers of his Court,
of all vacation.
Lunderstand
that
that my UnderSed
of State, M. Merivale,
has already in Conversation, pointed
out to you the objections to this Rule, and Mbey that you will take prompt measures for bringing
it under the Consideration of your
Council with a
J
revisal.
view to it's reobreal
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my Alfarting for Hory hon by the Puerland mail ofthiston Mestant I Shake Gul much Bolja) if ron with Javou
me with
an order upon the Treasury for the payment of the five months Salary which with be que tome at the end the month
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Mr Ellict.
suppose that this application should be recompute
the Fressary.
if 5
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1
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Salary
suive the 38th
Rove In latte
Thave the honour the
Lin
Your Most-Bedient Hamble Servant.
Shantallen Haline
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B. Howe, & P. P. В. После
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I am deceited by Carl to hausmit to you
the accompanying copy of a
Letter from Mr. J. W. Halme Chief Justice of Hong long,
or len 20th to the open Applying for the payment
then swed
4 Apil.
be rewe
ut muc
Tyme perruti
Pures of five montes salary which
enquery M...
ad.
will be due to hire at the
in cider to expose red is this
W. Hulme
important line be
home this
informention cely
ян
I have mitter acessing
to Mr. Halme.
ats?
kri
rust it this mon
Mr Hulme is on
of returning
the and as
the point
to the Dance
up
typu
I am to request that чере
will move the Lords Pomon
of the Treasury to comply with his application. Jam
to add that according
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the rule of the Colonial
Sevice Mr. Hulme is entitled
to the pull salary of res
at the rate of of 3000 per ammun
Price fatte period in
A
question his suspension
by the Governor having
been disappiorad by the
Secretary of late.
am
3
Worth Bank Befantiluck Madday Opsientions
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$1848.
393
In acknowledging the act
of publice which my Lodfry
done me in
in
har
adering my vestration the Pfice of Chief Justive P Hong Kong I cannot but call His Lordships attention to the fac that as matters now rest Jan actically punished in respect of charged which have had their origin in the expright &r faithful discharge of any judinst duties
Shave had & Lebuil
to all the mental apony
which the
Jout chayes brought asoint me Lie John Davis could not fail
by
quation. I thale are
to ou
Treach
Hory Hory have endured two
overland
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of
Trad
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overland popapel- & Ithall have been put to an expense of between
Canted
one
Lin John Davis having
all this mistery & working
I done irreformable injury to my character I should with to learn from my
Lord Jary whether thave His Lordship'in Lauction for adopting
Luck proceedings against hiehen
Davis at the law
allow
law may I should further with to know from any Lord fury whether
Jsem it Sojectionable
His dorthings wood deem it
Loithichs
for
me to
to call for (in Pachioment)
the production The evidence Caken during the investigation into the charges prefered agains by Lin John Davis cousted with the despatches relative
me
to these charges
In addition Should
394 with
to be informed by my Lord pay
bust such a cake
me in
expecting
whether and is aut such as fairly to justify that ther Ancajetty will be fraciously pleated to confer upon me some public mark of Her Majesty's opportun
At the rule at present
dod
laid down by my
Renders Lalary The payment any calory wording it incumbent upon me to take my departure for Hory Kony by the kaff the Settant Overland nail of the Roter Jettant "I feel it to be my duty before leaving to suggest to this hordthing the possibili; of circumstances arising touching
which may matters in Hong
Korth
make my presence in bestand
desirable
I am at unwilling
to volunteer information in matter. not personally
as I am read,
concerne
че
amyself
to come Gorward
wher
Boa
of
Tra
:
when called upon in affairs beforing the welfare of the Colony
Perhaps His Lodthin
may be pleased to grant me
Short interview before I feit-
a
Bufland
прово
W. Merinale. Theis Letter propores different questions which it is plainly out of
my province to
hot to solve. Abs.13/4./48
Mr Haurs
There pushcutions are plainly stated & therepre Lord frey will not I think any suggutions of mine
uquil
to finish
an aniwu
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Shave the honour to be
Sis
Your Most. Predient- Humble Servant.
Intrater Muhne
B. Nawet dry. M.P.
да
Rider Secretary for the Stories
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вод
395
727. Mary Keny
H. Hulun ashes,
that and pry sterned sanden
bin tulis leque perecedys expenst
lie her. Davis,
arie
Simmpine
Supey
ent expeep any opinion pr
aquinst any
Calz
but I
I showed bear opent ferlungs
wila egut,
едит
bus lun
conieding
lint &d. Halen
Jed.
to permifly restind, that
Je to Davis
lens
exequend
key
foot, because it with tuy comand
And tobuf alive définition
Colony.
taxinuity in the felony
lane hard fey will
всед раз
to the perduren other beput &
Endence ufen
W. Bulenér
bey pucenced to Putinmen
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Boa
of
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ferson to confre some bundle of
thes
Sterile Ette
a question
Coursan
Read ducendion
appen
dune diffiene
ввикид ве вырый выркира
dis pred
life
bint
221
must be consed?
EW. Hulion, charact
acy
cindiente
beyleis destination, tas kissing
fact, conveys and sang, dieffabili
le 1. Davis procndig,
Eu. Buline
leve
ut concede
request I fou
Zoo
that such
hain. Uefentis
Men opinion then phenous
In affecution
ů
woned be
Ari
ofon
marte of
deder
avy
1
pely
Cendent, whente hus
vennefested by Ed. Culinis perupt
by Iration.
Estration
eng Mine then necefing
in this forme 4.
forew.
And considing the heigh
Responsible
theat
llation be bold
Example of firbenigen
в
unde unde cins be any ust
Lute at cr
carmalele
вате все рез
pay
be refuted.
cases whetten het beg
Wv. buline
toditaci bein i
England.
Suffichend bis fubein duten in
Marybory factory
the intersti
are
to defully
car
If Mr H. is advised that he has
a right.
wice antire len of with aquait die 1. It. & is determined to mouil himself of it I have no right to prohibet:-
ва
to, but
bis doing to,
but I ind strongly disapprove of his wastin
2 If the House of Commons Sinks proper to call for
The concerfondence it must of
couse be prodment
but I cannot undert the to say that a moth to
1
T
that effist wh be
ил
aprentect to on the past
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off H. Mi Gout as I am at present of opin that the conerfondener had better not be me
public
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posible
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to day
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see him at fruent.....
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15 April /48.
I have received
the directions of Earl Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your
Letter of the 12 hot
and to return
you
nswer
the following answ to the questions
which
'you
have
propoeld for his
Lordship's consideration.
In the first
place Lam to inform
that
you
if you
axc
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Bo
TrE
398
are advised that
you
have a right
of action against Sir
John Davis, and are determined to avail
youneelf of it Lond
Grey has no
right
to protichit your
taking
hat conrral;
but his Lordolich conceives that it
would be very lite calculated to heal
the acrimonions felting
which is aft to enone
in
a small Comm
Community after much procedings at
after a diangreement
betwees
have recently when plant,
between farblic Office,
Barok, and
of high Ravak would therefore
strongly disapprove
of such conduct.
Jeanaly, Jam to Secondly
that if inform you
the Honal of Commons should think proper to call for Copile of the correspondence betusen Amahout and Sir John Davis on the subject of your enspension from
Office, the tapers will of course be produced, but that
Lord
.
4
Lord Srey
cannot
Boar
of
Trad
undertake to say
that a Motion to
that effect will
be assented to by Amishort an
вне
Lostotip is at prevent ffopinion that the Correspondence had
better not be made public.
Thirdly. Lora Grey
directs me to acquaint
you
that it is quite out of this power to advise the Quan
to Couser upon you
some
!
399
some public
public Mark
of Her Majesty's approbation; and has
as regards your observation that you
may
be detained'
in England to give
information. on matten connected with Hong Konz. Jam
Jam to stakt
+ sees no recur" for your that his Lordship
this pound &
ulention on
A
considers it f
much public
Meurable
importance that you
X
л
should resume the duties of your Office
as soon as
possible.
Bo:
Th
and wishes you therefore there fire prot to
delay your
return
to the Colony.
Lord Corey deares to add that be
is afraid that it
will not be in
his power to give
you
obe interview
which you
have
applied for us his
time is at present Inte
even more
6.
Man
arnally occupied with business of
Jeeping nature.
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thave to acknowle
The receipt frour letter of the
15 the Restart time replay thereto I feel it the my duty to state
Fo that sine mich Lood Grey throngly disapprove en int proceding being
of
Lir fhm Davis in respect of the libel upon my
character I
at oue abandon all intention.
of taking any
buck proceedings Thave further to
my Lord Grey Paro zou
inform my
that as His Lordthic counde
undertake
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That an
undertake of Lay that
C
Custion in the Abode of Common.
for the production of the correttonden between Her Majesty's fovernment & John Davis relative Duny. Authention from Office would meet the assent of ther Majesty's Jovernment. I relinquish the illa A taking any
such stif
At it is condidered
by His Lordships desirable that I should resume my judicial. duties as soon as possible I of course take my departure, for Hong Kong by the Perland Mail of Busted.
пеха much as I could have wished
my
have of absence thave
been
401
been extended from hix to tomotive eight mouth, to as to have escaped at least a portion
of the hot season in
action
in Hong Kong
Refretting that I
have not has the opportuni" ; of expressing in perton my fratitude to Lord frey for the Jothie done me
I have the Lonan the
Tir
Rour Most Redient
Humble Servant.
P... I presume any land to hotter
wik be entitter to this Lalary during
Suspension
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permit the copy of a
I taumit to
mit to you
Letter
acce
whether his Clack is entitled there is a Portscript engining Chief Justice Hulme in whit
adduped to Artaves by
to so
salary
during
ties
quitted this Country for
Suspension from Office.
Mr. Hulme having
question, &
upon you
khong long
to answer
of it will devoluce.
that
acco.
muust depend upon the
lis
resotmessy which &
crcunistences of the case,
I you
+
the
will with Experience no despeitty
in ascertaining ontle spot.
have
ħ
Inday homer absence theat
же
M. Merciale
You will be more competent than I am to rusver the quection contained the P. S. to thie's letter, which is the only part of it which requires san insuer, as I am unaquainted with the practice which pepoils in respect to the appointment of Suche's decks.
Bulme
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could not exanthin
morstand the last question, until I could au I han now 295m him, best he sails this It alpean now that his cluck declined
wvening.
Jacending
to his blick) the provisional Judge
•
to serve andhy W. Camphle
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I apprchend
he has no claims whation for salary. If
on the other hand he un turned out,
then
injustice
ane done to the public,
as there could to no reason why
he shouldt dismissed on account
of his maski's suchensson: and
the salary of the substituted
Hff or B
12.
xireching
him to accurtain this & art accordingly.com Apl 19.
chuck ought not to h sanctioned. I think theropre a despatch
Shuci i willen
M &
DowLam
h
t
is Mr Trotter declined to seme under the Provisional
Indie,
Bos
of
to
тия
Tra
be
Can,
as it appears
have no
laim
whateur to salary; but if in the other hand, he was displaced from his situation
then, I think an injustice
was done himn
Could be no rexten
there
why
be should be dissiped in
account of Mr. Hulme's
Suspension .
Should thus
latter supportion prove
Coned would probably
Correct
Agrowth me that the salary of the Clark substitated
for Mr. Trotter ought not to
be sauctioned, but must
am
be
деву
Judge..
I
the provisionar by
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405
your fondsack.
pelled to appeal to
Ilicial catfacity as
&ede, heller to Mitomatin 6 Jan,
•Zuater to Mafuck this Mor
Coping to 2.0. 12. Jampeg.
X
у ал
rcc
of thate on the
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Counts respecting a scanine for
bensation from the exin demnity fund from Lostes that incurred in the year 1839 by the enfiscation of Wition Pratichly on The bratting but of that ward, I was a resident during
i
event at Canton, and in keane & live
ing that
with the
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memands of
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nce may
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Canton, inting luch Kaherty as I could get
thm.
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and
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I acciding to ass picentar,
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In compliance with Minute of
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[ Vol. 5 - 1844) which contains the Letter referred to by MM.
Martin.
think you
Montgomery
On perusing it I think, with find that if it had been
laid in extenso before Parliament the agreement between this Office and Mr Martin " that the correspondin
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strictly limited to those papers
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26
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by Earl Grey to acknowledg
the receipt of your
Letter
of the 20" Justant, Enclosing a Copy of the Correspondence laid before Parliament- relating to your resignation of the Office of Tiensure of Stony Kong; together. with a copy of your. Evidence before Parliament
ausal the fommercial relations of this Country
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With Mr Martin's Comple
19
348
MR. MONTGOMERY MARTIN.
RETURN to an Address of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 2 July 1847;-for,
"COPY of CORRESPONDENCE of Mr. Montgomery Martin with the Secretary
of State for the Colonies, relating to his RESIGNATION of the Office of Treasurer of Hong Kong."
With Explanatory notes.
Colonial Office, Downing-street,
22 July 1847.
treet,}
743.
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(Viscount Sandon.)
Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed,
23 July 1847.
B. HAWES.
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SCHEDULE.
DATE.
1. R. Montgomery Martin, Esq, to
James Stephen, Esy.
18 July 1844
2. Lord Stanley to Governor Sir J. F.
Davis, Bait.
3. Governor Sir J. F. Davis, Bart.
to Lord Stanley.
4 Lord Stanley to Governor Sir
J. F. Davis, Bart.
5. Governor Sir J. F. Davis, Bart. to
Lord Stanley.
6. Governor Sir J. F. Davis, Bart, to
Lord Stanley.
7. Governor Sir J. F. Davis, Bart. to
Lord Stanley.
SUBJECT.
That a severe attack of illness has obliged him to leave Hong Kong requesting to be permitted to return to England; enclosing Certificate of Colonial Surgeon, recommending that a temporary leave of absence be granted to Mr. Martin
6 Dec. 1844 That be has received a communication from Mr. Martin. requesting to be relieved from the situation of 'Treasurer of Hong Kong; directing the Governor to accept his resignation, should he repeat the offer of it
1 May 1845 Enclosing Letter from Mr. Martin, stating his wish to
continue in office
25 Mar. 1845 Enclosing copy of Communication from Mr. Martin against the retention of Hong Kong as a British Cokmy, and requesting the Governor to report as to the facts, and inferences drawn by Mr. Martin in his statement
25 April 1845 Reasons for dissent from Mr. Martin's views as to Hong Kong; that his statements were exaggerated and partial
24 June 1845 Further with respect to Mr. Martin's statement, enclosing copy of Correspondence with Mr. Martin, and Estimated Revenue of the Colony from 1 April 1845 to 1 April 1846
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No.
DATE.
SUBJECT.
PAGE.
19. Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery
Martin, Esq.
6 April 1846
In reply, that Mr. Secretary Gladstone is not aware of any question depending between Government and Mr. Martin which could be made the subject of a private interview, or of an inquiry either in or out of Parliament
21
PAGE,
20. R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Mr. Secretary Gladstone.
7 April 1846 Quoting remarks from the "Times" Newspaper, in con- firmation of his Report on Hong Kong, and as justifying his coming to England to bring the attairs of China under the consideration of Government
21. Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery 15 April 1846 In reply; that whether the statement in the "Times"
Martin, Esq.
22
Newspaper be accurate or not, it was not the duty of a subordinate Officer at Hong Kong to repair to this country without the consent of the Governor
22
1
22. R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Mr. Secretary Gladstone.
8 April 1846 Further, in explanation of the causes which led to his conditional resignation of office; stating the nature of his intended application to Parliament
22
3
23. Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery 20 April 1845 In reply; Her Majesty's Government will raise no objec-
Martin, Esq.
tion to the production to Parliament of so much of the Correspondence as will not be injurious to individuals, or prejudice Her Majesty's service
24. R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to 16 April 1846 In reply to Letter of 15 April, justifying his conduct in
to Lord Lyttelton.
returning to England
25. Lord Lyttelton to R, Montgomery 22 April 1846 In reply to preceding Letter; that Mr. Secretary Glad-
Martin, Esq.
stone must regard the Correspondence on the subject as baving reached its close
21 April 1846 With reference to Lord Lyttelton's Letter of the 20th instant, requesting that bis Reports on Hong Kong and Chusan may be added to the Papers
27. Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery 30 April 1846 That Lord Lyttelton's Letter of the 20th instant referred
Martin, Esq.
24
24
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25.
26. R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to
Lord Lyttelton.
5
25
8 July 1845 Reporting Mr. Martin's resignation of the office of Colonial
Treasurer, and appointment of Mr. Mercer
10
8. Governor Sir J. F. Davis, Bart, to
Lord Stanley.
9 July 1845 Further, respecting the resignation of Mr. Martin -
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11
exclusively to Correspondence connected with Mr. Martin's resignation; any motion for the production to Parliament of other Papers will be resisted
26
9. R. Montgomery Martin, Esq., to
Lord Stanley.
8 July 1845 Enclosing copy of Correspondence with the Governor of Hong Kong, and soliciting Lord Stanley's consideration of Mr. Martin's statement
28. Petition of R. Montgomery Martin
Esq. to Her Majesty.
1 May 1846 Praying for a full inquiry into his conduct
26
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10. James Stephen, Esq. to R. Mont-
gomery Martin, Esq.
7 Jan. 1846 That Mr. Secretary Gladstone concurs with Lord Stanley
in considering Mr. Martin's resignation as final
29. Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery
Martin, Esq.
12 May 1846 12 May 1846
That Mr. Gladstone has been unable to advise Her Ma-
jesty to accede to the prayer of his Petition
27
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14
30. R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Mr. Secretary Gladstone.
11. R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Mr. Secretary Gladstone.
13 Jan. 1846 That Mr. Martin's tendered resignation was conditional, and dependent on information he had laid before Go- vernment; requesting that his statements may be dis- cussed; suggesting that he does not deserve to be deprived of employment in Her Majesty's service.
13 May 1846 Requesting that his Petition may be referred to the Privy Council, and that he may be permitted, at his own expense, to substantiate the truth of his statements
31. Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery 18 May 1846 In reply; that Her Majesty's Executive Government
Martin, Esq.
-
27
14
12. James Stephen, Esq. to R. Mont- 31 Jan. 1846 That inquiry has been made of Lord Stanley's private
gomery Martin, Esq.
Secretary as to Mr. Martin's statements, and from the reply of Lieut.-colonel Wilbraham, Mr. Secretary Gladstone must regard the resignation of Mr. Marti as finally accepted
must reserve to itself the responsibility for the decision of questions of this nature; the Queen cannot be advised to refer the investigation of his Petition to the Privy Council, or to any Committee thereof
28
15
32. R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to 8 July 1846 On the circumstances upon which he undertook the duties
Earl Grey.
of Treasurer of Hong Kong, requesting Earl Grey's perusal of certain documents, and asking for inquiry into the correctness of his statements
28
13. R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to
S. H. Northcote, Esq.
30 Jan. 1846 Requesting to be informed whether Mr. Secretary Glad- stone will sauction his Reports relative to Hong Kong, Chusan, &c., being laid before Parliament
16
33. B. Hawes, Esq. to R. Montgomery 13 July 1846 In reply, that Lord Grey concurs in the opinion of his
Martin, Esq.
two predecessors in office in regard to the resignation of Mr. Martin
20
14. R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to
James Stephen, Esq.
3 Feb. 1846 In reply to Letter of 31 January, explanatory of his com- munication with Lord Stanley; hoping he will not be denied the means of justifying himself
-
10
34. R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to 14 July 1846 Requesting to be informed of the ground on which his
Earl Grey.
conditional resignation of the Treasurership of Hong Kong was received
29
15. Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery
Martin, Esq.
6 Feb. 1846 In reply to the two preceding Letters; as Mr. Gladstone cannot ascribe any official character to Mr. Martin's Reports, any motion for their production to Parliament will be resisted
35. B. Hawes, Esq. to R. Montgomery
Martin, Esq.
17
21 July 1846 In reply; that Lord Stanley and Mr. Gladstone con- sidered Mr. Martin's resignation as final, and Lord Grey concurs in the view taken by his predecessors
29
16. R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to 2 Mar. 1846 With regard to Mr. Martin's resignation; requesting a
S. H. Northcote, Esq.
17. Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery
Martin, Esq.
18. R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Mr. Secretary Gladstone,
Committee of three gentlemen to be appointed to examine into his conduct in China; forwarding. Abstract and Memorandum of his proceedings there
-
36. R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to
B. Hawes, Esq
18 July 1846 Enclosing copy of Letter to the Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, conveying his conditional resignation of the Treasurership
-
30
17
7 Mar. 1846 That Mr. Secretary Gladstone cannot institute the inquiry
suggested; no advantage can be anticipated from pro longing the discussion
37. B. Hawes, Esq. to R. Montgomery 27 July 1846 In reply; that Lord Grey considers Mr. Martin's coming
Martin, Esq.
to this country as a resignation of his office, and cust regard that resignation as final
30
21
31 Mar. 1846 Submitting a statement of his proceedings in China, and requiring a personal interview to substantiate his state- ments; whether any inquiry into his conduct will be granted, or any opposition offered to a Parliamentary. inquiry
38. R. Moutgomery Martin, Esq. to
Earl Grey.
4 Dec. 1846 Transmitting the First Part of a Report on China, pre- pared by Mr. Martin for the Board of Trade; and ex- pressing a hope that Earl Grey will grant the inquiry sought-
31
21
743.
(continued)
[iv]
No.
DATE.
SUBJECT.
PAGE.
39. R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to
Earl Grey.
1 Jan. 1847
Transmitting Second Part of Mr. Martin's General Re- port on China; that his Letter of the 4th December has not been noticed
31
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40. B. Hawes, Esq. to R. Montgomery 13 Jan 1847 Having nothing to add to the communications made by
Martin, Esq.
his Lordship's predecessors, Lord Grey did not consider it necessary to return an answer to the Letter of the 4th December
32
41. R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to 23 June 1847 Requesting that the Correspondence connected with his
Earl Grey.
resignation from office may be laid before Parliament - 32
42. B. Hawes, Esq. to R. Montgomery 28 June 1847 In reply; on the understanding that the Correspondence.
Martin, Esq.
shall be strictly limited to those Papers which relate to Mr. Martin's resignation, no objection will be raised to its production
32
43. R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to 28 June 1847
Earl Grey.
28 June 1847
That the object of the motion shall be limited to the Cor-
respondence relating to bis conditional resignation of office
2
33
[ 1 ]
COPY of CORRESPONDENCE of Mr. Montgomery Martin with the Secretary of State for the Colonies, relating to his RESIGNATION of the Office of TREASURER Of Hong Kong.
-No. 1.-
424
EXTRACT of a LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq., to J. Stephen, Esq., dated Macao, 18 July 1844.
No. I.
A SEVERE attack of illness obliged me to leave Hong Kong as soon as I could R. Montgomery be moved. My health had been for some time declining, and the colonial Martin, Esq. to surgeon, as you will perceive by the enclosed certificate, ordered me to sea. 18 July 1844.
J. Stephen, Esq. I was preparing to do so when my illness became aggravated. I have slightly rallied here, but am reduced to a skeleton, and the doctor says, a cruise at sea for two months affords the only chance of my recovery, but that my constitution
will not stand this climate. I earnestly implore Lord Stanley to relieve me his letter ought
and permit my return to England. My office here is a useless expense to the
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colony. The whole colonial and consular payments may be made through the have been given. Commissariat (as was the case when I arrived), without one shilling additionalentire, il explains expense. I have arranged the payments and receipts of each colonial and consular office, so that if Lord Stanley wishes to retain a treasurer here, anyin China & shows. man of integrity and common abilities may perform the duties.
My our position: I have laboured long and earnestly for the welfare of my country, and I trust early why dasked that the boon I now seek, of being recalled from a station which is undermining bermission to my constitution, will be granted me by return of post. I have nearly com-return to Ene land pleted my Report on Hong Kong for Lord Stanley. I am collecting materials
England for a Report on the general commerce of China, with separate Reports on the tea and opium trades. I am also collecting materials for a Report on the five consular stations in China. All these will, I trust, contain information useful to Government. I expect to have these ready by Christmas next, by which time I hope to be favoured with Lord Stanley's permission to return to England, and for which I shall feel deeply grateful.
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Enclosure in No. 1.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE.
I no hereby certify, that Robert Montgomery Martin, esq., has been for some time past suffering from general debility, with frequent feverish attacks, and threatenings of dysentery, which render it highly advisable that a temporary absence from Hong Kong should be permitted, and I do strongly advise that leave of absence should be granted to him for six weeks, to proceed to sea or to the N. E. coast.
Victoria, Hong Kong,
3 July 1844.
(signed)
Alexander Anderson,
Colonial Surgeon.
(No. 63.)
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Encl. in No 1.
COPY of a DESPATCH from Lord Stanley to Governor Sir J. F. Davis, Bart.
Downing-street, 6 December 1844.
No. 2.
Lord Stanley to Governor Sir
Sir, MR. STEPHEN has placed in my hands a letter addressed to him by Mr. J. F. Davis. Montgomery Martin, requesting to be relieved from the situation of Treasurer 6 December 1844. of Hong Kong.
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Under the circumstances stated by Mr. Martin, I can have no hesitation in directing you to accept his resignation of his office, should he repeat to you the offer of it; but he must distinctly understand, that it will not be in my power to offer him another situation elsewhere.
In the event of his resignation, you will offer the appointment of treasurer of Hong Kong to Mr. C. Stewart, who, I understand, discharged the duties of the office under an appointment from Sir H. Pottinger, previously to the arrival in the colony of Mr. Martin.
(No. 49.)
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I have, &c. (signed) Stanley.
Cory of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir J. F. Davis, Bart., to Lord Stanley.
My Lord,
Victoria, Hong Kong, 1 May 1845.
On the receipt of your Lordship's despatch, No. 63, of December 6th, relating to the subject of Mr. Treasurer Martin's proffered resignation, I commu- nicated its purport to that gentleman, from whom the enclosed reply has been received, stating his wish to continue in his present office, as long as his health enables him to discharge its dutics.
I need scarcely observe, that repeated recurrences of absence on account of ill health, similar to those which Mr. Martin has already applied for, would produce the most serious embarrassment, from the great difficulty and responsi- bility that must always attend the providing a substitute.
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in accordance with the immediate instructions of the Colonial Serrgeon; I secondly woken for a week it Canton ducking the Easter Holidays, still very weak
Encl. in No. 3.
Sir,
Enclosure in No. 3.
I have, &c. (signed)
J. F. Davis.
Colonial Treasury, 29 April 1845.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt, this day, of your letter, No. 182, request- ing to be informed, "without loss of time, whether I still wish to be relieved from the situation of treasurer of this colony."
When suffering from severe illness and depression in July last, I wrote to Mr. Under- secretary Stephen, and to the best of my recollection expressed a hope that Lord Stanley would be pleased to relieve me, as I found the climate of this island destructive to my health, and as I did not see there was any useful object gained by retaining me here.
By the advice of the colonial surgeon I made a voyage to the N. E. coast of China for six weeks, which temporarily recruited me, but the recurrence of warm weather has pro- duced a return of the symptoms of the disease under which I suffered last year, with aggravated indications, threatening the breaking up of my constitution.
I am unwilling, however, from any personal considerations to abandon my duty, as it appears to be the determination of Her Majesty's Government to maintain a distinct Treasury department for the civil establishment of this island; I shall, therefore, so long as my strength lasts, endeavour to the utmost of my ability to fulfil the trust reposed in me.
I have, &c. (signed)
The Hon. F. W. A. Bruce,
Colonial Secretary.
(True copy.) (signed) Frederick W. A. Bruce.
R. M. Martin.
-No. 4.-
(No. 97.)
OF MR. M. MARTIN, TREASURER OF HONG KONG.
No. 4.
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Copy of a DESPATCH from Lord Stanley to Governor Sir J. F. Davis, Bart.
Sir,
Downing-street, 25 March 1845. WITH reference to my despatch of the 17th* December last, No. 66, I transmit to you herewith, the copy of a further communication addressed to my Under-secretary of State by Mr. Montgomery Martin, repeating in very British strong terms his arguments against the retention of Hong Kong as a colony. I have to request you to report to me your opinion of the accuracy of Mr. Martin's facts, and the inferences which he draws from them; I must also request you to inform Mr. Martin, that it will be impossible for me here- after to take cognizance of any communications from him, unless sent accord- ing to the official regulation, through yourself; and that I regret that it is not in my power to hold out to him the prospect of employment in any other part of Her Majesty's dominions.
Dear Sir,
Enclosure in No. 4.
I have, &c. (signed)
Stanley.
No. 4. Lord Stanley to
Governor Sir
J. F. Davis.
25 March 1845.
20 November 1844.
Hong Kong, 20 November 1844, SINCE I had the honour of addressing you in July, I have been severely afflicted with Encl. in No. 4. fever and diarrhea, and nearly at the point of death. It has pleased an ever-merciful Providence to spare my life, and I returned to Hong Kong from Chusan and the N, E. coast in the beginning of September, with my health somewhat improved, but my frame very debilitated, and I fear my constitution much impaired, at least for a continued resi- dence in a tropical climate. The sickness here this season has been very great, bui excepl- ing the numerous deaths among the troops, the mortality has not been so extensive as last year. The Governor was unwell before he went to Chusan, in September; the Chief Justice was given over, and is now but slowly recovering; his eldest daughter is dead, and his son is going home an invalid. The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Bruce, was almost despaired of, and is still a convalescent on board Her Majesty's ship "Castor." The Auditor, Mr. Shelley, has had fever twice, and is now on sick certificate at Macao. The Surveyor-gene- ral is absent on sick leave; his assistant is nearly as ill as his chief; and the Civil Engineer has had fever twice, and obliged to go to Macao for his health.
I have had two chief clerks since my arrival, one is dead, the other dying, and I was unable to get continuous work for a week out of either. The official accounts and official correspondence of all the departments are in arrear, in concequence of the incapability of the clerks to stand the effects of the climate, which sooner or later undermines the most robust frame, and after a severc illness renders a man utterly unfit for a longer residence in Hong Kong, if mental or bodily labour be required. The troops have suffered and are still suf fering (although cold weather has set in) dreadfully. The returns to the Horse Guards, and the letters of the commanding officer, Major-general D'Aguilar, present a melancholy picture; General D'Aguilar reports, that three years' residence in Hong Kong suffice to destroy, by death, an entire European regiment.
For some time the deaths in Her Majesty's 98th regiment have averaged one man every day; last week six deaths occurred in 24 hours; the strength of the men not in hospital is so reduced, that they are unable to wear a knapsack on parade, and at guard-mounting, the General does not require the troops on the ground to stand with shouldered arms. I have been in the most sickly countries, but never felt anything equal to depressing influence of the climate of Hong Kong, whose unhealthiness is proverbial to the Chinese on the adja- cent main land.
When Lord Stanley honoured me with the offer of treasurer of this colony, I was unwil- ling to appear even ungrateful of his kindness, and resolved under any risk to fulfil the duty assigned me, and to the best of my ability to place his Lordship in possession of such information as might be useful to Her Majesty's Government. With this object in view I prepared (with perfect disinterestedness) a "Report ou Hong Kong," and a "Report on Chusan," which I laid before Mr. Davis, with a respectful request that he would trans- mit these reports to Lord Stanley. Mr. Davis has transmitted the "Report on Hong Kong," to Lord Stanley, and the * Report on Chusan," to the Earl of Aberdeen,
I
pray your early and serious consideration of those reports; I beg your oblivion as to who the writer may be, and that you will view the facts and reasonings therein contained with the comprehensive and far-seeing eye that you possess. Whatever of public reputa-
tion
* Lord Stanley's Despatel of the 17th December 1844, No. 66, acknowledges Sir J. F. Davis's en/ Despatch, enclosing a Report by Mr. M. Martin upon_the_Island of Hong Kong, and the expediency,
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tion may possess, I stake it on the question raised whether Hong Kong or Chusan ought to be the seat of British power in China. I am supported in the views I have taken by Major- Singer a question, general D'Agnilar, by Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, by Brigadier Chesney, by Commissary-general Coffin, by Colonel Campbell, of Her Majesty's 98th, by the chief medical officer, the principal Military Engineer, and by the frank avowal of the French Admiral, and by the United States special Ambassador, that Hong Kong was valueless as a trading emporium, as a military post, or as a colony of any European nation. I believe that Mr. Davis, first opposed my views as to Hong Kong, and that he has thus expressed himself to Lord Stanley; in this he was supported by the Colonial Secretary and Auditor, but since Mr. Davis visited Chusan in September, his views of that place have materially changed, and since the recent illness of Mr. Bruce and Mr. Shelley, their sentiments are mucli altered. Almost every one here has bought building allotments, or own houses, from which they derive a large rental, and they are therefore very adverse to any diminu- tion of Government expenditure, or to any transfer of the seat of Government to Chusati. My
letters to Mr. Trevelyan (which I hope he will show you, as the closing post leaves me no time for detail) will indicate the danger we are in of another war with China.
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The war party are now the cabinet at Pekin; Muchangah, the person most opposed to Europeans, is prime minister; and one of his first measures was the degradation of Keying, on account of his having betrayed the interests of the Chinese Empire to " Barbarians." I have shown, I think, how the possession of Chusan would save the fearful calamity of
another war.
If no effort be made to retain Chusan permanently (although I feel confident it can be done without any breach of treaty), then I respectfully submit there can be no necessity for the British Government expending 100,000l. per annum for mere civil purposes on this barren rock, while the utmost amount of revenue to be raised cannot exceed 10,000 /. a year. If any great future object is to be attained, then let the present large expenditure of blood and treasure go on, and I, for one, will submit to be a cheerful viction for my country's welfare. But I am prepared to prove there can be no justifiable grounds for spending here nearly half a million sterling from the resources of the British Exchequer, and if I do not prove this, let the loss of my official position in Her Majesty's service be the penalty. With the view of placing before Lord Stanley the information I have obtained, I respectfully solicit from his Lordship leave of absence to proceed overland to England, the leave not to exceed six months, and the journey to be defrayed at my own cost. Should I not demonstrate to his Lordship's complete satisfaction, that I was perfectly justified in soliciting this leave, let me be dismissed Her Majesty's service. My duties may be performed by the Commissariat during my absence, as they were before my arrival, or Mr. Mercer, the Governor's private secretary, shall receive half my salary as locum tenens. I an aware of the labour, risk, expense, and above all, the danger I incur of Lord Stanley's displeasure; but confiding in the justness of my views, I will gladly submit to any penalty which may be the forfeiture of my failure. It will add to the obligations you have con- ferred on me, if the answer to this request be transmitted by the ensuing mail which leaves England for China after your receipt of this letter. General D'Aguilar, and the Attorney- general, are favourable to my being permitted leave of absence for six months, to lay my statements before Lord Stanley; but General D'Aguitar is of opinion that Mr. Davis would not grant me the leave I seek, as I would be enabled then by viva voce, to substantiate my own views; for this reason, I have not applied to Mr. Davis, with whom, however, I am on the most friendly terms. The treaty provides for the cession of Chusan to the Chinese Government 25 December 1845; there is therefore no time to be lost on the subject. But if I receive an answer to this letter in April or in May, I would be able to reach England in time to allow of instructions being sent to Mr. Davis, not to restore Chusan until the final decision of Her Majesty's Government be known. Ere that time, I have little doubt that Mr. Davis will become convinced than Chusan alone can be the depository of the British power in China.
Should Lord Stanley not be pleased to comply with my request for six months' leave of absence, and that Chusan be restored to the Chinese, then there can be no necessity for retaining a treasurer here, and incurring a charge of several thousand a year, when the whole of my duties may be transferred to the Commissariat Department. The abolition of my
office may
with public advantage take place.
I say this in perfect sincerity, as I have never permitted my own interests to interfere with what might be conducive to the advantage of the State. I shall therefore have to rely on Lord Stanley's goodness, and entreat his transfer of me to some other position. Here, as a mere cashier of the suus required by the Colonial and Consular services, I could be of no use to Her Majesty's Governinent, and I cannot conscientiously receive 1,200 7. per annum, when I am incapacitated by my position of serving the Crown, or of doing aught which may be creditable to myself.
James Stephen, Esq.
&c. &c. &c.
I remain, &c.
(signed) R. M. Martin.
OF MR. M. MARTIN, TREASURER OF HONG KONG.
(No. 44.)
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EXTRACT of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir J. F. Davis, Bart., to Lord Stanley; dated Victoria, Hong Kong, 25 April 1845.
No. 5.
IN despatch No. 66, of the 17th December, your Lordship desires me to Governor Sir furnish a report as to the points on which I dissent from the views stated by J. F. Davis to Mr. Martin, in a paper of observations which I forwarded at that gentleman's Lord Stanley.
25 April 1845- request.
Colony
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objections to Hong Kong are founded on an apprehension of its peculiar unhealthiness, the improbability of raising a local revenue, and its inutility as a an entrepôt for trade; I shall endeavour to show that his statements were Political Station, exaggerated and partial, and I am still of opinion that Mr. Martin wrote under a feeling of strong prejudice, founded in apprehensions for his personal health, regarding which he is remarkably sensitive, and on account of which he has had more leave of absence than any individual in the service. Your Lordship Untrue! will have observed in that gentleman's paper, that he suggests the expediency
of his being provided for in some other colony.
(No. 85.)
No. 6.
No. 6.
Copy of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir J. F. Davis, Bart., to Lord Stanley.
My Lord,
Victoria, Hong Kong, 24 June 1845. WITH reference to your Lordship's despatch, No. 97, of March 25th, forward- Governor Sir ing copy of a letter from Mr. Martin to the Under-secretary of State; I beg J. F. Davis to to observe, that my despatch No. 44, of April 25th, will have anticipated much Lord Stanley. that I might have said in answer to that letter, although the nature of some of 24 June 18.45. its statements requires a specific notice.
Lover? Davis Mr. Martin commences with the climate, observing, however, that "the requested the mortality has not been so extensive as last year." Among the victims to sick-Colon Surgeon ness before he wrote, he enumerates myself, whom your Lordship may deem hot to tention
Kis dllnesse competent to deny the fact; and to add, that I never for a single day was unequal to my work. It is singular, that of a list of other official persons whom most of them he enumerates as labouring under attacks that render persons "utterly unfit for a longer residence, if mental or bodily labour be required," the whole number Come to England are now at their duties. These are, the Chief Justice, the Colonial Secretary,
Colon Vert the Auditor, the Surveyor general, and the Clerk of the Works. Mr. Martin Untrue. In race himself, not being able to obtain a sick certificate, addressed to me the enclosed/Coton & Surgion
application for leave of absence on other grounds, which by my answer also would have
have since
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He even states that my views opinions as the alleged supporters of his own. had changed after a visit to Chusan, a place with which I was perfectly well acquainted before. He very improperly observes, that the sentiments of Messrs. Bruce and Shelley on a public question had been altered by "a recent illness;" and 743-
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and I believe that most of the other authorities whom he cites would be found, on trial, to be no better supporters of Mr. Martin, than the Major-general above quoted.
But, I do not believe that a worse supporter of Mr. Martin's opinions could be found than the treasurer himself. Of Hong Kong he inconsistently, but most truly, observes, "almost every one here has bought building allotments, or own houses from which they derive a large rental (sic), and they are therefore very adverse to any diminution of Government expenditure, or to any transfer of the seat of government to Chusan." If the colonists are the best judges of their hopeless colony. own interests, your Lordship will perhaps consider this as a strange account of a
My surprise, on reading in Mr. Martin's letter, that we are "in danger of another war with China," could only be equalled by what I felt at his proposal that this should be averted by retaining Chusan, that is, violating the treaty of peace. If we are so near another war, I have been strangely remiss in not preparing your Lordship and the Earl of Aberdeen for the contingency. The fine levied on Keying (to which Mr. Martin alludes), was merely one mode of helping to recruit the desperate state of the Chinese finances. The Chinese Ministers' treaties with America and France have since been ratified by the Emperor, and he has been raised to the rank of a Cabinet Minister, for quietly preventing the French and American squadrons approaching the Peiho. With the observance of ordinary justice and moderation, though with a due assertion of our rights, I know of no country on earth with which war is so little probable. as China. During more than a year's diplomatic intercourse with the Govern- ~ment, I have, without once hinting at such an alternative, maintained the rights of our Consuls at Foochow-foo and Amoy, resisted monopolies and impositions on the trade, and asserted the Queen's sovereignty over this island; and, if a knowledge of the proper reserve to be maintained in the exercise of my high duties had not been sufficient, the very terror which the Chinese entertain of any recurrence to past scenes might have influenced a person of common generosity to abstain from any unnecessary allusion to the last alternative.
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I now descend to matters more within Mr. Martin's scope and experience, but in regard to which he is scarcely more fortunate. He states 10,000l. to be the utmost amount of revenue to be ever attainable, and his own estimate for the current year enclosed, is nearly 18,000, but much below what may be be obtained from the Crown Lands, and the rent-roll already exceeds 13,000/ expected. In another paper he predicted that more than 5,000/. could never
When he applies the magnifying end of the glass, with reference to expenditure, menopolies imfor he talks of spending "nearly half a million sterling" on this colony; while my For my statement despatch No. 79, of the 14th instant, will show that the whole estimated charge The revenue wed for public works, required subsequent to my arrival (supposing them to be all not amount authorized) will be 96,1457, to be completed in the course of the next two £10,000 2:Annum years.
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24 June, No. 3.
Having thus, and in a previous despatch, No. 44, disposed of Mr. Martin's facts, I will leave his inferences to shift for themselves; and if I am accustomed to make less frequent allusions than the Treasurer in his letter to the effects of "a tropical climate," to "my perfect disinterestedness," to "my perfect sincerity," and to my readiness to be "a cheerfu! victim for my country's good," I hope your Lordship's knowledge of mankind will not give you a worse opinion of me on that account.
I will conclude by observing, that I cannot understand how the recommen- dation, that the Treasurer's business be transferred to the Commissariat, could be carried out; for if a treasurer is necessary in every other colony, he could hardly be dispensed with in this, when the Consular accounts are superadded to the Colonial. At the same time, if Mr. Martin's great wish, as he declares, is to be "transferred to some other position," I have every personal motive for wishing him success, if it were only to be relieved from much unprofitable discussion, while two distinct departments require my constant attention.
