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My Lord,
Hong rons
RECEIVED
OCT:
22
Freteria, Honghong
4th August, 1849.
I have the hover to
Report to Your Sendship that it having been brought to my
notice that Mr Frotter, the
Closk to the Chief Justice, had
been absent
from
the Color
without consent
my con
of
Colony
1 for a perice 2 months and 21 days.
caused a letter to be addressed
to Mr Aulive on the
that he might offer
such
subject,
might
explanation thereon as enable me to decide if Wr
The Right Honuable
The Earl Grey
Jo
Ac
3 '
Trotter
or
AVAI
entitled to the whole
r any part of his salary during
lis absence; and the casiest
plan to enable Your Ferdship
to understand the
care
business,
no notice
but as
I should have taken
the circe of
stance;
Mr Trower's absence
exceeded that limit by 39 A consider it my duty.
I
appears
days,
Report
ot the
cirec
to be for Correspondence that has passed between the Chief Justice and myself on the subject.
me to enclove the
2.
From the general spirit
of the Colonial Regulations I
infer
that
1
21.0
Civil Officer of
this Government can properly leave the Colony without my
sanction; nevertheless, had
Mr Trotter's absence mot
exceeded 6 weeks, the period.
allowed
еко
eneral
vacation in each
to
stance in.
IV,
of the
conformity with Chapter 18, Section 1. Paragraphe 11. of bolonial Regulations, page 3
3.
observe that under the
2.8.
Your Sendship will
of the Chief
explanation of
Justice, I have, subject to Your Lordship's approval,
Sanctioned the whole of M = Frotter's salary being paid to hime. - Jame by
satisfied that I have acted
beet
doing; all that has passed,
correctly
in
20
from
after
year you the purpose of relaxation
Jam
desirous of
· particularly avoiding all questions that
possibly lead to
Ca
understandin
landing
Clicef Justice Department.
4.
part
ofer
or
Leis.
any ath
with the
From the omeluding
Mr. Hulme's letter.
it seems that he considers
that he can
a give
lis Clerk
leave for any period that he
fit, without
any Reference
to
sec
the Governor. To this Sunst
havever beg
beyond
beg to diesent,
is clear be
it
ond d all doubt
from the wording of Chief Justice's Commi
the
lice's Commission
L
that he himself cannot quit the Colony without the
Sanction of the Governer,
and
N. 2.
I can scarcely
concciar
cive
that.
4
on general principles be can impart that power to another, which he does not himself
-or
that the Judge's
possess,
Clerk should my
and
any
5.
mities.
not accorded to
· privileges other Junctionary
Under this explanation
I leave the matter in
your
Lordship's hands, respectfully
observing that should your Lordship be pleased to
consider that I have taken
correct view
of the
Case
the easiest ofplan to put the matter at Eest will be for-
Your Lordship le divvet...
Civil officers of
that in no case
this
acy
יד ד זן -
י
Severnment to quit the Colony without the sanction of the Governor ; and this appears to
to be consistent not only
with the
Spirit but
it but also with
the letter
of
the
printed Copy of
the Colmial Regulations
6.
In conclusion I beg
to annex copy of a Notification issued by
Predecessor
18441
13 July.
the 13
s in
Government employ quitting against persons
the Colony
which
No 55
Was
without leave,
approved by
Sord Stanley's Despatche
of 11 November, 184141.;- and the question there fore
whether the chief Justice " Clerk is to be a solitary-
is
s
8.3.
:
tion to the
to the Rule,
exception
į
5
I have the hover lobe,
With the highest respect,
Serdship's
Your
Most Obedient
Humble Servant,
ZA DE
:
The Earl Grey.
Governor Bonham, 4th August 18,9 Victona, Hongkong,
Received
3 Inclosures.
No76.
or sanction; and and 21 days, without the Governor's
Clerk from the Colony, for 2 months
Reporting absence of Chief Justice's
Knowledge
applying for instructions on the
subject,
as well as on
the
thus absent.
for the time he had been
the full Salary of the Office
propriety of paying Mr Frotter
Mr. Merimle. As Mr. Trotter fell sick, s was un I presume d'ors Grey will sanction
him full sala ce a hilst absent beyond.
I can myself.
Sex 720
differently from
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mattle to return in proper time qvernor's conduit in opantin Exce.
reason why the judge's tack should be treated other public Officer, I think hand Roy
sintended absence from duty might to be reported
the que me ju
his approval. AM. in
aree Hm out ?;
40
3;
Zas valy says that I innet" the pageant fall jelly to Mr Jattin her Frotter wan virectly I consider
indulgence
lim it rave no
repth it.
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Ento
Bonham. C.B.