The enclosed letter has just reached me from Mr. Martin, declaring his intention of proceeding home without leave (in fact resigning) for the reasons he states. There is no proper person to substitute in his place, pending Mr. Stewart's arrival, except my private secretary, Mr. Mercer, whose father, a gentlemen
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OF MR. M. MARTIN, TREASURER OF HONG KONG. gentleman of fortune, has tendered security to the amount of 10,0007. for his son, in any official situation. At the same time, Mr. Martin's securities must also be considered responsible. Relative of Gover? Davis, to whom he
I have, &c. Tory anxious to
situation which (signed) has beer vachnt his year
J. F. Davis.
Enclosure 1, in No. 6.
Colonial Treasury, Hong Kong, 18 June 1845.
Sir,
IN my recent "Minute on the British Position and Prospects in China," I ventured to Encl. 1, in No. 6. indicate, according to the best of my judgment, the mistakes committed during our past negotiations with the Chinese authorities, to demonstrate the apparent defects of our present policy, and to point out in some respects the course which it seems advisable to pursue previous to the evacuation of Chusan in February next.
Having devoted 20 years to an investigation of our colonial and commercial relations, I believe that my opinions thereon receive some attention at home, and that when Her Majesty's Government, unsolicitedly, selected me for office in China, it was expected I would be enabled to collect useful information.
Desirous of justifying the confidence reposed in me, I prepared and submitted several reports and documents to your Excellency, and these, together with a Commercial Report which I am framing for the Lords' Committee of the Privy Council for Trade, will I hope demonstrate that I have minutely examined affairs in China.
Although several of the conclusions at which I have arrived, after anxious investigation, may be at variance with those emanating from high authority, I trust I may without arro- gance ask a full and fair hearing for opinions originating in integrity of motive, and a solicitude to ascertain what would be most conducive to the trade and permanent interests of the British empire.
Being therefore convinced that an immediate investigation of our Anglo-Chinese policy is of the highest importance on general as well as on financial and commercial considera- tions; aware that the sentiments I entertain find little concurrence in England from several gentlemen who recently filled office in China, and thinking that Her Majesty's Government have been acting under some erroneous impressions, I am very desirous of personally placing before Her Majesty's Ministers the information collected, and the opinions thence deduced, after visiting every part of China accessible to Europeans.
For this purpose I have the honour to solicit from your Excellency leave of absence for six months, on the following terms; viz.-
1st. That I draw no salary for these six months.
2d. That I defray my own expenses to England.
3d. That if Her Majesty's Government decide there were no justifiable grounds for this application, that I resign my present office.
By granting my request no detriment whatever can accrue to the public service.
The treasury accounts are close up, the books are daily balanced, and all the required returns will be made to the 30th June.
I believe the payments on account of public works will be comparatively small for the next six months (or until final orders from home,) and I am certain that with ordinary care no delay or embarrassment can arise in the Treasury Accounts.
Confiding in the importance of the information which I believe it to be in my power to convey, and in the probability of its being duly appreciated by Her Majesty's Ministers, I ask permission to forego all my salary, to incur considerable expense, and to destroy, per- haps, my remaining strength by travelling during this hot and adverse season; and further, propose to risk my commission in Her Majesty's service, in order that I may have an opportunity of communicating personally to the authorities at home the result of my inquiries in this country.
I
His Excellency J. F. Davis,
Governor of Hong Kong, &c. &c. &c.
Sir,
1 have, &c. (signed)
Robert M. Martin.
Enclosure 2, in No. 6.
Colonial Office, Victoria, Hong Kong,
19 June 1845.
I AM directed by his Excellency the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your Encl. 2, in No. 6. letter of yesterday's date, and to send you this reply.
The object of your present application is, to obtain the Governor's sanction to proceed- ing home for the reasons stated by you.
The regulations as to leave of absence by which the Governor is bound, are clear and peremptory, confining such leave to cases of serious indisposition requiring a change of
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climate. But it is plain that such is not your own case, as among the personal sacrifices which you state you are ready to make for the public benefit, is the probable injury to your health, in quitting Hong Kong at the commencement of the hot season, to proceed to England.
Lord Stanley having appointed you to the responsible office of Colonial Treasurer, the substitution without absolute necessity, of any other person in your place, is an act of responsibility on his own part which the Governor does not feel justified in incurring.
Giving you full credit for all that you claim for yourself in the letter under reply, the Governor is bound to state that he has not received the slightest intimation from Her Majesty's Government (which alone can authorize his acts) concerning your employ- ment in the ways which you mention. Every paper, however, that you thought fit to offer has been forwarded home to the Colonial and Foreign Offices, and the same mode of com- municating your sentiments, in the fullest manner in writing, is always open to you. At each of the five consulates, a gentleman bearing Her Majesty's commission as Consul, has been placed for the express purpose of supplying the fullest and most careful information, and it is the duty of the Governor, as Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent, to report this to Her Majesty's Government, with a previous experience of Chinese diplomacy and commerce not inferior to your own.
Until, therefore, a stronger case of necessity can be made out than the one conveyed in your letter, the Governor, with the unanimous concurrence of the Executive Council, regrets his inability to sustain that degree of responsibility which must always attach to his acts where they deviate materially from the plain course indicated by his instructions and the usages of the service.
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OF MR. M. MARTIN, TREASURER OF HONG KONG. Feeling strongly on these points as of high national importance, and believing that, however humble my rauk in Her Majesty's service, it is my bounden duty to my Sovereign to bring them under the early and serious consideration of Her Majesty's Ministers, and deeming that my personal attendance is indispensable to answer questions on the spot, and to explain various points which, even if time permitted, could not be done by a lengthened and tedious correspondence, I have resolved to undergo the responsibility of proceeding to England, to bring the whole question under the immediate attention of Her Majesty's Government; and I cannot help entertaining a confident hope, that when the magnitude and pressing exigency of the case is fully seen and understood, and the motives in which my conduct has originated been explained, I may rely on the justice and liberality of Lord Stanley and Her Majesty's Ministers.
My accounts are made up, and the monies under my charge ready to be transferred, on the half year ending 30th instant, to whomsoever his Excellency may be pleased to direct to officiate as Treasurer.
The Honourable F. W. A. Bruce,
Colonial Secretary.
I have, &c. (signed)
R. M. Martin.
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R. M. Martin, Esq., Colonial Treasurer,
Sir,
&c. &c.
I bave, &c. (signed)
Frederich W. A. Bruce,
Colonial Secretary.
Enclosure 3, in No. 6.
Colonial Treasury, Hong Kong, 24 June 1845.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th instant, conveying to me the refusal of his Excellency the Governor to my application for six months' leave of absence, on the following grounds :-
1. "That the regulations by which the Governor is bound, as to leave of absence, are clear and peremptory, confining such leave to cases of serious indisposition requiring change of climate."
2. That "his Excellency does not feel justified in incurring an act of responsibility by the substitution of another person in my place," &c.
3. That "by granting the leave sought, his Excellency would materially deviate from the usages of the service."
In reply, I beg to observe that, 1st. the words of the Regulations (c. iv. p. 25) are "leave of absence should be confined as much as possible to cases of serious indisposition requiring change of climate." The regulations then proceed to define when leave of absence should be granted on private affairs. A fortiori, leave may be granted on public.
affairs.
2d. By granting the leave sought, no responsibility whatever would be incurred by his Excellency, as my sureties would stand good during my absence, as well as those of my locum tenens.
3d. By the usages of the service, colonial officers frequently obtain leave of absence to proceed to England, irrespective of sickness.
But even were the regulations clear and peremptory against leave of absence being granted except in cases of imminently fatal illness, I venture to think that the novel and peculiar position of Great Britain in China, the nature and prospects of this island as a new settlement, and the many years I have devoted to the study and personal exami- nation of other colonies, and to an investigation of the commercial and financial relations of England, might have rendered me an exception to the general rule, particularly as my temporary absence could be no detriment to the public service, and as I offered to take upon myself all the responsibility of my proceedings.
I put aside the question of my health (although it has been materially shaken by my residence and mental labours here). Life or death is of little moment compared with the great interests which England has at stake in China. These interests are too vast and and pro- pressing to be affected by individual considerations, or by the ordinary usages ceedings of the service, which are applicable to every day occurrences,
Whether I am right or wrong, I have endeavoured to demonstrate in my reports and minutes, that our affairs in China require immediate and special reconsideration and revi- sion; that time and experience have made manifest several mistakes, which if not rectified previous to the evacuation of Chusan, in February or March next, will be a subject of deep regret and serious injury; and that our policy and proceedings are not productive of the extended beneficial results which the British nation has a right to expect in China, and not commensurate with the large expenditure incurred on this coast.
Feeling
not paid Only promcised/
Deduct deposits on purchases
Remains due for 1845-46
Fees on leases for transfers, &c.
Crown Rents.-Sold to June 1844 Sales in July 1844
Will not be paid
Sales in December 1844 to Chinese
Ditto to Europeans
Will not be paid
Enclosure 4, in No. 6.
ESTIMATED REVENUE OF THE COLONY OF Hong Kong,
from 1st April 1845 to 1st April 1846.
+ som June 1841)
£. 2,323 550
£.
Encl. 4, in No. 6.
2. Of this Turn only 9,000 £400 was paid
into 14. M's. Treasury
1,773
290
on my arrival.
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11,384
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1,405
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1,774
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364
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£.
1,369
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300
100
150
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17,882
(signed)
R. M. Martin.
(True Copy.)
(signed)
Frederick W. A. Bruce.
Licenses.-Pawnbrokers, 5 in number at $250 each
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No. 7.
Governor Sir
Lord Stanley.
J. F. Davis to
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8 July, No. 2.
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CORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO THE RESIGNATION
(No. 93.)
No. 7.
COPY of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir J. F. Davis, Bart. to Lord Stanley.
My Lord,
Victoria, Hong Kong, 8 July 1845.
I HAVE the honour to enclose, for your Lordship's information, a copy of Mr. Martin's letter tendering his resignation of the office of Treasurer; which resignation I have accepted according to your Lordship's authority before. conveyed to me.
In my reply, also enclosed, I have informed Mr. Martin that, although I could not sanction his proceeding home without a sick certificate, nor recognize those pleas which he had advanced for leave of absence on points which had no concern whatever with his official duties, I was at liberty to accept his resignation, by which he quits his office on his own responsibility.
Mr. Martin has been directed to deliver the cash in his charge to a Commit- tee of Survey, composed of the Auditor, Mr. Mercer and Mr. D'Almada, There is no person to whom I can entrust the office of Treasurer, thus vacated, except Mr. Mercer, who will hold it pending Mr. Stewart's arrival, or your Lordship's further commands, having produced abundant security as I before. had the honour to report. Mr. Martin proceeds home immediately over- land.
I have, &c.
(signed) J. F. Davis.
P. S.-I beg to draw your Lordship's attention to the concluding paragraph of my reply to Mr. Martin, in which I inform that gentleman that I cannot, without authority from home, comply with his request to be furnished with copies of voluminous public documents, and I accordingly await your Lordship's instructions for my guidance on this and other similar occasions.
J. F. D.
Enclosure 1, in No. 7.
Sir,
Colonial Treasury, Hong Kong, 8 July 1845. THE decision of his Excellency the Governor on my letters of 18th and 24th ultimo, refusing me leave of absence for six months on public business, and with a view to what I deem the public good, compels me most reluctantly to adopt the only alternative of requesting his Excellency to receive my resignation as Her Majesty's Treasurer for the Colonial and Diplomatic services in China, until I can bring the subject, through the Secretary of State for the Colonies, under the consideration of my Sovereign, who was graciously pleased to appoint me to the important office and trust which I have now the honour to place in the hands of his Excellency.
My quarterly accounts are made up to the 30th of June 1845, declared before a magis- trate, and passed by the auditor.
The Governor Racined that his Excellency will state to whom I am to transfer the accounts and books of my I beg that a Board may be appointed to receive from me the monies under my charge, read & approved! department, and the vouchers of payments made by me since 30th day of June last.
the @raft letter
Encl. 2, in No. 7.
In order that I may be enabled to pass my accounts in England, and to receive for myself and for my sureties the Exchequer quietus, I have the honour to request that a copy of my Day Cash Book be furnished me froin this office.
The Honourable F. W. A. Bruce,
Colonial Secretary.
Enclosure 2, in No. 7.
I have, &c.
(signed)
R. M. Martin.
Colonial Office, Victoria, Hong Kong, 8 July 1845.
Sir, In reply to your letter, tendering your resignation of the appointment of Treasurer, I am directed by his Excellency the Governor to state, that although he could not authorize your absence, without a sick certificate, from your duties (a step which would have rendered himself responsible for their performance), his Excellency has been duly empowered by Lord Stanley to accept your resignation, if tendered, (as you have already been informed,) and he accepts it accordingly.
The only person at present in the colony whom his Excellency can appoint to the office which you have thus vacated is Mr. Mercer. That gentleman, together with the Auditor and Mr. D'Almada, will receive from you the monies under your charge, and to Mr. Mercer you will transfer the Colonial Accounts, with the vouchers for payments made by you since June 30th..
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OF MR. M. MARTIN, TREASURER OF HONG KONG.
11
You must be aware that the few hours that will elapse previous to your embarkation in the "Lanrick" would, under any circumstances, be insufficient for transcribing the voluminous book of which you request a copy; but as his Excellency entertains doubts as to its being within the limits of his discretion to allow copies of public documents to be withdrawn by any officer on his departure, he will refer your request for Lord Stanley's decision by the present despatch.
(No. 95.)
I have, &c.
A. E. Shelley, Acting Colonial Secretary.
(signed)
(True copy.) A. E. Shelley,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
No. 8.
No. 8.
J. F. Davis to Lord Stanley.
Copy of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir J. F. Davis, Bart. to Lord Stanley. Governor Sir
My Lord,
Victoria, Hong Kong, 9 July 1845. I AM Sorry to trouble your Lordship with another despatch relating to Mr. Martin, but that gentleman, after his embarkation yesterday, caused to be 9 July 1845- conveyed to me this morning the enclosed copy of a letter to your Lordship, in breach (as it appears to myself) of the following section of the Colonial Regulations (page 49) :-
"The practice which has in some instances been adopted of addressing memorials direct to this office, and only sending copies of them to the Governor on the eve of the departure of the vessel which is to convey them, will not be recognized as a proper course of communication, and must not be repeated."
The sub-enclosures in Mr. Martin's letter (which has no date of the month, and being sent from the ship is headed" Colonial Treasury,") have already been forwarded with my previous correspondence (Nos. 85 and 93) in relation to that gentleman, and your Lordship may, therefore, not wish them to be repeated in the duplicate of this despatch, as they would, in fact, constitute quadruplicate copies.
I need not occupy your Lordship's time by dwelling on the enclosed letter of Mr. Martin, as it merely repeats his previous statements as to the necessity of retaining Chusan, &c. His assertion as to having "recently ascertained that Governor Davis is proposing for your Lordship's sanction a further expen- diture of half a million of dollars," is disproved by a simple reference to my despatch No. 79, of 14th June, where the following is the total amount proposed :-
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31,312 Amater made & sont in 30,937
£. 62,249
I could not grant Mr. Martin leave of absence without incurring an uncalled- some whatever for degree of responsibility, as he had been only a year in the colony, enjoyed such health as precluded the possibility of obtaining a medical certificate, and Churned had been appointed by your Lordship to an office involving pecuniary liabili-
ties. He has had more leave of absence by far than any other member of the Infruz. colony, not one of his numerous applications to proceed to the north, to Canton, &c., having been denied. His allusions, therefore, to harsh treatment are hardly justified.
I need not observe, that his resignation of office and his departure to Eng- land are the most perfect acts of free will, and that the public reasons which he assigns for quitting his post without leave, as far they are intelligible, have no concern whatever with his proper duties as Treasurer.
You
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I have, &c. (signed)
J. F. Davis.
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12 CORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO THE RESIGNATION
430
No. 9.
Martin, Esq., to
R. Montgomery
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Lord Stanley. 8 July 1845.
Nos. 1 to 6.
No. 1, of 18 June 1845.
7. Vide p.
No. 2, of 19 June 1845.
Vide p. 7.
Nos, 3 & 4,
of 24 June 1845. Vide pp. 8, 13.
No. 5, of 8 July 1845. Vide p. 10.
No. 9.
Copy of a LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq., to Lord Stanley.
My Lord,
Colonial Treasury, Hong Kong, 8 July 1845.
I HAVE the honour to solicit your Lordship's persual of the enclosed. correspondence with Governor Davis, and a consideration of the following
statement.
Soon after my arrival in this Island I observed that there had been a large and unnecessary expenditure of the public money here, which expenditure had been greatly facilitated by the power of arresting portions of the Chinese Indemnity Money, in its transit to the Home Exchequer.
Perceiving that this disbursement was daily augmenting, I felt it to be my duty, even at the hazard of losing what I much covet-the confidence and your Lordship-to state openly my opinions to my superiors, and to support of substantiate them by facts relative to the true nature and value of Hong Kong, and to its necessary concomitant, the British position and prospects in China."
The reports, minutes and papers, written in support of these opinions, were transmitted either to your Lordship, to the Secretary of State for Foreign. Affairs, or to the Lords of the Treasury; and, as I understood, they were pro- ducing some effect at home, by suggesting various inquiries, and by causing a check to be put upon the expenditure here; I resolved, although my health and constitution has been much impaired by this climate, to await the result of those inquiries, and the correction of errors which time and circumstances generally induce.
Having, however, recently ascertained that Governor Davis is proposing for your Lordship's sanction a further expenditure of half a million of dollars for civil works here, irrespective of the unnecessary extent of outlay incurred and projected in the Military and Ordnance Departments, believing that Her Majesty's Government must be under great misapprehension relative to the value of Hong Kong, and to the present state of our affairs in China, and understanding that it is intended to evacuate Chusan in February or March next, without any attempt or negotiation for the retention of that most valuable and important island (worthy of being an Anglo-Chinese colony), I applied to Governor Davis for six months' leave of absence on public grounds in order that I might bring the whole subject under a complete and unbiassed investi- gation, and thus, if possible, timely correct what are deemed primary errors of national importance. That the question might be placed above personal con- siderations, I offered to give up all my salary, to defray my own expenses to England; to continue my bonds of pecuniary security to the Crown, and to forfeit my commission in Her Majesty's service, should my application for leave of absence be disapproved of at home. The Governor refused the leave sought on the plea that I was not dying, and requiring change of climate, a decision as shown in the accompanying correspondence, contrary to the obvious. meaning of the Government Instructions (ch. 4, p. 25), and which, if thus inter- preted, would make every colonial servant of the Crown an exile for life, or subject to the caprice, favouritism or vindictiveness of any colonial governor.
The yet unsettled state of the British affairs in China; the very short time intervening for their imperatively required better arrangement, previous to the contemplated evacation of Chusan, when our expenditure of every description ought to undergo the most careful revision and retrenchment; the desire to prevent an intended expenditure of half a million dollars for civil works, and other unnecessary projected outlays; a conscientious belief, that as a sworn servant of the Crown, I am bound to lay all the information I have collected before Her Majesty's Ministers, and that I can only effectually do so, without further loss of time in person, have compelled me to adopt the only alterna- tive in my power; namely, to place in the hands of Governor Davis my conditional resiguation as Her Majesty's Treasurer for the Colonial and Diplomatic service in China, in order that I may at once bring the whole matter under the full and fair consideration of your Lordship, and be on the spot in case of necessity for reference.
OF MR. M. MARTIN, TREASURER OF HONG KONG,
13
I will not advert to myself personally, to any treatment which I have experienced, or to any misinterpretation or misrepresentation of motives
my and conduct; these are points of comparatively little moment.
But I do confidently hope that the newness and vast importance of our position in China, the still partial blending of colonial, diplomatic and com- mercial affairs here, the possible imperfections of individual judgment arising from various interests and from natural causes, and the advantages conse- quently derivable to the state from a minute examination and exposition of our affairs in the most distant, most complex, and yet least understood settlement and relations of the British Crown, may induce your Lordship to grant, under the peculiar circumstances of the case, and on public grounds, a court of inquiry previous to the acceptance by my Sovereign of the responsible com- mission with which Her Majesty was graciously pleased to invest me.
I have, &c.
Robert M. Martin.
(signed)
Enclosure 1, in No. 9.
Copy of a LETTER from R. M. Martin, Esq., to Governor Davis, dated Colonial Treasury, Encl. 1, in No. 9.
Hong Kong, 18 June 1845:-Printed at page 7.
Enclosure 2, in No. 9.
Copy of a LETTER from the Colonial Secretary to R. M. Martin, Esq., dated Victoria, Encl. 2, in No. 9.
Hong Kong, 19 June 1845:-Printed at page 7.
Enclosure 3, in No. 9.
Copy of a LETTER from R. M. Martin, Esq., to the Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, Encl. 3, in No. 9.
dated Colonial Treasury, Hong Kong, 24 June 1845 :-Printed at page 8.
Sir,
Enclosure 4, in No. 9.
Colonial Office, Victoria, Hong Kong,
24 June 1845.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of to-day's date, which has been duly laid before his Excellency the Governor for his consideration."
In reply, I am directed by his Excellency to refer you to his decision upon the subject conveyed in my letter of the 19th instant.
R. M. Martin, Esq. &c. &c. &c.
I have, &c. (signed)
Frederick W. A. Bruce,
Colonial Secretary.
Enclosure 5, in No. 9.
Encl. 4, in No. 9.
Copy of a LETTER from R. M. Martin, Esq., to the Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, Encl. 5, in No. 9.
dated Colonial Treasury, Hong Kong, 8 July 1845 :-Printed at page 10.
Sir,
Enclosure 6, in No. 9.
Colonial Treasury, Hong Kong, 8 July 1845- I HAVE the honour to solicit that your Excellency will be pleased to transmit the accompanying letter and its enclosures to the Right honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, at your earliest convenience.
His Excellency John Francis Davis, Esq., Governor of Hong Kong.
(signed)
I have, &c.
Robert M. Martin.
Encl. 6, in No. 9.
I will
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OF MR. M. MARTIN, TREASURER OF HONG KONG.
No. 12.-
15
431
No. 10.
James Stephen, Esq to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.
7 January 1846.
- No. 10.
10.-
COPY of a LETTER from James Stephen, Esq. to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.
Sir,
Downing-street, 7 January 1846.
1 AM directed by Mr. Secretary Gladstone to inform you, that he has had under his consideration the despatches from the Governor of Hong Kong and your own letters, explaining the circumstances under which you resigned your office of Treasurer of that colony, in order to come to this country to lay certain representations respecting IIong Kong before Her Majesty's Govern-
ment.
Mr. Gladstone finds, that after a full consideration of the circumstances, Lord Stanley, according to the records of this office, appears to have regarded your resignation of office as final, and Mr. Gladstone desires me to add, that he concurs with Lord Stanley in thinking that, after what has passed on the subject, no other character can be ascribed to it.
(signed)
I have, &c.
Jas. Stephen.
COPY of a LETTER from James Stephen, Esq. to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.
Sir,
Downing-street, 31 January 1846.
I HAVE laid before Mr. Secretary Gladstone your letter to me of the 13th instant, in which you state that "Lord Stanley informed you by letter, that in compliance with your request he had not formally accepted your resignation," and you add, that "on the 28th November last his Lordship observed, that he could not discuss with you the statements you transmitted on Hong Kong, as it had been resolved to make them a subject for the deliberation of the Cabinet.
*
On perusing this letter, Mr. Gladstone directed me to write to Lieutenant- colonel Wilbraham, who had acted as Lord Stanley's Private Secretary, to ascertain whether it was in his power to throw any light on the contradiction between the statements I have thus quoted, and the documents remaining in this office in Lord Stanley's hand-writing.
On the 27th instant, Colonel Wilbraham addressed to me his answer to that inquiry in a letter of that date, a copy of which, by Mr. Gladstone's direction, I enclose for your information. Mr. Gladstone desires me to add, that he must consider this statement from Colonel Wilbraham as closing the discussion respecting the resignation of your office as Treasurer of Hong Kong; and that he must regard that resignation as having been finally, and therefore irrevocably accepted by Lord Stanley.
I have, &c. (signed) Jas, Stephen.
No. 12. James Stephen, Martin, Esq. Esq. to R. M.
31 January 1846,
27 January 1846.
No. 11.
R. Montgomery Martin, Esq., to
Mr. Secretary
Gladstone.
-No. 11.-
Cory of a LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Mr. Secretary
Sir,
Gladstone.
Poloe, near Glasgow, 13 January 1846.
In reply to Mr. Under-secretary Stephen's letter of 7th instant, I beg to refer to my correspondence with Governor Davis of 18th and 24th June and 8th July last, by which it will be seen that the tendered resignation of the office.
13 January 1846. of Treasurer of Hong Kong was constrained, conditional and dependent on the information I laid before Her Majesty's Government being deemed insufficient to justify my coming to England.
In my letter to Lord Stanley from Hong Kong of 8th July last, I asked hist Lordship to suspend decision until he had personally heard my statements, and to grant an inquiry previous to accepting my resignation.
Lord Stanley informed me by letter, that "in compliance with my request, he had not formally accepted my resignation," and on 28th November last his Lordship observed, that he could not discuss with me the statements I trans- mitted on Hong Kong, as it had been resolved to make them a subject for the deliberation of the cabinet.
Under these circumstances, it is submitted, that I was fully justified in coming to England in July last to make what have been deemed important repre- sentations to Lord Stanley, Lord Aberdeen, Mr. Goulburn and the Lords of the Treasury, previous to the treaty of Nankin settled in January or February 1846; and it is consequently respectfully suggested, that I do not deserve to forfeit my commission, and be deprived of employment in Her Majesty's service, after having usefully, zealously and at no inconsiderable. hazard and sacrifices, done my duty as a faithful servant of the Crown in China, whither I am again prepared to proceed when ordered.
Relying on your equitable consideration, and with the request that as my official statements have been made the subject of cabinet discussion, so also will be this letter, and my removal or otherwise from Her Majesty's Service.
I have, &c. (signed) R. M. Martin.
My dear Sir,
Enclosure in No. 12.
55, Portland-place, 27 January 1846.
In answer to your letter of the 21st instant on the subject of Mr. Montgomery Martin's resignation of the treasurership of Hong Kong, I beg to say, that the only communica- tion with him that I am aware of, was a letter which I wrote to him from Lancashire on the 13th November last, by desire of Lord Stanley, and which I presume he refers to in the extract of his letter of the 13th January last, which you have sent me, where he states that "Lord Stanley informed me by letter," that "in compliance with my request, he had not formally accepted my resignation."
The words of my letter of November 13th, after saying that Lord Stanley would on his return to town give him the interview he requested, were "Colonel Wilbraham is desired by Lord Stanley to add, that in compliance with Mr. Martin's wishes, he has delayed the formal acceptance of his resignation of the Treasurership of Hong Kong, though he considers the resignation as final."
*C
With reference to Mr. Martin's statement, that at the subsequent interview Lord Stanley observed, that he could not discuss with (him) the statements (be) transmitted on Hong Kong, as it had been resolved to make them a subject for the deliberation of the Cabinet; I am desired by Lord Stanley to say, that Mr. Martin must have greatly mis- understood him, as his expression to Mr. Martin was, that the matters on which Mr. Martin had written to him, such as the evacuation of Chusan, &c., were such as he could not discuss with Mr. Martin, they being properly subjects for the consideration of the Cabinet; an expression which bears a very different meaning from the construction which Mr. Martin appears to have put upon it.
Lord Stanley has further desired me to observe, that at the interview, Mr. Martin did not say a word to him about the coufirmation or otherwise of his resignation; but expressed himself to the effect that he knew he had committed faults, and must bear the penalty of them.
Jas. Stephen, Esq.
&c. &c. &c.
I remain, &c. (signed)
E. B. Wilbraham.
Encl. in No. 12.
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-No. 13.
OF MR. M. MARTIN, TREASURER OF HONG KONG.
No. 15.
17
432
:
No. 13.
R. M. Martin, Esq.
to 8. H. Northcote, Esq. 30 January 1846.
No. 14-
R. M. Martin, Esq., to James Stephen, Esq.
3 February 1846.
COPY of a LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to S. H. Northcote, Esq.
Sir,
29, Bloomsbury-square, 30 January 1846. In reply to your note of yesterday, I beg to inquire whether Mr. Secretary Gladstone will sanction there being laid before Parliament my Report on Hong Kong (24 July 1844), Report on Chusan (30 August 1844), and Minute on the British Position and Prospects in China (19 April 1845). These were all transmitted officially to Governor Davis, with accompanying letters, and were forwarded by the Governor to Her Majesty's Ministers.
As I have been kept nearly three months in suspense in England, an early reply will add to the obligations conferred on, Sir,
Yours, &c.
(signed)
No. 14.
R. M. Martin.
COPY of a LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to James Stephen, Esq.
Sir,
29, Bloomsbury-square, 3 February 1846.
I AM favoured with your letter of 31st January, enclosing copy of a letter from the Hon. Lieut.-colonel Wilbraham, and informing me that Mr. Gladstone Considers the correspondence closed as regards my resignation of the Treasurer- ship of Hong Kong.
am equally unwilling to prolong this correspondence, and regret having caused so much already; but I cannot, in justice to myself, avoid the reply I now make, without, however, seeking from Mr. Gladstone any alteration of the decision at which he has arrived.
1st. I never said a word to Lord Stanley respecting Chusan in my interview of 28th November; I referred solely to Hong Kong, which was in his Lord- ship's department, and on which I sent that morning a memorandum offering to prove in detail that Hong Kong could never be a colony, a commercial. emporium, a military post, or a political station. Lord Stanley, holding that memorandum in his hand, said (as I understood him) "I cannot discuss this with you, as it has been resolved to make your statements a subject for the consideration of the Cabinet." On hearing this I remarked, "then I have nothing more to say."
2d. Lord Stanley misapprehended me, if he supposes I said, "I knew I had committed faults, and must bear the penalty of them."
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The words I used were, "I fear I have incurred your displeasure, Lord Stanley, in coming to England, but I feel assured that had your Lordship been placed in my situation, and seen the waste of public money, and our impolicy in China, you would have acted as I have done. If I am to pay a penalty for this fault, and make a sacrifice which I cannot afford, let me at least have the satisfaction of knowing that the sacrifice will produce some good to the country."
I declare on my honour that these were as nearly as possible the words used; and I certainly did think that, if my views respecting the British posi- tion and prospects in China were worthy the consideration of the Cabinet either in part or in the whole, that I would not be required to make the (to me) great sacrifice of forfeiting my employment in Her Majesty's service.
The best proof I can give of a conviction that I do not deserve the penalty inflicted is, by reiterating my earnest solicitation that Mr. Gladstone will permit me to have my Reports, &c. laid before Parliament,
I cannot conclude without expressing my misfortune at having misunderstood Lord Stanley, and of being misapprehended by his Lordship. May I beg you will do me the favour of placing this explanatory letter before Mr. Gladstone, who I fervently hope will not add to my penalty, by denying me the means of justifying myself before the public.
I have, &c. (signed) R. M. Martin.
No. 15.-
Cory of a LETTER from Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.
Sir,
Downing-street, 6 February 1846.
No. 15.
Lord Lyttelton, to
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Gladstone to inform you that your letters of the 30th ultimo to Mr. Northcote, and of the 3d instant to Mr. Stephen, have R. M. Martin, Esq. been laid before him. In answer to your inquiry whether Mr. Gladstone will 6 February 1846. sanction there being laid before Parliament your Report on Hong Kong of the 24th July 1844, your Report on Chusan of the 30th August 1844, and your Minute on the British Position and Prospects in China of the 19th April 1845, I am directed to inform you, that Mr. Gladstone cannot ascribe any official character to any report made by you, excepting only as far as such reports related to the discharge of the duties of your office as Treasurer of Hong Kong, in which capacity alone you were employed by Her Majesty's Government. Mr. Gladstone thinks that he should establish a precedent full of inconvenience, if he concurred in the production to Parliament, and the printing, at the public expense, of reports or minutes drawn up by you on subjects with which you had no official concern, and on which you were not invited by Her Majesty's Government to enter. For these reasons, any motion for the production of those papers to either Houses of Parliament would be resisted by the Ministers of the Crown.
Sir,
- No. 16.
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I have, &c. (signed) Lyttelton.
COPY of a LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to S. H. Northcote, Esq.
29, Bloomsbury-square, 2 March 1846.
No. 16.
In reply to your communication of 27th February (just received), stating R. M. Martin, Esq., that Mr. Gladstone would wish me to reserve any request for an interview to S. H. Northcote, until after I had placed before him "a statement of my conduct in China Esq and present circumstances, irrespective of the general discussion which I thought 2 March 1846.
I am,
it my duty to raise with respect to Hong Kong," I beg to forward herewith an "Abstract of my proceedings in China," which I confidently hope will, on a detailed examination, prove that I was a faithful and diligent servant of the Crown, and an honest steward of the important trust reposed in me. therefore, anxious to have the most searching scrutiny into my conduct in every point of view, public and private; and this I earnestly solicited from Lord Stanley previous to his acceptance of my resignation, in a letter of 8th July last, which I requested Governor Davis to forward to his Lordship.
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With reference to the second point-my present circumstances or posi- tion, I beg to state, that it will be seen in my correspondence with Governor Davis in June and July last, that the tendered resignation of my office was in obedience to what I conscientiously believed to be an urgent sense of public duty; that the resignation was constrained, because Governor Davis refused me six months' furlough (which it was in his power to grant) although I offered to resign all salary, and yet preserve my heavy securities to the Queen; and that my resignation was conditional, and dependent on my conduct being dis- approved in England.
The acceptance of a resignation thus compulsorily wrung from me without any inquiry or investigation, may be deemed tantamount to a declaration that my conduct, and the motives in which it originated, did not justify the step which I felt compelled to take. I am, therefore, subjected to a severe pecuniary loss, which I cannot afford, after an untiring devotion of 20 years in laborious and expensive exertions for the national weal (as shown in the accompanying memorandum); and, what is of still greater consequence to me, my conduct in China is rendered questionable.
I respectfully entreat Mr. Gladstone to permit a committee of three gentle- men to examine the whole of my proceedings in China, to scrutinize, so far as human beings can do, the originating motives for my conduct, and to report whether
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whether I am deserving of the injury which has been inflicted on me for endeavouring to amend what were deemed national errors of great magnitude, and on which, if I had remained silent and inactive, I should indeed have considered myself unworthy of employment of any kind in Her Majesty's service.
I would venture to suggest the names of three gentlemen well conversant with the subjects referred to; namely, Mr. Trevelyan, Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. Lefevre, Secretary to the Board of Trade, and Mr. Otho Hamilton, of the Audit Board; the last named gentleman having had all my accounts as Her Majesty's Treasurer under his supervision.
I will cheerfully bow to any decision at which those three gentlemen may
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(signed) R. M. Martin.
Enclosure 1, in No. 16.
ABSTRACT of Proceedings in China.
1. Examination of our Financial state in detail; transmitted to Governor Davis, 17 June
1844; to Lords of the Treasury, 19 June 1844-
2. On transmission of Specimens of all Chinese Manufactures to Board of Trade, London,
forwarded to Governor Davis, 29 June 1844.
3. Report on the British Currency, and Monetary Exchanges in China.
4. Report on Hong Kong in all its aspects; to Governor Davis, 24 July 1844; to Lords
of the Treasury, August 1844.
5. Report on Chusan in all its aspects; examination of our policy in China; to
Governor Davis, 30 August 1844; to Lords of the Treasury, 20 September 1844. 6. Comparison between Hong Kong and Chusan; transmitted to Sir R. Peel, 14 No-
vember 1844; to Lords of the Treasury, 14 November 1844.
7. Dissent in Council on proposed Legislative enactment for licensing Opium smoking-shops in Her Majesty's settlement, Hong Kong; read before Governor in Council, 26 November 1844.
8. Draft Legislative Enactment, to enjoin an observance of the Sabbath in Hong Kong; transmitted to Governor Davis, and caused my "Analysis of the Bible" to be trans- lated by the Reverend Dr. Gutzlaff, for general circulation throughout China.
9. Despatch respecting French intrigues in China; to Sir Robert Peel, 21 December
1844; to Lords of the Treasury.
10. Minute on the British Position and Prospects in China, and an Exposition of the Treaty of Nankin; to Governor Davis, 19 April 1845; to Sir Roberi Peel, 25 April 1845; to Lords of the Treasury, 25 April 1845.
11. Representations and Correspondence on the Governor's violation of Instructions from Lords of the Treasury, on the disbursement and account of the Public Monies; to Lords of the Treasury, May, June and July 1845.
12. Correspondence respecting six months' leave of absence, to represent the state of our affairs in China; Her Majesty's Government, 24th June, July, 1845 trans- mitted to Governor Davis, with explanatory Letter to Lord Stanley, 8th July 1845, and to Mr. Stephen, Under Secretary of the Colonies, same date.
13. Rise, progress and condition of the Tea Trade, with numerous tabular statements, &c.;
to Lord Stanley, 3d September 1845.
14. Points for the consideration of Her Majesty's Government on the whole of our affairs in China, with Appendices A. B. and C., showing 1st. A necessary reduction of expenditure to the extent of 250,000l. a year.-2d. Fair and honourable terms of negotiation with the China Government for the cession of Chusan.-3d. Reply to Sir H. Pottinger's reason for preferring Hong Kong to Chusan.-4th. The means to be adopted immediately for the rectification of our erroneous policy, to improve our position, and to expand our trade, &c. transmitted to Lord Stanley, 3d September 1845.
In addition to the preceding documents (which are very voluminous), abstracts on the above points have been given to Lord Stanley, to the Earl of Aberdeen, to Mr. Goul- burn, to the Earl of Dalhousie, and to Lord Canning, in November and December 1845; and a Synopsis of a complete Commercial Report on China (for which the materials were collected during a personal examination of all the consular ports, and after visiting every accessible part of China) was forwarded to the Earl of Dalhousie, 4 December 1845, which has now been three months under the consideration of the Lords of the Treasury and Board of Trade.
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These labours were in addition to the arduous and responsible duties of Her Majesty's Treasurer for the Colonial, Consular and Diplomatic services in China; which were rendered extremely harassing and anxious by the departure in China, from the clear and positive instructions of the Lords of the Treasury, by the difficulty of procuring proper clerks, or by their death, and absence from illness, and by the frequent recurrence of a depressing climactic disease, which at one period nearly proved fatal.
2 March 1846.
Enclosure 2, in No. 16.
MEMORANDUM of Exertions for the Public Welfare.
R. M. Martin.
TWENTY years have been seduously devoted by Mr. Martin to an investigation of the Encl. 2, in No. 16. Colonial, Commercial, and Financial affairs of the British Empire. Ten of these years have been spent in visiting the Colonies, and 10 years in circulating the information acquired ; the result of some of his labours has been as follows:
Copies printed.
I. History of the British Colonies, five vols, 28 Maps, Charts, &c. II. Marquess Wellesley's Indian Despatches, five vols., Maps, Plans, &c. III. British Colonial Library, ten vols., Engravings, Maps, &c. IV. Eastern India, three vols., 200 Drawings, Maps, Plans, &c.
VI. Political, Commercial and Financial Condition of Anglo-Eastern
Empire in 1832, 8vo.
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VII. British relations with the Chinese Empire in 1832, 8vo.
8,500
8,000
22,000
4,500
V. Statistics of the British Colonies, one large vol., 3,000,000 Figures,
Seals, &c.
3,000
1,500
3,000
1,500
1,500
3,000
1,500
1,500
1,500
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10,000
VIII. Taxation of the British Empire, with Tabular Views, &c
IX. Past and present state of Tea Trade of England, Europe and America
X. Analysis of Parliamentary Evidence on China Trade, 1832 XI. Colonial Policy of the British Empire, Part I., Government- XII. Marquess Wellesley's Spanish Despatches, one vol. 8vo. XIII. Ireland as it was, is, and ought to be, Tabular Chart, &c.
XIV. Colonial Magazine, seven vols. 8vo, completed, Engravings, &c.
XV. Poor Laws for Ireland, a Measure of Justice for England, &c.,
pamphlet
Colonial Atlas, with Maps of each Colony, now engraving.
East and West India Sugar Duties Equalization, 40,000 copies distributed. Monetary System of British India, 10,000 copies distributed. Various pamphlets on Commerce, Finance, Shipping, &c.
The foregoing publications comprise about 70,000 octavo volumes, illustrated by numerous maps, engravings, plans and statistical charts, and they all refer to subjects of great national importance. The mere mechanical expenditure on these works for printing, paper, engravings, &c., has been upwards of 20,000l. sterling.
To defray these heavy charges, to pay assistants, and to provide for personal expenses during 20 years' unremitting toil, and costly labour and travel, not the slightest aid has been furnished by Government; but relying solely on his own energies, and out of his own limited resources, Mr. Martin has prepared the first complete "History of the British Colonies," and by his unceasing exertions, has awakened an interest in the public mind for our trans-marine possessions, whose exient and condition were heretofore imperfectly known, and their intrinsic value inadequately appreciated.
In addition to the preceding mentioned labours, Mr. Martin has zealoulsy contributed to promote various useful objects. The "Colonial Society" of London was consequent on his works, and he has endeavoured to advance its laudable objects. The "Central Agricultural Society" by which the landed interest was united for the protection and encouragement of agriculture, at a period when it was threatened with destruction (1835-36), had its origin mainly in his exertions, and for two years he acted gratuitously as one of its honorary secretaries. He also co-operated as honorary secretary with the "Society for the Protection of Domestic Industry," which was superintended by a committee of 21 Members of Parlia- ment, whereof E. S. Cayley, M. P. was chairman, and which had for its leading object the union of all classes engaged in land, manufactures and trade.
In order that he might obtain an accurate view of the working of our banking system, Mr. Martin made a tour throughout England and Scotland, to the extent of 2,500 miles, during which he visited nearly every public and private bank in the kingdom; and for 12 months he officiated as honorary secretary to the "Commercial Bank of London." The "Bank of British North America" was planned, and its preliminary proceedings were organized 743.
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organized by Mr. Martin; and other colonial banks had their origin in his advice and infor- mation. The "Bank of Asia," for conducting exchange operations between England, India. and China, was framed in its plan and principles by Mr. Martin, and its organization was begun and completed by him; 8,000 shares, of the value of 100l. each, were subscribed for in a few days on its first announcement in London, and 6,000 shares of equal value. were applied for in India.
These observations demonstrate that Mr. Martin's labours have not been restricted to those of a merely literary character. He has visited several times the manufacturing and commercial districts of the United Kingdom; and since his return from the colonies he has traversed a large part of the continent of Europe, including Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, France, &c,, and examined the progress of their trade and manufactures. Mr. Martin is one of the few surviving officers of the disastrous surveying and exploring expe- dition of Her Majesty's vessels "Levin" and "Barracouta," employed under W. F. W. Owen on the coasts of Africa, and on the shores and rivers of the Eastern and Southern Hemi- sphere, and for his services he received the marked commendations of the distinguished Commander of the squadron.
During the last four years, Mr. Martin has been an active member of the General Court of Proprietors at the East India House, where he has disinterestedly assisted to obtain freedom of commerce for British India; to procure the adoption of a permanent moderate settlement of the land-tax, and to promote the social and Christian improvement of 100,000,000 of our fellow subjects. He has been several times examined before Committees. of Parliament on financial and mercantile measures; and in 1840 he was nearly three. weeks under a strict interogation on the commerce and relative condition of India and the Colonies.
It has proved a source of sincere gratification to Mr. Martin, that his conduct abroad and at home was deemed deserving the gracious approval of his Sovereign William 4th, who was pleased to command the dedication of the "History of the British Colonies," and the "Marquess Wellesley's Despatches," and his presentation at Court; and to express to the Colonial Office the Royal desire that he should be employed in that department of Government, stating that "His Majesty took an interest in Mr. Martin's welfare." Her most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria has also vouchsafed Her Majesty's benign com- mendation of Mr. Martin's efforts for the welfare of his country.
One of the greatest statesmen who have shed lustre on this or any other age (the most Noble the Marquess Wellesley) has conferred the much prized boon of his friendship on Mr. Martin; and this brief but unavoidably egotistical detail of public services may well be concluded by annexing a copy of a letter from the noble Marquess to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, of which Mr. Martin may justly feel proud, as it emanates from a mind of the most lofty, generous and enlightened character, and pre-eminently distin- guished for an ardent patriotism, which, for more than half a century, has been efficiently devoted to the maintenance of constitutional liberty-to the extension of Christian civili- zation and to the preservation and permanent prosperity of the whole British empire.
My dear Lord,
Kingston House, Knightsbridge, 17 November 1840.
Your Lordship's uniform kindness and obliging attentions induce me to trouble you with a request, in the success of which I am deeply interested, from motives of gratitude and friendship, as well as from a sense of public duty.
Several respectable friends of the present Government, from the same sentiments, have already expressed their concurrence in my opinion, and have declared an anxiety equal to mine on the same subject.
Our object is to see Mr. Montgomery Martin (a gentleman well known to your Lord- ship and to the public) employed in some station in which his eminent talents and extra- ordinary industry and diligence, and extensive information, might be rendered useful to the empire.
My friendship for Mr. Martin is founded on no light basis. I entrusted him with the publication of the documents connected with my administration of the British empire in India; a work which he has completed to my entire satisfaction.
This work necessarily involved the most confidential communication and intercourse, by which I am enabled, with the most perfect certainty, to pledge my honour to the integrity, ability, honest zeal and indefatigable spirit of industry by which this worthy gentleman has obtained so high an eminence in public estimation.
Mr. Martin has made the affairs of the British colonies and of India the more especial objects of his laborious studies; but he is also better informed on the interesting subject of Ireland (more particularly on the operation and result of her Legislative Union with Great Britain), than any person I have ever coaversed with. Generally his knowledge of statistics is most extensive and most practically useful.
My gratitude towards this gentleman renders me most auxious for his welfare; but I would not recommend him to your Loadship, if I were not satisfied that his active. employment in the public service would be beneficial to the empire and honourable to himself and to your Lordship.
The Right hon. Lord John Russell, &c. &c. &c. Colonial Office.
I have, &c. (signed)
Wellesley.
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OF MR. M. MARTIN, TREASURER OF HONG KONG.
No. 17.-
Copy of a LETTER from Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.
Sir,
Downing street, 7 March 1846.
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R. M. Martin, Esq.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Gladstone to acknowledge the receipt of Lord Lyttelton to the letter which you addressed to his private secretary on the 2d instant, 7 March 1846. enclosing an abstract of your proceedings in China, and suggesting the appoint- ment of a committee of three gentlemen, to examine into and report upon those proceedings.
Mr. Gladstone desires me to inform you in answer, that he cannot devolve on the gentlemen you have mentioned, or on any other persons, the office of instituting the inquiries which you have suggested; I am to add, that after a perusal of your letter, and the documents which accompany it, Mr. Gladstone can anticipate no advantage from prolonging a discussion on a subject of which he entertains views so widely different from your own,
Sir,
I am, &c. (signed) Lyttelton.
No. 18.-
COPY of a LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Mr. Secretary Gladstone.
29, Bloomsbury-square, 31 March 1846.
No. 18.
31 March 1846.
I HAVE had the honour of laying before you a printed statement of my pro- R. M. Martin, Esq. ceedings in China. I have now been nearly five months in England, and I to Mr. Secretary respectfully submit that I have shown I did my duty as a faithful servant of Gladstone. the Crown, and therefore do not deserve the treatment I have experienced, unless Her Majesty's Goverment disbelieve my statements, or are unwilling to amend those proceedings, which I have I think demonstrated are errors of primary importance.
Under these circumstances I beg to inquire, whether you will grant me a personal interview, to enable me to substantiate my statements; or,
2dly, Whether you will permit an inquiry into my conduct while in China; or, 3dly, Whether you will offer no opposition to my friends in the legislature obtaining an inquiry before Parliament into my statements.
No. 19.
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(signed)
R. M. Martin.
COPY of a LETTER from Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.
Sir,
Downing-street, 6 April 1846.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Gladstone to acknowledge the receipt of your Lord Lyttelton to
No. 19. letter of the 31st ultimo, in which you inquire; 1st, Whether he would grant R. M. Martin, Esq. you a personal interview to enable you to substantiate the statement which
6 April 1846. you have already submitted of your proceedings in China; 2d, Whether any inquiry into your conduct while in China will be permitted; and 3d, Whether Mr. Gladstone would offer any opposition to a Parliamentary inquiry into your
statements.
Mr. Gladstone desires me to inform you in answer, that he is not a present aware that there is any question depending between Her Majesty's Government and yourself, which could be made the subject of discussion at a private inter- view, or an inquiry in or out of Parliament. He apprehends, that having resigned your office at Hong Kong, and your resignation having been accepted, you no longer stand in any official relation to the Government; and Her Majesty's Government do not deem it convenient to enter into discussion with you on the questions of Chinese policy, to which your several communica- tions to them relate.
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R. M. Martin, Esq. 15 April 1846.
No. 22.
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I am to add, that although Mr. Gladstone is not aware of any cause for inquiry in Parliament into your statement, he must reserve his reply to your question whether opposition would be offered on the part of the Government to such inquiry, until he shall have been apprized in a more definite manner of the nature and proposed aim of it.
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Sir,
No. 20.-
I have, &c. (signed)
Lyttelton.
COPY of a LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq., to
Mr. Secretary Gladstone.
Mansfield House, Iver, near Uxbridge,
7 April 1846.
THE City article of the "Times" of yesterday, contains the following remarks: Hong Kong has quite lost caste as a place for mercantile operations. Many of the merchants had already abandoned the island. Since the beginning of the present year, two firms have given up their establishments; two more of old standing had expressed their determination to quit the colony; and others were hesitating about following their example, or at most of leaving a clerk in possession to forward goods or letters."
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I believe the foregoing to be a true statement; it is an ample confirmation my "Report on Hong Kong," dated July 1844, which was transmitted by Governor Davis to the Colonial Office; and it is, I respectfully submit, in justification of my having come to England to bring this and other equally misunderstood and misrepresented portions of our affairs in China, under the immediate and serious consideration of Her Majesty's Government. Yet, for thus acting in accordance with what I deemed an urgent and responsible public duty, I am now subjected to severe punishment, and all inquiry into my conduct, or the means of self justification in public estimation, and which I have so earnestly solicited, is denied me.
I have, &c. (signed)
No. 21.-
R. M. Martin.
Copy of a LETTER from Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.
Sir,
Downing-street, 15 April 1846.
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I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Gladstone to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th instant, calling his attention to the "City Article the "Times "Newspaper of the 6th instant, on the subject of Hong Kong, which you consider to be a justification of your having returned to England to bring the state of the colony under the consideration of Her Majesty's Govern- ment. Mr. Gladstone desires me to observe in answer, that, whether the statement in the "Times" Newspaper be accurate or otherwise, he cannot acknowledge that it was the duty of a subordinate officer of the Government of Hong Kong to repair to this country without the consent, or rather after the dissent of the Governor, to lay those facts before Her Majesty's Government.
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No. 22.-
I have, &c. (signed)
Lyttelton.
COPY A LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Mr. Secretary Gladstone,
Sir,
Mansfield House, Iver, near Uxbridge, 8 April 1846.
I AM this day honoured with Lord Lyttelton's communication of 6th instant, wherein his Lordship states, that you are "not at present aware there is any question depending between Her Majesty's Government and myself, which
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in or out of Parliament,'
Pardon my saying, that I think you are still imperfectly informed of the causes of my conditional resignation of office, which was not tendered until I had vainly endeavoured for more than twelve months to check what I viewed as an utter waste of the public money to a serious extent, as testified in the accompanying correspondence; wherein, at page 17, it will be seen that on 19th June 1844, I recommended, in proof of my sincerity, the abolition of my own office, with the hope that the attention of Her Majesty's Government would thus be awakened to the true state of affairs at Hong Kong; and on 14th November 1844 (page 65), I even stated that I "could not conscientiously continue to receive my salary and remain silent when I perceived that a great error had been committed," which it was not too late to rectify; and (at page 72), that "any suffering or degradation would be preferable to witness- ing the
pursuance of an erroneous course of policy fraught with great injury to England, which may be averted by prompt, judicious and timely measures." Her Majesty's Government had incurred, and were still incurring a very large expenditure on Hong Kong without having had any detailed report on the place; I thought I should have neglected my duty, had I not endeavoured to remedy this defect. My "Report on Hong Kong," was therefore com- pleted 24th July 1844, and forwarded by Governor Davis to the Colonial Office. I am ready to substantiate the truth of every statement contained in that report, which, however, from some motives was unheeded, as were also my urgent representations for a reduction of the public expenditure in China, although these views were forcibly sustained by Commissary-general Coffin, and Deputy Commissary-general Miller, in their reports to Mr. Trevelyan at the Treasury.
Understanding in July last, that it was in contemplation to expend a further sum of several million dollars on a barren useless rock, which the British mer- chants declared to Lord Stanley (13 August 1845), "was never actually required for the purposes of commerce," and which they are "now abandon- ing" (Times, 6 April 1846), I sought six months' leave of absence, offering to resign all salary, to retain my securities to the Crown, to defray my expenses. overland to England, and to resign my commission should my conduct be dis- approved of at home (see page 114). The leave thus sought was refused, as Governor Davis was aware of my determination to carry out what I thought was correct, and was as I believe desirous of conferring my appointment on his relative Mr. Mercer. Conceiving that a servant of the Crown is a steward of the public interests, that he is bound by his oath and by Christian morality to incur any sacrifice rather than permit the continuance of what he considers to be seriously prejudicial to the national weal, and in the hope that Her Majesty's Government would ultimately appreciate my conduct, I was con- strained to tender my conditional resignation, until I could bring the whole subject under the full and unbiassed consideration of Her Majesty's Govern- ment (see pages 111 to 118).
Previous to my departure from China, and likewise since my arrival in Eng- land, I explained the amendments and retrenchments which appeared requi- site, and on 13th November last, I gave to the Chancellor of the Exchequer at his request, the details of a plan by which 250,0007. a year might be saved in China.
Lord Lyttelton informs me, that the tendered resignation of my office having been accepted, "I no longer stand in any official relation to Government, and that Her Majesty's Government do not deem it convenient to enter into any discussion with me on the questions of Chinese policy to which my several communications to them relate."
In other words, after devoting no inconsiderable portion of the most valuable period of my life to the service of the Crown with industry, honesty and zeal, as evinced in the accompanying reports, after incurring considerable expense in obtaining useful information of which Her Majesty's Government" have derived the benefit, and while still engaged in preparing an elaborate commer- cial report on China for the Board of Trade; I am informed, that I have for- feited my position in Her Majesty's service, while those who preferred their emoluments to the public good retain their offices in Hong Kong.
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I am unwilling to believe, that Her Majesty's Government really mean to treat me thus-that they intend to deprive me of employment in Her Majesty's service because I refused to be silent when silence would have been a crime; because I preferred risking office rather than not timely endeavour to correct errors of great national consequence; because I deemed integrity and a vigi- lant watchfulness to prevent waste and mismanagement ought to be a paramount consideration in a public officer, especially in a distant and novel portion of the empire. I therefore, respectfully ask the application of the principle of justice to me, as if I had been the steward of a trust confided to me by a private individual.
Should this unfortunately be denied me, I have to express an earnest hope that
you will not refuse me permission to justify my conduct in not having hastily resigned the commission with which my Sovereign was graciously pleased to invest me, and to enable me to demonstrate, that I am not deserving the censure which an acceptance of a resignation thus tendered may by impli- cation convey.
And as you desire to be "apprized in a more definite manner of the nature and proposed aim of my intended application to Parliament, I beg to state, that the motion which it is proposed to submit to the legislature is, that there be laid before Parliament copies of the correspondence connected with my resignation of the office of Her Majesty's Treasurer for Hong Kong.
I humbly hope that this not unreasonable request will be conceded, and which is made without the slightest intention of attempting to embarrass Her Majesty's Government.
No. 23.
I have, &c.
(signed)
R. M. Martin.
COPY of a LETTER from Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.
Sir,
Downing-street, 20 April 1846.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Gladstone to acknowledge the receipt of R. M. Martin, Esq. your letter of the 8th instant, in which you enter into an explanation of the causes which led to your resignation of the office of Treasurer of Hong Kong, and state that the motion which it is proposed to submit to Parliament is for copies of the correspondence connected with such resignation.
No. 24.
R. M. Martin, Esq., to Lord Lyttelton. 16 April 1846.
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Mr. Gladstone desires me to inform you in reply, that he anticipates no advantage from prolonging this correspondence; but that, if Member of Parliament should move for the production of the correspondence to which you refer, Her Majesty's Government will raise no objection to the production. of so much of it as could be so produced without injustice to individuals or prejudice to Her Majesty's service.
No. 24.
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I have, &c. (signed) Lyttelton.
Copy of a LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Lord Lyttelton. Mansfield House, near Uxbridge, 16 April 1846.
My Lord, PERMIT me to remark, in reference to the observation of Mr. Secretary Gladstone, contained in your Lordship's letter of 15th instant, that I most fully acknowledge the principle, that "it is not the duty of a subordinate officer to repair to this country without the consent of the Governor;" yet, as every rule has its exception, I venture to hope, that on further examination and reflection, it will be seen a departure from the principle in the present case was not only justifiable, but rendered imperatively necessary, from my strong conviction that national interests of the highest importance required immediate and serious investigation, which could only effectually be done by my repairing to England; and that I was bound by the highest obligations to risk even life itself for the accomplishment of the great objects in view.
Supposing,
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No. 25.-
I have, &c. (signed)
R. M. Martin.
Copy of a LETTER from Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.
Sir,
Downing-street, 22 April 1846.
Vide p. 19-
No. 25.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Gladstone to acknowledge the receipt of Lord Lyttelton to your letter of the 16th instant, in justification of your proceeding in returning R. M. Martin, Esq. to this country from Hong Kong without the consent of the Governor; and 22 April 1846. I am to inform you, in reply, that he must regard the correspondence on this subject as having reached its close.
No. 26.
I have, &c. (signed)
Lyttelton.
29, Bloomsbury-square, 21 April 1846. No. 26.
Cory of a LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Lord Lyttelton.
My Lord, I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's letter of R. M. Martin, Esq., 20th instant. All hope of inducing Mr. Secretary Gladstone to consider to Lord Lyttelton. resignation of office as an act which it was imperatively the duty of a trust- 21 April 1846. worthy servant of the Crown to perform being now at an end, it is not my wish or intention to prolong this correspondence.
my
I beg to return my thanks to Mr. Gladstone for granting my request respect- ing the production before Parliament of the correspondence connected with my resignation; and as my "Reports on Hong Kong and on Chusan," transmitted. to Governor Davis, formed the basis of my resignation, and were enclosed with the correspondence, there will not, I presume, be any objection to their pro- duction before Parliament. I am not aware that
I am not aware that any of my correspondence involves "injustice to individuals."
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I have stated openly that the leading Government officers of the past and sent administration in Hong Kong had private and personal pecuniary interests. at total variance with the public welfare relative to Hong Kong, the true nature of which is now in the course of being fully evinced by the intelligence received by the last mail from China (27 February 1846) stating that the merchants are abandoning the settlement, which is rapidly hastening to "ruin." I am ready to prove the truth of every portion of my reports on Hong Kong and on Chusan; and I may here be permitted to observe, that my earnest entreaties for the retention of Chusan, even after the payment of the last instal- ment of the Chinese indemnity money, and until the completion of the treaty. of Nankin, have now been adopted.
I therefore respectfully submit, that I have stated nothing which can by publicity in the slightest degree be "prejudicial to Her Majesty's service," or be "unjust to individuals."
My quiescence for the last five months in England, proves that I have not. the slightest idea of doing aught that may embarrass Her Majesty's Govern- ment; and
my whole conduct shows, I trust, that the public good has ever been the paramount motive of my actions; but I cannot forget there is some degree of justice due to myself, and that it is my duty, in the fulfilment of an import- ant trust, to enable my friends and the public fully to examine into the whole of the causes which compelled me to tender my resignation.
I therefore confidently hope that Mr. Gladstone will, in the full meaning and spirit of the concession contained in your Lordship's letter of the 20th instant, not object to my "Reports on Hong Kong and on Chusan," or to any other. documents which may not be really prejudicial to the public service, being
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laid before Parliament, and which may be necessary to a vindication of the line of procedure which I felt obliged to adopt in China,
I have to apologize to your Lordship for thus again trespassing on your time; but to me the question is one of vital importance, and I am anxious there should be no blame hereafter attached to my conduct, and no misconcep- tion on my part of Mr. Gladstone's intentions as to the extent of the conces- sion which he has had the goodness to grant.
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a crime. Petitioner has been deprived of his position in your Majesty's service; and all redress or inquiry has been denied him, while your Majesty's Govern- ment have derived the benefit of his information and experience.
6th. That petitioner respectfully declares he feels conscious this punishment is unmerited; he is most anxious to have the fullest scrutiny into every part of his conduct, and the most searching investigation into the truth of his state- ments; and looking to his Sovereign as the source of justice, petitioner earnestly prays the gracious interposition of your Majesty, to prevent the inflic- tion of a wrong which does not alone affect an humble individual, but which, if sanctioned, destroys the moral and christian responsibility of the servants of the Crown, especially when acting conscientiously in the distant provinces of this vast empire.
And your Majesty's Petitioner, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
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30 April 1846.
COPY of a LETTER from Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.
Sir,
Downing-street, 30 April 1846.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Gladstone to acknowledge the receipt of R. M. Martin, Esq. your letter of the 21st instant, inquiring whether any objection would be made to the production to Parliament, among the papers connected with your resignation, of your Reports on Hong Kong and Chusan, or "any other docu- ments which may not be really prejudicial to the public service."
In reply, I am to inform you, that my letter of the 20th instant referred exclusively to correspondence connected with your resignation, and that Mr. Gladstone cannot consider as coming within that description, your Reports on Hong Kong and Chusan, or on any other general question of policy. With respect to those Reports, I am directed to refer you to my letter of the 6th February last, in which you were informed that any motion for the produc- tion of your Reports to either House of Parliament would be resisted by the Ministers of the Crown.
I have, &c.
(signed)
Lyttelton.
- No. 29.
COPY of a LETTER from Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.
Sir,
Downing-street, 12 May 1846.
No. 29.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Gladstone to inform you that the Queen has Lord Lyttelton to been pleased to refer to him the petition which you addressed to Her Majesty R. M. Martin, Esq. on the 1st instant, praying for an inquiry into your conduct, and into the truth 12 May 1846. of the several communications which you have addressed to Her Majesty's Government on the subject of Hong Kong.
I am to inform you, that for the reasons already explained to you in the correspondence in which you have been engaged with this office, Mr. Gladstone has been unable to advise Her Majesty to accede to the
prayer of
your petition.
I have &c. (signed)
Lyttelton.
No. 28.
Petition of R. M.
Martin, Esq. to the Queen.
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To The QUEEN's most Excellent MAJESTY.
The humble Petition of Robert Montgomery Martin, late Her Majesty's Treasurer for the Colonial, Consular and Diplomatic Services in China, and a Member of Her Majesty's Legislative Council.
Humbly showeth,
1st. THAT your Majesty was graciously pleased to appoint petitioner Treasurer at Hong Kong, on 20 January 1844.
2d. That petitioner having devoted his life to an investigation of the British. colonial possessions and commercial interests, deemed that he would be fulfilling his duty to your Majesty by examining, in all their relations, our position and prospects in China.
3d. That the accompanying public documents were therefore, from time to time transmitted to your Majesty's Ministers, and it is respectfully submitted, they testify that petitioner acted as a faithful, industrious, and useful servant of the Crown in China.
4th. That petitioner deeming an erroneous course of policy had been pursued, which, if not timely rectified, would be productive of great national injury, and being desirous of checking a wasteful expenditure of public money, which could only effectually be done by his immediate return to England, was most reluctantly compelled to tender the conditional resignation of the commission with which your Majesty was graciously pleased to invest him, in order that he might bring the whole state of our affairs in China under the early and serious consideration of your Majesty's Ministers, and be on the spot to explain personally the amendments and retrenchments which he was, and is prepared to prove, were imperatively required in China.
5th. That for thus acting in accordance with what he believed to be his duty as an honest steward of the trust reposed in him, and for refusing to remain silent and quiescent, when silence and quiescence would he thinks have been a crime.
-No. 30.-
Copy of a LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Mr. Secretary
Sir,
Gladstone.
29, Bloomsbury-square, 13 May 1846.
No. 30.
I REGRET to learn that you have not deemed it necessary "to advise Her R. M. Martin, Esq. Majesty to accede to the prayer of my petition for an inquiry into the truth of to Mr. Secretary my several communications on the subject of Hong Kong."
I am unaware of any reasons already explained" to me which ought to preclude the investigation sought.
The only reason ever given for refusing me inquiry was, that I had resigned my office; the truth or otherwise of my statements being deemed alike imma- terial. I beg leave to observe, that I tried in vain every other mode of pro- curing investigation into the utter worthlessness of Hong Kong.
My faint hope that there was still some power in the Crown to grant that which is even conceded to a criminal-inquiry-is nullified by referring my petition to that department which, for six months, has rejected all appeals for investigation. I respectfully submit that this can scarcely be considered in accordance with justice, or with a desire to obtain truth.
I therefore venture to ask, even as a boon, that my petition be referred to the Privy Council, and that 1 be permitted, at my own expense, to substantiate by evidence the truth of my statements.
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Copy of a LETTER from Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.
Sir,
Downing-street, 18 May 1846.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Gladstone to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 13th instant, in which you request that your petition to the Queen may be referred to the Privy Council.
Mr. Gladstone desires me to inform you in reply, that Her Majesty's Executive Government must reserve to itself the responsibility for the decision. of a question of this nature, and that the Queen cannot be advised to refer the investigation of it to the Privy Council, or to any Committee of the Council.
I am, &c. (signed) Lyttelton.
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was nationally injurious, have been rewarded and advanced. I beg the favour of your Lordship's perusal of the accompanying documents, which have been printed for their more easy reference. I ask earnestly for inquiry into the cor- rectness of my statements.
It is true that for many years I have been seeking colonial reform. On the 5th December 1837, my petition for an amended administrative colonial department was favourably received by the House of Commons, but its consideration was voluntarily suspended by me, when the Canadian rebellion broke out, rather than embarrass Her Majesty's Government.
This petition, and the efforts I have made on the subject generally, may have operated to my prejudice in the Colonial Office, but the justness of my views. are now pretty generally acknowledged, and it is respectfully submitted, that 20 years untiring exertions, and a heavy expenditure for the public welfare in a most important but hitherto neglected department-that of our colonies-are worthy the favourable consideration of Her Majesty's Government.
I have, &c. (signed) R. M. Martin,
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No. 32.
R. M. Martin, Esq.
to Earl Grey.
8 July 1846.
COPY of a LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Earl Grey. My Lord,
29, Bloomsbury-square, 8 July 1846.
I HAVE the honour to solicit a consideration of the following circumstances. In January 1844, I was requested to undertake the duties of Her Majesty's Treasurer at Hong Kong. The office was unsolicited, and it was stated that I was entitled to higher employment, but that as our affairs and prospects in China were of great interest, my proceeding thither would be advisable; I therefore gave up my occupations at home, and fulfilled the duties enjoined.
Soon after my arrival in China it appeared to me that we had committed ourselves to an erroneously restrictive policy; that a most ill-judged selection. for a British colony had been made, and that we were incurring a large expen- diture without any commensurate advantage.
Believing it to be my duty, as a faithful servant of the Crown to aid in pro- curing an examination by Her Majesty's Government of the British position and prospects in China, I framed from time to time several reports and minutes. on the subject, but perceiving that these reports produced no effect; aware that there were several influential persons in England as well as in China. whose interests were in opposition to any correction of our errors; and believing that no further time was to be lost for the rectification of our affairs previous to the intended evacuation of Chusan in January 1846, I applied for six months' leave of absence, offering to resign all salary, to defray my own expenses to England, to retain my personal and collateral securities to the Crown (amounting to nearly 10,000/), and to forfeit my position if Her Majesty's Government deemed my views erroneous; or that I had erred in seeking leave to lay before. them the information I had collected in every accessible part of China.
Governor Davis thought it right to refuse the leave sought, I was therefore compelled to resign, and my appointment was conferred on his relative, Mr. Mercer.
I acted in accordance with the solemn dictates of my conscience, and hastened to England, where I laid before the Colonial, Treasury, Foreign and Trade Departments various information which was deemed useful. I have also laid before the Board of Trade a voluminous report on the commerce, internal and coasting trade, government, population, revenue, &c. of the vast Chinese Empire, with special accounts of each consulate; of the commerce of each foreign nation, and detailed statements of the Tea and Opium Trades, &c.
I submitted to the Colonial Office and Exchequer the plan of a reduction of expenditure to the amount of 200,000l. a year, and I laid before the Foreign Office and Board of Trade propositions for opening a commerce with Japan, Corea, Siam, Cochin China, &c., regions abounding in various and valuable. commodities, and containing a population estimated at 100,000,000.
For thus acting I have lost my position in Her Majesty's service, and have been, during the last 12 months, devoid of income; after having devoted a con- siderable period of the best portion of my life, and a large sum of money, to the promotion of the public good; while those who have acquiesced in what
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No. 33.
COPY of a LETTER from B. Hawes, Esq., to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.
Sir,
Downing-street, 13 July 1846.
No. 33.
I AM directed by Earl Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the B. Hawes, Esq. to 8th instant, calling his attention to your services in China, and to the circum- R. M. Martin, Esq. stances under which you resigned the situation of Treasurer of Hong Kong, 13 July 1846, In reply, I am to state to you that Lord Grey concurs in the opinion expressed by his two predecessors in this office, in regard to your resignation of your office in Hong Kong.
No. 34.
I have, &c. (signed)
B. Hawes,
Copy of a LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Earl Grey. My Lord,
29, Blomsbury-square, 14 July 1846.
I BEG the favour of being informed of the grounds on which my conditional resignation of the Treasurership of Hong Kong was received, as I have not yet been granted this information.
It will be some satisfaction to know why I am deprived of my position in Her Majesty's service, after a faithful discharge of my duty, and an anxious. effort to render public services, which I naturally hoped would have merited and received the approval of Her Majesty's Government; but, which on the contrary, have subjected me to a heavy punishment.
I venture to add, that all inquiry into the correctness of the statements which caused or rather compelled my conditional, resignation, have been refused.
I have, &c.
(signed)
R. M. Martin.
- No. 35.
COPY of a LETTER from B. Hawes, Esq., to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. Downing-street, 21 July 1846.
Sir,
No. 34. R. M. Martin, Esq. to Earl Grey. 14 July 1846,
No. 35.
I AM directed by Earl Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the B. Hawes, Esq. to 14th instant, requesting to be informed of the grounds on which your condi- R. M. Martin, Esq.
21 July 1846. tional resignation of the Treasurership of Hong Kong was received.
In reply I am to inform you, that it appears from the records of this office that Lord Stanley and Mr. Gladstone considered your resignation not as condi-
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tional only, but as a final act binding on you. I am to add, that Lord Grey concurs in the view thus taken by his predecessors.
I have, &c.
(signed)
- No. 36.-
B. Hawes.
Copy of a LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to B. Hawes, Esq.
Sir,
29, Bloomsbury-square, 18 July 1846.
In consequence of the observations which you had the goodness to make to-day, I venture to solicit your examination of the enclosed copy of the only
Letter, 8 July 1845 letter which conveyed to Governor Davis my conditional resignation of the
Encl. in No. 36.
Treasurership of Hong Kong; "until I could bring the subject under the con- sideration of my Sovereign through the Secretary of State for the Colonies."
I am now prepared to prove, by Governor Davis's own hand-writing to the draft, and by a letter from the Acting-secretary, that my resignation was received subject to this condition by Governor Davis, who, however, never communicated this fact to Lord Stanley, by whom, as I now learn, my resigna- tion was viewed as absolute. The peculiar grounds on which my resignation was given in, or rather forced from me, have therefore never yet been consi- dered; and I earnestly pray that Earl Grey will, as an act of justice to me, authorize that inquiry into my case for which I have in vain petitioned my Sovereign, and which I have never ceased to seek for the last twelve months.
I am ready to resume my duties at Hong Kong, and to fulfil those of Colonial Secretary there, should it be the intention of Her Majesty's Goverment to unite the two offices.
I state this, to indicate that the unhealthiness of the climate will not prevent my pursuing any duty which may be prescribed by Her Majesty's Govern-
ment.
Enclosure in No. 36.
I have, &c. (signed) R. M. Martin.
Colonial Treasury, Hong Kong, Sir,
8 July 1845- THE decision of his Excellency the Governor on my letters of 19th and 24th ultimo, refusing me leave of absence for six months on public business, and with a view to what I deem the public good, compels me most reluctantly to adopt the only alternative of requesting his Excellency to receive my resignation as Her Majesty's Treasurer for the Colonial and Diplomatic services in China, until I can bring the subject, through the Secretary of State for the Colonies, under the consideration of my Sovereign, who was graciously pleased to appoint me to the important office and trust which I have now the honour to place in the hands of his Excellency.
My quarterly accounts are made up to the 30th June 1845, declared before a magistrate, and passed by the auditor.
I beg that a Board may be appointed to receive from me the monies under my charge, and that his Excellency will state to whom I am to transfer the accounts and books of my department, and the vouchers for payments made by me since 30th day of June last.
In order that I may be enabled to pass my accounts in England, and to receive for myself and for my sureties the Exchequer quietus, I have the honour to request that a copy of my day cash-book be furnished me from this office.
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In reply I am to inform you, that Lord Grey must consider your coming to this country, after having been refused leave of absence by the Governor, as in itself a resignation of your office; and that you could not be allowed to alter the effect of such a step, by describing your resignation as conditional only. His Lordship, like his predecessors, must regard that resignation as final, and must consider the correspondence with you on this point as now closed.
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I have, &c. (signed)
B. Hawes.
COPY of a LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq., to Earl Grey. My Lord,
29, Bloomsbury-square, 4 December 1846.
I BEG to transmit herewith the first part of a Report on China, which I pre- pared for the Board of Trade, and which I have caused to be printed, as it may be useful to Her Majesty's Government. The three subsequent parts will be ready on the 1st of each succeeding month.
I still venture to hope that your Lordship will grant me the inquiry which I have earnestly sought during the last eighteen months; the more especially as every mail from China demonstrates the correctness of the views which I came to England to bring under the early consideration of Her Majesty's Ministers.
I am ready to prove before a Committee of Parliament, or before any impartial tribunal, that I have done nothing to forfeit my position in Her Majesty's service; on the contrary, it can be shown that I am entitled to com- mendation; and I have reason to think that if my case had been fully and impartially placed before Lord Stanley, his Lordship would have seen that my resignation was " conditional," and that I was at least entitled to a hearing before I was condemned to the sacrifice of my appointment.
It is painfully humiliating to be thus an importunate beggar for justice, which would not be denied to a criminal; but I am desirous to exhaust every means. before I appeal to Parliament, as I am unwilling to do aught in opposition to Her Majesty's Government.
Surely, my Lord, by conceding the boon of inquiry, no detriment would accrue to the public service; and your Lordship (to whom I am, personally, a stranger) can have no cause to permit the continuance of the injustice I am. now enduring, and which I feel assured, if you were in possession of the whole facts, you would not hesitate to redress.
- No. 39.
(signed)
I have, &c.
R. M. Martin.
No. 38. R.M. Martin, Esq., to Earl Grey. 4 December 1846.
The Colonial Secretary.
- No. 37.-
1 have, &c.
(signed)
R. M. Martin.
No. 37.
B. Hawes, Esq. to
27 July 1846,
Cory of a LETTER from B. Hawes, Esq. to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.
Sir,
Downing-street, 27 July 1846.
P. M. Martin, Esq. 18th instant, soliciting a reconsideration of the circumstances under which you
I AM directed by Earl Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the
tendered
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COPY of a LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Earl Grey.
My Lord,
29, Bloomsbury-square, 1 January 1847.
No. 39.
R. M. Martin, Esq,
1 January 1847.
I BEG leave to place before your Lordship the second part of my General to Earl Grey. Report on China.
I have not been honoured with any notice of my letter of 4th December last.
I still entreat the concession of an inquiry into the causes which compelled me to return to England from China.
I have, &c. (signed)
R. M. Martin.
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COPY of a LETTER from B. Hawes, Esq. to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.
Sir,
Downing-street, 13 January 1847.
I AM directed by Earl Grey to acquaint you, in answer to your letter of the 1st instant, that his Lordship did not consider it necessary to return any answer to your letter of the 4th ultimo, because he had nothing to add to the com- munications which had already been addressed to you by Lord Grey's pre- decessors in this office, and by himself.
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and I am to acquaint you in answer, that on the understanding that the corre- spondence in question shall be strictly limited to those papers which relate to your resignation, no objection will be raised on the part of Her Majesty's Government to any motion which may be made in the House of Commons for its production.
I have, &c. (signed)
B. Hawes.
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R. M. Martin, Esq.,
to Earl Grey.
23 June 1847.
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I have, &c. (signed) B. Hawes.
COPY of a LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Earl Grey. My Lord,
7, Pall-mall East, 23 June 1847. MR. CAYLEY, M. P., and Mr. M. Forster, M. P., who have known me intimately for many years, and who were my securities to the Crown in China, have recently earnestly appealed to Lord John Russell in my behalf. His Lordship, on the 18th instant, states that "he must decline entering further into the case, and must refer it to the Secretary of State for the Colonies."
Your Lordship, as I understand, declines to inquire into a case decided by your predecessor.
The case of the late Sir E. Wilmot may perhaps suggest, that my condem- nation, unheard, is scarcely consistent with justice.
I respectfully submit there can be no precedent for continuing a punish- ment inflicted by your predecessor, which I am ready to prove is unmerited.
Time, circumstances and the Select Committee of the House of Commons recently sitting to inquire into our commercial relations with China, demon- strate that the Report which I prepared in China, at the suggestion of Lord Stanley and of Mr. Gladstone, and which the Queen has graciously permitted to be publicly dedicated to Her Majesty, were just, true, and of national impor- tance in various points of view.
That my return to England was not injurious in respect to any important. duties as Treasurer of Hong Kong is evident from the fact of my office not being yet filled
up.
Yet, for a zealous and conscientious discharge of my duties, according to my oath, I have been deprived of my position, and all hearing denied me for two years.
I now solicit that your Lordship, in the spirit of justice, will grant permis- sion for the correspondence connected with my conditional resignation of office to be laid before Parliament.
Mr. Gladstone conceded this point, but I hesitated to avail myself of it, as I was unwilling, even in appearance, to do any thing which might be dis- pleasing to Her Majesty's Government.
But now, the Select Committee of the House of Commons having closed. its inquiry on China, and all prospect of redress or inquiry having passed away, I am necessitated to entreat from your Lordship this boon in favour of one who has long, faithfully, and I trust not uselessly, endeavoured to serve his country.
I have, &c. (signed)
R. M. Martin,
No. 43.
COPY of a LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Earl Grey. My Lord,
7, Pall-mall East, 28 June 1847.
No. 43.
I AM grateful for the permission accorded by your Lordship for the produc- R. M. Martin, Esq. tion before Parliament of the correspondence in the Colonial Office, relating to to Farl Grey. my conditional resignation as Her Majesty's Treasurer in China, to which 28 June 1847. object the motion shall be limited.
I have, &c. (ed) R. M. Martin.
No. 42. B. Hawes, Esq. to
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Copy of a LETTER from B. Hawes, Esq. to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.
Sir,
Downing-street, 28 June 1847.
I AM directed by Earl Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
R. M. Martin, Esq. the 23d instant, requesting that the correspondence connected with your resig- 28 June 1847- nation of the office of Treasurer of Hong Kong may be laid before Parliament,
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3906. Mr. Ewart.] YOU have been in China?--I have been in China as Her R. M. Martin, Esq. Majesty's Treasurer from May 1844 until the 8th of July 1845, when I resigned to return to England to lay before Her Majesty's Government a Report on the 18 May 1847. state of our affairs in China.
3907. Had you an opportunity of attending at the land sales in Hong Kong? -On my arrival in China, the first step that I took was to ascertain what were the probable prospects of revenue in the colony, and the sources from which it was derived, and on investigating I ascertained that although there had been very large sales of land, amounting to considerable sums, yet that very little had ever been paid to Her Majesty's Government. Out of the whole amount of the land sales from June 1841, amounting to 3,224 7. yearly, I found that up to June 1844 only 641 1. had been paid. In fact, on my arrival in May 1844, only 441 7. had been paid into Her Majesty's Treasury. Being impressed with that fact that some of the sales were fictitious more than real, I urged a deposit. being called for at all future sales. Perceiving that almost every individual con- nected with the Government was identified with the purchase or the profits derived from building land (I think the Attorney-general and myself were the only two not connected with the purchase and sale of land), I therefore urged bona fide sales to correct what appeared to me a great evil in the disposal of the land. I also laid before Governor Davis, in June 1844, a financial letter urging that the merchants connected with the island should be allowed their land in perpetuity, as the only means of enabling them to meet the difficulties that I foresaw would be the result of the absence of trade at Hong Kong. I considered that there was a great deal of deception in the purchase of land by parties who did not really intend to hold it, and I urged deposits being called for on all future sales. I urged also that the parties who had built houses in Hong Kong, and expended so much money thereon, should receive the encouragement of having the land granted to them in perpetuity. I would take this opportunity of stating, that to the British merchants in Hong Kong great credit is due for the manner in which they seconded the efforts of the authorities to establish the colony; their public spirit and enterprise deserve every encouragement from Her Majesty's authorities in England.
3908. Have you reason to believe that Hong Kong will become a commer- cial emporium?-I never from the first moment expected that Hong Kong would become a commercial depôt. I have devoted 20 years of my life to the investigation of the colonies of England, and an examination of Hong Kong in its most favourable aspect induces me to entertain the opinion which I stated. in my Report to Her Majesty's Government in July 1844, that Hong Kong never could become a commercial depôt; that it is unsuitable for a colony by reason of its limited size, rocky and barren structure, and incapability of produc- ing food for one day for the inhabitants upon it; that it cannot be made a fortress, because half the harbour does not belong to England, and every island around it belongs to China; that it does not command the Canton River, being at a considerable distance from the usual entrance, and that it is totally ineffi- cient for the protection of the trade at Canton; and in every point of view I con- sider the selection of Hong Kong the most unfortunate step that has been taken with regard to our position in China. It has brought discredit upon us by the occupation of such a wretched spot. But every credit is due to the merchants for their endeavours to make it a valuable possession.
3909. Does Hong Kong affect our trade at Canton or the northern ports? The trade at Canton is entirely independent of Hong Kong, and the northern.
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ports being open to us, no depôt is likely to be formed at Hong Kong for the purpose of carrying on trade. The formation of a colony at Hong Kong, con- taining the most dissolute Chinese, is decidedly a discredit to us, and operates injuriously in our relations with the Chinese government.
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3910. Is it necessary to maintain the present civil and military expenditure at Hong Kong, as a protection to our China trade ?-By no means, I think. I have addressed a report to Her Majesty's Government on Hong Kong, in July 1844, which I beg to submit to the Committee. I have connected with it a suggestion for the reduction of the governmental establishments there. I believe it is the best means of affording the merchants a prospect of carrying out their views in the island, by reducing the governmental establishments and diminishing the taxation required. (The report was delivered in. Vide Appendix.) The substance of that report is to prove the inefficiency of Hong Kong as a station for a commercial emporium, as a military station, and as a colony; and it contains suggestions for diminishing the expenditure in the different depart- I find that the estimated charge for Hong Kong for one year, 1846, was nearly 500,000 7. The estimate transmitted to England for civil buildings, roads, and drains, amounts to 135,050 l. for the year ending 31 March 1846. The Ordnance estimate laid before Parliament, dated 16 February 1846, for buildings and barracks, amounts to 124,000. The civil salaries, wages, and contingencies, to 41,000 l. The established military pay, provisions and charges for two regiments, about 150,000. Victualling navy, stores, and advances to the navy, 50,000 7., making the total cost of Hong Kong for one year, 500,000 7., and this irrespective of the share of the cost of a line of battle ship, two frigates, three steamers, two gun brigs, and irrespective of the consular and superintendent of trade charges, amounting to 40,000 7. The revenue received for the year 1845, was 15,221 . I cannot therefore omit this opportunity of
I. stating, that I consider such an expenditure a waste of the resources of the British treasury, and that a single frigate or steamer at Canton would be more effective for the protection of our trade than any garrison or fleet that we can maintain at Hong Kong.