No 157 197 Hering Harny
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I have the horn to acknowledge
the receipt of
6. of the 45 of Angish bith,
your Despatch
476.
en derece
enclosing a corespon
beliveen
self and
ler Helme
Mer
on the
sutgich of
his
Trotters absence from
Ineviously
dut is without
Able Attained
Your Promiserin...
Se agree
with
you
Thak
refer, applies
Regulations to which the Book of Colonial
the rule laid down in
with equal
6
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1
3
I
force to the Clerk to the
Chief Justice as to any
other Jublic Offices; and
I have therefore to enstruch
Jon
to reform der Hulme
thick allber
although
I have not
pelend
in this restance, considdend
it neissary to withhold my assent to the afore of whole Salary to Men
Frotter, during the period
of his absence, Ican only regavel it in the
light of
indulgence, and noh
иб
as a
-payment to which
he is
strictly
evlitted.
Hove
:
Kopy.
8 223.
Sir;
Celonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Honghongs
3rd August, 18419.
Iam directed by Hie
7
Excellency the Governer to fervaret
for your information copy of a
from
the Colonial Treasurer,
which, and other
that Mr. Trotter.
been absent
from
letter
frome
it appeare
Clerk, has
• your
the Colony for
period of live months and
twenty one
days. By the Colonial Regulations
officer
in the tublic Service is
six
permitted to be absent beyond
weeks without losing a moiety
The Honble: John Walter Stiline, Engre
Chief Justice,
te.
Jo
Je
1
2
of his Salary ; before therefore, deciding
the
Case
of
to be taken in the
Mr Trotter, His Excellency
is desirous of receiving from your. self any explanation of the
circumstance that
ofit to offer.
that you may see
His Excellency
directs me
to add that he conceives that
Mr Trotter be
the Colony
vas
not in
being
absent at all
at all from
with the
without his knowledge
carformity Regulations supplied to line from the Colonial-office, which distinctly require the Governor,
£ 400, to report under a penalty of L'het, to
all cases of absence creceding.
weeks,
for
the
confirmation of
Fix
the
Right Hoverable The Storetary of
State.
I have, &e.
(Signed) W. Caine,
Colonial Secretary
Copy
N121.
8
Colonial Treasury,
Victoria, HongKong
August 10t 1849.
¿
Siv
Sir,
I have the hour lo
the information of
enclose for
His Excellency The Governor
the salary abstract of the
Department,
Judicial
for
the
..
past month, with the Cocument
annexed in support thereof.
More
Mr Trotter
was absent
than the time allowed to
ent serven
t servant, and
any Governmen the Colarial Regulations
to
to Require most strictly
The Honorable,
Majer W. Caine,
Colonial Secretary.)
į
4
of the
the Gevemer's sanction absence from the Colony of any
person whatsoever in the Publie
Service, I will be obliged by your intimating to me whether His Excellency will be pleased to authorize payment of the
ov
disallar the
the sun which
is heve
lair
insed
for.
Mr Trotter.
I will be further obliged by
your Returning
earliest
papers
to
corevenience
af
& your
thee live
which accompany this.
I have, &e.
Y.
(Signed) W. S. Mercer,
Colonial Treasurer.
Copy
Siv
9
Victoria, Hougthings
August 20th 1849.
I have the lover to
acknowledge the Receipt of
your
letter
of
this
day's
s date,
and to state for the informatio
His Excellency the Govern
He obtained
that Mr Frotter obtained
permie
my
this Colony
sion to leave theis thee 5th
for shanghae
intending
of May
to Return in, about a
the, but unfortunately his
Return was
the 24th
prétracted until
of
last month in -
криеме споре
consequence of a allack of
illness.
The Honorable
The Colonial Secretary.
fe,
Ae,
Viewing
Mr. Frotter
0.0
་།
private Clerk an considering that I alone could suffer by his absence I certainly deemed it innecessary to report such
to His Excellen
absence to His
Excellency:
beet
if I have been in error in this Respect I regret it, and will
take care that it does not occur
in
theat His
does not call in
future, seeing Excellency question
leave of
my right to grant the
absence.
I have, &c. (Signed) John Waller Hulme,
Chief Justice.
Copy
N. 225.
I
Sir,
10
Colonial Secretary's officer Victoria, Houghings
3. August 1849.
I have the honor to
acknowledge your Reply of
yesterday to my
letter
date.
us
the came
Under the circumstances
vis
therein explained His Excellency The Governor willing to sanction the payment of Mr. Trotter's salary in full during the whole period of live absence subject of course to the approval of the Secretary of state.
The Honble:
же
John W. Hulme, Cat
Chief Justice,
Je,
Je.
i
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8.
His
Excellency however feele called upon to observe that the
tublic Service did actu
actually
suffer by Mr. Trotter's late.
absence, and that be cau
admit that Mr. Trottersé
singular position can place
lim
be
beyond
all control of the
Governor whose sanction is
the issue
of
lis
that
{
necessary for Salary and who in
e giving
sanction must be bound by Colonial Régulations;
His Excellency allow that that
Live Mr. Frotter
position can give
a
greater advantages than those
Servants
the highest serv
enjoyed by the
of the Crown in the bo
bolony.