3911. That expenditure of 500,000 7. was for one year?-Yes.
3912. That will not be continued ?-No; but the estimated civil expenditure for 1847-48, for roads, drains, and bridges, is 24,302 7., and for works and build- ings, 4,150, making together, 28,453. The total estimate, colonial and consular, 1847-48, is 107,755 l. When it is known that for a small island like that, the Governor costs 7,000l. a year, and the Lieutenant-governor 4,5007., and others charges in proportion, it is not to be wondered at that there has been great dissatisfaction on the part of the merchants there at the endeavour to raise a revenue to meet such charges. That expenditure is still going on, and the taxation proportionately increasing. The General's house alone will cost 70,000 dollars; the officers' quarters, 110,000 dollars; the hospital, 187,000 dollars; the barracks, about 250,000 dollars; and forts are also con- structing to protect an island which produces nothing, and which protects nothing.
3913. Are there any means of deriving better results from the colony of Hong Kong?-I consider that it is due to the merchants who have laid out such a large capital there, to free the place as much as possible from taxation, to grant them their lands in perpetuity, to reduce the rents levied on those lands, and to leave the place perfectly free, giving ample security for life and property. A few years will then determine whether it be possible to produce any commercial results from the place. I have no impression that it will, but I think it is due to the merchants to give the experiment every advantage.
3914. During your residence in China did you visit all the consular stations, and collect materials for a commercial report on China?--I visited all the con- sular stations, and the island of Chusan; and I laid before Her Majesty's Govern- ment a full Report, any part of which can be produced before the Committee. My object in doing so was to endeavour to expand our trade with China. I con- sider that by opening other ports, and by getting a commercial station at Nankin, and at the Pei Ho, and other commercial stations in China, we should materially improve our trade, and get freer access to the interior of the country.
3915. Do you think there is any chance of getting a commercial station at Nankin or the Pei Ho-I think it would be worth the consideration of the Government
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3916. Do you think that our commerce with China is capable of increase, either as regards exports or imports ?--I think a more free intercourse with China would develope resources that at present we are unacquainted with. I think China possesses large quantities of precious metals, which if worked would afford a considerable means of remittance to this country. I understand that sugar might be made an article of commerce and export from China; and if our East India ships were permitted, on proceeding to Amoy and other places, to load with sugar for England, although they have Lascar crews, it would be a means of furnishing return freights to this country irrespective of tea. If those ships were permitted to come to England with sugar, which the existing navigation laws prohibit in consequence of their being manned with Lascars, it would benefit the trade of China. I particularly wish to see the coasting trade carried on more extensively by English vessels.
3917. Have any other means occurred to you of extending our trade with China; is there any other article that China can send us besides tea and silk? I have mentioned sugar; hemp is another article. There are various branches of manufactures, though small in amount, that might be extended.
3918. Do not you think that probably the result of our intercourse with China will be something the same as the result of our intercourse with India, namely, that we shall undersell their manufactures and take their raw produce in in- creased quantities in return?-In cotton manufactures we can undersell them ; probably also in some of their silks of a lighter description; but there are commodities of different kinds in China, I have no doubt, with such an immense population, which would be discovered by greater freedom of intercourse.
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3919. From your recent intercourse with China, what conclusions have been led to draw as to the present state of the Chinese empire?-My present impression is, that it is in a state of decadence, and has been so for two or three centuries; that it is extremely loosely held together, and its government exceedingly weak; and that by a proper representation on our part to the authorities at Pekin, we could obtain freedom of intercourse with other parts of China, and freedom of intercourse with the interior; that it would be for the benefit of the Chinese as well as the English that a freedom of intercourse should be established.
3920. Would it, in your opinion, be practicable to open a negotiation for the establishment of a British resident at Pekin ?-I think so. The Russians at present have an establishment there; we might, I understood, have had it or anything else at the time of the treaty of Nankin, if we had applied for it.
3921. Do you think that the Chinese government would be adverse, on reli- gious grounds, to a more intimate intercourse with Europeans?--I think not; there has been recently an edict granted by the Emperor tolerating Christianity, and ordering the restoration of the temples that were formerly confiscated. Any hostility that might be experienced would be principally from the Tartars, not from the Chinese. In all the northern cities of China we are received in
the most friendly manner. The only hostility manifested has been at Canton, and to some extent at Foo Choo Foo, where a Tartai garrison has been es- tablished.
3922. Why are they more hostile to us?-Naturally as being a handful of people holding despotic control over China.
3923. Do the Chinese government feel any indisposition towards this coun- try in consequence of the opium trade?-My impressions upon that subject are very strong with reference to the injurious effects of it nationally. I have made a report thereon to Her Majesty's Government, and with great reluctance refer to the point, because I have the misfortune to differ from several English merchants connected with the opium trade in China; gentlemen of high charac- ter and standing. I do not wish to make use of my position before this Com- mittee
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3924. Would you propose, on the part of this country, an absolute prohi- bition of the importation of opium into that country by any of our subjects?-- I would, on the same ground that the slave trade is prohibited. I think we are bound by the relations in which we stand to China, not to persevere in car- rying on that trade at Hong Kong, for the abolition of which the government of China are particularly anxious.
3925. Would not your reasoning apply to trading in spirits, or any other deleterious article?-Spirits are not deleterious; spirits contain the element of life; opium does not contain those elements. Every nation that has yet made any advance in civilization, uses spirits.
3926. Ought not the Government of this country therefore to interdict the introduction of opium into this country?-It is not used to an excess.
3927. But it is used-Only I believe as a medicine; at least, its use other- wise is a very rare occurrence.
3928. Are you not aware that it is used in this country for other purposes besides medicine?-I have examined the Custom-house returns, and I have seen no greater increase than the augmentation of the population would warrant.
3929. In fact you would interdict the introduction of opium entirely into China by our subjects?--I think we are bound to do so by our treaty with China. I would disconnect Her Majesty's Government with it.
3930. Mr. Harcourt.] Do you suppose that in the opinion of medical men, the use of spirits is not deleterious to health?-In moderation it is beneficial to health, and the best proof of that is, that every nation that has advanced in civilization uses fermented liquors, but every nation that used opium has gone to decay; witness Persia, Turkey, and China.
3931. Do not you imagine that opium may be used medically as well as spirits -The medical use is altogether a different thing; the impossibility of maintaining moderation in the use of opium is admitted.
3932. Mr. Ewart.] If the use of opium were restricted to medical purposes, how are you to prevent its coming in under that name to a great extent- In this country it would not be necessary to restrict it, because the moral habits of the people are adverse to such a deleterious drug; in China its pro- hibition has been found necessary as a moral question, and partly as a financial. There is no doubt of the sincerity of the Chinese government in their efforts to put down opium, for when Governor Davis drew up a paper with great ability urging the legalized introduction of opium into China, that paper, on being submitted to the Emperor, had this answer appended to it: "It is true I cannot prevent the introduction of the flowing poison; gain-seeking and corrupt men will for profit and sensuality defeat my wishes, but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people."
3933. Do you think it would be possible to prevent the introduction of opium into China-I do, by the concurrence of the governments of England, America and France.
3934. And of other countries?-Those three countries would do it efficiently, I think.
3935. Would not Holland be important ?-Holland has very little trade; if those three countries made it a prohibition they would entirely put it down. With regard to the question as to the use of opium, I felt bound, as a mem- ber of the council, to dissent from its introduction into Hong Kong, and I should be glad to put on record my dissent; it states some of the grounds on which I dissent.
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3937. Mr. Ewart.] Then you did not propose to interdict the trade on the part of the merchants ---Not at all. I object on the ground that the Queen of this country, as a Christian Sovereign, ought not to sanction the opium trade. 3938. Do you extend that to a company like the East India Company, who cultivate the article as a monopoly?-Quite so.
3939. Sir G. Staunton.] Would not the effect of that be rather to give greater facility to the opium trade?-Granting even that it does, it disconnects the Government of a Christian country with what I consider to be a vice. I do not think that any government professing Christianity should be connected. with a vicious means of indulgence.
3940. You do not contemplate any positive prohibition at Hong Kong?--- Had I the power, I would. I was not called
I was not called upon to propose such. 3941. Mr. Ewart.] You merely spoke as a Government officer?-As a member of Her Majesty's Council. I put in a dissent which was written a few hours before carrying it into the council; I will deliver in a copy of it.- (The same was delivered in. Vide Appendix.)
3942. In what respect do you think the opium trade injurious to us, in our relations with China -Politically, with reference to our position with the government of China. Had France, or America, or Russia, granted us an island on their coast, as a commercial station, and had they prohibited the use of opium, believing it to be injurious, we dare not in that case have made it a smoking shop for the empire; and I would not act to the Chinese government in a different manner than I would act to a government in Europe. Then, socially speaking, I believe it is the duty of this Government to uphold moral principles, and to disseminate religious truth, and she cannot do that with one hand, while on the other she is introducing into China an amount of opium which furnishes 17 grains a day to each of three millions of people, and which, in the language of Mr. Lay, Her Majesty's late consul at Amoy, is hamstringing the nation;" that was the expression of Mr. Lay. I think it is desolating China, corrupting its government, and bringing the fabric of that extraordinary empire to a state of more rapid dissolution. Commercially speak- ing, it is injurious to us, because it prevents the extension of our manufactures in China. Four or five mercantile houses are engaged in that traffic, and derive a large amount of income from it; but the trade in England is materially cramped, by the extension of opium consumption in China, to the extent of at least four millions sterling.
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3943. Viscount Jocelyn.] Do you believe that our Government refusing to have anything to do with the opium trade, would tend to put a stop to it? I do not think it would immediately.
3944. Would it put a check to the trade-It might have some effect upon the consciences or moral feelings of men if there were general opprobrium thrown on it by the Government; though, of course, a few individuals for gain, might always afford means of obtaining it.
3945. Do not you think that it would lead to an unhappy state of affairs if there were a perpetual war going on between the people bringing opium to the shores and the Chinese government-It was not so when Commissioner Lin took the steps that he did; there was not a possibility of selling a chest of opium along the coast. The compradors that went ashore at different ports were seized, and it was known that the opium that was taken possession of at Canton could not be sold, and that that was a great benefit to the English traders in opium.
3946. Do you believe that at that period there was no opium sold along the coast of China ?-I understood from the persons engaged in the traffic, that there was a complete cessation of it; they could not sell the opium.
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3950. You do not think that a state of things which would lead to a piratical system in China would be injurious to our trade?-I do not perceive that it would have that effect,
3951. You admit that the people would have opium; then if the government. did all it could to suppress the opium trade, must not the result of their car- rying out their views be a piratical state of things?--It would lead probably to severe contests, as in the recent melancholy case, where two vessels were cut off at Chimmoo Bay; but probably the Government of this country would be bound to interfere to prevent its flag being used for the purpose of smuggling opium into China against the laws of that empire.
3952. Mr. Ewart.] Have any other means occurred to you of extending our trade with China-I think a great deal may be done by opening collateral. intercourse with the nations surrounding China. The first country to which I would beg the attention of the Committee would be Japan; we had for- merly a factory in Japan, and in 1613 the Emperor of Japan granted a treaty of privileges to this country of a most favourable nature. I have discovered in the British Museum a copy of that treaty, a translation of which I beg to give in. It is written in the Firogane character, and gives us perfect freedom of access for all goods to Japan. We were ultimately compelled to abandon that factory by the aggressions of the Dutch, but for many years the Japanese government retained the English factory for them. I think it is possible to re- open our intercourse with Japan on the basis of this treaty, and that a mission, undertaken as Great Britain ought to undertake it, would be effectual in obtain- ing for us even better terms than the Dutch now have at Nangasaki. I will hand in the translation of the treaty. (The same was delivered in. Vide Appendix.)
3953. This original writing is still intelligible to the Japanese?-Yes. 3954. And therefore this instrument might be the basis of a negociation with them--Yes; the Japanese are very strict in adhering to promises.
3955. How has the treaty been translated?--The translation is along with the original in the British Museum. A letter was also written from the Emperor of Japan, accompanying that treaty, to the King of Great Britain. There is an old translation of that, of which I will hand in a copy. (The same was delivered in. Vide Appendix.) The position of Japan, as evidenced upon this skeleton map (producing a map), shows how advantageous would be the inter- course with reference to China, and to the intermediate peninsula of Corea. Corea is a peninsula of about 500 miles long and 200 broad, with a fine climate, an excellent soil, and an industrious people; it would afford to us a consi- derable outlet for our manufactures. A harbour named Chosan, near the south- east extremity of the peninsula, has been visited recently by Sir Edward Belcher. It is a harbour to which the Japanese resort for trade with Corea; and as Corea does not belong to China, but has merely a ceremonial of investi- ture on the accessions of its sovereigns, it would be perfectly free for us to enter into commercial arrangements with Corea without any negociation with the Chinese government. On Lord Macartney's mission in 1792, he was in- structed to open a communication with Japan, Cochin China, and all countries, but the state of affairs prevented it. The French have recently sent a mission to Japan, but more complimentary than for the purpose of any commercial. intercourse. The Americans have recently sent a mission, but they have been refused intercourse, for they are viewed as inferior in rank to the English, and probably it would not be deemed courteous to give the Americans access to Japan, when England has not yet applied. I learned at Java recently, from a Dutch gentleman who had returned from Japan, that the Japanese were expecting a mission from England, that they had translated the whole account of our war with China, and that it would be a favourable opportunity to make an impression upon the Japanese authorities, and to obtain commercial inter- course with Japan. Those islands may be termed the Great Britain of the China seas; they contain about 35,000,000 of inhabitants far more civilized.
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3956. And only one Dutch ship?-Two is the number now. 3957. Have you examined the past and present intercourse between Holland. and Japan ?-I have reported on it to Her Majesty's Government.
3958. Can you give the Committee any further information as to our former relations with Japan ?-We had a factory there, and we were exceed- ingly well received.
3959. For how long?-From 1613 to 1623. We were then expelled by the conduct of the Dutch, which was somewhat similar to the massacre at Amboyna, and they obliged our people to retreat from Japan.
3960. What is the result of your inquiries into the trade between Holland and Japan?-The trade with Holland has diminished latterly, in consequence of the monopolizing spirit of the Dutch government; they are restricted to a single. port at Nangasaki; but if we had free intercourse with the capital, with Jeddo, I think a very large trade might be carried on, not only with Japan, but inter- mediately with the adjacent places.
3961. When did the ship called the "Morrison" go there?--I think the date was 1837; she went there on a mission from Canton, but was unsuccessful; no efforts were made to prosecute it. There is an island marked on that map, called Quelpaart's Island, which is worthy of attention as a trading station.
3962. Is Quelpaart's Island, which is south of the peninsula of Corca, a good trading station ?-It is. The circumstance of its geographical position renders it most advantageous for a trade with Japan, with Corea, and with China. I understand that the country is fertile, and is covered with cattle; some of our ships visited it during the war, and obtained supplies there. If it were made a commercial trading station under the protection of a 10-gun brig, not expensively established as a colony, I think it would afford the means of trade with all the countries around, and time would indicate its value.
3963. What is its relation to China-It has no relation to China; it is connected with Corea.
3964. Is it under a kind of feudal investiture ?-No, it is a mere appendage to the peninsula of Corea.
3965. Corea you state to be a country connected directly with the crown of China?-Only so far directly that the sovereign of Corea receives his inves- titure on coming to the throne, and sends annually some present to Pekin. The Coreans carry on trade at Pekin, but they are perfectly independent in their relations, and have been at war with China and with Japan.
3966. Is it something like the Pacha of Egypt and the Turkish government? -It is probably so. It would be a great advantage to our merchants if they had Corea open to them for their traffic.
3967. Quelpaart's Island would be a good position, having on one side China and on another the peninsula of Corea, and as a third side the Japan Islands? ---Yes; I am not speaking of it as a colony, but as a trading station. After a few years it might be seen what advantages were realized; but in order to carry on a trade with the northern regions, it would be necessary to repeal the Act which prohibits British ships or subjects going beyond the 32d degree of north latitude.
3968. Is that part of the present stipulation with China ?--Not at all; it is a gratuitous Act, restricting ourselves. I never could understand what was the object of preventing British merchants seeking to push their wares into the northern regions. It is an Hong Kong Ordinance, No. 1, of 1846, creating penalties for any ship going beyond the 32d degree of north latitude. The Ordinance was founded on an act of the Privy Council here originally.
3969. And not based upon any understanding with the Chinese govern- ment?-Upon no treaties. There is another region to which a collateral trade might be carried on, and that is the region of Siam and Cochin China, extending South of China.
3970. There are also the Loo Choo Islands ?-They are small; Manchouria would form a station for our coasting traffic. Siam and Cochin China it is estimated contain a population of 50,000,000. We have a treaty with Siam, but it is so imperfect, that it has never been acted upon. It requires ships to take their guns out, &c. It appears to be subject to restrictions which would prevent
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3971. Was Mr. Crawfurd agent at the time it was made?-Mr. Crawfurd was agent.
3972. Was it between the King of Siam and the East India Company ?- Yes. But it is held valid by the Crown of England.
3973. Would not it go to the Board of Control, under Mr. Pitt's Act?-Yes, the Board of Control, certainly. There is a treaty between the United States of America and Siam on the 3d of March 1843, which is an excellent treaty, and is in operation. A considerable trade is now carrying on under it. I will hand in a copy of this treaty. (The same was delivered in. Vide Appendix.) 3974. Do the Americans carry on any trade with Siam now ?They do, and are endeavouring to do so with Cochin China; and there is a large supply
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3975. Have you any remarks to make upon the trade between Singapore. and China-I have some Returns prepared of the trade between Singapore and China for 10 years; it is an increasing traffic.
3976. What does it consist of principally-In what is termed Straits' pro- duce, which consists of rattans, rice, drugs, dried fish, birds' nests, and various commodities. These Returns have been prepared for me by the Governor of Singapore, which will illustrate the trade of China and Singapore; they con- tain both the values and the quantities. (The same were delivered in. Vide Appendix.) I obtained from the collector of customs at Bombay the official Returns of the trade between China, Bengal, and Bombay, giving the quan- tities and the values. These are the official Returns transmitted to me by the collector of customs at Calcutta and Bombay. (The same were delivered in. Vide Appendix.)
3977. Is the cotton trade increasing now from India to China? The cotton. trade has diminished. The Americans have been pushing the trade in raw cotton from the United States.
3978. Is that an increasing trade-It has fallen off the last year; but for several years it had been slowly increasing. The quantity of cotton twist that goes to China diminishes very much the importation of raw cotton from India. 3979. The quantity of cotton twist imported into China increases ?-Yes. 3980. From whence ?-From England and from the United States. 3981. The supply of China itself, of raw cotton, and cotton twist, for its manufactures, is insufficient I should think so; the importations have increased very largely.
3982. Do not they grow very fine cotton there?-Yes; but insufficient for the population. In the northern districts of China, the people are clad in sheep skins or cotton quilt.
3983. Have you any means of judging of the extent to which we might push the trade in woollens with China?If we had stations to the northward, they would be advantageous for that purpose. In the southern districts the people are clothed in cotton.
3984. Does not Shang-hai, by opening more communication with the north of China, enable us to send our woollens to the northward -Yes; but not so well as if we had a station at Tientzin, the port of Pekin.
3985. Would not the Chinese object to our coming so near the capital? The Tartar government might object to that, but there is in some of the Chinese statesmen a desire to cultivate relations with England.
3986. Have you prepared a report upon the tea trade?-I have prepared and submitted to Her Majesty's Government a report on the tea trade. On proceeding to China, it was stated to me, that any information which I could. collect, and any reports which I could make, would be acceptable to Her Ma- jesty's Government, and I prepared this Report and this Table, a copy of which I beg to lay before the Committee. (The same were delivered in. Vide Appen- dix.) I should state that I have the misfortune to differ from the opinions which have been promulgated before this Committee with reference to the reduction of the duty. The evidence of that Table is to demonstrate that the tea consumption has increased in this country irrespectively of the duty levied by the Government. In the last five years there has been an increase of 10,000,000 of pounds, therefore, showing that it is not the rate of duty which impedes the consumption. If the Government could afford to give up a portion
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3987. Would it not increase the consumption of tea?--I do not think it would. I think tea is a very peculiar article as to its consumption; that it is out of the category of sugar and other commodities, and that mere cheapness of price will not cause an increased consumption. I am prepared to offer evi- dence to show that in different countries in Europe, where tea at one time was largely consumed, yet though no duty was levied, the consumption entirely fell off.
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3989. Have you any other observations to offer upon our trade with China? -Not beyond this; that it would be exceedingly advisable for Her Majesty's Government to dispatch a mission to China for the purpose of obtaining a modification of the treaty, perfect freedom of intercourse, and the opening of other ports to the northward.
3990. And you believe that such an attempt would be successful?-I believe that if properly conducted it would be highly bencficial, and would be met with a feeling, if not of very cordial amity, yet at least of a desire to hold friendly intercourse with us.
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3992. Supposing that in raising the present revenue he acted under instruc- tions from home, you do not see how a similar revenue could be raised in any other manner more satisfactorily to the colony-Had the Governor used his discretion in representing that it was not possible to raise a revenue without diminishing the commerce or injuring the merchants in their endeavours to make the place more available for trade, I think he would have exercised a sound discretion. It was an endeavour to realize the representations which had been made. For instance, Her Majesty's Government were informed that Hong Kong would be the Carthage of the east. In another communication they were informed that it would have a population equal to ancient Rome. On another occasion, Governor Davis informed Lord Stanley that he believed Hong Kong would ultimately supersede Canton; and the constant endeavour to realize those expectations led to a continued system of taxation, an unfor- tunate desire for legislation, and an unnecessarily expensive system of
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3993. But supposing this revenue is required to be raised, you are not aware of any other manner in which it can be accomplished with satisfaction to the colony-It is impossible to raise a revenue from such a place. The endea- vour to squeeze as much as possible out of a poor struggling settlement neces- sarily causes irritation. There is not a respectable Chinese inhabitant in the island, and never has been. A person engaged in the opium trade, named Chinam, built a hong there, and shortly after quitted the place; but no respectable Chinaman will live at Hong Kong.
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What would recommend, would be to abandon the design of raising the present revenue at Hong Kong-I would not attempt to raise any revenue beyond a moderate amount of land rent, and give security to life and property.
3995. The registration system has been stated to be very objectionable; do you concur in that opinion?-I objected to the registration system in the first place, as regards Europeans; I did not think they ought to be placed like ticket- of-leave men at New South Wales. 1 objected to it secondly, as levying a tax upon the Chinese. And I particularly objected to the most obnoxious pro- position of branding them upon the cheeks.
3996. And which has been abandoned?-Yes. But the registration system has been ineffective, even with those modifications.
3997. And therefore you recommend the entire abandonment of it ?-Yes. 3998. And you think that could be done consistently with the security of persons and property in the island?-There has been little security, and there is still less at present. The very last mail shows that individuals cannot walk outside the town unarmed.
3999. Would you suggest any remedy for that evil?-I would give the Chinese shopkeepers there somewhat the management of their own people. There is an excellent municipal local system in every town in China, and I would endeavour to make the Chinese in Hong Kong supervisors of their own. people, and give them some little rank of office, in order that they may exercise a surveillance over their own people.
4000. You think an effective police may be constituted upon that principle so as to control the evil-disposed population, and at the same time not to discourage the respectable population-Yes; I would leave it as much. as possible in the hands of the Chinese themselves. At present the police are composed of Europeans and Lascars; the gentleman at the head of the police is an efficient officer from London, Mr. May; and though I have heard observations made respecting the police squeezing the inhabitants, my impression is that that gentleman is a most trustworthy character, and would be the last to sanction such a proceeding; but I would have some Chinese police.
4001. You do not think it necessary to have any registration for persons visiting the island-It is impossible, from the contiguity of the island to the mainland; it would be like an attempt as between one side of the Thames and the other, with boats going constantly backwards and forwards.
4002. Viscount Jocelyn.] Do you know anything of the village administra- tion in China-It is maintained by a system of head-men. Their municipal. system appears to be almost perfect, and to be one of the means by which that vast empire is kept together.
4003. It is very similar to the village system in India-Yes. I would try it in Hong Kong.
4004. Do you think you could get respectable Chinamen to take the office of head-men in the villages?-There are shopkeepers and inhabitants of that kind in Hong Kong to whom I would entrust the power.
I would con- stitute them a petty bench. I think such an arrangement would be popular, by showing a disposition to grant the Chinese power, and to make them respect themselves. I beg to add, that it is much to be regretted that we have not retained possession of Chusan, and if any negotiation were opened with the Government of China, it would be very desirable to retain possession of that settlement, one of the most advantageously situated islands which I have seen in that part of the world. If we had the power of placing an island in any
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part of the globe, which for political and commercial objects would be an R. M. Martin, Esq, eligible position for England, we could not place it in a spot equal to that of Chusan.
4005. Sir G. Staunton.] But you do not consider, that under the provisons of the treaty, it would be possible to retain it?-Quite so. Lord Aberdeen informed me, that Chusan should not be evacuated till Canton was opened; but nevertheless Chusan has been evacuated, but Canton has not been opened. 4006. Viscount Jocelyn.] Do you believe that for commerce it would have. been important to have kept the island of Chusan-Probably not as regards the Yang-tse-kiang; but with regard to other places, Japan, Corea, Mantchouria, all the northern districts of China, and Formosa.
4007. Do you remember whether, after Shang-hai was opened, the trade of Chusan did not nearly cease ?--That was because no vessel was allowed to go to Chusan; it was not within the terms of the treaty. A vessel could not come from one of the other ports in China to Chusan.
4008. Before Chusan was given up, immediately that Shang-hai was opened, what was the effect upon the trade at Chusan-The trade at Chusan was drawn off to Shang-hai. The reason that there was none at Chusan was that Chusan was not permitted to be included in the trade which we were then carrying on. It was held merely as a guarantee.
400g. Mr. Harcourt.] We have been told by witnesses that it would have required a considerable employment of troops to have retained possession of Chusan. Do you agree in that?-Not at all; the very reverse. First with regard to the police. The police did not cost 100 dollars a month. There was not a homicide in the island while we possessed it; and the value of all the property stolen did not exceed that stolen in a single night at Hong Kong. Secondly, with regard to troops, it is more easily defended than Hong Kong; and the inhabitants being ordinarily of the agricultural character, required less means of keeping them in order. There is a fort called Joss House Hill, which, with a few troops, would give complete protection; whereas, with regard to Hong Kong, we never could defend it: half the harbour does not belong to us, and no garrison we could keep there could defend it. At Chusan I believe a frigate and a single regiment would be a sufficient protection.
4010. Mr. Ewart.] Do you think that while access is allowed to the towns on the main land, it is likely that an island at some distance would become a depôt of commerce?-I spoke of its being a depôt from other places; but with regard to our access to places on the main land, it is as if a Chinese mer- chant were allowed to come to Gravesend, instead of London; to Pill, instead of Bristol; to Greenock, instead of Glasgow; we are only at the very outskirts of the Empire, not in the commercial cities.
4011. With what commercial cities do you think we should open further communication ?-Soochoo, of which Shang-hai is the port; Nankin, Tching- kiang foo, Tientzin, Kiang-sing, and Tchang-foo, of which Amoy is the port, and the cities above Canton. There are two large cities on the river above Canton to which we should have access.
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REPORT on the Island of Hong Kong, by R. Montgomery Martin, Her Majesty's Treasurer for the Colonial and Consular Service in China, and a Member of Her Majesty's Council at Hong Kong. Transmitted to Governor Davis for Lord Stanley, 24 July 1844.
Locality-Hong Kong, which in the Chinese language significs Red Harbour, or Flowing Streams, is in north latitude 22 16 27", east longitude 114° 14′ 48′′, distant about 40 miles east from Macao. It forms one of a numerous but scattered group of lofty islands termed the " Ladrones," which vary in size and height, but agree in their arid and rugged features. The length of the island from east to west is about eight miles, with a breadth of two to four miles; it is separated from the main land of China by a strait or inlet of the sea, varying in breadth from half a mile to three miles; one entrance, the Lymoon Pass, being only about a quarter of a mile wide.
Physical Aspect. The island consists of a broken ridge or "hog's back" of mountainous hills running from W.N.W. to E.S.E. at an average height of about 1,000 feet; but from this ridge and its spurs various conical mountains are elevated to the height of 1,500 to 2,000 feet above the sea, and very precipitous. The whole island indeed rises abruptly from the ocean, particularly on the north face. There are a few narrow vallies and deep ravines through which the sea occasionally bursts, or which serve as conduits for the mountain torrents; but on the north side of the island, especially where the town of Victoria is Luilt, the rocky ridge approaches close to the sea, and it was only by hewing through this ridge that a street or road could be made to connect the straggling town of Victoria, which stretches along the water edge for nearly four miles, although only comprising about 60 European houses and several Chinese huts and bazaars. Here and there, on the tops of some isolated hills or along the precipitous slopes of the mountains, some houses have been constructed, but the rugged, broken, and abrupt precipices and deep rocky ravines will ever effectually prevent the formation at Victoria of any concentrated town adapted for mutual protection, cleanliness, and comfort. Hong Kong cannot be said to possess any vegetation; a few goats with difficulty find pasturage. After the heavy rains of May, June, July, and August, the hills assume somewhat of a greenish hue, like a decayed Stilton cheese; but the whitey-brown or red-streaked ridges, with the scattered masses of black rocks, give a most uninviting and desolate aspect to the island, which is unrelieved by the adjacent main land, whose physical features are precisely similar to that of Hong Kong, the mountains' tops and sides presenting in many places the appearance of a negro streaked. with leprosy.
Geology. There is no igneous formation in Hong Kong; the island partakes of the same geological character as the whole south coast of China, excepting that it seems of older for- mation. The structure may be briefly described as consisting of decomposed coarse granite intermixed with strata of a red disintegrating sandstone crumbling into a stiff ferruginous- looking clay. Here and there huge boulder-stones, which gunpowder will not blast, may be seen imbedded in a stiff pudding earth, or they are strewed over the tops and sides of the mountains. Gneiss and felspar are found in fragments. That the granite is rotten, and passing like dead animal and vegetable substances into a putrescent state, is evidenced from the crumbling of the apparently solid rock beneath the touch, and from the noxious vapour or nitrogen which it yields when the sun strikes fervidly on it after rain. On examining the sites of houses in Victoria whose foundations were being excavated in the sides of the hills, the strata appeared like a richly prepared compost, emitting a fetid odour of the most sickening nature, and which at night must prove a deadly poison. This strata quickly absorbs any quantity of rain, which it returns to the surface in the nature of a pestiferous mineral gas. The position of the town of Victoria, which may be likened to the bottom of a crater with a lake, prevents the dissipation of this gas, while the geological formation favours the retention of a morbific poison on the surface, to be occasionally called into deadly activity. There is no extent of marsh on the island capable of generating miasm, but the heavy rains are annually washing large portions of the mountains through deep ravines into the bay, and thus continually exposing a fresh rotten surface to the sun's rays, and preserving a focus of disease which will finally become endemic. Vast quantities of the silt from the hills are being deposited along the shores of the harbour; owing to this circumstance, and to the rapid receding of the tides from this coast, the bay is becoming shoaler every day; the average depth is only four to five fathoms, except in
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Climate. It is difficult to convey by thermometrical registers an accurate idea of the Island of Hong climate of any place. The range of the thermometer will not indicate the pressure of the Kong. atmosphere; the barometer in or near the tropics is of little utility as an index; the hygrometer imperfectly shows the quantity of rain which is in solution; while the height of the surrounding land, its configuration, the nature of the soil, the extent and quality of the vegetation, the exposure to the sea, and the prevailing winds, all influence what is com- prised under the word "Climate." In some respects the whole coast of China partakes of the climatic characteristics of the opposite cost of the American continents, particularly as regards the extremes of temperature, and its depressing influence on mental or bodily exertion,
For six months in the year, April to September, the heat varies from 80° to 90° F.; but occasionally during the other six months the heat is also very great, the thermometer having been known to stand at 80° F. on Christmas-day. The island being on the verge of the tropics, is subject to the extremes of the torrid and temperate zones. Even on the same day the range of mercury in the thermometer is very great, and the vicissitudes are exceedingly trying to the European constitution.
But neither the range from heat to cold, nor the quantity of moisture in the atmosphere, will adequately convey an idea of the effects that this climate is capable of producing on the human frame.
During April and part of May, when the sun is approaching rapidly from the Equator, there is a dry, burning heat, with a cloudless sky; but towards the end of May, and through- out June, July, August, and part of September, the rain descends in torrents, with a force and continuance, such as I have never seen in India, Africa, Australasia, or any other part of the world. The clouds pour down one vast sheet of water, washing away hills and rocks, surrounding the island with deep ravines, and saturating the soft, porous, putrescent strata, to the extent of many feet, with daily renewed moisture. In the intervals of rain a nearly vertical sun acts with an intense evaporating power, and a noxious steam or vapour rises from the fetid soil, yielding a gas of a most sickly and deleterious nature, exactly such as I experienced on the coast of Africa in 1824, when I was seized with an "earth fever," while in H. M. service, from the effects of which I, with great difficulty, recovered, but of which most of my brother officers perished. This morbific gas does not arise from vegetable or animal decomposition. There is none on the island of any extent. But decomposed mineral substances yield an aëriform poison, under some circumstances, of a more deadly nature than either of the other kingdoms of nature. This gas does not rise. more than a few feet from the earth; it slowly mingles with the surrounding atmosphere, and when not causing immediate illness produces a depressing effect on mind and body, which undermines and destroys the strongest constitutions.
Military and naval men who have served in Africa and India feel the effects of the sun in Hong Kong in a manner never before experienced. Even at Macao, only 40 miles west of Hong Kong, Europeans may walk about the whole day in the month of July, when to do so at Hong Kong would be attended with almost certain death. Neither the Indian Sepoys, Malays, nor Chinese cane ndure the climate so well as Europeans, whose stamina they do not possess. The Chinese deem it a dangerous experiment to prolong their abode in the island beyond a certain time. They have ever viewed Hong Kong as injurious to health and fatal to life. The Europeans who survive a brief residence in this climate, generally get a lassitude of frame, and an irritability of fibre, which destroys the spring of existence. A malign influence operates on the system in a most distressing manner, which is not removed by a return to Europe; on the contrary, the sufferers frequently die in England soon after their arrival.
Diseases and Mortality.-The prevailing disease of Hong Kong is a fever combining the character of the African and West India fevers. It was at first supposed to be epi- demic, but it has now become endemic, and may be assumed to be the fixed malady of the island. Diarrhoea and dysentery form the next most immediately fatal class of diseases; but intermittent fever or ague destroys health gradually. Last year the strength per annum of European and native troops was 1,526, and the number who passed through the hospital in the year amounted to 7,893; thus on an average, each man went through the hospital more than five times in the year. Of the diseases with which they were afflicted, 4,069 were fevers, 762 diarrhœas, 497 dysenteries, and 180 were pulmonic complaints. The total number of deaths, out of 1,526 men, was 440, or 1 in 33. The fatal fever cases were 155; ditto, diarrhoea, 80; ditto, dysentery, 137. The destruction of life since our occupation of Hong Kong has been enormous. Last year the deaths among the troops in the island amounted to 1 in 3; at Chusan, to 1 in 29}; and at Koolungsoo, to 1 in 12. Her Majesty's 98th Regiment lost at Hong Kong, in 21 months, 257 men by death. But in this and other regiments, it is not merely the deaths which indicate disease and a perni- cious climate; it is the great number of men invalided, and constantly unfit for duty. One half the men of a company are frequently unable to attend the parade; out of 100 nien there are sometimes not more than five or six men fit for duty.
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The Royal Artillery, the finest military corps in the world, out of 135 men and officers lost in two years, 51 by death (of whom 35 died at Hong Kong during the last six months of 1843), and 45 by invaliding. That Hong Kong was the cause of their death will be seen from the fact, that Colonel Knowles's detachment of the Royal Artillery went through the whole of the war at Canton and at the Yang-tzi-kang river; the detachment was out here three years; it never landed at Hong Kong. One man was killed, another died. of dropsy; but the whole of the remainder of the detachment returned to England, except the commanding officer, Lieutenant-colonel Knowles, who landed at Hong Kong, and died of fever.
The officers of the Royal Artillery died in the same proportion as the men; out of nine officers who came out with the original detachment, but one escaped disease or death.
Last year there were severe losses in the ships of war. Her Majesty's ship "Agincourt" lost, during the sickly season of 1843, 60 men, of whom 20 were marines; 40 men were invalided home, of whom few would recover. Since leaving England in May 1842, the Agincourt" has been obliged to enter 160 seamen from merchant ships. The cause assigned for the severe illness of the marines and seamen of last year was the being obliged to land guards to protect stores at West Point. This year the "Agincourt" sends no men on shore or on night duty; and out of 600 men, there are only 23, including slight hurts, in the sick list. This fact tests the insalubrity of the shore.
The deaths in the naval force at Hong Kong and Whampoa, for the six sickly months ending October 1843, were 41 per cent.; while for the same period on shore, the deaths among the troops averaged 24 per cent.; and even among the European civilians, the estimate was 10 per cent. In May 1843, the left wing of Her Majesty's 55th Regiment had 16 officers and 491 men in Hong Kong. From thence to November, two officers and 218 men died; and the lives of the remainder were only saved by the prompt, judicious, and humane conduct of General D'Aguilar, in immediately embarking the men for England. The mortality as yet (July 17), during the present year has not been so great; but sick- ness is equally destructive of the efficiency of the troops. Chuck Chew, on the south side On 30 June 1844, out of 400 of Hong Kong, it was hoped, would be a healthy station. men of Her Majesty's 98th, at Chuck Chew, there were 109 in hospital; out of 80 Lascars. at the same station, there were 30 in hospital.
It was supposed that Saiwan, on the south-east side of Hong Kong, would afford a healthy station for the troops. Government expended about 30,000 dollars in preparing and building a fine set of barracks of two stories, with every view to comfort and health. The officer of the Royal Engineers having reported the barracks habitable, the General commanding sent a Medical Board to examine the building and station. The Board re- ported that the station at Saiwan appeared healthy; that there was no apparent cause for disease, and that it was eligible for troops. The General resolved to begin with a small detachment, and 20 Europeans were sent to Saiwan. No sentry was to be mounted during the day, and but one at night,
In five weeks, five of the soldiers were dead; three more were in a dangerous state, and four were convalescent; one European woman and child were also dangerously ill.
The remaining men were withdrawn, and a small detachment of native troops are now (17 July 1844) being sent thither, in order to ascertain whether the climate will suit them. On the 17th July 1844, only four men out of the 20 Europeans were reported fit for duty.
The returns made to the Army and Naval Medical Boards will furnish full information on the sufferings of the soldiers and sailors in Her Majesty's service in this colony.
The Indian troops bear the insalubrity of the climate worse than the Europeans. In the cantonments at the west end of Victoria, the 39th Madras Native Infantry and 37th In May 1844 a wing of the Madras Native Infantry lost nearly half their men in 1842. 4th Regiment Madras Native Infantry landed at Hong Kong 450 men in perfect health, and 53 sick, after a long voyage. There have been already many deaths in the canton- ments at the east end of Victoria, and in June 1844 there were 160 men sick, and the list was daily increasing. From 15th April to 2d July 1844 there died at Hong Kong, out of the small force here, 52 Europeans and 42 native soldiers.
General D'Aguilar says that the maintenance of an European garrison at Hong Kong would cost the Crown one regiment every three years. Estimating each soldier as having cost Government 100 Z., this would be a severe economical loss, and worthy the considera- tion of those who will not reflect on the humanity of the subject. To keep 700 effective firelocks in Hong Kong it is necessary to maintain 1,400 men!
about Hong Kong is not less fatal to the Chinese, of whom there are, on an average, 600 sick and dying monthly. Dr. Gutzlaff says, "of 100 coolies, with whom I was acquainted, there died, between 20th May and 15th June 1844, 10 men, whilst 30 left the place diseased."
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Island of Hong Kong. Nor is it during only one period of the year that the island is unhealthy; in the cold season there are agues, low continued fever, diarrhea, pulmonary complaints, dropsy, rheu- matism, and various other diseases arising from general debility of the system, and the poisoned atmosphere. On 25th August 1843 the Surveyor-general of the colouy reported to Government that "the number of interments had been so great (in the European grave yard) that the enclosure was almost quite full, and the hill behind so rocky that it was impossible to dig into it, therefore ere long it would be necessary to provide another place." The Surveyor-general further stated, "It would be a difficult thing to select another grave yard, on account of the rocky and uneven nature of the island."
Let it be not said that the dreadful mortality and sickness of Hong Kong is the result of the newness of the colony, and that all young settlements suffer proportionally.
The assertion, if made, is at variance with fact. New colonies, even in the tropics, have not been originally unhealthy. When the West India islands were first colonized, they were perfectly healthy, as is proved by the large European population who resorted thither and remained there many years. Calcutta and Bombay are reported to have been formerly much healthier than they are at present; the Australian colonies were perfectly healthy when founded; so also the Mauritius and St. Helena; I cannot name a single colony that was originally unhealthy, and that subsequently became salubrious. Soldiers, sailors, and civilians; Europeans and natives, women as well as men, residing in every part of Hong Kong, have fallen victims to the climate, and at all seasons of the year.
An extensive study of the subject, and no inconsiderable experience in different climates, induces me to concur in the opinion of Dr. Thompson, the respected head of the medical department of Hong Kong, that the island never will be healthy. Its geological character, the immense quantity of rain, and the circumvallation of bills surrounding the town and island, render it a hotbed of disease which may be more mitigated one year than another, but which will ever and anon recur with increased violence. No drainage can obviate this destructive miasm; independent of new roads or buildings, the rain will every year keep the surface continually saturated with moisture, and also uncover large portions of the hills, washing the putrifying substance down the deep ravines towards the sea, thus generating a fruitful crop of disease.
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Population and Progress.-Hong Kong was "ceded to the British Crown under the seal of the Imperial Minister and High Commissioner Keshen," in January 1841.-See Captain Elliot's proclamation, dated Hong Kong, 29th January 1841, promising "full security and protection to all British subjects and foreigners, residing in or resorting to the island, so long as they shall continue to conform to the authority of H. M. Govern- ment, hereby duly constituted and proclaimed in and over Hong Kong," &c. By the same proclamation natives of China were invited to settle in the island by promising them that they should be "governed according to the laws and customs of China, every descrip- tion of torture excepted." And by another proclamation, dated IIong Kong, 1841, issued by Sir Gordon Bremer, Commander-in-chief, and Captain Elliot, H. M. Plenipotentiary, it is declared, that "the island of Hong Kong has now become a part of the dominions of the Queen of England by clear public agreement between the high officer of the Celestial and British Courts, and the Chinese are hereby promised protection in Her Majesty's gracious name against all enemies whatever; and they are further secured in the free exercise of their religious rites, ceremonies, and social customs, and in the enjoyment of their lawful private property and interests." Chinese ships and merchants resorting to the port of Hong Kong for purposes of trade are exempt, in the name of the Queen of England, from charge or duty of any kind to the British Government. The remainder of the pro- clamation consists of further inducements for the Chinese to settle in and trade with Hong Kong. A form of Government was organized; a chief magistrate, and a harbour master, &c. were appointed; 50 lots of land were sold, in June 1841, to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Dent & Co., MacVicar & Co., Fox, Rawson & Co., Turner & Co., Lindsay & Co., and various other persons, the annual rental of which amounted to 3,224/ Each lot was required to have a building erected within six months, of the appraised value of 1,000 dollars; and a deposit of 500 dollars was required to be lodged with the treasurer as a security for the performance of this engagement. Building commenced with great spirit; the Government spent very large sums of money on the island, and the harbour was filled with ships of war and transports. The island has now had a fair trial of more than 3 years; we shall inquire what progress it has made in population,
On taking possession of Hong Kong it was found to contain about 7,500 inhabitants, scattered over 20 fishing hamlets and villages. The requirements of the fleet and troops, the demands for labourers to make roads and houses, and the servants of Europeans, increased the number of inhabitants, and in March 1842 they were numbered at 12,361. In April 1844 the number of Chinese on the island is computed at 19,000; of whom not more than 1,000 are women and children. In the census are included 97 women, slaves, and the females attendant on 31 brothels, eight gaming houses, and 20 opium shops, &c. It is
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The Rev. Dr. Gutzlaff, who has been engaged in making the recent census appended to this Report, referring to the fishermen, who formed the greater part of the population of the island on our arrival, says "They are a roving set of beings, floating on the wide face of the ocean with their families, and committing depredations whenever it can be done with impunity." "The stone-cutters have been working here for many years before our arrival the majority of these men are unprincipled. They cannot be considered as domesticated, and are in the habit of going and coming, according to the state of trade." "The most numerous class who have since our arrival fixed themselves on the island, are from Whampoa; many of them are of the worst character, and ready to commit any atrocity." The capital of the shopkeepers is very small; the most of them live from hand to mouth, and lead a life of expedients without principle and self control." is very natural that depraved, idle, and bad characters from the adjacent main and islands. should flock to the colony where some money can be made." Dr. Gutzlaff, whose pre- possessions are strongly in favour of the Chinese, concludes this portion of the memoran- dum with which he has favoured me, as follows: "The moral standard of the people con- gregated in this place (Hong Kong) is of the lowest description." This observation is fully borne out by the numerous murders, piracies, burglaries, and robberies of every description which have taken place during the last three years, and with almost perfect impunity; for the Chinese are formed into secret societies for the mutual protection of villains, and no man dare inform against another. At this moment (July 1844) the Euro- pean inhabitants are obliged to sleep with loaded pistols under their pillows, frequently to turn out of their beds at midnight to protect their lives and property from gangs of armed robbers, who are ready to sacrifice a few of their number if they can obtain a large plunder.
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This state of things was long ago predicted. In the Canton Register of 23d February 1841 it was stated, "Hong Kong will be the resort aud rendezvous of all the Chinese smugglers; opium smoking shops and gambling houses will soon spread; to those haunts. will flock all the discontented and bad spirits of the empire; the island will be surrounded by Shameens,' and become a Gehenna of the waters.' Three years have completely ful- filled this prediction, and neither time nor circumstances will now ever alter the character of the place. No Chinese of the humbler class will ever bring their wives and children to the colony. He must be sanguinely visionary who expects that Hong Kong will ever contain a numerous and respectable Chinese population. And, as regards the present inhabitants, (if a migratory race who are constantly changing deserve that epithet), their diminution. by one-half would be satisfactory, for then a control by registration might be exercised, and life and property be rendered in some degree secure. The daring character of the population and its worthlessness for all useful civil purposes in the formation of a colony, will be seen in the following incident.
On 27th September 1843, the Honourable Major Caine, the chief magistrate, issued a proclamation for pulling down some mat sheds which harboured a gang of ruffians who were nightly engaged in plundering the town. In the beginning of October 1843, the Chinese robbers posted a counter proclamation on the gate of No. 1 Market-place, in the chief thoroughfare, declaring that if they left the island themselves they would " compel others to do so, taking with them their merchandize and property, and warning people to be cautious how they ventured out after dark, lest they meet with some unexpected harm." At the same time the Government coal depôts were set on fire; the mat barracks of the 41st Regiment, and the Market-place No. 1, were attempted to be burned; and at noon a num- ber of Chinamen, armed with knives, entered the market, threatened all around, wounded European policeman, and then walked away unmolested. The number of prisoners in the gaol of Hong Kong averaged, during 1843-44, from 60 to 90 a month; nearly every prisoner was Chinese, and the crimes with which they were charged were invariably piracy, murder, burglary, robbery, &c. There has been no diminution of crime; the number of prisoners in the jail have increased, and the nightly robberies are as frequent, if not more so, than they were three years ago. The shopkeepers do not remain more than a few months on the island, when another set takes their place. There is, in fact, a continual shifting of a Bedouin sort of population, whose migratory, predatory, gambling, and disso- lute habits utterly unfit them for continuous industry, and render them not only useless, but highly injurious subjects in the attempt to form a new colony,
There cannot be said to be any other coloured race in the colony; a few Lascars seek employment in ships. The European inhabitants, independent of those in the employ of government, consist of the members of about 12 mercantile houses and their clerks, together with several European shopkeepers. A few persons have arrived here from New
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The principal mercantile firms are those engaged in the opium trade, who have removed Island of Hong thither from Macao, as a safer position for an opium depôt, and which they frankly admit Kong.
is the only trade Hong Kong will ever possess. The opium belonging to the two principal firms is not, however, lodged on shore, it is kept in receiving ships, the "Hormanjee Bomanjee," belonging to Jardine, Matheson & Co., and the "John Barry," belonging to Dent & Co. Even the money in use by those firms is not entrusted on shore, but is kept in the receiving ships. These firms, and the three or four others partially engaged in the opium trade, carry on this business in Hong Kong. The tea trade is carried on distinctly at Canton, by members of the firms resident there. Excepting the six firms engaged in the opium trade, the other six houses are small, and are principally agents for manufacturers, &c. in Great Britain. The expense of establishments, the high rate of interest of money, and the want of trade, will, it is said, probably ere long compel the removal or breaking-up of several of the small houses. There is scarcely a firm in the island but would, I understand, be glad to get back half the money they have expended in the colony, and retire from the place. A sort of hallucination seems to have seized those who built houses here; they thought that Hong Kong would "rapidly out-rival Singapore, and become the Tyre or Carthage of the Eastern hemisphere.' Three years' residence, and the experience thence derived, have materially sobered some of their views. Unfortunately the government of the colony fostered the delusion respecting the colony. The leading government officers bought land, built houses or bazaars, which they rented out at high rates, and the public money was lavished in the most extraordinary manner, building up and pulling down temporary structures, making zig-zag bridle paths over hills and mountains, and forming the Queen's- road of three to four miles long, on which about 180,000 dollars have been expended, but which is not passable for half the year. The straggling settlement called Victoria, built along the Queen's-road, was dignified with the name of city, and it was declared on the highest authority that Hong Kong would contain a population " equal to that of ancient Rome."
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The Surveyor-general, in an official report to Sir Henry Pottinger, of 22 pages, dated 6 July 1843, proposed building an entirely new town or city, in the Woonichung Valley (which may be aptly called the valley of death), with a grand canal and many branch canals, &c. &c.; two ranges of terraces of houses, &c. &c.; courts of law and various other offices; acclimating barracks; additions to the present government house, for the secretaries and personal staff of the Governor, isolated from all other buildings; a space of land to be reclaimed from the sea for a public landing place, with an esplanade or public walk; a magnificent promenade of four miles to be made on ground now covered by the sea, which was to be excluded by a sea wall, at a cost of 35 dollars per lineal yard, exclusive of filling in, &c.; a circular road over hills and ravines, round the entire island, &c. &c., adapted for carriages, and for moving troops with speed and facility to any part of the island where they may happen to be required for the protection of the different villages. (These villages, be it remembered, containing nothing but a few hundreds of a thieving, piratical population.) I refer to the Government archives for full details of these and other most ridiculous projects, involving a vast expenditure of public money, which none but the wildest theorists or self-interested persons could have projected or entertained.
On 17th December 1843, the Surveyor-general laid before Sir H. Pottinger the elevation of a building for a government office, &c. with a front of 360 feet in length, by 50 feet in depth, and which would probably cost 30,000l. sterling. There seemed to be the greatest possible desire to spend a large part of the Chinese indemnity money on this wretched, barren, unhealthy, and useless rock, which the whole wealth, energy, and talent of England would never render habitable, or creditable as a colony to the British name.
In illustration of the mode in which the public money was proposed to be spent, I give the following, which is a portion of the estimate of public works in Hong Kong, for 1844, and which Sir H. Pottinger transmitted to England for approval:
Completion of Queen's-road from West Point to the east side of Wong-
nichung Valley
Ditto, to godowns of Jardine & Co.
New street formation in Victoria
Sewers in Victoria
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Value of houses to be removed from Upper Bazaar and other places Drainage of Woonichung Valley
Bridle path to Saiwan
New church
Government house, with suitable office, &c.
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This is but a small portion of the contemplated expenditure; it does not include the for- mation of streets and roads in Hong Kong, which (on account of the mountainous nature of the island) would cost about 100,000 7. sterling. It does not include barracks, stores, forts, arsenals, dockyards, wharfs, &c. all projected, and which would cost several millions. sterling before they would be completed.
It is unnecessary to pursue this branch of the subject further; sufficient has been said to show the absurd and ruinous projects which were entertained, and the utter failure of the colony in regard to the nature and extent of its population. Notwithstanding the large sums of money expended, the Governor is now obliged to hire a residence which belongs to the late deputy governor, Mr. Johnston. The government offices are in a temporary building, which is falling to pieces. The General commanding has hired an inn for his resi dence. There is only one small barrack in Victoria, and that has been recently erected it is not possible to rent a decent house under 150 to 180 dollars a month, about 4007. sterling per annum. The church service is conducted in a mat shed; the civil and military officers are glad to get a location, or even a room, in any spot, on any terms; and the prices of living and of servants, &c. (see Documentary Appendix) are enormous, while the whole population of the island is entirely dependent for its daily supply of food on the Emperor of China's subjects on the mainland of China.
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Commerce.-There is no trade of any noticeable extent in Hong Kong. Vessels occasion- ally touch here on their way to Canton, or on their return from thence when laden and about to proceed to Europe for orders. Vessels also proceeding to or coming from the ports to the northward sometimes touch here for instructions from the owners or consignees, but very few break bulk at Hong Kong. There is a considerable business done in opium. Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. have a large opium receiving ship, the "Homanjee Bomanjee," moored the whole year round in this harbour; Messrs. Dent & Co. have also a large vessel, the "John Barry," for a similar purpose. These receiving ships contain the opium brought from India, whence it is transhipped to smaller vessels and sent up the coast. Messrs. M'Vicar, Burn & Co.; Fox, Rawson & Co., and a few smaller houses, also deal to the extent of their means in the opium trade, which requires a large ready money capital. The
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ports, but it is kept on board the receiving ships, moored off or near those ports, until the agents sell the opium to some Chinese broker, at Shanghai, for instance, who then receives Report on the an order for the delivery of the opium from the receiving ship at Woosung. There are no Island of Hong native trading junks here from the coast of China; there are none belonging to the port, Kong. and a few fishing and passage boats, which form a safe asylum for Ladrones and vagabonds of every description, constitute the native craft of Hong Kong. Even if the natural impediments did not exist to the establishment of a native coasting trade, the articles 13, 14, and 16, in the Supplemental Treaty, would effectually prevent any Chinese junks resorting to Hong Kong. Not only are the junks prevented proceeding thither from any places but the five consular ports, but they must also obtain special passports for a voyage to Hong Kong, and when arrived there the British Government are to act the part of spies for the Chinese government, and to report every vessel, the name of her proprietor, the nature of her cargo, &c., to the authorities at Canton.
It is now well understood what was the object of these clauses; no passes will be readily granted, and junks that might proceed to Hong Kong would probably be punished by the Chinese authorities, who are exceedingly jealous that anything should occur for the advan- tage of Hong Kong. These and other circumstances, together with the fear of pirates, the want of a Chinese commercial community, the dearness of provisions, and the absence or high price of any trading commodities, will be sufficient to prevent any coasting trade at Hong Kong.
Dr. Gutzlaff, whose knowledge of the Chinese character and proceedings is certainly unsurpassed, says, "So long as the trade is maintained in the respective ports on an ex- cellent footing, no vessels will visit this colony to buy articles at the same price which they can more easily get nearer to them, nor will they bring goods to Hong Kong for which there is an advantageous market in their own neighbourhood. When ships find it more profitable to proceed direct to the northern ports, the chances of Hong Kong becoming an emporium are very trifling. Whatever native or foreign trade will be carried on here must be brought to the colony by adventitious circumstances, and will last or cease according to accident; for notwitstanding the excellent harbour, Hong Kong has nothing in its position or relationship to the other ports to concentrate commerce."
Since August 1841, Sir H. Pottinger has been issuing proclamations and regulations respecting commerce and shipping for their encouragement and protection. No duties of any kind whatever have been levied, no inquiries have been made as to the cargoes of vessels; ships might enter and depart at pleasure; but all in vain, commerce cannot be created where no materials for it exist.
The table in the Documentary Appendix shows the shipping which entered the harbour of Hong Kong for three years. It consisted principally of transports conveying troops, and vessels calling for orders or seeking freights. Ample trial has been given the place without any satisfactory result. Nearly four years' residence on, or occupation of the island, and an immense expenditure, has failed to produce any commercial operation. Every month the shipping entering the harbour are diminishing in number, and the imposition of a tonnage duty would, it is said, cause a still further decrease.
There does not appear the slightest probability that under any circumstances Hong Kong will ever become a place of trade. The island produces nothing whatever; its geographical position, either as regards the Chinese coast generally, or Canton in particular, is bad. For the trade of the coast of China it is too far to the southward of a territory which extends upwards of 2,000 miles, and if it were practicable to remove the foreign trade of Canton, the removal would be either to some of the open ports to the northward, in the neighbour- hood of the tea districts, or to some island or place in the Canton River. Among other delusions that have been promulgated, is the allegation that Hong Kong is a protection to the British commerce at Canton, and especially to the tea trade. With reference to the latter, it should be remembered that the Chinese are as eager to sell us tea as we are to buy it; that the cessation of the trade would be a greater injury to them than to the British nation; that there was no difficulty in procuring tea during the war; that nothing would prevent the Chinese supplying our annual demand for tea, and, of course, receiving in return English manufactures. The tea trade is in fact as independent of Hong Kong as it would be of our occupation of the Sandwich Islands. Canton, however, has no intrinsic advantages to make it the seat of foreign commerce. So long as the Emperor restricted all foreigners to the most distant southerly port in the empire, tea, silk, or any other exportable produce was obliged to be conveyed thither, however distant the place of production or manufacture; but the case is now totally different, when the northern ports in the inme- diate vicinity of the tea and silk provinces are equally with Canton open to British com- merce. Several vessels have already laden with tea for England in the northern ports; this may be increased, and the trade of Canton would then be proportionably diminished, thus rendering Hong Kong, (admitting for the sake of argument its reputed value as a protec- tion to the trade of Canton) every year less and less useful to British interests in China. It is for the advantage of England that our trade with China be carried on with the northern ports. In the central districts of China, along the Yang-ze-kang and other great rivers and canals, the people are more civilized, more wealthy, and, now that they are becoming acquainted with the English, more disposed to friendly and commercial inter- course. By purchasing tea and silk near the place of production, the charges of land- carriage,
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carriage, fees, &c., will be reduced, and the cost price thus lessened by one-third to the British consumer; on the other hand the Chinese will be able to purchase at a cheaper. rate British manufactures, when they are brought by our vessels to their doors. These and other considerations render it a matter of national importance that our trade with China be diffused over several ports, instead of being confined to Canton, and indicate that it is not desirable that Hong Kong be maintained, even if the assertion be true, as a protec- tion to the trade of Canton.
There are now five ports open on the coast of China to all European, East Indian, and American vessels. There can be no reason why foreign vessels should discharge cargo at Hong Kong, merely to change cargoes from one vessel to another; and as the Chinese government now, I believe, allows a vessel to sell part of her cargo at one port, and then proceed to another, and will probably ere long form bonded warehouses at each port, there will be still less probability of any trade being established here. It is indeed a delusion or a deception to talk of Hong Kong becoming a commercial emporium, and to liken it to Singapore. The circumstances and position of Hong Kong and Singapore present no resemblance whatever. Hong Kong is a barren rock, producing nothing, not leading to any place, surrounded by no trading or populous communities with various commodities for barter, and disadvantageously situated at the most impoverished part of a coast line of 2,000 miles, and which for half the year is only readily accessible in one direction.
Singapore is most advantageously placed at the southern point of the rich Malayan Peninsula, and at the entrance of the Straits of Malacca, which may be considered the high road between Eastern and Western Asia. It is surrounded by, or lies contiguous to, the most fertile, wealthy, and populous islands and countries in the world. Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, Macassar, Penang, Siam, Cochin-China, Tonquin, Birmah, &c. The harbour of Singapore is capacious, perfectly sheltered, easy of access from every point of the compass, and never experiencing a tempest. The climate is very salubrious. The island is of great beauty and fertility, with an undulating surface, an area of 120,000 acres, all capable of tillage, and of which 20,000 acres are now under the luxuriant and profitable cultivation of sugar cane, nutmegs, pepper, rice, beetle nut, gambier, cocoa nuts, &c. The sugar made by Mr. Ballastier with a steam engine, or by Mr. Montgomerie by water and cattle mills, is equal in quality to the produce of the West Indies; the nutmeg trees are already yielding abundantly; the black pepper produced during the past year amounted to 38,000 piculs (a picul 133 lbs.), the gambier to 85,000 piculs, and there are 100,000 cocoa-nut trees in full bearing. Live stock, bread, water, and delicious fruit and vege- tables of every kind, and at moderate prices, are at all times ready for the shipping, who enjoy the advantage of a perfectly free port; 86 miles of excellent roads have been completed, and extensive communications are in progress; land is being sold in fee simple at a minimum and maximum price of five to ten rupees, or 10 s. to 20s. per acre; 50,000 industrious and skilful inhabitants are spreading cultivation in every direction; four com- panies of Sepoys constitute the sole military force of the island, which has not even a fort for its defence; the revenue in 1842 amounted to rupees 509,087, and the disburse- ments (including rupees 165,955 for troops, and rupees 49,789 for Bengal and Madias convicts) to rupees 494,029, leaving a surplus of income to the extent of rupees 15,083, and under the able management of the present Governor, Colonel Butterworth, it is one of the most lucrative possessions of the British Crown.
The remarkably eligible position of Singapore for a commercial emporium led to its establishment as a British colony by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819, when there were but a few Malay fishermen on the island, who disputed with the tiger for their occupancy. In 1812 the trade of the colony amounted to 1,000,000 /. sterling, in 1824 to 3,000,000l. sterling, and last year, and indeed for several years, the commerce of the island has averaged 5,600,000 7. sterling per annum.
This trade is carried on with many countries: with Great Britain, to the extent of $3,000,000; with Calcutta, $2,800,000; with Java, $1,500,000; with foreign Europe, North and South America, Madras, Bombay, Arabia, Ceylon, Penang, Malacca, Birmah, Siam, Cochin-China, Manilla, Hainan, Formosa, and the whole coast of China; with Sumatra, Borneo, Rhio, the Moluccas, Mauritius, Australasia, &c. Traders from all these places meet by common consent at a central mart close to the Equator, and exchange the productions of Asia for those of Europe and America. It is erroneously supposed that Singapore has been created by its trade with China; such is not the fact. The total import tonnage of Singapore in 1838-39, in square-rigged vessels, was 178,796 tons, of which that from China was 32,860. The native tonnage for the same year was 48,000, of which the Chinese vessels constituted 8,000 tons.
The "Straits produce," which the Chinese require, are brought to Singapore by Malay and other coasting craft who would not proceed to the northward; and the proprietors of the Chinese junks, with whom time is no object, and who go down the coast to the Eastern Archipelago with one monsoon and return with the other, prefer the speculation with their varied cargoes, and the visiting of their countrymen at the different islands.
But sufficient has been stated to show that there is no analogy whatever between Hong Kong and Singapore, and that the geographical, territorial, and commercial advantages which have contributed to the prosperity of Singapore, are totally and entirely wanting, and can never be created at Hong Kong.
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any revenue adequate to more that a very small civil government. The limited size and rocky nature of the island, the absence of agriculture, manufactures, or commerce, and the Report on the fluctuating and predatory character of the population, forbid the hope of an income being Island of Hong raised to sustain a regular Government establishment, on the scale now adopted, and which Kong. indeed is far beyond the present or prospective wants of the island community. Under the most favourable circumstances there may possibly, some years hence, be obtained from the rent of building land from 5,000 l. to 7,000 7. per annum; the markets, licences, fines, and fees of every description, may realize hereafter about 1,000l. per annum. The levy of a tonnage duty would not yield more than 500l. to 1,000 7. per annum, if it did not drive away the few ships that now enter the harbour; it is not probable that vessels would pay 6 d. per ton merely to call for orders, when then they can lie in Macao roads and daily communicate with Hong Kong. A registration or licence for each male Chinese resident on the island might, if there were a more respectable class of inhabitants in the colony, produce 600 7. to 1,000l. a year. Neither auction duties, stamps, or any of the other ordi- nary sources of taxation, would under present circumstances yield any revenue worth consideration.
The idea that the Chinese government will sanction the introduction of opium into China at a moderate fixed duty, and that a large revenue may then be raised by ware- housing the drug at Hong Kong, must, I think, be abandoned as illusory. The legal ad- mission of opium into China by the Emperor, according to the best information I can obtain, is not at all probable; but even were the traffic in opium legalized, the traders have declared they would not pay any duty in Hong Kong. They can keep their large receiving ships the whole year round in Hong Kong or in any other harbours, or tranship the opium from the vessels which convey the drug from Bengal and Bombay to this place, on board the smaller vessels, which proceed along the coast to sell, or deposit it at Whampoa, Namoa, Amoy, Chimmo, Chin-Chu, Chusan, or Woosung, in the receiving ships which lie in these bays or stations the whole year round. I will not discuss the question of raising a revenue in Hong Kong from the introduction of opium for smoking in the island, either by farming out the drug or otherwise. Independent of the morality or immorality of the question of Government deriving an income from a vicious indulgence, so long as the Chinese government prohibit the introduction and make the use of opium a capital offence, it would not, to say the least, be seemly of us to encourage the use of this destructive and poisonous stimulant in Hong Kong.
The total revenue to be expected from this colony cannot in my opinion exceed 10,000 l. per annum, and to obtain this amount several years must elapse under the most favourable circumstances. The per-contra side shows an expenditure at this moment for mere civil establishment salaries and wages at the rate of 50,000 7. per annum, irrespective of the cost of any public works, roads, and buildings, which is estimated at 50,000 7. per annum for several years, independent also of the consular charges of 30,000 7. per annum, and of the army and navy; the whole showing a yearly drain on the British Exchequer of half a million pounds sterling. (See Documentary Appendix.) And here it may be necessary to remove an erroneous assertion that this heavy yearly charge is only a portion of the revenue which England derives from the China trade.
The revenue which is obtained from tea is paid by the people of England, who buy and consume the tea. It might as well be said that the West Indies furnished the revenue derived by the British Exchequer from the coffee and sugar consumed in the United King- dom. The incidence of taxation is on the last purchaser of the taxed article; the tea merchant in London adds to the invoice cost of the tea bought at Canton, the freight to England, the insurance, interest of money, warehousing, customs duty levied in England, and the fair profits of trade on every chest of tea he may sell to the grocer, who then regu- lates the price at which he can afford to sell a pound of tea to his customer, who finally pays the whole charges, taxes, and profits to the several parties before he drinks his tea, The revenue derived from the China trade is paid by the people of England; the merchant who carries on the trade does not pay one shilling of it.
It will be for Her Majesty's Ministers to decide whether, on a review of the whole case, there be any justification for spending half a million sterling annually on this coast. Com- modore Chads, C. B., who has had extensive experience for many years in China, is of opinion that England would be wise in not establishing any colony in China.
As a general principle, colonies that will not pay at least the expense of their civil govern- ment are not worth maintaining. There does not appear any reason why Hong Kong should be an exception to this rule. There is not, as has been fancifully supposed, any analogy whatever between Hong Kong and Gibraltar. Hong Kong commands nothing; a glance at a chart will show that the navigation of the China seas is perfectly indepen- dent of Hong Kong; nay, even the entrance of the Canton river is not controlled by Hong Kong; it is not possible by any outlay of money to make the island a fortress, and it is commanded by the opposite shore of the main land. But supposing several millions sterling were spent in fortifying Hong Kong, and half a million were annually expended for its garrison, the cui bono would constantly recur. From a Chinese enemy the island has nothing to apprehend even at present; no European or American state would think
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of capturing Hong Kong, for it would be valueless to them; and if mere glory were sought by the acquisition, they must be aware the fame would be of short continuance, as troops and ships from India, from Australia, and from all our stations eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, would soon recapture the place or starve out the garrison.
But Gibraltar is differently circumstanced; it effectually commands the narrow entrance to the Mediterranean, and, together with the fortresses and havens of Malta and Corfu, gives England a preponderating power in that great European sea, which is becoming daily of more and more value in her intercourse with the Anglo-Eastern empire. Moreover, Gibraltar is a valuable commercial entrepôt; at one period 1,000,0007. sterling of cotton goods were exported through Gibraltar into Spain.
As a fortress, Gibraltar is perfect; it is impregnable. The revenue of Gibraltar is fully adequate to its civil government, and averages upwards of 30,000 7. per annum; the mili- tary expenses incurred by garrisoning Gibraltar saves the constant maintenance of a large fleet in the Mediterranean, preserves the balance of power, and materially helps to keep the peace of Europe. The remarks applicable to Gibraltar are also applicable to Malta and the Ionian Islands, both of which stations not only pay their whole civil expenditure, with- out one shilling charge on the British Exchequer, but also contribute a considerable sum annually towards military defences and protection. Both of these places are also entrepôts of a large trade. Every colony of the British empire pays for its own civil government, except small sums which are voted annually in part aid for the Bahamas, Bermuda, the Falkland Islands, St. Helena, and Heligoland; but all these places are intrin- sically valuable: the Bahamas for the geographical position of their harbours; Bermuda as a strong fortress and dockyard in the Western Atlantic; the Falkland Islands for their important position and fisheries in the Great Southern Ocean, near Cape Horn; St. Helena as a strong fortress and recruiting station for our numerous ships doubling the Cape of Good Hope in their voyages to and from India, China, and Australasia; and in the event of war the possession of St. Helena would be of great value to our merchants, and save us a large fleet in the Atlantic. Heligoland, during the late European war, was a large com- mercial depôt for the Elbe and the northern parts of Europe. Its expense is only about 500l. a year. Numerous as are the colonies of the British empire, they are each of some utility to England; for their territorial extent as emigration fields to provide employment for a surplus population; for their productions of sugar, coffee, corn, cotton, silk, indigo, timber, oil, wool, &c.; as maritime positions or military posts; as trading emporiums or fishing stations. I have in vain sought one valuable quality in Hong Kong, for there are other good harbours around, and for 200 years we have not found the want of such. I can see no justification for the British Government spending one shilling on Hong Kong.
Religious and Social Influence.-The benefits derivable from our laws, institutions, and religion can never be conferred on the Chinese by our colonization of Hong Kong.
We are here, in fact, almost as much isolated from China, its people, and supreme go- vernment, as if we were located in the Eastern Archipelago. By the adroit policy adopted by the Chinese authorities, a "cordon sanitaire," if I may so express it, has been drawn around Hong Kong; no Chinaman is permitted to come here willingly, except he be a thief, a pirate, or a spy. No respectable Chinese, with their families, locate themselves in Hong Kong; if they did, their relations still remaining on the main land would probably be "squeezed," imprisoned, tortured, and considered as traitors to the Celestial Empire.
Hong Kong is viewed by the Chinese as a spot where adventurers and reckless characters. may make something out of the English, and where burglars and robbers may resort with impunity, and live upon the profits of their villainy.
I am strongly of opinion, from circumstances that have come to my knowledge, that the mandarins view with indulgence all vagabonds who propose to quit their own country and proceed to Hong Kong; that in fact direct encouragement is afforded them to do so; it is therefore the height of improbability to suppose that the possession of Hong Kong will ever enable us to disseminate our religion, language, and institutions in the Chinese empire. For 200 years we have had extensive and profitable intercourse with Canton, without our missionaries and other good men ever producing the slightest effect on the people or go- vernment. The inhabitants of the southern districts are decidedly hostile to us, and are daily becoming more and more filled with a deadly animosity, which the possession of Hong Kong will not remove. No converts are made by our missionaries on this island, but were such the case no converts from Hong Kong would be favourably viewed by the respectable Chinese on the main land. The Christian converts would be considered as coming from an island of thieves and pirates; they would be received with a suspicion which would check rather than advance the progress of Christianity. The missionaries with whom I have conversed take this view of the subject; they consider it hopeless to attempt the spread of Christian doctrines in China by means of converts from Hong Kong. Thus, in a religious aspect, Hong Kong is as valueless as it is on financial and commercial grounds.
Were our colonial authority and establishment at some island or position to the north, near the central regions of China, we should most probably obtain considerable moral
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their favourable ideas to other and distant parts of the empire, and by extending a know- ledge of our language pave the way for the introduction of Christianity. An English city Report on the
at Chusan, for example, surrounded by an extensive agricultural population (the best dis- Island of Hong posed and most orderly in China, as well as elsewhere), and evincing all the benefits of the Kong. science and skill of Europe, would have a remarkable effect on the Chinese, whose inqui- sitiveness and imitative powers would soon induce them to copy those things which would conduce to their physical, and ultimately to their moral and religious improvement.
In a Political Point of View.-Hong Kong was occupied by our troops and merchants in 1840-41, at a period when our trade was driven from Canton; when we were in hostility to the Chinese government, and when the Portuguese authorities at Macao had expressed their inability to permit, as usual, British residence and resort to that port. At this period the views of Captain Elliot were solely directed toward Canton. Hong Kong was then deemed the most eligible spot for British occupation, on political and military grounds; and so it proved, as long as the operations were being directed against Canton and we were excluded from China; but on our proceeding to the north, occupying Chusan, and ultimately making peace, and opening five ports, including Canton, for free commercial resort, English residence, and the establishment of a ship of war at each, the political and mercantile value of Hong Kong entirely ceased. The late war has shown us the vulner- able point of China, namely, the Yang-tze-kang river, which is aptly denominated by the Chinese, "the Girdle of the Empire." In the event of any future hostilities our force would be directed at once towards Nankin, and other places on the Yang-tze-Kang river, and not against Canton. It is by interrupting the supplies of grain and salt to Pekin, and cutting off the trade of the great artery, or grand canal, that we can with the least expendi- ture of blood or treasure terminate hostilities with China.
To accomplish this most desirable result Hong Kong is utterly valueless. Our position must be Chusan, from its contiguity to the scene of war, from its comparative salubrity, safe haven, and capability of supplying provisions, both from the resources of the island itself, and from the contiguous coasts. A fleet of ships of war and transports may rendez- vous at Chusan, and select at will the most fitting period of the year for offensive opera- tions. No attack need be apprehended from the Chinese. Coal is abundant in the Yang- tze-kang, for the use of steamers. Ships from Singapore and the southward can now, by reason of a greater knowledge of the winds and currents, reach Chusan, even against the Monsoon, in nearly the same time they would occupy in reaching Hong Kong; and finally the Chinese government, aware of our position, would be the less disposed to break the peace, and would cease to rely so much as they now do on the strength of the forts in the Canton river. The policy of the Chinese government is to keep foreigners at the extremity of the empire; but the sagacious reasons which dictate this policy ought to render us the more anxious to operate in a counter direction. There are now seven fortifications, very strong, and apparently well provided with artillery, at the Bogue. With Chinese gunners these forts would prove, even at present, formidable to an invading force; but well manned by European or American artillerymen, the Bogue might be made almost as impregnable as the Dardanelles.
On a review of the whole case, there are no assignable grounds for the political or military occupancy of Hong Kong, even if there were no expense attending that occupancy. The government of China is sufficiently civilized to respect the persons and property of British subjects at Canton, before any declaration of war took place, which, however, is an event of very remote probability for many years to come, if we retain Chusan; and as the treaty with China provides for the stationing of a ship of war at Wampoa or Canton, a better security is thus provided for any British residents at Canton than Hong Kong could afford. The climate of Hong Kong will not admit of the island being made a garrison for our troops; and in the event of another war with China, an invading army must proceed from India, unless we keep a small military and naval establishment at Chusan but a very small effective force can be maintained here, unless at an enormous expense; and the impracticability of fortifying an island which is commanded by the hills around, and by any large battery erected on the opposite shore, is now generally acknowledged, and is in further corroboration of the inutility of Hong Kong.
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On a review of the whole question, and examining the island in all respects, making every allowance for the newness of the settlement, and admitting, for argument sake, that ultimately there may be some trade at Hong Kong, it appears to me very advisable, if Hong Kong be retained as a British station or colony, that the civil establishment of the colony be cut down to a scale commensurate with the resources and wants of the island; and that the supernumerary officers be provided for in other colonies, as vacancies occur; that the European and Sepoy troops be removed, and a portion of the first Ceylon regiment (Malays) be kept at Hong Kong, in aid of the civil power; that a frigate or sloop of war be always stationed in the harbour, with an extra complement of marines, to be landed only in case of emergency; that the British, and other respectable inhabitants who are house- holders, be formed into a municipal body, with power to assess themselves for the police, lighting, drainage, and street-making, &c. of Victoria; that the harbour be a free port,
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open to ships under every flag; and that encouragement be given for the resort to and settlement on the island of other European nations. If this be done, a few years will determine whether it be possible to create any trade, or induce any resort to Hong Kong. Large Government establishments, and an immense outlay of the public money for the last three years have produced no beneficial result; but the opium traders, and those who choose to resort thither, have a voice in the management of the affairs of the colony. There can scarcely be less general trade, less prosperity, less security to life and property, than now exists, with a large garrison on shore and a fleet in the harbour.
If there were any one advantage, political, commercial, financial, or religious, present or prospective, derivable to England from the existing establishments at Hong Kong, there would be some justification for the expense now being incurred, and for the great annual sacrifices of life; but when such advantages do not exist, it is worse than folly to persist in a course begun in error, and which, if continued, must eventually end in national loss and general disappointment.
Hong Kong, July 1844.
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R. M. Martin.
DISSENTIENT on the Proposition for Licensing the Retail and Consumption of OPIUM in this Colony, on the following grounds :-
Ist. Because the consumption of opium is not necessary to the subsistence and health of man, and is therefore a vicious indulgence.
2d. Because the use of opium is not only a vice in itself, but the parent of many other vices; and whoever indulges in opium never ceases its use until poverty and death
ensue.
3d. Because it is no justification to say, that as gin, beer, wine, and other fermented liquors are stimulants, attended with pernicious consequences when used continuously in excess, that therefore the use of opium may also be licensed by Government. The expe- rience of civilized nations has shown that fermented liquors are advantageous to the health- ful energy of man; but no experience has shown that opium is beneficial to the body or mind of man individually or collectively.
4th. Because no Government ought to make private vice a source of public revenue.
5th. Because, independent of the foregoing and other considerations, the peculiar posi- tion in which England at present stands towards the Chinese government on this subject, the strong feeling entertained by a very large and influential portion of the British commu- nity at home respecting the sale of opium in China, and the risk which his Excellency incurs of creating an unfavourable impression against his government, without any corre- sponding fiscal advantage to the State, renders it unadvisable to license the consumption of opium in this colony.
Desirous of earnestly and faithfully advising his Excellency, these remarks are offered for the Governor's consideration with great respect.
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R. M. Martin.
TRANSLATION of a GRANT OF TREATY of PRIVILEGES Conceded by the Emperor of Japan to the English, A.D. 1613.
[Original in the Firogane or Cursive character.]
Imprimis.-Wee give free licence to the subjects of the King of Great Britain, viz., Sir Thomas Smith, Governor and Company of the East India merchants and adventurers, for ever safely to come into any of our ports of the Empire of Japan, with their shippes and mer- chandize, without any hindrance to them or their goods; and to abide, buy, sell, and barter, according
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Item the 2d.-Wee grant unto them freedom of custom for all such merchandize as either Grant or Treaty of now they have brought, or hereafter shall bring into our kingdom, or shall from hence trans- Privileges. port to any foreign part; and do authorize those shippes that hereafter shall arrive and come from England, to proceed to present sale of their commodities without further coming or dending up to our court.
Item the 3d.-If any of their shippes shali happen to be in danger of shipwreck, wee will our subjects not only to assist them, but that such parts of shippe and goods as shall be saved be returned to their captain, or Cape merchant, or their assignees; and that they shall or may build one house or more for themselves in any part of our empire where they shall think fittest, and at their departure to make sale thereof at their pleasure.
Item the 4th.--If any of the English merchants or others shall depart this life within our dominions, the goods of the deceased shall remain at the dispose of the Cape inerchant and that all offences committed by them shall be punished by the said Cape merchant according to his discretion, and our laws to take no hold of their persons or goods.
Item the 5th.-Wee will that yee our subjects trading with them for any of their commo- dities pay them for the same, according to agreement, without delay or return of their goods again unto them.
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Item the 6th.-For such commodities as they have now brought or shall hereafter bring, fitting for our service and proper use, wee will that no arrest be made thereof; but that the price be made with the Cape merchant, according as they may sell to others, and present payment upon the delivery of the goods.
Item the 7th.-If in discovery of other countries for trade, and return of their shippes they shall need men or victuals, wee will that yee our subjects furnish them for their money as their needs shall require.
Item the 8th. And without any other passporte, they shall and may set out to the north- ward upon discovery of Yead Yo, or any other part in or about our empire.
From our Castle at Surunga, this first day of the ninth month, and in the eighteenth year of our dairy, according to our computation.
Sealed with our broad seal and underwritten,
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Minna Mouttano, Yei. Ye. Yeas.
TO THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN,
YOUR Majesty's kind letter, sent by your servant Captain John Sares (who is the first I To the King of have known to arrive in any part of my dominions), I heartily embrace, being not a little Great Britain. glad to understand of your great wisdom and power, as having three plentiful and mighty kingdoms under your powerful command. I acknowledge your Majesty's great bounty in sending me so undeserved a present of many rare things, such as my land affordeth not, neither have I ever before seen, which I receive, not as from a stranger, but as from your Majesty, whom I esteem as myself.
Desiring the continuance of friendship with your Highness, and that it may stand with your good liking to send your subjects to any port or part of my dominions, where they shall be most heartily welcome; applauding much their worthiness in their admirable navi- gation, having with much facility discovered a country so remote, being nowhat amazed with the distance of so mighty a gulf, nor greatness of such infinite clouds and storms, from pro- secuting honourable enterprizes of discoveries and merchandizing, wherein they shall find me to further them according to their desires.
I return unto your Majesty a small token of my love (by your said subject), desiring you to accept thereof as from him that much rejoiceth in your friendship.
And whereas your Majesty's subjects have desired certain privileges for trade and settling of a factory in my dominions, I have not only granted what they demanded, but have con- firmed the same unto them under my broad seal, for better establishing thereof.
From my Castle at Surunga, this fourth day of ninth, in the eighteenth year of our dairy, according to our computation, subscribed,
Minna Mouttano, Yei. Ye. Yeas.
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COPY of a TREATY between the King of Siam and the East India Company.
Art. 1. THE English and Siamese engage in friendship, love, and affection, with mutual truth, sincerity, and candour. The Siamese must not meditate or commit evil so as to mo- Jest the English in any manner; the English must not meditate or commit evil so as to molest the Siamese in any manner. The Siamese must not go and molest, attack, disturb, seize, or take any place, territory, or boundary, belonging to the English, in any country subject to the English; the English must not go and molest, attack, disturb, seize, or take any place, territory, or boundary belonging to the Siamese, in any country subject to the
Siamese.
The Siamese shall settle every matter within the Siamese boundaries according to their own will and customs.