His Excellency considers
that it will be
necessary
inasmuch the sanction of
is at variance
ut is
11
witte
this payment the Cxpress Rules of the
Rules of the service,
letter of
as observed in
yesterday,
very that Copies
this
Correspondence be sent home in order that the points
be satisfactivity settled.
have, te,
preay
(Signed) Maine,
kolmial Scorelary.
( True Copies)
Colonial Secretary.
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the Colony..
Trotter's absence from with regard to Mr
and Chief Justice Hulme,
between Governor Bonham Correspondence passed
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and 3rd August, 1849.
Copy.
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" Victoria, by the Grace of God of the thited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Incen Defender of the Faille,
To Our trusty and well beloved John Walter Atulive, &quire, Greetings
We lakie
Now, know
you
theat
laking inti consideration
your Soyally Integrity and Ability of our especial Grace, certain knowledge, and motion have thought fit
to
constitute and appoint and do -horoby constitute and appoint
the said John Walter- Hulme, Esquire, to be our Chief Justice
Colony of
you
stice in our
Shugning ane it's Dependencies
To have, Aield,
exerciss
J
No 76 of 1849.
Inclosure No. 1 in Besp
mjoy.
the said office and Place during our pleasure with all
сетей
the Nights, Profits, Privileges. advantages thereunte belonging rappertaining Provided alway
the said John
that
you
Walter Hulme, Esquire, do actually reside within our-
" said Colony and do not quit the
same without the previous
permission
qo
of our Governer of
of such person
Our said Colony or of such,
may for
the time
being
be
abarged with the Government
thereef,
and also that
you
execute the said office in your own person except in case of
ther incr
or other
sickness or
incapacity, and do in all other matters and things
the duties thereof in a performe discreet and orderly
Ie testimony whereof
14
we
have caused these Our Setters
to be made Tatent and to be
Seated with the Public Seal of Our Colony aforesaid.
Witness our trusty
trusty
and well beloved John Francis Davis, Esquire,
Ører
+ Governor and Commander
in Chief of Over Colony of Hongkong, at Goverment
House - Victoria in Houghing Liquid) I. J. Davis.
aforesaid this Eighthe day of fine in the 7th year of
Over
Reign and in the
Year of ther Serd, 1844.
By Warrant under Her Majesty's Signet and Sign Manual.
(TrueCopy) Signed) Frederick W. 4.73 m
Coloural Deretary,
rue
L. S.
!
Copy of
"Mr Hulme Chief Justice
under the Public Sear the Colony, appointing
Letters Patent
of Hongkong,
8th June, 1874.
Copy
in
Government Notification
ne
Justances having the knowledge of
to
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15
Government of Individuals,
the Public Service quitting this Colony without previously obtainin leave, His Excellency the Governor in Council is pleased to positively prohibit the practice in future, uno to
theat any person
in
doing so will be immediately removed from Government.
are the or
the expley of
The Heads of
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Departments will be held. personally responsible for- reporting to Governmen
[
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176 of 1849.
Inalosure to 2 indespi
intringement of this Volification by those acting
under theme.
By Order,
mediately
(Signed) Frederick M. A. Bruce,
Colonial secretary.
Government House, Victoria,
Hougtong, 13th July, 1844
(Ime Copy)
Main
folonial secretary.
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No 76 of 1847.
Inclosure N. 3 in Despi
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So fa
Commercial.
SELY
Aus 16
57
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9198 long trong
My Serd,
RECEIVED
OCT.31 1849
17
Pretoria, Honghing,
9th August, 1849.
Rover
Baren Forth Menon,
the Minister Plenipotentiary of
the French Republic
ch Republic in Chine
having requested Mr. George
me to allow
Lewis Hashell, an
American Citizen,
to act
French Nicé - Consul at this
Colony, until an application
be made
by
the French
Government to that of ther
Majesty
to the is effect, and Exequatur from
the British
Goverment be obtained;-&
The Right Honorable.
The Earl Grey,
C
fo
Je
themselves from
without leaves.
the Government absenting against Civil Officers of
Government Notification
the
Colony
13th July, 1844
have consented to recognize Mr. Mastell in this capacity
as
until the
temperary
necessary steps
Encope for his
be tation in
iv
final recognition, which
with
Feregn
M. Weit
refer to
ME
I trust will meet
Your Teretship's approval.