Art. 2. Should any place or country, subject to the English, do anything that may offend the Siamese, the Siamese shall not go and injure such place and country, but first report. the matter to the English, who will examine into it with truth and sincerity; and if the fault lie with the English, the English shall punish according to the fault. Should any place or country, subject to the Siamese, do anything that may offend the English, the Euglish shall not go and injure such place or country, but first report the matter to the Siamese, who will examine into it with truth and sincerity; and if the fault lie with the Siamese, the Siamese shall punish according to the fault.
Should any Siamese place or country, that is near an English country, collect at any time an army or a fleet of boats, if the chief of the English country inquire the object of such force, the chief of the Siamese country must declare it. Should any English place or coun- try, that is near a Siamese country, collect at any time an army or a fleet of boats, if the chief of the Siamese country inquire the object of such force, the chief of the English country must declare it.
Art. 3. In places and countries belonging to the Siamese and English, lying near their mutnal borders, whether to the east, west, north, or south, if the English entertain a doubt as to any boundary that has not been ascertained, the chief on the side of the English must send a letter, with some men and people from his frontier posts, to go and inquire from the nearest Siamese chief, who shall depute some of his officers and people from his frontier posts to go with the men belonging to the English chief, and point out and settle the mutual boundaries, so that they may be ascertained on both sides in a friendly manner.
If a Siamese chief entertain a doubt as to any boundary that has not been ascertained, the chief on the side of the Siamese must send a letter, with some men and people from his frontier posts, to go and inquire from the nearest English chief, who shall depute some of his offi- cers and people from his frontier posts to go with the men belonging to the Siamese chief and point out and settle the mutual boundaries, so that they may be ascertained on both sides. in a friendly manner.
Art. 4. Should any Siamese subject go and live within the boundaries of the English, the Siamese must not intrude, enter, seize, or take such person within the English boundaries, but must report and ask for him in a proper manner, and the English shall be at liberty to deliver the party or not. Should any English subject remove, and go and live within the boundaries of the Siamese, the English must not intrude, enter, seize, or take such person within the Siamese boundaries, but must report and ask for him in a proper manner, and the Siamese shall be at liberty to deliver the party or not.
Art. 5. The English and Siamese having concluded a treaty, establishing a sincere friend- ship between them, merchants, subjects to the English, and their ships, junks, and boats, may have intercourse and trade with any Siamese country which has much merchan- dize, and the Siamese will aid and protect them, and permit them to buy and sell with. facility. Merchants, subject to the Siamese, and their boats, junks, and ships, may have in- tercourse and trade with any English country, and the English will aid and protect them, and permit them to buy and sell with facility.
The Siamese desiring to go to an English country, or the English desiring to go to a Siamese country, must conform to the customs of the place or country on either side; should they be ignorant of the customs, the Siamese or English officers must explain them. Siamese y subjects who visit an English country must conduct themselves according to the established. laws of the English country in every particular. English subjects who visit a Siamese country must conduct themselves according to the established laws of the Siamese country. in every particular.
Art. 6. Merchants, subject to the Siamese or English, going to trade, either in Bengal, or in any country subject to the English, or at Bankok, or in any country subject to the Siamese, must pay the duties upon commerce, according to the customs of the place or country on either side; and such merchants, and the inhabitants of the country, shall be allowed to buy and sell without the intervention of other persons in such countries. Should a Siamese or English merchant have any complaint or suit, he must complain to the officers. and governors on either side, and they will examine and settle the same according to the established laws of the place or country on either side.
If a Siamese or English merchant buy or sell without inquiring and ascertaining whether the seller or buyer be of bad or good character, and if he meet with a bad man who takes the property and absconds, the rulers and officers must make search and produce the person of the absconder and investigate the matter with sincerity. If the party possess money or
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property he can be made to pay; but if they do not possess any, or if they cannot be appre- hended, it will be the merchant's own fault.
Art. 7. A merchant, subject to the Siamese or English, going to trade in any English or Siamese country, and applying to build godowns and houses, or to buy or hire shops or houses in which to place his merchandize, the Siamese or English officers and rulers shall be at liberty to deny him permission to stay. If they permit him to stay, he shall land aud take up his residence according to such terms as may be mutually agreed on; and the Siamese or English officers and rulers will assist and take proper care of him, preventing the inhabitants of the country from oppressing him, and preventing him from oppressing the inhabitants of the country.
Whenever a Siamese or English merchant or subject, who has nothing to detain hùn, requests permission to leave the country and to embark with his property on board of any vessel, he shall be allowed to do so with facility.
Art. 8. If a merchant desire to go and trade in any place or country, belonging to the English or Siamese, and his ship, boat, or junk meet with any injury whatever, the Eng- lish or Siamese officers shall afford adequate assistance and protection; should any vessel belonging to the Siamese or English be wrecked in any place or country where the English or Siamese may collect any of the property belonging to such vessel, the English or Siamese officers shall make proper inquiry and cause the property to be restored to its owner, or in case of his death, to his heirs, &c.; the owner or heir will give a proper remuneration to per- sons who may have collected the property. If any Siamese or English subject die in any English or Siamese country, whatever property he may leave shall be delivered to his heir"; if the heir be not living in the same country and unable to come, he may appoint a person, by letter, to receive the property, and the whole of it shall be delivered to such person.
Art. 9. Merchants, subject to the English, desiring to come and trade in any Siamese country, with which it has not been the custom to have trade and intercourse, must first go and inquire of the governor of the country; should any country have no merchandize, the governor shall inform the ship that has come to trade, that there is none.
Should any country have merchandize sufficient for a ship, the governor shall allow her to come and trade.
Art. 10. The English and Siamese mutually agree that there shall be an unrestricted trade between them, in the English countries of Prince of Wales Island, Malacca, and Singapore, and the Siamese countries of Ligore, Merdilous, Singora, Patani, Junkceylor, Quedah, and other Siamese provinces.
Asiatic merchants of the English countries, not being Burmese Peguers, or descendants of Europeans, shall be allowed to trade freely, overland and by means of rivers.
Asiatic merchants, not being Burmese Peguers, or descendants of Europeans, desiring to enter into and trade with the Siamese dominions, from the countries of Mergui, Tavay, Tenasserim, and Ye, which are now subject to the English, will be allowed to do so freely, overland and by water, upon the English furnishing them with certificates.
But merchants are forbidden to bring opium, which is positively a contraband article in the territories of Siam; and should a merchant introduce any, the governor shall seize him and destroy the whole of it.
Art. 11. If any Englishman desire to transmit a letter to any person in a Siamese or other country, such person only, and no other, shall open and look into the letter.
Art. 12. Siam shall not go and obstruct or interrupt commerce in the states of Tringanu and Calantan; English merchants and subjects shall have trade and intercourse, in future, with the same facility and freedom as they have heretofore had, and the English shall not go and molest, attack, or disturb those states upon any pretence whatever.
Art. 13. The Siamese engage to the English, that the Siamese shall remain in Quedah, and take proper care of that country and of its people. The inhabitants of Prince of Wales Island and of Quedah shall have trade and intercourse as heretofore; the Siamese shall levy no duty upon stock and provisions, such as cattle, buffaloes, poultry, fish, paddy, and rice, which the inhabitants of Prince of Wales Island, or ships there may have occasion to pur- chase in Quedah, but shall levy fair and proper import and export duties.
The Siamese further engage, that when Chow Phya, of Ligore, returns from Bankok, he shall release the slaves, personal servants, family and kindred, belonging to the former governor of Quedah, and permit them to go and live wherever they please.
The English engage to the Siamese that the English do not desire to take possession of Quedah; that they will not attack or disturb it, nor permit the former governor of Quedah, or any of his followers, to attack, disturb, or injure, in any manner, the territory of Quedah, or any other territory subject to Siam.
The English engage that they will make arrangements for the former governor of Quedah to go and live in some other country, and not at Prince of Wales Island, or Praye, or in Perack, Salangore, or any Burmese country. If the English do not let the former governor of Quedah go and live in some other country, as here engaged, the Siamese may continue to levy an export duty upon paddy and rice in Quedah. The English will not prevent any Siamese, Chinese, or other Asiatics at Prince of Wales Island, from going to reside in Quedah, if they desire it.
Art. 14. The Siamese and English mutually engage, that the Raja of Perak shall govern his country according to his own will; should he desire to send the gold and silver flowers to Siam, as heretofore, the English will not prevent his doing as he may desire.
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If Chow Phya, of Ligore, desires to send down to Perak, with friendly intentions, 40 or 50 men, whether Siamese, Chinese, or other Asiatic subjects of Siam, or if the Raja of Perak desires to send any of his ministers or officers to seek Chow Phya, of Ligore, the English shall not forbid them.
The Siamese or English shall not send any force to go and molest, attack, or disturb. Perak. The English will not the state of Salangore to attack or disturb Perak; and the Siamese will not go and attack or disturb Salangore.
AGREEMENT with regard to English Vessels desiring to trade at Bankok.
Art. 1. Vessels belonging to the subjects of the English Government, whether Europeans or Asiatics, desiring to come and trade at Bankok, must conform to the established laws of Siam in every particular.
Merchants coming to Bankok are prohibited from purchasing paddy or rice for the pur- pose of exporting the same as merchandize, and if they import fire-arms, shot, or gunpowder, they are prohibited from selling them to any party but to the Government.
Should the Government not require such fire-arms, shot, or gunpowder, the merchants must re-export the whole of them. With exception of such warlike stores, and paddy, and rice, merchants, subjects of the English, and merchants at Bankok, may buy and sell with- out the intervention of any person, and with freedom and facility. Merchants coming to trade shall pay, at once, the whole of the duties and charges consolidated according to the breadth of the vessel.
If the vessel bring an import cargo, she shall be charged 1,700 ticols for each Siamese fathom in breadth.
If the vessel bring no import cargo, she shall be charged 1,500 ticols for each Siamese fathom in breadth.
No import, export, or other duty shall be charged upon the buyers or sellers, from or to English subjects.
Art. 2. Merchant vessels, the property of English subjects, arriving off the bar, must first. anchor and stop there; and the commander of the vessel must dispatch a person with an account of the cargo, and a return of the people, guns, shot, and powder on board the vessel, for the information of the government at the mouth of the river, who will send a pilot and interpreter to convey the established regulations to the commander of the vessel.
Upon the pilot bringing the vessel over the bar, she must anchor and stop below the chokey, which the interpreter will point out.
Art. 3. The proper officer will go on board the vessel and examine her thoroughly; and after the guns, shot, and powder have been removed and deposited at Paknam, the governor of Paknam will permit the vessel to pass up to Bankok.
Art. 4. Upon the vessel's arrival at Bankok, the officers of the customs will go on board. and examine her, open the hold, and take an account of whatever cargo may be on board; and after the breadth of the vessel has been measured and ascertained, the merchants will be allowed to buy and sell according to the first article of this agreement.
Should a vessel upon receiving an export cargo find that she cannot cross the bar with the whole, and that she must hire cargo-boats to take down a portion of the cargo, the officers of the customs and chokeys shall not charge any further duty upon such cargo- boats.
Art. 5. Whenever a vessel or cargo-boat completes her lading, the commander of the vessel must go and ask Chow Phya Phra Khlang for a port clearance; and if there be no cause for detention, Chow Phya Phra Khlang shall deliver the port clearance without delay. When the vessel upon her departure arrives at Paknam, she must anchor and stop at the usual chokey; and after the proper officers have gone on board and examined her, the vessel may receive her guns, shot, and powder, and take her departure.
Art. 6. Merchants being subjects of the English Government, whether Europeans or Asiatics, the commanders, officers, lascars, and the whole of the crews of the vessels, must conform to the established laws of Siam and to the stipulations of the treaty in every parti- cular. If merchants of every class do not observe the articles of this treaty, and oppress the inhabitants of this country, become thieves or bad inen, kill men, speak offensively of, or treat disrespectfully any great or subordinate officers of the country, and the case become important in any way whatever, the proper officer shall take jurisdiction of it and punish the offender. If the offence be homicide, and the officers, upon investigation, see that it pro- ceeded from evil intention, they shall punish with death. If it be any other offence, and the party be commander or officer of a vessel, or a merchant, he shall be fined; if he be of a lower rank, he shall be whipped or imprisoned, according to the established laws of Siam.
The governor of Bengal will prohibit English subjects, desiring to come and trade at Bankok, speaking disrespectfully, or offensively, to or of the great officers of Siam. If any person at Bankok oppress any English subjects, he shall be punished according to the offence in the same manner.
[ 29 ]
(5 a.)
COPY of a TREATY of Amity and Commerce between His Majesty the Magnificent King of Siam and the United States of America, concluded the 20th March 1833.
Art. 1.-THERE shall be a perpetual peace between the United States of America and the Magnificent King of Siam.
Art. 2. The citizens of the United States have free liberty to enter all the ports of the King of Siam with their cargoes, of whatever kind the said cargoes may consist; and they shall have liberty to sell the same to any of the subjects of the King, or others who may wish to purchase the same, or barter the same for any produce or manufacture of the king- dom, or other articles that may be found there.
No price shall be fixed by the officers of the King on the articles to be sold by the mer- chants of the United States, or the merchandise they may wish to buy; but the trade shall be free on both sides, to sell, buy, or exchange, on the terms and for the prices the owners may think fit.
Whenever the said citizens of the United States shall be ready to depart, they shall be at liberty so to do, and the proper officer shall furnish them with passports, provided always there be no legal impediment to the contrary.
Nothing contained in this article shall be understood as granting permission to import and sell munitions of war to any person excepting the King, who, if he does not require, will not be bound to purchase them; neither is permission granted to import opium, which is contraband; or to export rice, which cannot be embarked as an article of commerce. These only are prohibited.
Art. 3.-Vessels of the United States entering any port within his Majesty's dominions, and selling or purchasing cargoes of merchandise, shall pay, in lieu of import and export duties, tonnage licence, or trade, or any other charge whatever, a measurement duty, as follows:--The measurement shall be made from side to side, in the middle of the vessel's length, and if a single-decked vessel, on such single deck; if otherwise, on the lower deck. On every vessel selling merchandise the sum of 1,700 ticols or bats shall be paid for every Siamese fathom in breadth so measured, the said fathom being computed to contain 78 English or American inches, corresponding to 96 Siamese inches; but if the said vessel should come without merchandise, and purchase a cargo with specie only, she shall then pay the sum of 1,500 ticols or bats for each and every fathom before described.
Furthermore, neither the aforesaid measurement duty, nor any other charge whatever, shall be paid by any vessel of the United States that enters a Siamese port for the purpose of refitting, or for refreshments, or to inquire the state of the markets.
Art. 4.--If any vessels of the United States shall suffer shipwreck in any part of the King of Siam's dominions, the persons escaping from the wreck shall be taken care of, and hos- pitably entertained, at the expense of the King, until they shall find an opportunity to return to their country, and the property saved from the wreck shall be carefully preserved and restored to its owners; and the United States will repay all expenses incurred by his Majesty on account of such wreck.
Art. 6.-If any citizen of the United States, coming to Siam for the purpose of trade, shall contract debts to any individual of Siam, or if any individual of Siam shall contract debts to any citizen of the United States, the debtor shall be obliged to bring forward and sell all his goods to pay his debts therewith.
When the products of such bona fide sale shall not suffice, he shall be no longer liable for the remainder, nor shall the creditor be able to retain him as a slave in prison, flog, or otherwise punish him, to compel the payment of any balance, but shall leave him at perfect liberty.
Art. 7.-Merchants of the United States coming to trade in the kingdom of Siam, and wishing to rent houses therein, shall rent the King's factories, and pay the customary rents of the country.
If the said merchants bring their goods on shore the King's officers shall take account thereof, but shall not levy any duty thereupon.
Art. 8.-If any citizen of the United States, or their vessels or other property shall be taken by pirates, and brought within the dominions of the Magnificent King, their persons shall be set at liberty and their property restored to its owners.
Art. 9.-Merchants of the United States trading to the kingdom of Siam shall respect and follow the laws and customs of the country in all ports.
If hereafter any foreign nation, other than the Portuguese, shall request and obtain his Majesty's consent to the appointment of consuls to reside in Siam, the United States shall be at liberty to appoint consuls to reside in Siam equally with such other foreign nations.
Appendix,
the King of Siam Treaty between
and the United States of America.
H
Bo
Tr
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[ 30 ]
(6.)-TRADE BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND CHINA,
STATEMENT of the IMPORTS from China, from 1834-35 to 1843-44, inclusive.
[ 31 ]
FOR TEN YEARS; QUANTITIES AND VALUES.
STATEMENT of the IMPORTS from China, from 1834-35 to 1843-44,
inclusive.
456
1834-35.
1835-36.
1836-37.
1837-38.
1838-39.
1839-40.
1840-41.
1841-42.
1842-43.
1843-44.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Alum
Anchors and Chain
Cables.
Brass Ware China Camphor Canvas Cassia
-
China Crockery Copper Sheathing Copper, Peruvian
Copper Ore
Cordage
Cotton
20 piculs
20
10 piculs
20 144 picals
340
200 piculs
650 620 piculs
Dollars.
1,232
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
880 piculs
12 anchors
-
1,163 2,940 piculs
287
7,530 3,670 piculs
7,802 11,676 piculs
Dollars.
19,882
Dollars.
11,940 piculs
21,426
- 28 anchors and
2,615
9 chain cables
1,717
19 chain cables.
-
118
-
238 piculs
7,890
235 piculs
235 5,640
1,140
1,144
2,205
4,685
2,120
-
6,913
-
604 piculs
20,030 268 piculs
8,190
596 piculs
20,762 283 piculs
11,138 1,067 piculs
-
-
-
204 bolts
1,632
·
11,092 piculs
130,004
3,436 piculs
64 piculs
89,386 2,709
-
39,604 3,163 piculs 101,683
33,318
475 piculs
4,829 2,717 piculs
27,098
2,113 picuís
116,654
+
120,298
169,333
23,658 335 piculs 170,330
40,867 174,411
72 bolta 6,084 piculs
-
1,080 76,602 155,738
39,795 2,185 piculs
96 bolts 11,696 piculs
-
+
28 piculs
-
150 piculs
4,503 3
616 78
57 piculs
1,596 29 piculs
754
126 picals
7,340
-
62,972 3,560 piculs
1,152 214 bolts
123,549 4,660 piculs 174,034
-
6,242 26 piculs-
1,750
12,896
1,597
54,148
176,970
572
-
1
and 9 boxes,
-
-
1,370
1,624
2,848
-
2
50 picule
1,500
-
+
2,815
760
-
1,042 bales
31,810 31 bales
775
and 100 piculs.
-
104 piculs
1,144 243 piculs
200 1,024
Cotton Twist
2
169
J
30 piculs
Gold Dust
Ditto
Hardware
Hides
China
2,700 825 piculs
- 1,199 tales,
41,977 429 pieuls 28,184
19,836 51 piculs
2,745
36 catties.
Gold Thread, Europe 96 catties
3,895
10 catties
5,409 500
-
600 11,016
11,470
16,157
1,386
20
2,700 1,060
6 picals
20
30 piculs
210
Iron and Steel
Indigo
Mother o'Pearl Shell
Oils:
Spice Oils
840 piculs
3,480
--
420 piculs
1,970
and 120 tubs steel.
and 1 box stcel.
1
3,233 3,095
3,350 19,685
30 buncals
900
3,805 5,218
5,000
14,465
4,618
6,023
011 tubs
5,466
1 picul
200 piculs
-
90 cases
and 7 casks,
60 hbds. and
-
20
-
2,400
4,733
2 piculs
100
146 piculs
1,165 18 piculs -
460 322 piculs
1,440
--
94 cases and
4,203
2 cases and
4,690
197 piculs.
160 piculs.
9 tous.
Other kinds
3 picula
600
130
536
250
+
Opium:
Benares
Patna
Turkey
Paints and Oils
Piece Goods:
British
China Silks and
3 chests
230 pieces
41 cases,
2,248
-
31 } chests
53 chests
15,600
-
-
€ piculs
3,543
16 chests
776
-
2,510 113 piculs
4,195
240
21,845
375
6,560
4,491
4,046
855
23 cheats
18,395
25
}}
6,491
7,567
1,600 111 pieces
758
78 corges
+
14,078
Cottons.
9 doz. and 700
30 boxes, 5,852 pieces,
19,458
-- 100 corges,
5,825
23,065
24 boxes, and
- 3,850 corges and 9 cases.
30,415
8 cases and
14,016
5,487 pieces
-- 317 corges
22,953 50 pieces
14,923
200
1,406 pieces
9,548
and 680 dozen.
-
720 corges.
and 3 boxes.
339 corges and 668 boxes.
9,276 pieces and 31 cases.
108,335
95,873
pieces.
and 450 yds.
30 doz.
Naukeens
Provisions:
Beef
1,986 corges
-
26,800 | 601 boxes
25,715
- 1,155 pack-
47,100 3,275 corges
24,203
4,398 corges
-
ages and 10 corges.
9,700 corges
8,400 lbs. 2,400 "
3,470 pieces and 26 cases.
3,748 cases
185corges and
O cases.
54,471
34,445
1,495 corges
Pork
-
-
123,701
-- 180 piculs,113,042
159 chests, I
99 piculs, 132,651
226 chests, and
552
394 piculs
-
135,800 326 piculs
+
118,325
171 piculs
58,705 991 piculs
371,017
1,095 piculs
61 casks
301,908 253 piculs
1,045
64,085 274 piculs
73,930
2,520
73
156,000 in No.
1,580 | 4,140
936
1,575
9,420
3,131
3,430
1,861
1,800
8,420
**
"
-
3,746
2,100 piculs -
9,250
200 piculs
279,500 in No. 1,110 3,295 piculs
59 piculs
779
38
421
399
5,703 1,432
2,166 200,000 in No. 15,522 5,423 piculs
888 13,955
>>
"J
720
448,500 in No. 1,550 27,714 5,889 piculs
621 7,022
3,647❘ 2,932
1,132
"
4,726
23,111
730 piculs
2,977
-
6,216
852
7,539
J
3)
13
and 54 tuba.
bale.
175 bales.
720 12,402 4,120
1,280 pieuls
-
670
+
83 boxes
-
165
- 158 packages
JJ
1,511 110 piculs
--
and 631 piculs.
1,519 1,057 piculs 15,824
and 1,096 tubs.
1
Raw Silk
Salt
Segars
Sugar
Sugar Candy
Spirits:
Brandy
Rum
Arrack
347 piculs
1,280 piculs 1,908 boxes 1,030 piculs
128
-
277 dozen
+
39 +
P
80 gallons
1,943
-
28,737-T,215 piculs &
39,348
795 packages. 542 piculs
250 gallons
49,2441,714 piculs 49,811 and 626 boxes.
7,122 12,011146 piculs
70
3,040
and 307 cases and baskets.
and 516 boxes.
- 17,796 boxes and 1,909 piculs.
1,379 bas- kets and 210 boxes.
199,115
- 20,633 boxes and 4,205 piculs. 29,176 5,018 baskets
453,487
89,831
45,405 boxes and 3,929 piculs. 1,718 baskets
466,936
21,340
74,205 boxes and 6,335 pieuls.
2,746 baskets
675,964
32,804
- 110,828 boxes
504,077
and 5,039 piculs.
1,615 baskets.
15,616
and 11 picule.
-
5 piculs
5,125
5,133 79 pieces
1,803
5 piculs 131 pieces
5,000
+
2 piculs
1,141
-
74,478
12,716
28,991
2,770 2,150 pieces 244,475
22,500 10 pieces
180
500,953
►
422,966
330,961
620,709
12,550
36,695
125,113
101,152
36,808
19,130
7,098
15,050
10,100
1
24,421
37,801
300
2,350
7,005
P
H
128,534
790,735
181,777
-
158,503
192,413
202,413
246,639
208,981
245,745
-
659,272
-
087,614
1,109,204
2,142,504
-
1,947,304
1,990,810
2,073,233
Other kinds
Tea
Tobacco
3,392 lbs.
134,021
- 2,167 boxes
57,509
357 piculs
and 1,365 piculs.
1,253 lbs.
►
26,306
- 881 piculs,
47,239
1,291 baskets,
and 42 boxes.
& 2,595 boxes.
446 piculs,
& 2,552 boxes and baskets.
Tortoise Shell
Woollens
6 pieces
95
20 pieces
193
105 pieces
Specie
Bycee Silver
Copper Cash
Cowries
All other Articles
25,427
138,924
786
2,000
3,000
-
+
145,376
154,018
TOTAL Spanish)
Dollars
1766,956
-
-
735,570
EXPLANATORY NOTE:
-
P
A picul is equivalent to 133 lbs. avoirdupois; a coyan is equivalent to 40 piculs; a corge of tobacco is 40 baskets, cr about 10 piculs.
EXPLANATORY NOTE:
A corge of cloth is 20 pieces; a buncal of gold is equal to 832 grains troy.
Be
Tr
Arms:
Muskets Rifles
Iron Guns
Fowling Pieces
Swivela
Pistols
Air Guns
Cutlasses
-
[ 32 ]
(6.)-TRADE BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND CHINA-continued.
STATEMENT of the EXPORTS to China, from 1834-35 to 1843-44, inclusive.
[ 33 ]
(6.)-TRADE BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND CHINA-continued.
STATEMENT of the EXPORTS to China, from 1834-35 to 1843-44, inclusive.
457
1834-35.
1835-36.
1836-37.
1837-38.
1838-39.
1839-40.
1840-41.
1841-42.
1842-43.
1843-44,
Quantity. Value. Quantity.
Value.
Quantity. Valuc. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value,
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
-
20 in number
50
460 in number
-
-
-
-
2
JJ
17
15
38 in number 26
-
}}
-
-
13 in number
3,741
30 in number 33
**
1,870
900 in number
50 102
500 in number
-
-
*
27
88 in number 529
-
JJ
1,078
7,185
2
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
+
Dollars.
Dollars.
2,015 in number
202 in number 235
>
7,941
15,342
+
12 in number
Pikes and Spears
-
Birds' Feathers and
Skins.
400 in number
40 | 7,000 in number
Beeche de Mer
4,649 picula
Bees' Wax
206
"
91,453 4,567
4,164 picula
400 1,300 innumber
74,723
די
8,990 piculs
40 picule
-
-
150 10,500 in number
746,41 | 4,283 piculs
400 7 piculs
-
-
-
1 case
H
L
186 in number
70 in number
+
1,417 18,000
-
80,363 5,731 piculs
70
-
3,600
64,917
60,000
#
2,310
I
3,906 piculs
-
66,462
-
6,599 piculs 32
127,470 | 3,330 piculs
960
59,575 5,070 piculs
94,838 5,862 piculs
-
85
#
51
1 picul
15 2 piculs
30
31
89,383 2,830 561
**
帅
18,100 149 piculs
-8,265 pieces 20,796 and 800 yards.
408 corges and 480 dozen.
29,167
Spirits:
Beer
Benjamin
Beer, Wines, and
-- 20 hogsheads,
1,052
160 dozen
and 44 dozen.
Wines
-- 196 dozen, 3
3,314 28 dozen
456
140
*
480
360 dozen and 10 casks. 720 1,080 gallons -
1,160 60 dozen
1,620❘ 74
120
660
59 dozen
159
+
+
50
1,446 and 28 hogsheads.
370 1,771 dozen
**
pipes, 4 hogs-
heads, and 19
quarter-casks.
Brandy
681 gallons -
330 gallons
and 8 dozen.
1,322
370
Gio
200 cases
Arrack
250 gallons
100
Birds' nests
183 piculs
106,776 277 piculs
Betelnut
-
Camphor (Malay)
·
Coffee
3
Cotton
Cotton Twist -
Cotton Piece Goods:
British
91
1,001
552
30
-
9,090 2,185 piculs
27,457 369
- 18,072 pieces, 108,618
676 dozen, 3
corges, 76 bales,
-
162,852 330 piculs
-
191,177
and 6 cases.
9,781
J
20,752 21,729
-
"
19,668 | 10 100
"J
44,962 | 25,362 " 16,155
51,427
12,184 piculs
901 catties
16,158
789 catties
-
-
**
416cases 50 doz. 1,551 68 cases
311 picula 191,760 | 369 piculs
+
"
16,496-2,464 piculs 37,621
-2,464 piculs 37,621 1,382 piculs and 100 bales.
7,447 282
4,562
76 hogsheads
12,484
501 dozen
1,152
-
2,330 Jozen
8,008
and 3,974 dozen.
and 55 bogsheads.
-
10,356
2,188 dozen,
12,509
1,521,
9,279
121 dozen and
1,370
10 bogsheads, and
6 casks.
100 dozen
738
11 dozen and 150 gallons.
227
1,840 gallons
and 1,633 dozen.
41 cases.
- ·
868 dozen and
286 gallons.
1,911 dozen,
14,644
10,670
74 boxes, and 4,140 gallons.
and 66 dozen.
►
150 gallons
857
13,902
-
95 cases
415 1,510 cases
2,002 cases
=
400 gallons
300
1,282 gallons
3,393 gallons
200 cases
-
10,750 gallons,
and 22 casks.
110 dozen
1,760 gallons
-
144,360
373 piculs
7
26,908 11,880 picula 16,290
24,674
>>
11,152
15,005 piculs 853 cutties
104,000
34,469 17,682 picula 15,591 | 22 |
371 piculs
150,131 359 piculs
32,776
44,141
3,263 9
**
}}
94,555 343 plcnla
6,277 20,291 piculs
63 19,290
110,299 287 piculs
38,864 9,385 12,255
149,315
17,634
20
43,252
23
+
P
103
>>
**
1,181
-
·
111
937
15,609
- 2,905 piculs
19,290
and 180 bales.
JJ
15,940
114 picula
5,520
1,127 bales and 4,614 piculs.
115 piculs
-
90,051 - 1,673 bales and
2,451 piculs. 2,871 1,205 piculs
510,371
10,823 bales
347,916
and 1,667 piculs:
271,92 bales and 50 piculs.
624,952
20,452 bales
466,878
and 2,292 piculs.
-
39,759
110 piculs
6,740 1,799 picula
63,889 1,349 piculs
36,505
-- 6,449 pieces 71,044 19,558 pieces and 80 dozen.
95,239
- - 4,507 pack- ages, 100 corges, and 53 dozen,
25,464
22,785 pieces and 13 dozen.
97,040
30,512 pieces,
111,584
288 dozen, and
11 cases.
13 cases.
Indian
L
58 corges
2,370
30 corges,
36,322 17 corges
550
-
14 corges
1,182
12 corges
350
-- 8,828 pieces, 36 corges, 505 yards, 100 dozen, and I case.
1 corge
239,633
86,278 pieces,
3
280,103
corges, and
2,222 dozen.
200
12 cases, 51
and 400 dozen.
trunks.
Cutch
Dragon's-blood
Ebony
Earthenware
2,013 picula
22 piculs
7,650,
720
26,100
18 piculs 10,660
"
153
288 17 piculs 33,199 | 17,942
50
181
JJ
76 piculs 59,968 21,167 piculs
128 4 piculs 52,053 | 25,600 piculs
120
-
50
}}
36,860
36,656 piculs
62,412 10,350
**
150
-
-
-
7,977
1,507 piculs
4,914
3,531 picula
-
595 37
576
40
9,237
125 piculs 554 7
312
*
"
50
19,455 7,800
10,100
10,916
29
39
**
12,594
5,498
7,980
>>
Flint Stones Fish
-
Mawa Sharks' Fins. Gambier
Gold Dust Gunpowder Glassware Hardware Hides
Indigo
-
-
-
1,500
118
2,125
-
and
1,622 piculs
-
+
5,200 piculs
-
-
1,115
>
544 piculs
-
3,689 1,095 piculs
70 buncals
1,666 56 casks 3,188
3,800 200 piculs
-
1,902 5 piculs 2,100
7 1,010 piculs
-
3,273 227 piculs
480
-
50 buucals
1,400
100 piculs
204 1,037
3,590 4,600 piculs 344 31,287
2,516 1,734
7
4,160 9,038 picals 8,299 II
10,051
16,817 piculs
14,878
-
3,233 230
5,958
}}
-
3,661 3,890
6,165 2,624
4,472
37
--
·
2,760
938
12 piculs
54
50 kegs 14 piculs
708
25 piculs
280
88 picule
·
70
30
116
-
450
186
40
-
800 534 picula
+
62
2,051 4,786
5,838
650 7,460
5,583
-
579
2,573
937 piculs
3,763 1,693 piculs
6,388
and 480 dozen
417 picule
2,306
- 2,200 in num-
2,062 332 piculs
2,036 52 piculs
178
6 bundles and
2,160
ber and 570 piculs.
352 pieuls.
rabbit-akins.
-
Ivory
8 piculs
Iron and Steel
40 piculs iron,
720 1,040
25 catties
2,054 piculs
and 188 kegs
steel.
Lead
20 piculs
100
-
800
328 pieuls
*J
1,200
743
24 piculs
3,346 32
J
3,117
-
5,862
200
18 picule
+
2,130
5 piculs
608
600
}
200
900 2,942 piculs
11,506
32 piculs 1,912 piculs
-
3,405 16 6,158
picals 10,914 piculs and 40 kegs steel.
1,979 27,842
42 piculs
3,770
4,314 piculs
12,175
and 60 cases.
168 piculs
1,302 | 220
1,550
80
560 2,285
15,933 | 1,560
1J
11,497 1,628 piculs
9,678 891 piculs
4,802
Marine Stores :
Anchors and Chain
Cables.
Canvas
Copper Sheathing Cordage
Tar and Pitch
2 chaing
140
2 anchors
282
- 2 chains and
1,311
2 anchors.
60 bolts
600 140 bolts
+
349 picals
1,439 130 picula
1,120 262 bolts
795
2,468 150 bolts 59 piculs 182 piculs
1,620 169 bolts 2,076 152 piculs 1,275 104
-
1,676
50 bolts
-
5,351
-
+
450
J
5 anchors, 4
432
of chain.
500
chains, and 54cwt.
1,014 bolts
35 anchors 31 chain cables.
4,380
-3 chains, Gan-
1,983
11 chains and
2,311
chors, and
8
21 anchors.
grapnels.
9,432 676 bolts
6,399
1,155 bolts
+
9,827
162 bolts
1,224
37 piculs
1,342
185 piculs
+
7,019
142 piculs
4,301
175 piculs
712
1,114 piculs
9,879
183 Bengal,
4,590 20 piculs twine
50
and 123 Europe.
-
101 barrels
507
140 barrels
037
109 barrels
814
200 barrels
1,339
25 do.
Oil
36
326
399
20 piculs -
-
100
.F
(continued)
$
{ 34 ]
(6.)-TRADE BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND CHINA--continued.
STATEMENT of the EXPORTS to China-continued.
[ 35 ]
(6.)-TRADE BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND CHINA-continued.
STATEMENT of the EXPORTS to China-continued.
458
1834-35.
1835-36.
1836-37.
1837-38.
1838-39.
1839-40.
1840-41.
1841-42.
1842-43.
1843-44.
Quantity. Value,
Quantity. Value.
Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity.
Value.
Quantity,
Value.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Opium:
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
Dollars.
グ
Benares
367 chests
Patna
3141 chests
Maliva
-
2312,403 104
·
--
#
467 chests
252,327 105 chests
and 20 piculs.
268 chests 20
402,332 122
*
81 812 chests
256,045, 10
-
*
337,546)
564 chests 1,803 50
-
-
"
698,528
3,304 chests
495
1,941 chests 2,874
1,392 ₫ chests 1,483
-
**
"
Turkey
**
2
#
1,283,652 | 512
140
"J
2,024,466 | 561
1,260 chests 1,018 1,673,422 172 }
J
-
**
1,480,494
105
**
Mangrove Bark
30,978 piculs
5,195 19,297 piculs
3,817
6,710 54,723 piculs
14,516
Pepper:
Black
6,383 piculs
-
39,517 7,972 piculs
56,023 16,024 piculs
White Long
+
2
108,838 10,734 piculs
16,275 plculs
67,376
11,010 picule
208 152
+
82,424
63,489 6,627
153
3,290
DJ
**
J
37,067 60
>
18,236
1
16
16,520 piculs 1,991 91
16,453
76,096 170
68,041
160
**
Patchuck
Paints and paint oils 24 cwt. paints
2,272 piculs
2881
774
116
-
33,499 45
43
728 200 870
3,044
-
78
2.
70
500
1,111
Provisions:
Beef
-
18,400 lbs
2,010
Pork
-
Flour
70 tierces
1,130
19 casks and
2,496
74 tierces.
1
233 casks and 348 tongues.
20 kegs and 3,876 lbs. hams.
15 casks and
4 jars.
4,898
154 casks
4,520
I
4 barrels
Other kinds
93
-
22 chests
Rattane
Rice
23,747 piculs
46,369
**
Sago
Saltpetre Spelter -
Seaweed
Segars -
1,674 369
48,596 16,660 piculs
89,712 38,823
3.741 1,596 2,666
36,019 3,008 piculs
-
JE
59,408) 25,985
3,186 621
H
24,339) 24,985 picula
33,892 10,007
JF
#
982) 688
"
49,266 18,353 piculs
19,340 18,171
1,120 1,164
•
#
37,970
22,505
32,415 picals
62,912
26,958 piculs
and 40,000 canes.
55,663
- 23,118 piculs
43,039
34,520 picule
68,077 37,316 plculs
92,633
and 3,550 canes.
and 1,000 canes.
4,860
D
6,138
1,136 bags and
11,995
1,777 piculs
1,599
-6,741 piculs &
0,618 31,602
ور
34,108
5,793 piculs.
150 bags.
2,270
744
"
477 347
H
3,239 390
2,792
131
1,391 701
170 piculs
302 584 想
1,113
248 piculs
594
605
1,377
JJ
841
27
1,730 701
4,832
-
3,024 piculs
16,078 3,800 piculs
16,100 2,520
11,360) 4,100
18,409 5,280 picula
20,374
9,419 piculs -
41,380 | 11,000 piculs
7,004 477
34 30,894 6,934
2,958
1,284
8,216
402
JJ
10,378 5,377 picu!s
-
2,025 419 10,384 5,796
15,924
**
3,561
12,756
11
-
-
600,000 in number.
1,800).
|220,000 in number
1,955
Spices:
Nutmegs
2 piculs
44 piculs
2+ piculs
52 + piculs
8 piculs
22 picnla
17 piculs
Mace
Cloves
Wild Nutmega
Shellac
Sugar Tin
Tobacco Tortoise shell
Timbers:
Beams
Planks
Spars, &c.
-
265 60 catties
11,314 4
2
קו
5 piculs
241 catties
8,787
H
5,917
104 4
20
[
*
238 piculs
6,047
**
550 piculs
16,020
1
115
4,430
*
32 piculs
31 piculs
2,368
9 piculs
93 piculs
110 piculs
J
2,417
141.piculs
7,717
-
52
93
-
22
2)
H
►
400 piculs
6,322
JI
4 piculs 2,100 95,579 7,602 picula
88
100 picule
42 piculs
27,737 20 piculs
117,386 6,629 piculs 10 12,684 19
131,727 3,985 piculs
68,569 4,454 piculs
420
70,725
100 piculs 2,566 piculs
600 45,272 3,363 piculs
7 piculs 200
-
-
140 600
J
12 piculs 2,238 piculs
-
56,380
888 piculs
D
♫
160 4 corges, Java 11,208 22 picula
580 15,575 20 piculs
-
4,000 lbs.
800
8,073
1 piculs
790
82
Tou
11 piculs
7,087
9 picula
11,512 2,936
3,3255pieuls
78 5,028 44,517 3,754
1,801 piculs
4,540
ני
*
53,231
1,105
-010 cattles and 1 head.
2,250
1,358 in number
19,610 piculs
-
- 400 rafters and
2,664 in number 40,997
6,470
6,962
14,503
Woollens
Wood:
16 masts and 12 spars.
160 yards
21,865)
--
325 pieces
25,064 710 pieces
9,876 466 pieces
10,113 200 pieces
2,900
4 pieces
116
3,559 pieces and 2,359 yards.
17,360
and 960 pieces.
and 12,096 yards.]
- 1,578 picces, 328 yards, and 9 bales.
37,5527,532 pieces
121,515
6,997 pieces and 7,001 yards.
107,026
5,663 364 piculs
9,428
1,453) 280
33
3,881
227 picula 7,156
10,336 222 piculs 08,508 833
11,098 64 piculs
9,458
1,142 piculs
2,680 228 piculs 16,100 5,287
-
50
"
100
7,225 478 piculs 80,502 | 3,241
5,670
J
18,170
6,381 3,710,
5,289
1,250 piculs
2,181 | 2,700 piculs
5,220
2,434 1,702,,
3,707
2,303
}}
4,556
5,770
10,445
900 piculs 5,754
1,850
526 piculs
J
10,093
10,808 piculs
995 1,172 picuis 18,0157,440
3,049
10,602
3,819
2,019
5,278
11,755
-
21,383
12,530
15,501
9,202
1,989
3,904
15,770
3,345
4,429
5,888
18,084
3,598
6,732
-
8,622
12,167
28,241
11,540
2,956 11,187
-
2,009
5,301
-
11,933
29,434
1,126
19,200
4,456
2,025
3,220
2,747
3,500
48,138
€5,784
11,724
1
►
1,169,780
1,137,492
1,499,136
121,598
2,892,873
37,605
169,333
47,885
·
3,058,202
-
3,027,802
-
3,250,260
Garro
702 piculs
18,344 115 piculs
Sandal
Booko
170 19
JJ
950 1,046 152
J
4,680 356 piculs 11,143 409
-
10,705 127 piculs
A
-
-
}}
Lakkah Japan
3,050
200
9,030 3,400 piculs
400
10,800 3,075 picula 100
·
Europe, Sundries
8,225
-
7,037
7,201 471
#
7,129 3,737 picule.
175 1,267
3,873
堂
India
-
ditto
Java
ditto
Straits
ditto
Eastern ditto
Specie
2,082
1,788
207
1,461
-
7,785
19,002
4,970
7,459
17,383
14,611
5,580
50,650)
21,864
-
25,244
-
TOTAL Spanish)
Dollars
-
[1,213,605
1,073,525
1,312,051)
MERCHANDISE.
1838-39.
QUANTITY,
(7.)-TRADE WITH CHINA AND BENGAL.
IMPORTS from China.
1839-40.
1840-41.
VALUE.
QUANTITY,
VALUE.
QUANTITY.
1841-42.
VALUE.
QUANTITY,
1842-43.
VALUE.
QUANTITY.
1843-44.
VALUE.
QUANTITY.
VALUE.
Alum
I. Mds.
9,879
Rs. 29,639
Rs.
Rs.
1,950
5,852
Aniseed
I. Mds.
Arsenic
I. Mds.
39 157
549 2,368
3,415 203
209
10,246
26,197
Rs. 84,795
9,137
Rs. 28,201
Rs.
11,636
34,908
3,254
39
555
2,576
121
Beer and Porter
2,117
119
31
540
48
788
-
60
19
:
Beads and False Pearls
13,420
3,300
26,287
25,975
45,121
26,338
Betel Nuts
I
3
Books
230
100
Bottles (Empty)
Dozens
54
58
93
Brass Leaf and Leaf Metal
948
247 10 24,800
6
25
200
19
500
416
387
16,212
475
Brimstone
I. Mds.
81
204
www
Camphor
1. Mds.
433
18,203
1,341
56,341
843
49,842
Canvas
Cardamums
Cassia
-
China Fancy Articles
China Root
Coal
-
-
Coffee - Confectionery Coral (Sea) Cordage
Dammer
Earthenware
Felt (Patent)
662
50
39,713
417
23,941
900
530
9,010
1,773 343
99,282
5,489
238
3,342
www.
36
555
7,776
2,205
18,626
30,881 573
1,974
33,560 10,772
2,176
38,993
1,074
18,273
886 条
14,874
6,709
10,499
10,618
[
202
858
63 1
442
162
1,296
915
4,145
1,059
4,247
5,771
2,886
Sa. Wt.
14,955 6
26 7,042
2,512
7,865
12,500
23,171
880
2,640
220
770
2,638
-
45
-
Sheets
Flour
Galangal
532
3,000
1,125
-
I. Mds.
156 1
782
243
1,215
20
190
1,237
220
247
91 2,833
10
1,560
-
6
1,357
10,177
1,125
8,437
235
1,762
1,223
143 4,282
157
628
Gambier
Glass (Pier and Mirror)
Glass-ware
Gum Copal
-
Guns and Pistols
Haberdashery
Hams
Hardware and Cutlery
Hats and Caps
Ironmongery
Liquors
026
69
1,037
40
200
25
240
260
279
468
1,830
2,012
789
Lbs.
503
252
42
25
981
1,901
250
2,389
3,819
77
296
389
1,042
1,822
138
370
Medicines
Metals:
110
27
1
Block Tin
Copper (Cake and Slabs)
I. Mds.
Copper (Old)
4,341 31
1,47,682 1,012
11 2,323
31 76,668
856 666
20,979 22,003
40
1,441
Iron of Sorts
2,865 162 787
1,00,691
5,668
1,81,898
5,662
260
8,346
1,772
Lead Shot
Bags
47
153
Pig and Sheet
625
4,843
Oilman's Stores and Grocery
86
600
20
2,877
Piece Goods:
British Cotton
Yards
11,092
2,022
121
23
-
China Cotton
Pieces
4,568
17,390
1,897
16,306
Silk
[Pieces
6,732 1
P
Woollen
Yards Yards
1,334
1,07,850 Ps. 1,593
23,329
3,431
8,231
41,922 5,262
1,39,586 9,120
45,746
1,40,270 6,097
45 841
270
6,945
1,28,122
1,082
6,416
5,593
70,291
12
48
Paint of Sorts
679
Pepper (Black)
I. Mds.
253
3,037
(Long)
I. Mds.
Plate and Jewellery
1,919
Precious Stones
6,802
Provisions
Rattans
I. Mds.
Saddlery
Sago
Segars
Silk (Raw)
Spices (Mace)
(Nutmegs)
Stationery and Cards
Tea
Tobacco
Twist, Blue -
White
Vermillion
Wines
-
Spirits, &c.
Wood (Spars and Planks)
All other Articles
Merchandise
Treasure
TOTAL
-
Rs.
2
300
10
2,415
64
3
13 13,691
784
274 10,423
1
16
680 7,210
80
16
26,208
66 49,284
22
3,642
15
55,866
1,47,825
Lbs.
19
420
33,678
2,61,733 172
315
240
49,988
3,92,783 4,403
391
242 25,455
1,51,647 7,088
388
3,386
1,18,750 6,927
256
7,897
1,45,594 4,234
Lbs. 11,200
561
5,794 67,336 640 4,560
583
69,960 220
592
1,801
-
2,70,753 4,350
416
57,202 1,593
193
51,469
367
47,609
9,956
20,247
55
2,223
2,040
1,708
70
129
-
625
66,900
20,168
72,049
38,957
33,919
47,886
7,69,603
76,53,092
6,21,406
21,32,395
12,09,550
38,72,873
7,32,732
53,69,686
6,92,550
65,11,106
8,87,810
88,38,917
84,22,695
27,53,801
-
50,82,423
L
01,02,418
72,03,656
-
96,76,727
بیاری
1
40
29
1
398
0 3,085.
1,825
1,455
2,000
8,655
1,475
212
531
367
34,524
Calcutta Custom-flouse, 17 August 1844,
(signed)
E. Currie, Coll. P. Bonnaud, Acc.
[ 37
L
459
(7.)-TRADE WITH CHINA FROM BENGAL.
1839-40.
EXPORTS.
1840-41.
1841-42.
1842-43.
from Bengal.
Trade with China
Appendix.
1843-44.
MERCHANDISE.
QUANTITY.
VALUE.
QUANTITY.
VALUE.
QUANTITY.
VALUE.
QUANTITY.
VALUE.
QUANTITY.
VALUE.
QUANTITY.
VALUE.
1838-39.
[ 38 ]
Cotton Piece-goods
Mixed Piece goods
Silk Piece-goods
.
Woollens, Shawls, &c.
Cotton Twist (Fort Glo'ster)
-
Sugar Saltpetre
Raw Cotton
Rice Paddy Grain
L
Dholl and Pease
Soojee Opium Canvas
-
1,147 ps. fl 50 doz.
Rs. 15,054
Rs.
285
410
1,846 ps. [282 doz.
Rs. 3,124
[1,357 ps.
28 doz.
Rs.
2,053
1,786 ps.
Rs. 2,626
Rs.
1,702 ps.
1,300
13
65
36
124
476
1,254
524
3,254
56
568
62
49
1,437 5
5,646 153
1,562 30
7,703
138
759
446
111
670
Bales
480
80,014
I. Mds.
53
371
53
368
13,653 2,18,632
73,193
2,724
14,301
21,79,086
1,38,778
14,18,409
18,044
27,229
8,050
11,758
13,031 1,60,802 12,758
64,414 16,56,447 16,946
23,511
80,591 2
1,23,434 8,68,171
5,298 à 1,49,304
52,008
76,341
59,880
27,816 30,808 14,86,550 1,95,738 80,487 12,332
1,61,744 19,57,379 18,385
190
122
24
18
100
63
582
671
224
230
150
588
957
456
641
712
188 1,284
1,550
2,187
1,065
1,752
2,930
4,206
1,650
2,750
900 300
1,187 425
1
5
Chests Bolts
14,642 164
1,19,75,423
4,052
18,74,445
5,852
39,47,745
11,378
84,05,784
11,988
|1,21,35,267
13,157 1,76,10,851
2,474
109
709
504
7,274
12
Castor Oil
I. Mds.
67
13
81
82
72
204 77
67
Elephants' Teeth
5
580
22
Ghee
79 1
1,117
288 800
26
449
490
8,134
87 3
1,490
862
5,791
Gunnies
No.
11,550
1,785
Hides and Skins
9,315
18,630
888
1,382
550
93
Putchuck
I. Mds.
4,852
51,141
6,239
Provisions
10,152
62,391 514
13,649
1,36,498
10,623
1,17,595
5,088 1
61,060
6,833
82,001
1,410
[
Rum (Bengal)
Gallons
1,329
1,019
330
248
316
Segars
1,130
175
158
4,582 158 1,451
3,000
2,557
1,279
213
Tobacco
Soap Wheat
I. Mds.
41
Cokl
39
12 1
307
4 1
120
821
4,926
517
3,193
263 2
1,791
498
3,477
300
375
•
3,400
4,750
Hemp-twine Turmeric
Arrowroot
Borase of Tincals -
RE-EXPORTS :
Cotton Piece-goods (British)
Cotton Twist (British)
Copper
Coral
Iron
Sandal-wood Tortoise-shell
Coffee - Cutch
-
Cochineal
Woollens
23
63
212
238
I
4 3 71
1 1
219
852
78,732 yds. 199 ps.
16,406
43 PB.
1 doz.
15 ps. 86 1,20,537 yds.
397 ₫ doz.
405 ps.
23,4712,600 yds.
1,404 1,376 ps.
[8,842 ps.
7,834
19,500 yds.
100 yds.
1,568
Bales
2
425
48
9,566
85
22,714
I. Mds.
55
2,050
88 }
3,226
Sa. Wt.
10,200
7,013
903
2,258
3,175
4,047
I. Mds.
2,700
3,375
929
3,764
599
1,724
9,075 1,129
8,210
2,821
232
2,849
437
4,754
11
1,500
3
1,669
75 5,843
11
क
30
11
2,295 3,204
Gum Myrrh
Tea
All other Exports and Re-exports
Merchandise Treasure
-
TOTAL
+
[ 39 ]
13,203
8,758
76 2
768
60
-
58,512
1,45,36,278 29,250
18,948
34,04,579 9,500
Rs. 1,45,65,528
34,14,079
1,22,053
59,98,879 1,13,960
61,12,839
2,53,311
99,21,286
1,91,971
1,40,38,291
1,49,951
2,00,23,247
99,21,286
1,40,38,291
|2,00,23,247
(signed)
E. Currie, Coll.
P. Bonnaud, Acc.
Calcutta Custom House, 17 August 1844.
Calcutta, 22 August 1844.
N.B.-A considerable portion of the opium intended eventually for the China market is shipped here for Singapore, and does not, therefore, appear in these Returns.
To the Hon. R. M. Martin, H. M. Treasurer, Hong Kong.
(signed) E. Currie.
from Bengal.
Trade with China
Appendix.
460
[ 40 ]
Appendix.
Trade between Bombay and China,
(8.)-TRADE between Bombay and China from 1838 to 1843-44.
IMPORTS from China in 1838-39.
[ 41 ]
IMPORTS from China in 1839-40.
QUANTITY.
WEIGHT.
461
Appendix.
Trade between Bombay and
VALUE.
China.
Tons. Crots. Lbs.
QUANTITY.
WEIGHT.
VALUE
Apparel
Beads
-
149 boxes, and
191
75
Rs.
3,669
11,520
Tons.
Crts.
Lbs.
Rs.
Beer
5 hogsheads
+
-
Apparel
Beads
655 chests
-
Beer
8 hogsheads
-
11,362
Cassia
184,048
250
21,506
28,735
Chinaware
5,876
400
Cochineal
31,053
93,223
Cassia
2,82,161
35,259
Earthenware
-
157
Chinaware
Cochineal
Coral
-
Earthenware
-
Eatables and Confectionery
Fireworks (China Crackers) Indigo
-
Ivory, Elephants' Teeth
Marine Stores
Mats
Medicines and Drugs
Metals:
Copper, American
Tin
Oil, of Sorts
Piece Goods:
Nails
Old White
British, White China Silk
Perfumery
-
Shawls -
-
-
Plate, Plated Ware, and Jewellery -
Rattans or Canes
Silk, Raw
Spirits
-
Spices, Mace -
·
302 number
100 bundles
68,711
13,219
89,663
-
90
900
6,271
Eatables and Confectionery
Fireworks (China Crackers) Glass-ware
Grain, of Sorts
2,867
-
434 chests
13,030 bags
4
4,843
246
81,180
20,048
Hardware and Cutlery
-
22
1,815 chests
19,077
3,863
3,291
17
1,808
Hemp Indigo Mats
-
60
339
2,409
2,035
20 bundles
275
1,605
Medicines and Drugs
838
90
38,137
770 bundles
19,451
Metals:
11,568
42
1,68,903
Copper
Old
White.
105
9
84,360
Tin
12
10
484
Lead, White
18
11
71
15,024
I
16
76
6,451
5
6
2,502
Piece Goods:
British Printed
China Silk
1,050 pieces
19,082 pieces
2 cases
6,875 pieces 23,741 pieces
371
Plate, Plated Ware, and Jewellery
+
-
22,880 3,51,288
-
5,804
2,240
16,153
Precious Stones, Pearls -
Rattans or Canes
Silk, Raw
Spirits, Gin - Spices, Mace
*
400
Stationery
-
5,39,171 12,85,761
10,232 gallons
9,326
1,466
2,932
Sugar
Sugarcandy
Summerheads or Umbrellas
Stationery
Sugar
Sugarcandy
34,997
Sundries
35,431
42,683
30
36
3,04,222
Tea
•
3,59,399
Tortoise-shells Chip
Summerheads or Umbrellas
2,826 chests
77,905
Sundries
Tea
Tobacco, American
+
Cheroots
Vermillion
Wine
Wood, of Sorts
1,078 boxes
8,246 bundles
620 gallons
Merchandise
Treasure
Gold
Silver
TOTAL
88,285
3,47,640
1,50,124
Tobacco, American
Cheroots
Vermillion
2,116
1,586
21,560
Wine
11,760
1,490
Wood, of Sorts
Woollens
254
33,83,042
Rs. 9,95,918
- 1,26,26,394
Rs. 1,70,05,354
1,36,22,312
22
44
17
60
3,101
5
14
1,016
21
17
52
10,378
11
84
118
4,500
1,14,456
5,475
5,000
-
600 bundles
84
190,609 4,56,662
855 gallons
806
1,161
2,327
23,014
3,054
10,243
25
25,520
46
1,43,067
183 chests
5,451
22,027
191,416
66,452
-
2,380
1,218
1,037
139
1,292 boxes
25,840
- 8,753 bundles
23,662
and boxes.
137 gallons
168
30 number, and
481
20 pieces
Merchandise
-
1,325
810
•
12,28,305
Treasure
-
Gold
Silver
Rs. 2,500
28,42,681
28,45,181
TOTAL
Rs. 40,73,486
L
!
Appendix.
Trade between Bombay and
China.
Apparel
Beads
Cassia
Chinaware
[ 42 ]
IMPORTS from China in 1840-41.
*Coffee
Cochincal
Earthenware, of Sorts
Eatables and Confectionery
Fireworks
Ghee
Glass, Looking and Window
Gum, of Sorts
Hardware and Cutlery
Hemp
Indigo
Leather and Saddlery
Marine Stores
Medicines and Drugs
Metals:
Brass, Sheet
Copper, Old
Tin
White
Oil, of Sorts -
Pepper
-
Perfumery and Toys
Piece Goods:
China Cotton
Silk
Cashmere Shawls
Plate, Plated Ware, Jewellery, and
Watches
Precious Stones:
Pearls
Coral
Saltpetre Silk, Raw
Spirits, Gin-
Spices:
Mace
Nutmegs
-
Stationery
Sugar
Sugarcandy
Summerheads or Umbrellas
Sundries Tea
Tobacco
Cheroots
Vermillion
Wine, of Sorts
Wood, of ditto
QUANTITY.
WEIGHT.
VALUE.
1
Rs.
7,827
20,065
Apparel Beads
-
Beer
Cassia
Tons.
Chet.
Lbs.
-
225 bundles and
370
91
5,23,403
64,153
5,265
19,037
3,829
5
15
370
14,818
1,175 chests
16,429
56
156
3,937
17
201
870
14
32
192
20,466
22,779
18
38,438 pieces
5,598 pieces
49 number
532 gallons
3,710
11,824
13
1,26,923
16
'
750
11
109
479
5
28
1,103
27
3
70
15,770
3
84
37
205
98
2,107 1,052
J
-
Chinaware Cochineal
[ 43 ]
IMPORTS from China in 1841-42.
Eatables and Confectionery Fireworks
Glass, Looking and Window Gum, of Sorts
Hardware and Cutlery
Indigo
Medicines and Drugs
Metals:
Copper, American
Old
White
Sheet
Tile and Plate
Lead, Pig and Sheet Spelter
Tin
Oil, Cassia
Pepper, Long Perfumery and Toys
Piece Goods:
British White China Cotton
-
Silk Shawls -
Plate, Plated Ware, Jewellery, and
+
Watches Precious Stones, Cornelians
4,41,473
85,373
1,202
7,050
2,907
52
487
30
240
-
9,06,687 25,83,110
Rattans or Canes
-
432
Silk, Raw
QUANTITY.
WEIGHT.
VALUE.
Tons. Crot.
Lbs.
Rs.
10,816
126 chests and
214
61
11,808
-
[7,85,146
77,127
7,885
2,204
7,059
3,019
381 boxes
6,210
3,727
55
49
2,075
781
34,863
2 cases and
22,868
5
29,561 1,33,234
-
1,614 pieces 4,263 pieces 19,105 pieces 5 pieces
*
-
-
+
18
00 C
4
8
16,383
2
3
47
1,945
-
16
65
2,647
10
3
92
11,814
3
13
92
4,275
8
8
72
1,687
1
18
83
426
14
7
85
9,794
10
13
4,534
128
54
1,398
1,280
6,174
36,942
3,08,194
135
462
Appendix.
Trade between Bombay and China.
5,924
290
2,000 bundles
1,688 gallons
303
8,29,4101 22,20,654
2,436
Spirits
Spices:
-
Mace Nutmegs
Stationery
Sugar - Sugarcandy
Summerheads or Umbrellas
-
4,249
8,498
16,542
28,947
H
59,488
-
-
79,203 49,992
996 chests and]
39
5,52,087
27
6,51,147
32,423
6,211 numbers
1,28,138
5,34,728
3,32,986
Tobacco
Cheroots Tortoise Shell
Vermillion
Wine, of Sorts Woollens
16,810 bundles
2,292 gallons
5 pieces.
89
97
831
308 boxes
7
6,160
19
207
18,700
8,926
75
Merchandise
47,59,100
Treasure
Gold Silver
Rs. 5,000
56,66,858
56,71,858
TOTAL
-
Rs. 1,04,30,958
1,469
9,236
-
875
1,315
83,931
58,284 32,074
79
89
4,50,559
4,28,832
2,024 number
1,640 chests
45,773
1,22,251
8,52,317 5,039
3,73,497
Sundries
710 boxes
bundles
74,717- and
649 14,200
1,04,922
Tea
boxes
357 gallons
3,561 pieces and
1,017
44
859 7,808
Merchandise
+
50,72,669
Treasure
Gold Silver
TOTAL
Rs. 6,236
53,66,951
53,73,187
Rs. 1,04,45,856
The produce chiefly of Java and Ceylon, but imported in China ships.
I
T
Appendix.
Trade between Bombay and China.
[ 44 ]
IMPORTS from China in 1842-43.
QUANTITY.
WEIGHT.
VALUE.
[ 45 ]
IMPORTS from China in 1843-44.
QUANTITY.
WEIGHT.
463
VALUE.
Appendix.
Trade between Bombay and
China.
Tons.
Crots. Lbs.
Apparel
Beads
1,079 bund., and
630
37
China and Earthenware
+
Rs.
-
8,824
92,966
Tons.
Crets.
Lbs.
Rs.
55,786
Cochineal
• Coffee
Eatables and Confectionery Fireworks
Glass, of Kinds
800
2,600
Apparel Beads Betelnut
H
15,747
+
46,605
61,146
1,143
110
4,671
8,857
Beer
9 hogsheads
450
19,688
8,843 chests
54,691
China and Earthenware Cochineal
81,256
5,810
11,620
Coir
550
6
2,081
4,524
Gum, of Sorts
Eatables and Confectionery
34,568
-
102
16
8,414
Fireworks
6,084 chests
82,478
Hardware and Cutlery
Hemp
Ivory, Elephants' Teeth
Jewellery
Marine Stores
Medicines and Drugs
Metals:
Copper, American
3,508
Glass, of Kinds
8,217
20
34
159
Gum, of Sorts
107
15
2,917
Hardware and Cutlery
8,524
29
58
4,354
Hemp
35
86
195
140
Ivory, Elephants' Teeth
1
43
125
24,744
40
194 1,81,316
Indigo
11,438
5,569
Jewellery and Watches
-
6,256
Liquors
9 dozens
108
119
16
76
1,07,879
Old-
1
1
12
949
White
54
87
9,596
Tin
60
6
3
41,172
6 dozens, and
-
749 pieces
86,045 pieces
4 pieces
481 boxes
-
14,108 cases
2,908 bundles
108 dozens
469 gallons
100 pieces
Oil, of Sorts
-
Perfumery and Toys
Piece Goods:
Cotton
Silk
Shawls
Plated Ware
Silk, Raw
Spices:
Cassia
Mace
Nutmegs Pepper
-
7,18,376
5,466 17,97,841
13,71,859
2,858 2,524
2,17,826
11,045
4,419
55
12
675
Ditto, Long
34
12
334
Spirits, Gin
2,470 gallons
2,579
Stationery
Sugar
43,642
Sugarcandy
49,249 23,879
6
4,96,456
84
5,26,554
Sundries
Tea
Tobacco, Cigars
Twist
-
-
1,71,074
6,79,317
4,35,787
9,620
660
Umbrellas
Vermillion
94,646 14,150
Wines :
Champagne
Lisbon Sherry
2,160
703
-
2 quarter casks -
72
Wood Woollens
-
11 pieces, and -
72
101
2,771 1,912
49,64,385
Rs.
1,61,490 1,49,53,254
1,51,04,744
Rs. 2,00,69,129
133
1,037
Marine Stores
Medicines and Drugs
Metals:
Brass, Old Coper, American
Old
3,362
20,932
1,93,136
-
9
55
453
113
11
10
1,13,560
5
5
20
4,733
225
White
Tin
2
2
34
7,202
26
12
27
18,114
5,096
-
5,46,693 160
825
Oil, of Sorts -
Piece Goods:
China Cotton China Silk
Shawls
British, Plain
Precious Stones, Pearls
Plated Ware
Quicksilver
Silk, Raw Spirits, Gin Spices:
Cassia
Cardamoms
Mace
Nutmegs
Pepper, Long Stationery Sugar - Sugarcandy Sundries Saddlery Tea Tobacco
Cigars
Twist, British
Toys
Umbrellas
18 gals. and 59 D.
30,646 pieces
1,051
Dyed
Printed
890 pieces
14 pieces
-
756 pieces
398 pieces
-
10,507
-
4,31,812
780
-
1.913
1,198
195 pieces
975
2,500
21,206
36,044 7,83,662
72,088
16,00,750
1,240 gallons
1,240
8,34,2901
1,56,028
25
77 5663
2,275
1,133
12,347
11,233
38
10
933
34,843
64 883
88
5,83,883
20,521
48
2,80,671
3,79,130
-
160
6,54,468
4,09,183
197
13
8,031
178
48
49,960
1,230
1,515
101
3,938 chests
1,11,832
-
-
Merchandise
Treasure.
(Gold
Silver
TOTAL
Vermillion
-
Wine, Lisbon Wood, of Sorts Woollen
44,460 bundles
44.460
205 gallons
1,054
74 pieces, and
141
83
2,908
15 pieces -
300
Merchandise
48,77,606
Treasure
Gold Silver
Rs. 17,23,227 2,75,06,783
2,92,30,010
TOTAL
* The produce chiefly of Java and Ceylon, but imported in China ships.
Bombay Custom-House,
6 August 1844.
M
H. H. Glass,
Rs. 3,41,07,616
Collector of Customs.
Appendix.
Trade between Bombay and China.
Apparel
Beer
[ 46 ]
EXPORTS to China in 1838-39.
QUANTITY.
WEIGHT.
VALUE.
Tons. Crots.
Lbs.
Rs.
1,200
4 hogsbeads
-
288
Cotton
184,089 bales
6,76,72,812
92,71,593
Beer
Guns:
Olibanum
Other Sorts
Hardware and Cutlery Horns, Gynda
Ivory, Elephants' Teeth
Medicines and Drugs
Mother-o'-Pearl Shells
Oil, of Sorts -
Opium
+
Precious Stones :
Cornelians
Pearls
Piece Goods:
Coffee
1,400
80
6,073
177
38
770
1,752
53
111
1,162
457
29
77,593
10
58
12,209
1,888
29
16,147
13
26
3,015
17,353 chests
1,58,47,400
66,250 7,11,357
Cashmere Shawls
+
11 number
4,225
Country, of Sorts
3,115 pieces
14,320
Safflower
33
104
735
Salt
160
400
Sharkfins and Fishmaws -
9,090
42
3,69,041
Spices, of Sorts
3
231
Spirits
139 gallons
-
193
Stationery
1,500
Sundries
Wine
767 gallons
+
Wood, Sandal
15,800
103
Woollens
300 pieces
-
245 2,322 2,51,113 6,900
Merchandise Treasure, Silver
2,66,68,034 17,000
TOTAL
Rs. 2,66,85,034
Apparel Beer Cotton
Eatables and Confectionery
Glass, of Sorts
Gum Olibanum
Horns, Gynda
Ivory, Elephants' Teeth
Leather and Saddlery
Medicines and Drugs
Metals, Copper Sheathing
Mother-o'-Pearl Shells
Oil, of Sorts
Opium
Precious Stones:
Cornelians
Pearls
P
Perfumery and Toys
Piece Goods:
EXPORTS to China in 1839-40.
QUANTITY.
WEIGHT.
VALUE.
Tons.
Crts.
Lbs.
Rs.
-
1,075
-
21 hogsheads 7,9,661 bales
1,272
2,91,68,699
50,06,830
402
725
1,052
74
6,732
35
85
1,666
291
13
61,126
483
56
110
9,831
10
1,600
60
800
12
76
4,641
103 chests
1,93,000
British, White -
145 pieces
Country, of sorts
2,530
L
">
Sharkfins and Fishmawe
5,434
Spirits, Brandy
72 gallons
Sundries
Wine
Wood, of Sorts
827 gallons
[ 47 ]
EXPORTS to China in 1840-41.
QUANTITY.
L
WEIGH T.
VALUE.
Coir and Coir Rope Cotton
Eatables and Confectionery
Gums:
Olibanum
Other Sorts Hardware and Cutlery Horns, Gynda
Ivory, Elephants' Teeth Leather and Saddlery Marine Stores Medicines and Drugs Metals:
Iron, British Bar
Hoop -
Mother-o'-Pearl Shells
Oil of Sorts
Opium
Precious Stones :
Cornelians
Pearls
Piece Goods:
British, Printed
White
Cashmere Shawls Country of Sorts
Perfumery and Toys
Sharkfins and Fishmaws
Spices, Almonds
Spirits, Brandy Sundries Wine, of Sorts Wood, of Sorts
-
33hhds.
83,765 bales
12,022 chests
360 pieces
-
21 pieces
19 number
551 pieces
Tons.
Crets. Lbs.
Rs.
1,836
272
90
48
-
28 3,37,11,049
225
48,77,869
1,803
255
56
2,135
383
28
1,585
M
800
101
38
4,313
206
74
32,478
100
600
482
81
19,655
9
4
73
943
9
45
190
3,654
1,764 5,400
87,36,847
91,887
1,47,709
2,640
168
1,130
2,910
350
7,568
12
3,855 gallons
1,455 gallons
9,451
J
3,88,446
150 7,692
20,759
8,304
85 2,66,014
Apparel Beer Cochineal
Cotton
Earthenware
Merchandise Treasure, Silver
TOTAL
EXPORTS to China in 1841-42.
QUANTITY.
WEIGH T.
1,46,26,597 10,000
Rs. 1,46,36,597
VALUE.
Tons.
Crots. Lbs.
Rs.
924
12 hhds.
695
128,910 bales -
-
14,833
4,74,09,464
50,850
63,08,196
2,455
820
11
220
2,648
1 case
L
100
1,297
76
6,286
101
56
1,933
370
171
3,738
112
58
17,695
-
-
240
160
69
20,041
...
175
56
1,329
162
841
1,03,22,215
(continued)
止
32,803 5,25,720
650
1,200
10,300
62
2,59,222
311
1,869
3,770
5,673
56
86,077
Merchandise Treasure, Silver
62,11,605
1,30,800
TOTAL
Rs.
63,42,405
Eatables and Confectionery
Ghee
Glass, Looking and Window Guns and Pistols
Gums:
Olibanum
-
Other Sorts Hardware and Cutlery Horns, Gynda
Ivory, Elephants' Teeth Leather and Saddlery Medicines and Drugs Mother-o'-Pearl Shells Oil, of Sorts - Opium
1 case and
14,043 chests
464
Appendix.
Trade between Bombay and
China.
I
Appendix.
Trade between
Bombay and
China.
[ 48 ]
Exports to China in 1841-42-continued.
QUANTITY.
WEIGHT.
VALUE.
[ 49 ]
EXPORTS to China in 1842-43--continued.
QUANTITY.
405
!
Appendix.
Trade between Bombay and
WEIGH 1.
VALUE.
China,
Tons.
Crots.
Lbs.
Rs.
110
Precious Stones:
Cornelians
Pearls
Piece Goods:
British, White
Silk
-
Country of Sorts
Silk
-
Plate, Plated Ware, Jewellery, and
Watches.
Perfumery and Toys
Spirits of Sorts
Sharkfins and Fishmaws
5,433 pieces
+
180 pieces 117 pieces 371 pieces
-
Tons. Cwts. Lbs.
Rs.
J
18,797 3,10,197
21,092
1,650
490
9,452
51
3,45,568
2,405 gallons
4,114
Stationery
Sundries
Wine, of Sorts
2,300
33,679
4,358 gallons
-
23,763
Wood, of Sorts
14,002
47
2,49,157
Woollens, British
755 pieces
22,069
Merchandise Treasure, Silver
TOTAL
1,77,85,022 4,765
1,550
125
2,875
Perfumery and Toys
Piece Goods:
Dyed Cotton Printed ditto Plain ditto Silk
Country Cottons Shawls, Cashmere
Plate and Plated Ware Precious Stones, Pearls. Sharkfins and Fishmaws Silk, Raw Spirits:
Arrack Brandy Rum
Whiskey
Stationery Sundries
-
-
160 pieces 405 pieces
1,110
5,052
-
2,023 pieces
1,176 pieces
387 pieces
51 number
14,715
20,359
2,007
7,440
1,200
4,59,054
9,120
21
65
2,78,418
300
1,094 gallons 2,863 gallons
122 gallons
40 gallons
694
5,906
122
40
6,461
26,398
Tea
600
360
Tobacco
234
25
Rs. 1,77,89,787
Cigars
119 boxes
348
Tortoise Shell
683
5,155
Wines:
EXPORTS to China in 1842-43.
Champagne Claret Madeira Port
15 dozens
-
41 dozens
47 dozens
785 gallons
QUANTITY.
WEIGHT.
VALUE.
Sherry
Wood, of Kinds
Woollens, British
ד
Apparel Becr
Betelnut
China and Earthenware
330
620
549
3,510
12 doz.& 911 gals.
4,473
14,117
68
773 pieces
2,61,021 8,391
Merchandise Treasure, Silver
TOTAL
2,71,04,466 750
Rs. 2,71,05,216
Cochineal
Coffee
Coir
Cornelians or Agates
Cotton
Eatables and Confectionery
Ghee
-
Glass, of Kinds
Grain
Gums:
Animi
Arabic
Olibanum
Other Sorts.
Hardware and Cutlery Horns
·
Ivory, Elephants' Teeth
Leather and Saddlery
Marine Stores
Medicines and Drugs
Metals:
Copper, Bolt-
Nails
Sheathing
Tile
-
Iron, British, Nail-
Tin
Plate
Rod
Sheet
Lead, Pig and Sheet
Oil, of Sorts -
Opium
-
Paint, Red Lead
T'ons. Crts.
Lbs.
Rs.
4,638
-
40 hhds. & 282 doz.
4,215
84
50
130
18
24,766 1,680 84
78,889
408
168
67,253
2,12,661 bales -
7,64,44,744
94,89,441
EXPORTS to China in 1843-44.
-
2,164
56
70
300
QUANTITY.
WEIGHT.
VALUE.
200 bags
1,000
213
56
6,102
Tons.
Cwts. Lbs.
Rs.
2
98
36
3,974
88
23,697
1,981
15
13,900
Apparel Beer
Beads -
2,563
675 dozens
2,538
123
-
3,907
China Earthenware
300
116
360
109
7,418
Coffee
336
72
78
49,610
Cotton
259,051bales -
- 9,50,22,855 1,07,17,945
66
Coir
100
405
136
Coral
4,000
1 case and
1,015
27
35,777
Cornelians or Agates
66,586
Eatables
3
1
19
3,503
Fishmaws
3,979
15
244 2,78,617
14
1,032
Glass, of Sorts
840
1
6
82
1,547
Gums :
5
11
3,566
49
13
10,936
Olibanum
Other, of Sorts
27
14
76
2,643
12
18
25
1,232
Hardware and Cutlery
II
41
500
300 boxes
4,500
29
19
95
5,999
3
6
2,873.
18,241 chests
1,61,59,002
Horns
Ivory, Elephants' Teeth
Jewellery and Watches Liqueurs
-
Medicines and Drugs
12 dozen
15
3,600
6,430
63
31,082
2,546
7
17,083
665
250
41
9,824
880
50
1,16,212
235
240
1,134
11
46,509
N
(continued)
486
Appendix.
Trade between Bombay and
China.
Report on the Tea
Trade.
Copper Sheathing
Metals:
Copper Nails -
Iron, Old
Iron, Kentledge
Tin Plate
Mother of Pearl Shells
Oil, of Sorts
Opium
Paint
T
Piece Goods:
Dyed Cotton
Plain Cotton
Silk, Country
Silk, China
Shawls, Cashmere
Precious Stones, Pearls
Sharkfins
Saddlery
Spirits
Sundries
Wine, Sherry
Wood, of Sorts
Woollen, British
-
Bombay Custom House,
5 August 1844.
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EXPORTS to China in 1843-44-continued.
To the Hon. R. M. Martin,
QUANTITY.
25 boxes
22,461 chests
100 pieces
3,311 pieces
1,124 pieces
461 pieces
2, number
WEIGHT.
VALUE.
Tons.
Crets.
Lbs.
Rs.
40
20
12
119
50
20
4,764
600
375
538
64
3,362
84
300
- 2,69,41,880
36
56
730
1,096
19,448
9,961
3,594
1,200
3,19,877
8,478
94
1,82,134
850
279 23,694
3,689
5,007
12
-
551 pieces
64,378 7,890
Merchandise. Horses
3,88,85,919 1,500
TOTAL
Rs. 3,88,87,410
H. H. Glass,
Collector of Customs.
P
Her Majesty's Treasurer, China.
25 gallons
1701 doz.&112gals.]
(9.)
REPORT on the TEA TRADE, transmitted to Her Majesty's Government from China, in July 1845.-By R. M. Martin.
THE traffic in an innutritious herb, grown almost solely in one district of Asia, and in a country hitherto isolated from the western nations, is one of the most remarkable illustrations of the enterprize and energy of modern commerce. A trade involving British capital to the extent of about 10,000,000l. sterling, furnishing regular employment to about 60,000 tons. of first-class English-built shipping, contributing nearly 5.000,000. sterling of annual revenue to the Exchequer, and influencing materially the morals and sobriety of the nation, deserves investigation in detail, as regards its rise, progress, and present condition.
The tea plant, although found in different parts of the eastern hemisphere, is probably indigenous to China, or Japan, where it is extensively cultivated. The earliest record to be found of the use of tea is in the records of the Moorish historians and travellers in the end of the eighth century, at which period the Mahommedans had free ingress and residence in China, subject to very few restrictions.
Ibn Batuta mentions that the emperor received the revenues from salt; that paper money, bearing the government stamp, was current in the country; and that the general drink of the people was prepared by immersing the leaves of a small plant in hot water, which was used medicinally as well as for correcting the bad properties of the water.
Soliman, an Arabian merchant, who visited China, A. D. 850, describes "sah" (tea), as the usual beverage of the people.
Texeira, a Spaniard, in 1600, saw dried leaves (of tea) at Malacca, which were in use among the Chinese. Olearius, in 1633, found the use of tea pretty general among the Persians, who procured it from China by means of the Usbeck Tartars. The Russian am- bassador (Stawkaw) to the court of the Mogul Chau Shau Attyn, partook of tea, and at his departure he was offered it for the Czar Michael Romanoff, which he refused, not knowing of what use it would be in Russia.
Of the first introduction of tea into Europe we know but little. In 1517, Emmanuel, King of Portugal, sent a fleet of eight ships to China, and an ambassador to Pekin, who obtained permission to open a trade; but it was not until after the formation of the Dutch East India Company in 1602, that the use of tea became known on the continent, and although
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Trade.
although the enterprizing Hollanders paid considerable attention to it, as an article of com- merce, the consumption increased but little, for in 1670 it was unknown in Dort. The Dutch, in their second voyage to China, bought a good deal of tea, at from 8 d. to 10d. per Report on the Tea pound (the price at the present day), which, although of a middling quality, sold in Paris for 30 livres a pound; and for some years the best Japanese tea, esteemed as much better than that of China, brought from 100 to 200 livres per pound in France, until the use of coffee and chocolate became fashionable and general.
The first authentic notice to be found of tea in England, is in an Act of Parliament (12 Car. II, c. 23) A. D. 1660, by which a duty of 8d. per gallon was laid on all tea made and sold in coffee-houses; and by an Act framed in the same year the duties of excise on malt liquor, cyder, perry, meal, spirits, or strong waters, coffee, tea, sherbet, and chocolate. were settled on the king for life. In the diary of Mr. Pepys, secretary of the Admiralty, there is found under date 25th September 1661, the following memorandum relative to tea "I sent for a cup of tea, a Chinese drink, of which I had never drank before." In 1662, Charles the Second married the Princess Catherine of Portugal, who it is said was fond of tea, having been accustomed to it in her own country, hence it became fashionable in Eugland. Waller, in a birth-day ode on her Majesty, ascribes the introduction of the herb to the queen in the following lines:
"The best of queens and best of herbes we owe
To that bold nation who the way did show. To the fair region where the sun doth rise, Whose rich productions we so justly prize."
The same poet attributes an inspiring power to the Chinese leaf:
"The muses' friend, tea, does our fancy aid,
Repress those vapours which the head invade."
In 1660 tea was sold in England at three guineas per pound. The following copy of an advertisement in 1680, shows the price of the leaf, and the mode of vending it to the public:
"These are to give notice to persons of quality, that a small parcel of most excellent tea is by accident fallen into the hands of a private person to be sold; but that uone may be disappointed, the lowest price is thirty shillings a pound, and not any to be sold under a pound weight, for which they are desired to bring a convenient box. Enquire at Mr. Thomas Eagle's, at the King's Head, in St. James's Market."-London Gazette, 16 De- cember 1680.
In 1666 Lords Arlington and Ossory brought a quantity of tea from Holland; its price in England then was 60s. per pound. About this period, the East India Company being desirous of presenting a rarity to his Majesty, procured 22 lbs. of tea, which was thought a valuable offering to royalty.
Heretofore the small quantity used in England was obtained from the Continent; for in 1634, some English ships having visited Canton, a rupture took place between our seamen and the Chinese, and trade was for some time interdicted; but in 1668 the Court of Directors, in the despatch to their factories at Bantam in Java, ordered them to send home by their ships 100 lbs, weight of the best tea they could get. And accordingly, in 1669, the East India Company's first invoice of tea was received, amounting to two canisters of 143 lbs. Such was the commencement of a trade which, by the most judicious manage- ment, has now risen to an importation of upwards of 50,000,000 lbs. weight. That a careful proportioning of the supply to the demand was absolutely necessary, will be evident from the following fact, which at this early period operated as a warning to the Company, and has since proved highly beneficial to the commerce. In 1678 the East India Company imported 4,713 lbs. of tea; but this then large quantity completely glutted the market, for the imports of tea during the ensuing six years amounted in all to only 318 lbs. In 1680 the Company opened a direct trade with China,
In 1689 the old mode of levying the duty on tea, viz. by the quantity made in the coffee- houses, being found very uncertain as well as vexatious, an Act of 1 Gul. & Mar., sess. 2, c. 6, fixed a custom duty of 5s. a pound, together with the former sum of five per cent. on the value.
For some time the consumption of tea slowly increased in England, in consequence of the high rate of duty, which was sometimes as high as 200 per cent. on the sale price.
A considerable degree of smuggling arose, which was only put down by lowering the taxation. During the years 1697, 1698, and 1699, the East India Company imported on an average 20,000 lbs. of tea annually. In 1700 the importation was augmented to. 60,000 lbs. a year, the average price of tea being 168. per pound. In 1721 the importation of tea into England exceeded for the first time 1,000,000 lbs.; and at the September sale in 1728, the quantity put up for sale was 769,104 lbs., the duty on which amounted to 153,820. sterling.
The bill of cargo of the Cæsar, which arrived from China 17th May 1726, has entered in it 358,000 lbs. oftea, the duty on which was 71,620 4 sterling. Since the commencement of the present century the annual consumption of tea in the United Kingdom has increased. by upwards of 20,000,000 of pounds, while its use during the same period has been decreasing in Europe and America. In the space of 100 years, from 1710 to 1810, there were sold at the East India Company's sales 750,219,016 lbs. of tea, the value of which was 129,804,595 l. sterling. Of this quantity of tea 116,470,675 lbs. were re-exported. Since the commencement of the present century, 1,385,949,566 lbs. of tea have been sold in England,
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Appendix.
Report on the Tea Trade.
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England, and there has been paid into the British Exchequer about £. 167,643,702 sterling on the above-mentioned quantity of tea!
The following Table will explain the rise and progress of the British tea trade, in reference. to the quantity of tea annually exported from 1669 to 1845, the quantity sold or retained for consumption, the rate of duty levied thereon, the amount of revenue paid yearly into the British Exchequer, the price per lb., &c.
The exports from China for the seasons commencing 1st July and ending 30th June 1844, 1845, and 1846, were-
1 8 4 4.