Shave the hover to be,
With the highest respect,
Your Lordship's
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Most Obedient
Humble servant,
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Iam directed by
Earl Grey to transmit to
you for the consideration of Viscount Palmerston the accompanying Copy
oke of a lespatch from Governor of Hong Kong
dated the G Aug . last, reporting
that in
compliance with the request of the Minister Plenipotentiary of the French Republic in Chuia he has contented
to recognize W. George
Lewis Haskell as
Kerich
!......
French Vice Consul at Itong Kong until an application can be made by the Sovernment
of
France to that of
Jer Majesty for this
pripose.
Lante
*
喇
Sveinn Bonham C. t
Si.
1850
MINUTE
15
M&Hawes Earl Grey
MEM.
15
15
19
9198. 177 Hongkong. 749 750
EN 158.
16 Jany/50.
with reference to your
despatch Nogy of the of Roof - last relative to the recognition
"Mr. G. L. Waskell an American
Citizen to act as French Rice Consul in
Hong
To requaint you
King Shave
that it is
nt customary test the
Rucens Exequatur should be
isued in comprimation of
The appointment of a
Inculer Agent.
し
Kie
As that
Mr Basket to
sestrument is not necesary
In emelting
person the functions efte
are
Iffice in question you at liberty without puttion
1
C
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in the
authirty then tris despatit to recognize him so bctises capacity in which he has Touch Vice Grout at Hong
lean
Kong.
recommended.
حجر
Nr. 78.
Civil.
berfung bermo
RECEIVED
20
9177 Kong Kong
Victory Hougtong.
My Lord,
OCT.31
21 August, 1849.
I have the honor
to Report to Your Lordship,
the of the Instant I
that on
granted in Council Six "Marths leave of absence the Colony, from
the date of
embarkation,
om
ou
from
the 30th
Instant, to Mr. J. M. D'Almada, 2nd Clerk in the Colonial
Secretary's office, to proceed to the Straits Settlements for the restoration of his health which is greatly impaired
The Night Honorable, The Earl Grey.
Yo
J
as
1.
Mr. Whit
attested by the enclosed, Certificate. from the Coloural sur
Surgeon. I have therefore
e in
this matter to Request your Lordship's approval .
I leave the honor to be,
With the highest Respect, Your Lordship's,
Most Obedient
Humble Servant,
Sentralame
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Sir,
Hongkong
21
July, 27. 1849.
July.
I have
already
occasion to mention to
had
to you
that Mr. Almada the younges
is
suffering from "Angina Vectors .
For this disease he has been
subjected to very.
se
what se
severe
active and
treatment to
which the urgent symptoms have yielded . To complete his
Cure
Sconsider
voyage
to the
Indian Archipelage nccessary
and a
sojourn thes.
For Six
there of 5 or
The Haïble:
Major
Majer-Caine.
Ne,
Well you
ave the kindness
have
to submit this opinion to the consideration of His Excellency
Governor with the obtaining his somction to the
The
ofulfilment of
the des
design.
I have, V.
view.
of
(Signici) William Morrison,
Colonial Surgeon.
(FrencCopy)
True Copy
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No152
Bonham C.B.
22
gher 149
WINGTE 3 ? Jaxis
There to acknowledge the
wift of your despatch hyp
of the 21 of Augruth list, and видетел
to convey to you my
approval of the leave of absence which you here granted
to Mer I. I. D'almada, the gol
Clerical
Cleak in the Cotorinal
Affice at Hong Kong,
Мне
Secretary's
Tory
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។
so
No 79.
Inancial.
Copy behand 15. for Report 146 120/44
Aus £156-21.
Decpty
7200. Howe roug
My Lord,
to
RECEIVED
OCTZI 1849
23
Ferratia, Hongkong,
23rd August, 1849.
I have the honor
inforne Your Serdstrip that the 24th June last. I received letter freue
the Reverend,
William Dean and J. Johuren of the American Baptist
Mission, applying for
Cemission reduction
or
e
:
of ground Rent on their Chapel Pot. 8078.20 and wishing to know, in case of the Government being inable
unwilling to comply with
request,
or un
their
t, whether the.
The Right Henerable The Earl Grey,
Ac
Yen
Ver
vrander
کرو
the Fease for the
said Sot would be accepted.
2.
On the 12th
July,
P
brought this litter under the
notice.
of
the Executive Comcil,
کرو
and at a subsequent meeting,
the 19th of the
I decided with the
JO
month.
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the Members, to
grant
that
Xemission Eent expon
fe
pection of Sot. 5° 78a, occupied by the Baptist Mission Chapel and the turmage, together with the approach thereto, embracing. feet. This
in all 10,530 Square
concession is to date
concessin
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from the 25th June 1849, and
will
Jime
réduction in the
Prental of the Sot of £ 28.13, 1
of
of
?
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I.
I have
Conne
24
to Weis
conclusion in consequence of the slender pecuniary
resources
of this Mission, and because the Resumption
- pozy
of the lot
with the chapel thereon would be of no
we
to the.
Government, and I consider
to grant
that it is better to
t this
sion and receive a
100.
Rental of
$4/4. 2. 2. per.
nue, than by donning
the property subject the Phant Roll to a reduction anmally
of £92.15.3. - I have however
C
censed it: distinctle
distinctly
to be
intimated to the Frewtice,
that in
thee
222
event
of either the Chapel or Parsonage House- being hereafter appropriated to other purposes than there
of -
3
5.
25
Religious worship or the residens of Missionaries, the Cent hitherte charged will again
be exacted; and lastly that
subject to
theis
concession
vion is
the confirmation of Her Majesty's Government.
4.
I have also to Export 3. to Your Sordship that a
Similar instance of reduction has taken place
Marine Lot N. 67. held
of.
in the Contal
Mr Robert Strachan.- This
Let was originally leased for
£120. On D. which sum has
been paid into the Treasury
up
to the half year
ended
25th December, 1848, from
2
hicle period
period Mr Strachan
requested that the Tot should
be Resumed by
or
the Government,
the Cent reduced to its u
upset price, namely L. 54.14.9.. Considering
case is que
under the
that Mr Strachan's
of those
coming
Scope of your
Lordship's Despatch No 109 of
15th April last, I acceded in
Council the 21st Instant
vre
to his application, by reducing the dental of the Sot to it's upset price; and this
to Recommend to
beg
Serdship's notice
.
as
Care
I
Your deserving
of attention, in consequence of the heavy losses to which the holder has been subjected
Decount.
on
very piece of
of this Land. I may
add
morei
over
that I am cognizant of the
fact that this Lot of ground
:
C
6.
with the Buildings thereon
put up to auction by
Mr Strachan, but that when
the rate of Rental was made offered to bid-
known,
If therefore the Government
had tesumed the lot, it -
would have remained
ained uLL
and uproductive.
useless,
Your Serdships,
Most Obedient,
Humble servant,
Mtum
26
7
5.
Under these circumstances
I have
the berov to
her.
solicit Your Sordshipér
approval of
the
et. Олежее
which I have adopted in
the above
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect.
Your.
613.31/9.
7.78.31/10
MrEllen
Each mail brings the account of a repid dimiumaten
of the Crown Rents.
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Governor Bonham
Victonas, Hongkong, August, 1849.
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72008 Jun
106.90 Land and Horny Honey
Gorever Bon have C. 3.
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There the honor to acknowledge
the resist of porn bespetibes
da
h79. of the 23 and 100 of
the 24 of August list_
In the former of these Despatches you
перение нов
that the Restat repond
Portion of the Soh. Mor.
at present eccnpride of the
в
Baftish Mission Chapel and
Parsonage House should be
and that the
Remitted, an
Pentel of Lch 2 by should
be reduced pom £120.16.2
to £51.11.2.
Subject to the Conshire,
i
:
stated by you Jaffirme
of the arrangements
ho you have made with
hich,
inspect to these allotments
of Savel. Land.
Sabo concur in the
Сенси
recommendation contained
Se despalh
in gom hoo_that a five of
ground at Aberdeen_
Strould be allotted to the
Ron
Callidie Bishop
oh a Nominal Rent of
Анниги
Lotter per an
Grondled it is used
solely for Religious
Educational puspores.
Shore
a
#
10
侣
1280.
Financial.
Copy & Laus W for Report the hor/489.
Aly Level,
9201. Amerong
OCT31
Victorin HongKong,
24th August, 18419.
Monseigneur Fercade.
the Catholic Bishop,
time after lies arrival in ..
28
Wongtiing established as Chinese school at the Village
Aberdeen under the superintendenz
of Abe
of
Trench Friest of beis Mission, and
last applied for u
having in May hold a piece of land-
permissio
a
to
in that locality whereon to build
Chapel and Missionary Residence,
I decided in Council ou
May
thee Lett
th
to recede to his request, and
The Night Henerable
The Earl Grey,
Ac
Yo,
Je
directed the see
surveyer General to allot to Monseigneur Forcade a piece of ground at Aberdeen.
1 1⁄2 acre
for by
asuring
line.
leas
Although the s
applied.
surve
Surveyor General
reported that ar
that only so of
vere is available
purposes,
for building
and that in leis
15
opinion £5 per acre
dere is a
sufficient commual Cental for building ground of such description in that,
5. part of
1
thee.
Island, I have determined in
Council on the 2122 Instant, at
the Request of His Lordships, to
allow him the entire allotment
at a nominal Rental
dollar per annum,
per
as it is made use
of
מי,
long
of solely for
Religious or educational purposes
29
I have therefore to solicit Your Sendship's approval of
concession. which I
this
2777
thought
rcasarable
the
the
grounds set forth by
Bishop in his letter here : with enclosed, which I
consider worthy of your Serdship's consideration.