1845.
1846.
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The distribution of tea to different parts of the United Kingdom is thus shown for 1844:
London, 60 vessels, containing Liverpool, 25 ditto
Dublin, 4 ditto
Clyde, 4
Bristol, 2
-
-
ditto
ditto
Leith, 2
-
ditto
Hull, 1
ditto
Belfast, 1
H
ditto
-
-
Lbs. 33,436,887 110,108,552
1,143,471
1,716,142
1,060,978
478,089
423,143
252,000
Appendix.
Report on the Tea Trade.
Congou*
Caper
Lbs. 38,508,849
Souchong
Black-leaf Pekoe
Pouchong
Sorts
-
498,066 1,562,603 273,827
Lbs. 34,878,261 1,355,025 1,372,508
Lbs.
137,061
47,525
Flowery Pekoe
-
Orange ditto
Total Black Tea
54,920 453,277 1,105,978
42,547,520
414,546
534,751
1,796,542
40,476,919 -
Ireland is largely supplied from Liverpool, but Dublin now imports direct from China nearly one-third of the quantity of the tea used in Ireland.
While the East India Company had the monopoly of the trade, their shipments were made at one period of the year, viz., in November, December, January, and February; and latterly the select committee at Canton purchased during the spring, at low prices, the teas which were left unsold at the usual period, and which were termed winter teas; this, how- ever, was only done to a limited extent, lest an inferior article should be imported. Now the trade is more equally diffused over the whole year, although the best seasons for sailing from China to England are from November to February; during which period also the bulk of the teas arrive in Canton, and command the largest exports. The diffusion of exports. throughout the year will be seen by the following returns for 1844.
TEAS Exported from China to Great Britain between 1 July 1843 and 30 June 1844, in 96 Ships. (Saghalien and City of Derry loading.)
Twankay
+
Hyson Skin
Hyson
Young Hyson
Imperial
Gunpowder
4,079,147 575,801 1,274,123 1,465,177
2,951,474 292,052
2,103,185
2,963,697
+
597,678 1,304,531
1,233,328
2,315,691
TOTAL
9,296,547
11,859,427
51,844,067 lbs., in 101 ships. 52,336,946 lbs., in 103
in
JJ
Total for 1844
})
1845 1846
were scarce.
During 1844-45 ninety-five ships loaded at Canton, seven at Shanghai, and one at Hong Kong, to which latter place some tea had been brought from the northward, where freights The cargo of the barque "Nautilus," the first vessel that loaded at the northern ports under the new Treaty, consisted of, Congou, 144,545 lbs.; Pekoe, 575 lbs.; Twankay, 87,770 lbs.; Hyson Skin, 3,413 lbs.; Hyson, 414 lbs.; Young Hyson, 7,630 lbs. ; Gunpower, 1,351 lbs.; Imperial, 721 lbs. Total, 246,545 lbs.
*11,193 lbs. of Bohea are included in this.
July August September October November December January February March April
May
June
-
IMPORT DELIVERIES and STOCK OF TEA in the United Kingdom, ending 31 December 1845, 1844, and 1843.
DATE.
Bohea.
Congou.
Caper.
Souchong and Campoi.
Black-leaf
Pekoe
and H. Muey.
Flowery Pekoe.
Orange Pekoe.
Sorts,
Total Black.
Lbs.
Lbs. 1,409,868
Lbs.
1,610
Lbs.
44,402
Lbs.
-
Lbs. 34,100
Lbs. 42,550
Lbs.
Lbs.
1,532,530
367,106
8,018
375,124
755,020
-
-
TOTAL
3,935,545 18,387 5,968,774 29,531 4,725,895 80,842 5,234,968 46,311 4,155,958 127,900 9,540 3,207,845 104,667 1,653 | 2,929,938 19,074
4,059,905 1,565,996
11,193 38,316,818
6,200 04,929
761,220
5,079
260,253 64,112 172,224 124,811 64,985
20,082
182,291 80,429 41,188
118,189
453
4,354,873
275,841 5,195
6,084,135
232,849
5,273,080
17,686
84,552
8,208
5,581,021
299,252
88,762
19,145
232,244 2,216
4,875,477
114,294
3,866
23,599
36,884 21,783
3,522,478
104,235
9,749
40,586
5,693
4,208
3,115,136
62,715 7,028
498,065
334,308 67,192
14,253
9,500 13,565
4,561,438
8,195
57,750 1,100
1,640,069
1,562,603 273,827 453,277 1,104,070 56,728 42,276,581
Hyson.
Young Hyson. Hyson Skin.
Twankay.
Imperial. Gunpowder. Total Green, GRAND TOTAL.
DATE.
IMPORTS.
DELIVERIES.
Stock 31 December.
Lbs.
39,555
Lbs. 222,655
1845.
1844.
1843.
1845.
1844.
1843.
1845.
1844.
1843.
-
Lbs.
Lbs.
Lbs. 12,336 410,430 41,365
6,115
Lbs.
Lbs.
61,884
788,225
6,115
Lbs. 2,320,755 881,239 761,220
July. August.
50,951
236,296
20,232 294,745
48,764
106,121
757,109
5,111,982
Lbs.
Bolea, Canton
Lbs.
Lbs.
Lbs. 72,000 134,000 152,000
Ditto, Fokein
Congou
Pouchong
Caper
35,328,000 33,739,000 764,000 2,493,000 434,000 352,000
Lbs.
Lbs. 152,000 218,000 26,000 9,000 33,282,000 29,865,000
Lòs.
Lbs.
Lbs.
29,793
307,771
113,748
19,097
62,436
532,845
7,216,980
September. October. November.
434,000 3,000 29,823,000 27,777,000
514,000
12,000
45,882
151,483
16,582
134,823
63,227
141,407
553,404
5,826,484
December.
107,408
70,039
96,948 280,042
109,554
275,171
989,162
6,520,183
January.
1,426,000 1,649,000
1,096,000 1,758,000
392,790
176,764 102,823 1,064,887
170,677
298,634 2,206,575
7,082,002
February.
407,000 357,000
282,000 255,000
208,974
155,741
199,147 521,480
45,209
93,690
1,224,241
4,746,719 March.
Souchong
1,350,000
1,085,000
944,000 1,073,000
1,376,000
970,000
346,754
51,551
Flower and Black Leaf Pekoe and
H. Muey
Orange Pekoe
Twankay
3,543,000
Sorts
Hyson Skin
Hyson
-
Young Hyson
Imperial and Gunpowder
For Exportation only
505,000
1,460,000
1,332,000
1,827,000
538,000 759,000 995,000 855,000 3,431,000 316,000 1,545,000 860,000 1,141,000
723,000 777,000
849,000
534,000
26,252
33,220
996,000 1,146,000
378,000
379,000
19,442
23,734
51,145 470,273 23,537 31,520 391,323
23,012
95,905
340,631
37,814
96,501
34,318
63,138
1,338,640 557,455 563,481
4,153,770 April.
5,118,893 2,203,544
May.
June.
203,000 141,000
TOTAL
Lbs.
42,000 2,000
48,393,000 46,853,000
3,740,000 3,241,000
379,000
230,000 1,608,000 2,419,000 1,325,000 1,163,000 1,456,000 3,935,000 118,000 125,000 112,000 73,000
46,077,000 44,297,000
39,107,000 37,391,000
2,390,000
2,587,000
423,000 297,000 878,000 1,026,000 529,000 522,000 806,000 435,000 230,000 145,000 110,000 160,000
1,429,254 1,429,254
560,885 | 4,022,382
592,537 1,294,887 9,167,252 51,443,833 TOTAL.
Black
Green
39,644,000 39,513,000
38,092,000 35,243,000
8,749,000 7,340,000
8,585,000 9,054,000
-
33,968,000 32,416,000 5,139,000 4,975,000
The
The tea trade of Canton, 1841-42, was not interrupted by the war which we were waging against the Chinese Government in the north of China, although we had destroyed the forts of the Bocca Tigris in the Canton River 7th January, captured the defences of Canton City. on 19th March, and compelled the city of Canton to capitulate and pay 6,000,000 dollars on the 25th and 30th of May 1841. Amoy was stormed and taken on the 26th August
0
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Trade.
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1841. On 1st October 1841 Tinghe, the capital of Chusan, was captured after an assault of two hours. Ningpoe and Chinhæ were next taken, and during the winters of 1841-42, forcibly retained in our possession. Chapoo, 16th May 1842; Shangai, 19th June 1842; yet during these proceedings 36,799,905 lbs. of tea were shipped from Canton for the United Kingdom, in 29,300 tons of British shipping, divided as equally as in the other seasons over the different months of the year, as shown in the accompanying return printed in the "Friend of China and Hong Kong Gazette, No. 11, No. 17 of 14th July 1842." This return is a complete answer to the erroneous allegation that the possession of Hong Kong by England is essential to a steady prosecution of the tea trade at Canton. Even during the blockade of Canton, and before we had any settlement at Hong Kong, the tea trade. was carried on nearly as extensively as ever, by conveying the tea to the outer anchorages. in the Canton waters in a few ships under Danish and other foreign colours, temporarily used for the purpose.
STATEMENT of the Export of TEA from Canton to the United Kingdom, commencing 1 July 1841, ending
30 June 1842.
5,534 61,210 | 137,669|111,392
Month.
Tons,
Bohea.
Congou.
Caper.
Campoi Hung Souchong. and
Anhoi. Muey.
Pekoe.
Orange
Pekoe.
Sorts,
Black,
Lbs.
July
492
41,545
August
1,380
Lbs. 416,268 609,057
Lbs.
6,974
Lbs.
3,901
Lbs.
Lbs.
Lbs. 2,812 13,490
Lbs.
Lbs.
Lbs. 484,990
6,405 97,897
-
September
2,546
39,9571,290,742
3,703
89,224
11,461 37,257
October
2,902
November
2,868
December
4,228
January
3,718
433,073 1,093,027 2,189,428 110,322 4,623,978 357,411 3,927,007
5,844
37,783
3,158
78,440
20,847
704,449 1,472,344 1,373 1,679,079
16,894 98,642 45,306
16,537
2,631,772
129,620
43,810
38,843
85,083 44,570
5,121,532
121,821
24,537
42,587
81,196
February
2,741
2,903,649
5,819
54,800
4,228
9,842
March
2,425
2,562,769
22,861
$6,536
450
33,180
37,977
April
617
390,947
11,966
9,093
3,669
25,491 51,031 20,028 53,265
May
3,633
3,401,971
12,212 15,747
730
June
1,750
1,098,219 114,205 38,773
29,300
982,306 24,498,061 245,784 635,940
7,958
89,540
59,076 44,932
270,124 530,155 |755,636
53,256109,090 33,917 23,510
457 4,555,016 411 3,004,240 8,848 2,753,650 488,968 $13
3,652,395 1,461,514
11,402
Total Black
- Lbs. 28,009,950
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Between 1st July 1840 and 30th June 1841 there were shipped from Canton for England, black tea, 23,694,159 lbs.; green tea, 4,992,825 lbs.; total, 28,686,984 lbs.; and to the
468
Appendix.
United States, black teas, 1,524,244 lbs.; green teas, 6,030,103 lbs.; total, 7,554,347 lbs. Report on the Te A considerable portion of tea was shipped in the month of May 1841, a few days previous Trade.
to the storming of Canton; and a large portion in June 1841, immediately after the capture and ransom of that city.
The trade in tea, as well as in other articles of different foreign countries with China, will be given under their respective heads; but it may be useful for comparison to examine the importation and consumption of tea in continental Europe at former periods,
The quantity of tea consumed in Europe must formerly have been considerable, as it is stated that the quantity of tea exported from China to Europe in 1666 was 17,000,000 lbs., and that in nine years preceding 1780, there were 118,000,000 lbs. of tea imported into the Continent. The average of teas exported from China to Europe in foreign ships for nine years, viz., from March 1772 to 1780 (says another authority), was 13,191,201 lbs. ; the average number of ships, 12.
In 1785 the importation into the Continent was 19,000,000 lbs.; but in 1796 it had decreased to little more than 2,500,000 lbs. The decline of the tea trade on the Continent will be best seen by the following table, by which it will be perceived that in the latter. period there was a falling off of 97,119,724 lbs.
In 1808-9, &c., I find no account of tea exported from Canton to Europe; the amount having, I suppose, become so small for each country, the names of which are distinguished in this Table. The Americans, as will be seen under the head of "American trade with China,' became the chief carriers of tea and eastern produce during the latter years of our war with France, and this trade they still in some degree possess.
AN ACCOUNT of the Number of Pounds of TEA shipped at Canton on Board Foreign European Ships, viz. Swedish, Danish, Dutch, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Prussian, Austrian, Russian, Hamburgh, Tuscan, &c.
YEARS.
QUANTITY.
YEARS.
QUANTITY.
..
Lbs.
14,630,200
19,072,300
16,651,000
Lbs.
1795
1796
2,759,800
2,515,460
1797
2,714,000
15,715,900
1798
4,319,300
10,165,160
1799
1,577,066
13,578,000
1800
3,968,267
+
10,675,900
1801
185,533
7,174,200
1802
5,812,266
•
2,291,560
1803
1,074,266
1791
+
4,431,730
1804
3,318,799
1792
7,864,800
1805
1,809,466
1793
3,462,800
1806
1,534,267
1794
4,138,930
1807
1,144,266
TOTAL
Lbs.
129,852,480
TOTAL
Lbs.
32,732,756
Hyson.
Young Hyson.
Skin.
Twankay.
Gunpowder,
Imperial.
Green.
TOTAL.
Month.
1782
Lbs.
Lbs.
Lbs.
Lbs.
Lbs.
Lbs.
Lbs.
Lbs.
14,695
18,509
7,968
5,121
3,716
50,009
534,999
July.
1783
98,354
91,621
24,519
621,640
110,954
61,770
1,008,858
1,713,307
August.
584,123
135,452
15,507
467,626
299,818
192,379
1,694,925
1784
3,167,269
September.
294,717
464,507
106,993
398 753
186,404
81,139
1,532,513
3,211,592
October.
1785
160,141
148,605
32,603
329,015
194,032
129,915
994,311
3,626,083
November.
27,091
32,845
53,259
167,310
19,718
117,224
317,447
5,438,979 December
1786
62,011
82,833
14,480
134,910
76,350
37,279
407,863
4,962,899 January.
136,144
30,225
15,316
493,625
40,354
29,832
745,496
3,749,736 February.
1787
190,246
12,623
11,170
87,915
50,924
27,402
380,280
3,133,931
March.
65,412
45,623
24,128
15,662
170,320
659,288
April.
103,792
135,091
45,934
584,561
51,200
73,690
11,131
1,810,436.
1,209,065
327,749
295,819
3,605,305
71,682
1,149,406
40,419
687,907
995,192 402,741
4,647,587 1,954,255
May.
June.
1788
1789
1790
برینی نان
Total Green
Lbs.
8,789,954
TOTAL EXPORT
Lbs. 36,799,905
Black.
Green.
TOTAL.
Lbs.
Lbs.
Lbs.
Export to London
Ditto to Liverpool
Ditto to Cork
21,720,461 3,423,170 1,895,001
1,017,688
29,744,149
622,299
4,045,469
123,499
2,018,497
Ditto to Scotland
965,318
26,472
991,790
TOTAL
28,009,950
8,768,955
36,799,905
Between
Lbs.
Foreign Exportation, the First Period
Ditto
129,852,480
the Second Period
32,732,756
Decrease on 13 Years
-
Lbs.
97,119,724
Of the Portuguese tea trade I have been unable to get any data; the demand is so trifling that we know nothing of the amount, although Macao, their settlement, at the entrance of the Canton River, has long been the residence of the English tea merchants. The following Table exhibits the Dutch tea trade at an early period.
Appendix.
Report on the Tea
Trade.
[ 56 ]
Quantity of TEA exported from Canton by the Dutch, from 1783 to 1808.
YEARS.
QUANTITY.
YEAR 5.
QUANTITY,
C4
Lbs.
Lbs.
1783
1790
1784
5,334,000
1797
1785
4,458,800
1798
1786
5,943,200
1799
1787
5,794,900
1800
1788
4,179,600
1801
1789
5,106,900
1802
205,333
1790
1,328,500
1803
1791
2,051,330
1804
1792
2,938,530
1805
1793
2,417,200
1800
1794
4,096,800
1807
1,144,266
1795
1808
TOTAL
Lbs.
43,649,760
TOTAL
Lbs.
1,449,599
Exportation, First Period
Ditto
Last Period
-
Lbs.
43,649,760
1,449,599
Lbs.
42,200,161
469
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By comparing the first three years with the last three years of the Dutch trade, the decrease will be found to amount to 122,834 quarter chests; and in 1830 there were no ships sent to China.
The Dutch consul, in an address to the Governor of Canton in 1829, when there were the following ships in China; the "Peter and Karl," 300 tons; the "Teemanshop;'
Charlotte," of 150 tons; and the "Experiment," of 188 tons, trading to Java;
the while so long ago as 1747 there were six large Dutch vessels at Canton, and in 1789 there were five, all of large burthen, says, "For many years the trade of Holland with the empire of China was considerable; many ships annually came, bringing goods from Holland or its colonies ; but the principal object was always to purchase cargoes, entirely the productions of China ; and I am happy to say that no difficulties have ever existed between the two countries. Formerly our connexion was advantageous to both parties, but since the expenses and the duties which are demanded on our ships and our merchandize, whether imports or exports, have considerably increased, the cohong has not preserved the merchants which the govern- ment had fixed, from whence it results that commerce has become limited, and its advantages less, and insensibly that of Holland has so much diminished that it has become almost nothing."
The Dutch are now trying to cultivate tea in Java, and the produce this year 1844-45 is about 75,000lbs., and 1846, 992,500 lbs. ; but it is of inferior quality, and grown and manu- factured at considerable expense.
Denmark next presents itself to observation, as the Danes have been consumers of tea since the commencement of the last century; at one time, as the annexed Table will show, they exported a large quantity of tea from Canton. The duty is extremely low, viz.: two per cent, ad valorem, and the sale price, according to Mr. Consul Fenwick's report, dated Elsinore, December 1828, was for Bohea 20d., Congo 28 d. to 30 d., and Souchong 30 d. to 32d. per lb. Here also we do not find the consumption to have at all increased, but the very contrary.
QUANTITY of TEA shipped at Canton by the Danes*.
Appendix.
Report on the Tea Trade.
Decreased Exportation
After the restoration of the house of Nassau in 1815, a Dutch company was formed to carry on the tea trade; the royal proclamation announcing that it was to "prevent the trade falling into the hands of foreigners." In 1817 the company was dissolved, and the Americans and Dutch entered freely into competition for the supply of the Hollanders and Belgians with tea, "the duties (as Mr. Masterson, the vice-consul at Rotterdam, says) being so low, that the importations by Dutch and foreign flags is only about an English penny on the lower prices, and on the higher prices nothing." Mr. Masterson delivered in to the House of Commons the following Table, which demonstrates, although there was the greatest com- petition, the greatest abundance, and the lowest possible price (lower even, sometimes, than it could be bought at Canton), yet the consumption of tea did not increase, although according to theory it ought to have done so. Let it be remembered that this trade has not only been carried on without profit, but at considerable loss; that of the Dutch being 2,000,000 of florins within four years.
TEA TRADE to the Netherlands.*
YEARS.
QUANTITY.
YEARS,
QUANTITY.
1767
Lbs. 3,010,286
Lbs.
1787
2,664,000
1768
1,430,874
1788
2,496,800
1769
1,449,306
1789
1,773,000
1770
2,800,482
1790
520,000
1771
2,750,164
1791
1772
2,990,600
1792
--
832,000
1773
8,867,300
1793
1774
3,237,300
1794
24,670
1775
2,833,700
1795
1776
2,487,300
1796
1777
2,098,300
1797
2,504,400 1,307,800
1778
QUANTITY
QUANTITY
QUANTITY
QUANTITY
1,388,400
1798
2,910,900
YEARS.
YEARS.
1779
BY AMERICANS.
BY THE DUTCH.
BY AMERICANS.
BY THE DUTCH.
3,983,600
1799
1,132,266
1780
2,341,400
1800
1781
4,118,500
1801
1818
Lbs. 8,508,164
Qr. Chests,+
Lbs.
Qr. Chests.
1782
5,477,200
1802
90,535
1824
1,409,992
13,023
1783
3,204,000
1803
1819
3,496,746
59,929
1825
2,036,760
37,224
1784
3,158,000
1804
963,467 185,533 1,380,266
966,133
1820
3,322,638
73,372
1826
528,264
45,768
1785
4,578,100
1805
1,739,866
1821
721,644
17,213
1827
294,030
28,038
1786
2,092,000
1806
1822
1,256,442
28,024
1828
1,111,308
46,672
1823
1,730,872
26,192
1829
353,628
26,392
Total
Lbs. 64,305,812
Total
Lbs. 21,421,101
TOTAL
14,036,506
295,265
TOTAL
4,733,982
197,117
Exportation of First Period
Dutch:
Ditto, Last Period
Lbs. 64,305,812 21,421,101
First Period's Importation Last
W
ditto
Decrease
Lbs. 42,884,711
Americans:
-
ditto
First Period's Importation Last
Qr. Chests. 295,265 197,117
Decrease
Qr. Chests
98,148
Lbs. 14,036,506 4,733,982
Decrease
Lbs.
9,802,524
† A quarter chest contains 60 lbs. English.
By
* House of Commons Report, page 448.
In April 1825 the stock of teas of different kinds on hand in Denmark was - In 1827 there was a direct supply of
Lbs. 484,000
717,000
Total
-
-
Lbs.
1,201,000
In
Macpherson's Commerce of India.
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470
Appendix.
Report on the Tea Trade.
In September 1828, after the sale which supplied the market until thel
ensuing spring, there were on hand
The consumption, therefore, for four years was Or yearly
Lbs.
he}
685,000
516,000
129,000
There was, consequently, in 1828 sufficient tea in Denmark for nearly five years' con- sumption. It is a marked indication of the indispensable necessity of carefully attending to the importation of a foreign, and indeed an artificial article, such as that of tea, that in some countries in Europe the use of the tea was formerly considerable, even when its price. was great and the difficulty in procuring it enhanced; but now, when freight, insurance, &c. is low, and tea exceedingly cheap, that the importation is so extraordinarily lessened. Sweden offers a confirmation of this remark, as the following Table demonstrates; at present, I believe, there is very little tea imported.
The Swedes perhaps thought as the poet did in the two concluding lines of the following extract from the "Dessert,"
Dessert," a poem published in 1819:
Enlivening, mild, and sociable tea !
Scandal compelling Green, Pekoe, Bohea; Without thee once Philosophy could write,
And Wisdom's page the moral pen indite;
Without thee Thamosthetes their laws enacted;
Without thee thought, and taught, and dreamt, and acted :
With this celestial gift, how strange that we
Should neither better eat, nor drink, nor think, nor see."
QUANTITY OF TEA Exported from Canton by the Swedes.
observed that there is no government duty to enhance the cost, and the prices given by the
consul are for Hyson Skin 2s. per lb., and for Souchong 2s. 9 d.
Appendix.
"The consumption of tea in this government is so insignificant as to warrant the assertion, Report on the Tea that it is scarcely to be considered as an object of trade. It is used more as a medicine Trade. than as a necessary article of subsistence, or an agreeable beverage, except by the English families here resident, and a few others in the higher circles.
"The importation in British vessels is limited to small parcels brought by masters of ships, and I am credibly informed has not amounted to 1,000 lbs. during the last nine years, the period I have been in office. A more considerable quantity (about 3,000lbs.) was imported some years ago in an American ship, and left in commission with an English house here; but the greater part, notwithstanding the extreme lowness of the prices, still remains unsold, and I am assured that it is very doubtful whether wholesale buyers could be found for it at a reduction of 30 per cent.
"In the city and liberties of Trieste, which is a free port, and also in Istria, as being beyond the line of customhouses, there are no duties on tea or any other articles of merchandize. There was, indeed, till lately, a duty of one half per cent. ad valorem, which has now ceased, the object for which it was levied, viz. to pay the debts contracted by the municipality during the war, being accomplished "
The consul at Leghorn states that the consumption of tea in Tuscany is chiefly confined to foreigners who reside in Florence and Leghorn, the natives only using it medicinally. In Genoa the consumption is a few hundred pounds weight. In Mr. Money the consul-general's return, I find the following statement of the total importation into the Austrian ports of the Adriatic +.
TOWNS.
YEARS.
QUANTITY.
YEARS.
Venice Trieste
-
QUANTITY.
Lbs.
1767
3,066,143
1787
1768
3,186,220
1788
Lbs. 2,890,900 2,589,000
1769
1,494,509
1789
1770
3,076,642
1790
1771
2,984,361
1791
1772
2,746,800
1792
1,591,330 1,559,730
1773
1,489,700
1793
756,130
1774
4,088,100
1794
1775
2,562,500
1795
2,759,800
1776
3,049,100
1796
1777
2,851,200
1797
1,406,200
1778
3,258,000
1798
-
1,408,400
1779
2,626,400
1799
444,800
•
· 1780
4,108,900
1800
2,022,400
1781
3,267,300
1801
1782
4,265,600
1802
1783
4,878,900
1803
1784
1804
1,427,067
2,852,666
1785
6,212,400
1805
1786
1,747,700
1806
-
Total
Lbs.
60,960,475
Total
-
Lbs.
21,208,423
Fiume Ragusa
QUANTITIES OF TEA IMPORTED.
Have not averaged more than two cwt. per annum in the last 10 years. About five cwt. per annum, being little in use except by British resi-
dents.
Do not exceed from 100 to 150 lbs. per year.
Very inconsiderable.
In the foregoing mentioned States tea is cheap; there are little or no duties. From Palermo the consul-general writes, "The consumption of tea in the island of Sicily is very trifling, about 20 chests per annum; the Sicilians seldom make use of it, except in illness. as a medicine, and that of a very inferior quality; it is chiefly imported from the United States of America."
In the kingdom of Naples, it appears from the two years' returns forwarded by the con- sul-general, there has been a decrease :-
In 1826
In 1827
Decrease
Lbs.
5,961
3,419
Lbs.
2,542
The following is a return of the quantity of tea exported from Canton, by the Prussians, at the end of the last and beginning of the present century:--
In 1783
1787
1791
-
1800
-
1802
-
1803
Lbs.
3,329,800
499,300
5,070
802,400
1,756,000
1,073,733
Exportation of First Period Ditto,
ditto, Last Period
Lbs. 60,960,475
21,208,423
Decrease
Lbs.
39,752,052
Trieste presents a still more conclusive fact. During the latter part of the last century there was comparatively a large importation of tea into Trieste from Canton, as follows:
In 1779
JI
1780
**
1782
1783
"J
1792
"
Lbs. 1,375,900
317,700
933,300
3,428,400
393,870
After 1803 there is no further regular account of exportations, and I only find casual shipments, decreasing in quantity. In 1829, the consul-general at Dantzic regrets it is not in his power to get any information of the tea trade there, or in Berlin; that "in fact there is no wholesale trade in teas."
At Frankfort, the consul-general observes, "The quantity of tea cannot exactly be ascer tained, as no consumption duty is levied, 10d. per cwt, not deserving that denomination."
Cwts. In 1817 the consumption was In 1826
ditto
380
112+
Decrease
Cwts.
268
The
The following letter from the British Consul at Trieste, in 1828, to the Foreign Depart- ment, relates to the consumption of tea there, and shows the effect of American speculation, to the extent of 3,000 lbs., some years ago, which still remain unsold. Let it be also observed
* Consular Returns, House of Lords' Select Committee, Appendix (B.), p. 1259.
+ Select Committee, House of Lords, Appendix (B.), p. 1245.
The only two years given in the Consular Return.
Appendix.
Report on the Tea
Trade.
[ 60 ]
The consul thinks that about 1 cwt. of tea is consumed by a population of 70,000 inhabitants in Frankfort; but he adds, "This valuation cannot serve as a general basis for Germany, as in some parts of it no tea is drunk,' and in others very little, the people being in the habit of drinking coffee for breakfast, and beer or wine at other meals."
It might be supposed that the temperament of the French nation would have made them extensive consumers of tea. Formerly the taste in this particular was improving and extending; and at one time tea found its best market in France. The decline will be best seen by the following statement :-
EXPORTATION of TEA by the French, from Canton, from 1782 to 1807.
From 1824
1825
1826
18 27
[61]
RUSSIAN IMPORTATION OF TEA.
YEARS.
QUANTITY.
VALUE.
YEARS.
QUANTITY,
YEARS.
Lbs.
1782
1795
1783
4,231,200
1796
1784
4,960,000
1797
1785
466,600
1798
Poods.
Roubles.
154,197
6,260,429
133,514
4,807,049
130,562
5,675,992
161,958
6,719,166
QUANTITY,
Total Poods
580,231
Lbs.
Of which exported during four years
3,843
23,462,636
7,75,730
Thus leaving Poods
576,388
22,686,906
1786
382,260
1799
1787
1,728,900
1800
1788
292,100
1801
1789
294,300
1802
353,333
1790
442,100
1803
On an average 144,097 poods, of the value of 5,671,726 roubles; or in English weight and money, 5,187,496 lbs.; value 248,3467.
1791
784,000
1804
1792
1,540,670
1805
1793
1806
1794
1807
The trade of Russia with China through Kiachta will be found under its proper head in the section of foreign commerce.
TOTAL
Lbs.
15,122,130
TOTAL
-
Lbs.
353,333
Exports, first period
Lbs. 15,122,130
Ditto last period
353,333
Decrease
Lbs.
14,768,797
At a later period we do not find that peace, and the increasing prosperity of the people, induced them to drink tea extensively, although the duties on importation scarcely differed on a foreign or native ship, viz. about 2d. per pound. In the following years the importa- tion was almost stationary, although a large portion was for re-exportation:--
In 1820
1821
1822
- 1823
1824
-
1844
TEA IMPORTED INTO FRANCE:
-
Kilogrammes.
83,366
79,144
-
83,597
-
70,057
89,030
The average annual consumption of Chinese tea in different countries, as nearly as can be ascertained, is now thus:-
Great Britain and Ireland -
British North America and West Indies Australasia, Cape of Good Hope, &c. British India, &c.
Total in the British Empire
United States of North America Russia
France and Colonies -
Hanse Towns, &c.
Lbs. 45,000,000
2,500,000
2,500,000
2,000,000
Lbs. 52,000,000
7,000,000 10,000,000
500,000
150,000
Holland and its Colonies
1,000,000
Belgium
-
200,000
Denmark, Sweden, and Norway
250,000
The German States -
500,000
Spain and Portugal
100,000
Italian States -
50,000
South American States
500,000
Eastern Islands, &c.
250,000
Total consumption in foreign countries
-
Lbs. 20,250,000
[For the present trade of France with China, see Section. China, in published Report.]
of Foreign Commerce with
The consul at Bremen states that the consumption of tea is inconsiderable, occupying a small portion of ship room.
At Lubeck "there is no wholesale trade in tea, and but a very irregular one in the retail. line."-(Consul's Report.)
The commerce of Russia with China, as I observed previously, is involved in obscurity. Sir Daniel Bayley, the consul-general at St. Petersburgh, in his despatch to government, 18th December 1828, says, "From the most authentic sources of information I have had access to, it appears that the importation of tea into the Russian Empire has been ast follows:"
A kilogramme is 15,434 grains avoirdupois.
RUSSIAN
Thus the English consume twice the quantity of tea that is consumed by all the other countries in the world, excepting China and Japan.
It may be useful to compare the price of tea in England with its price at different places on the continents of Europe and America. The accompanying Table is prepared chiefly from the consular returns called for by his Majesty's Government at the termination of the East India Company's charter in 1832. It should be remarked, however, that unless the qualities of the teas quoted were known, the price is a fallacious criterion. In some of the consular returns a lower price is quoted for Souchong and other teas than the most worth- less rubbish of Bohea or Congou would cost at Canton. (See Table, pp. 62, 63.)
It will be seen, on referring generally to the Canton Price Currents, that the cost price of tea has increased in Canton since the abolition of the East India Company. The an- nexed comparison for January 1832 and December 1844, is an illustration of the remark. The prices in both these years were higher than ordinary, especially in 1844, and not until February and March 1845 did prices fall sufficiently to allow of a profitable exporta-
tion.
Q
471
Appendix.
Report on the Tea Trade.
Appendix.
Report on the Tea
Trade.
[ 62 ]
CANTON PRICE CURRENT.
[ 63 ]
Bohea
2d January 1832. East India Company's Purchases:
taels picul 13 a. 15
Congo
24 a. 28
Bohea Congo, old
6th December 1844. Public Merchants' Purchases:
per picul 10 a. 17
10 a. 15
Campoi
Souchong Pekoe Twankay
-
Hyson Skin
18 a. 28
Hyson Gunpowder
42 a. 58
51 a. 61
Hyson
Gunpowder, Imperial
19 a. 34
52 a. 60
22 a. 28
Ditto, new Caper Souchong Pekoe Twankay - Hyson Skin
30 d.
44
16 a. 21
PRICES at the Public Tea Sale, London, 27th July 1844.
GREEN TEAS.
COUNTRIES.
GUNPOWDER.
HYSON.
YOUNG HYSON.] HYSON SKIN.
TWANKAY.
13 a. 54
England Russia -
New York New Orleans France Portugal Holland
26 a.
90
30 a. 38
22 a. 36
20 a. 80
20 a. 70
Bremen Hamburgh
s. d.
Dantzig Frankfort
Denmark
Roman States
Lubeck
Trieste Leghorn
-
Per lb. 5s. 6d, 14/7 a. 38/10 3/6 a. 4/2
-
Per lb. 38. 6d. 11 a. 8
Per lb. 2s. 34d. 9 a. 8
2/7 a. 3/8
52.
2
3 a. 10
5/6 a. 5/10
5/0 a. 5/1
5/5 a. 5/7
4/0 a. 5/10
4/5 a. 5/0
none -
7/8 a. 9/8 13/4 a. 1/50
2/8 a. 3/6 2/10 a. 3/0 2/11 a. 4/2 3/10 a. 4/10
8/4 a. 9/2 4/0 a. 4/1 4/9 3/0 a. 5, 3 3/4 2/2 a. 2/8
2/5 a. 3/5 3/8
3/4 a. 3/6
-
1/5 a. 2/6
none
none
-
-
6/8 a. 7/6
none
none
-
1/10 a. 3/0
none
-
י
Per lb. 28. 1d. 7/9 1/10 a. 2/8 2/7 a. 2/10
2/10 2/11 a. 3/4
2/6 a. 2/8 1/2 a. 1/5 1/2 a. 1/10
none
-
3/9 a. 6/8
none
-
none
*
1/4 a. 2/5
none
+
Per lb. 2s. 2 d. 6/9
none.
2/10 a. 2/11 2/6 a. 2/8
2/0 a. 2/2
1/5 a. 1/10
none.
2/1 a. 4/2
none.
none.
1/8 a. 2/1
none.
none
8/7 3/7 a. 6/0
5/0 3/1 a. 3/7
6/0
7/4
2/8
2/2 a. '720.
1/10
1/4 a. *466
1/4 a. '000
REMARKS.
d.
Congou
per lb.
-
Ditto
10 1 10
Ditto
11 }}
Ditto
]
4
Average price per lb.
1 3}
Ditto
1 84
Ditto
1 10
Souchong
1 3
ditto
ditto
A
2
Ditto
2 23
Pekoe
3
-
ditto
ditto
3 1
Ditto
3
1
Twankay
Ditto
1 2
ditto
ditto
1
21
1
-
211
Hyson Skin
1
ditto
-
ditto
1 6
Hyson
2 10
ditto
ditto
2 10
Gunpowder
3 1
-
ditto
ditto
3 1
Ditto
2
Average Price
per
lb.
I
Estimating the cost price in China
The charges there, freight, &c.
Profit to merchants exporting
Charges in London
There remains charges and profit for salesmen, &c.
-
I
3
5
2 2
SALE PRICE OF TEA in England and on the Continents of Europe and America, according to the Consular Returns, and the Continental Price Currents about that Period; reduced to Sterling Money by Dr. Kelly's "Cambist," and by the most respectable mercantile houses.
Holland
COUNTRIES.
PEKOE.
Per lb.
33.
7/1 a 10/5
5/10 a. 6/0
4/7 a. 7/0
BLACK TEAS.
BOUCHONG.
Per lb.
28. 7 d.
-
COMPOI.
Per lb.
-
CONGOU.
England
Russia -
New York
New Orleans
France
Portugal
21/4 a. 29/214/7 a. 17/6 none used
1/8 a. 2/2 2 a. 4
3/4 a. 8/4
3/11 a. 4/8 3/4 a. 3/6
2/6 a. 3/5
-
a. 10/11 1/4 a. 2/0
7/8 a. 13/6
2/6 a. 2/8 4/0
1/1 a. 3/0 2/9
1/9 a. 2/2
2 s. 3 d. 11/8 a. 12/7
none
2/6 a. 2/8
1/11 a. 2/6
Per lb. 28. d. td. 8/9 a. 9/8
-
1/5 a. 1/7 1/4 a. 1/7
2/6 a. 34 2/5 a. 2/8
1/6 a. 2/1
1/8 a. 2/0 1/6
1/0 a. 1/1
BOHEA.
Per lb.
none
1 s. 6 d. 5/10 a. 6/9 1/5 a. 1/6
1/8 a. 1/11
3/2
none.
2/1 a. 2/3
2/0 a. 2/3
1/4 a. 1/8
8/4
1/2 a. 1/3
Dantzig
2/6 a. 3/4
none.
Frankfort
5/0 a. 10/0
2/1 a. 3/0
Denmark
none used
-
Roman States
L
6/4
2/4 a. 2/6 4/0
1/8
3/4
Lubeck
1/2 a. 1/10
none.
Trieste
lione
-
none.
Leghorn
Sicily
4/0
Naples -
6/8
Canton
2/2 a.
3921/1
a. 922
1/7 a. 738
1/4 a. 130
0/9 a.
666
Bremen
Hamburgh
4/10 a. 10/6
none
none
-
none
4
none
-
3/4 a. 4/8
none
←
none
1/1 a. 1/3
Sicily Naples Canton
England. -Average prices at which 30,483,552 lbs. of tea were offered for, and sold at the India House, in all 1831, of which 18,83,000 lbs. were put up without any fixed price; and besides which, 16,46,980 lbs. were refused by the brokers as too large a supply for the market.
Russia.--Consular Return. The duty on black tea, from 1s. 9 d. to 1s. 11d. per lb., and on green from 1s. 5d. to 1s. 6d. is included. I have taken the descending scale of prices.
New York.-Exclusive of the duty, New York Price Current, January 1832. The Souchong, so called, is mere Congo. Portions of some cargoes unsaleable, by reason of their being "several years imported.'
13
New Orleans.-Exclusive of the duty. New Orleans Price Current for February 1832, in which it is constant remark," Sales small and scarce."
France. From Prix Courant sur la place de Paris, 18th April 1832. A gentleman in Paris has particularly inquired the retail price of tea throughout France, and states it to be from 5s. to 25 s. per lb.
Portugal.-From Holha Mercantil do Porto Lisbon, 7th April 1832. The duty on tea is 1 per cent. ad valorem.
Holland. These are the high and low Amsterdam and Rotterdam prices for May 1832, by the 100 chests or cargo; the duty is only seven florins per 100 kilogrammes for Bohea, and 12 florins per 100 kilogrammes for all other descriptions.
Bremen.-Bremen, 1st May 1832. Furnished me from Messrs. Reid, Irving & Co.
Hamburgh. The duty is almost nominal, not worth calculation. From the Borsen Halle Hamburgsch abend Qeitung, 20th April 1832.
Dantzig.There is no wholesale trade. Duty for consumption, 31 d. per lb. Consular Re-
turn.
Frankfort.-The government duty is only 10d. per cwt. I have given a descending scale of prices from the Consular Returns to Parliament. Denmark.-Duty two per cent. ad valorem. years' stock in hand. The Consul remarks, that
44
These prices were given when there was 10
other teas are proportionally higher."
Roman States-Duty per lb. 11 d., of which one-third is allowed as a drawback on exporting articles in lieu of tea, the produce of the States. Consular Returns.
Lubeck.-Duty one-half per cent, ad valorem. Consular Returns.
At Trieste there is no duty, and at Leghorn it is nominal. The teas, although denominated Souchong and Hyson, are in reality inferior Congous and Ilyson Skin, which may be bought for 9 d. a lb. at Canton. The Consul reports, that 3,000 lbs. left by an American vessel, "some years still remains unsold, and it would be sold at 30 per cent. reduction if buyers could be found ago, for it. Just so it is at Hamburgh and other places, where nominal prices are quoted, but where it would be difficult to find buyers at even half the price named. At Sicily, although the price is 4 s. to 6s., the Consul says the tea is "of a very interior quality." The duty is 18. per lb. at Sicily, and 8d. per lb. at Naples.
Canton. Prime cost at Canton of the teas exported to England by the East India Company,
1830-31.
472
Appendix.
Report on the Tea Trade.
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473
Appendix
Trade.
The territory in which the large amount of tea consumed in Europe and America is grown is south of the Great Yan-tze-Keang river; the whole region lying between the 27th Report on the Tea and 31st degrees of north latitude, and from the sea coast inland for 500 to 600 miles, may be considered capable of producing tea; but the most favoured region is the generally sterile hilly province of Fokien, and the provinces of Keangsoo and Chekeang, between the 25th and 31st degrees of north latitude. This territory, which extends over 350 to 400 square miles, is composed principally of the debris of a coarse granite, and of a ferruginous sandstone, crumbling into decay; but when well comminuted and irrigated, yielding suffi- cient nutriment for the hardy tea plant (a camellia), whose qualities, like that of the vine, are elicited by the nature of the soil, the elevation, the climate, and the solar aspect to which the shrub is subjected *.
It is generally stated that green and black teas are produced from the shrubs of the same species, with a slight variety; the leaf of the green being larger and broader than that of the black; the former leaf is rounded, the latter elliptic, flatter, and more coriaceous.
The cultivation in different soils, the picking of the lea