Shave the heuer tober
With the highest respect, Your Lordship's,
Most Obedient Humble servant,
Mkuu.
m
10/24
Arctoria, Hongkong.
17th August. 18:19.
30
In the first place I beg to express
to your Excellency, how much I'have been touched with the kindness with which
your Excellency
se ute
promise
most willing to ---
"the land at Aberdeen, that
Thad requested on which to build Catholic Chapel; and with acference
therets, it is my duty to offer the pression of my deepest gratitude.
But
may I be permitted again to solicit another faver from your Excellency
I would pray your Excellency, that the ...
To His Excelency,
I. G. Bouliam, Esq.4, 6.B.
Governor of Hong Kong,
ctc:.ctc. etc..
:
Governor The Estal
N° 80.
24th August, 1849. Bonham
Victoria, Hongkong,
Grey.
1 In closure.
Received
Recommending
that a
Bishop, at a nominal
Forcade, the Catholic
allotted to Monseigneur
piece of groundaberdeen be
quit rent.
Kees to the
3//10.
3
Mr. Wist.
Should the woual formality, Land Board be adopted?
CER
referrin
1
land promised une, popible, so tow
way
be taxed
as
so low indeed, as o
as only
to be
low as
CL
nominal tax, merely for the purpose of recognizing Her Majesty's Rights " The following reas
will give
ME JOATE
12
reasous, I trust,
title to this
favor.
1. The Land is required for a religious purpose, for the propagation of the Gospel, amongst the Chinese of this Colony.
1
quilly The Land being situated in a village entirely inhabited by Chinese, sa beniles from Victoria, would doubtles never be demanded by ang
other person thaw... myself: consequently the Colony would lose nothing by conceding it to me
nearly.. gratuitously.
5. Not being rich, owing chiefly to difficulties arising from the actual state of Europe; without any support either from the English Government or that of this Colony on the contrary, having to pay rather a
heavy
31
rent for the land on which the Chape in this town is built, the Catholic Mission
as well, not only supports in this Colony by its single efforts, au hospital for. foundlings, but four free Schools, two of which are for Europeans, two for Chinese.
I do not doubl out that these
reasons will be appreciated by your iscellener, and with that kindness of . which I have already had so many preefs,
your Excellency will deign to grant my "present request.
siqued :
I have Je..
A
Augustinus op: Samnensis,
P. Prefect Ùpost, of Hongtions.
True Cope,
2.
Colonial Secretary.
18 SACO
Financial.
4
t
رمج
Copy to hear 31/01
श्र/-
//
My Lord,
RECEIVED
OCT31 1849
32
V
Victor Coughing,
25th August,
1844G.
- In conformity with
the Instructions contained in
Colonial
the Frinted Copy of the Colour
Regulations, I have new the houer to enclose Estimates of the Revenue and Expenditure for
the
year
1850.
2. The Expenditure
including, Contingeners of all
worts
may
be stated at £ 4 4,388,
while the Prevenue is li-
libicly to
amennt to £24,090, showing.
The Night Howable,
..
The Earl Grey,
&c,
Reverend Bishop Forcade,
Letter from The Right
requesting
he
may
Aberdeen at a nominal
piece of ground at
be allowed to hold the that
rental.
17th August, 1869.
No 80 If 1849.
Inclosure in Despatch
2
3
#
over
excess of
Estimated Disbursementi
Receipts of A 20.298, to be made up by a Parliamentary Note. I
would here Temark havever that in this Estimate A 6,000 is put down towards the prection of a Government House, should Her. Majesty's Govern
......
ment be
pleased to postpone the erection of this Building, the coll on
Parliament will be reduced to £15,000. On this question
I shall have the hour to
address Your Serdship in a
Separate Despatch.
3.
The following Meme -
randum will at or
on
-
!
of
e put Your
the
N2.
Seidship in possessio probable Financial state of
the holony
in 1850, as also when
compared with the
1840, respectively.
18/18
33
се
years
184.8 Don
The Estimated Revenne for
1850 as
compared with the actual Receipts during-
18/18 is less by I 2001. 19. 1872. The Estimated Expenditure
1850 as
& for
compared with the actual payments during
18,755,2011
the year 1848 is letsby FR758.2.1
The Estimated Revenne for 1850
as ca
compared by the Estimated
1849. - Receipts of 18.49 is hy by £1342, 16.8.
The Estimated Expenditure
4.
Go Do Go À 7.807.16.4.
I enclose
You
your-
Sereship's easy reference
Statement of
the Neverme
téve
Expenditure and Parliamentary
Notes for the
years from
from 18/15 to
that
for
1850- inclusive, presenning,
1850 to be passed - from
which it will be seen
thead the
Civil Expenses of the Colony
re
and theat
mally decreasing, unless the Revenue falls much short of what Santicipate, hope at no distant
distant period
from
that our requirements from England will not exceed 210,000 to £. 12,000 annually, which considering that Houghing afterds protection to the whole of the British Commerce o connected with China, is a place of defuge
for
ber Merchants in
case of
Capture with the Chinese
luh and is the abode
Iber
of Her Majesty'
and Oli
>
34
tendent of
Majesty's Plenipotentiary Chief superintende Frade paying
duties into Her
Her Majes
Majesty's
Cochequer in England to the
out of nearly
f
Never
Millious Sterling, ought not I think to be objected to by the Mother Country.
← Whave the liver to be,
With the highest Esporti despert Sordship's.
Your
Most Obedient
Humble Screact,
Malaw
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35
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No 81.
The Carl
Governor Bonham, 25th August 1849.
Grey.
2 Inclosures.
Received
Transmitting
Estimates
"Expenditure of
the Revenue and
лев
the
Year
the Colony
ending
31th December, 1850, and
reporting
thereon.
Mr. Ellist
This might pechotes be printed with the Estimate so bong long I statement is toive lesse Partion
when that finan
cc. 9203 H.K.
Am N...
Mr. West
This has apparently excmped
a3.5/9.
9202. Hưng Sty
36
Ampy
:
28.
Sir C° C. Trevelyan MCB.
flr. Elliot
Mr. Merivale
Mr. Hawes
Carl Grey - 30
29th Jan 7 1850
५
29
We 81 25th Aug
1849
Sir,
Downing Street,
31 January 1850.
I
am directed by Earl Grey to enclose for
the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury the copy of a
despatch from the Gover.
-Mor
of Hong Kong
aez
- companied by the Esti= - mates of Revernce and Expenditure for
the
year
1950.
12
37
2.
iscred to state that
am de.
But
as
accounts have
suice been received of the the Officer of
E
Lord Grey
fees
reason to object to
of the proposals
any
eur.
bocked in these Extin
mater.
3.
The total
Civil Servies, exclusive of Works and Buildings, esto= - mated for in the similar
statements received from the Governor for 1849, amounted to €39,219 :- they
amount in the present documents to only €34.857.
abolition of
Registrar General and Apsist;
-aut Harbour Master with
a
saving of £850, the Civil Services, exclusive
Works and Buildings,
of
are
redused to £34,007, making
a total saving of 25212 since the preparation of the Governor's Estimates for
1849.
4. I am to
state that, under these circumstances, Lord Grey
would
:
Bat
4
له
ī
would propose, if their
Lordships
apply
مد
concur, to
to Parliament,
recommended by the
Governor, for a Grant of
£20,000, which will be
a diminuation
of
£5,000
from the Vate
of
last
year, and to sanction :-
the
A
application of
the
available surplus beyond
the
amount required for
the Civil Establishments, to Public Works and Buildings, including the erection of
a
Government House, upon
which
+
(V. Names for this Estirati,
38
which subject some
further remarks are
of
a
separate
this
fered in communication of
date.
5 In Conclusion
4/11
I
a
am desired to enclize
Copy of the Estimate.
which, of
these views
be adopted, Lord Grey
would propose to submit to Parliament.
I have Fr..
!
SIN
Ab
Coppy to Preces 31 /an/40
7
Hong
Kong.
Citimate of the amount, required
39
An do pracy
the charge of Hong Kong for the year ending it March Best.
Twenty Thousand Pounds
Loverwor
Aide de Camp
Colonial Secretary & Auditor Colonial Secreting department
Treasurer & Registrar Several.
Treasurer's Department
Clark of Connaits Surveyor Ceveral
Faberies
broo
300
برگم
1800 1501 10
2
дно
129210
100
800
Surveyor Several's Prepartiment - 457
Harbour Master--
Harbour Master's Departiment
Police Rate Assessori.
Chief Justice
leveral.
Atorney
Indicial Department.
bolonial Chaplain,
Three Chinese Schoolmasters
bolonial Surgeon -
foo
2
257
3,000
1517
Contingencies
302 10
مره گذاشت
12-1118
10
*
140
1581
330 H.
194
138.10
16
#
#
1937
10
7oo
#
کی کی
220
→
な
blief Magistrate
Police and Carls
ўга
2349 113,456
24968 10
2
5400
Police Incidental.
Rents of Government Honze & Police Stations. Hospitals
Miscellaneous
Public Works, Road: He
Daduet estimated
24918 10.
30.368 10 4-
1626 16.
910168
25410
846 184. 34.00754 10,0821448 414.190
Local Ressamme -24690
20,000.
*
الموس
اور مجھے
:
:
26th 1 in 1859
Victoria, Hongkong,
T
9202 2 Nony Hony.
9203
Governor Bonbone
Ente
1
191.
40
12 March 1850.
Mr. Ellist "March to 1. I have had under
M. Merivale 12
M. Hawes
Earl Grey. 12
Work.
As the Rainy Leave exposed
My consicleration
Jour
Derpatches hos 8/482
of the 25th of August last, accompanied by Estimates of the
your.
Colonial Revenue and
then
assent,
I he
Mein Dreslen
for consideration.
27.
11/3
1850, and submitting
Expenditure for the year=
the question whether the
a new
construction of Government House
May
Now
I
:
now be commenced .
2. I have the homon
to inform you,
dle no
reason
that
to objcel
to the proposals embodied
in the Estrinates which
You
have transmitted
& me, and that the
of the
Lord Comm's of Treasury have, on my
recommendation.
agreed
to their adoption. I
also am satisfied, as
You will see
you
by the
enclosed
*
ד
Min
Pagoda vatanyada di M
esus
31 Jany
3
enclosed Copy of of a
41
letter which I caused
to be addressed on
that subject to the
Treasury, that the time
is come when the
erection of the propound Government House
may with propriety le commenced; and
theen Lordships have
concurrence
signified their concustome
in that opinion
3. I enclose, for
Your
'T.
100
!
your information, a long
серу
of the Estimate in the form in which it
intended not it sich submitting
submitted to
be laid before Parliament Owing to the reductions
which have taken place of the Offices of Rezistor and Assistant Harbour
Master since you your Despatches
wrote
now
under acknowledgement,
the amount disposable for Public Works has
become rather larger
Ban on at that time
you
anticipated.
I haved
£ 20,000
Lover de Cent
Comp
Est. Sec. & Auditi
вес El sec. sept Leasurer & Registrar Gaul. Чльний верев Clerk of Commuils
Lunger General
Surveyor fents Dept.
Harbour Master Starbour Masters befel Police Rate assessors Cheif Justice
lettroney General
Judicial Dept Colonial Chaplain
3 Chinese Schoolmasters
Colonial Surgeon Chief magishite
Pohir & Gasts
Jear ending 27. and 18.5!
Jalus
6000.
300
18.00.
1501-10.
Goo
Conligemes
J02-10.
358-6-8
1292. 10. 121. 11.8.
40
100.
Dov.
450.
150
boo.
237. 10.
330
5-
196
3000.
1500.
1937. 10.
138.10.
700.
10. 17
75.
boo.
Goo
2349-10 3456. 24960. 10 5400.
Police Insdentit
Rent of fort. House & Pelice Slabor.
Miscellaneous
Hospitals
42
4
24968 16 30.368.
10
4.
1
1626+6 1626. 16.
910. 16.
8.
264.
10.
046.
18
4
і
34007 5
4
:
Public Works Roodste.
10.082.
14
&
44090.
Deduch estimated local Revenue.
24.090.
£ 20.000. £20.
T.
!
Hongkong
Celenial, 43
Weturn showing the timnual Revenue, Cxfunditure and Grants by the Imperial... Parliament for 6 years from pot fanuary
it for 6 Years from 17 January 1845 to 31a Recruber, 1850.
6........ liamentary Expenditures
འ་་་་
Years
Cafender
year.
S
Votes Financial year
S
Calender
Year
18445,22,242 | 49,000. | 67.438. 1846 27,000 36,900. | 61,4151, 1847 50,868 54,000: 52,186.
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མིི་་་་་ཅ་་
'T.
--
partof Expences of this year
heid been transferred to 1848. the purchase of the court in Mouse for £ 5000 the completion of You blic Works Commenced in previou
1848.25,001|25,000. 63,1143. ears,asalso the amount of £3991,
for Services of 1047 paid during Hiis year with account the
for
increas of the Expenditure.
1849|25,432 25,000. 52,106. Estimated for
1850, 24.000 20,000,
44,388
General Remarks
The recovery times of re
.
4 of Arrears of Fund Rent of 184341844 during the years 184671867,
during
the large Receipts of particial Tues & Fees " d=
184671847. and the Receipt
for the Opinn Tari, which monopoly the 12th August 1847.
Nevenue
of
core
was abolished
the principal causer
these years being
over 1848 lt 1850. 14 eleinte
during the latter years
20 much
of CRees
be added Beat
considera
с
the.
Save
ble loses ve
of
Rent has been incurred by the iesenip
Sots.
The gradual reductions of the Establishments,
( and
$.2.
(and Public Works are the Causes
the Expenditure.
Exper
Victoria, Waughing,
2.4" . August, 1849.
of the Reduction
Signed) W. J. Mercer,
Colonial Treasurer
Ime Copy)
Mari Colavial Secr
Seentary.
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Inclosure No 2 in Despi: No 81 of 1849.
Duplicate. Hongkong.
Return of the Revenue, Expenditure, and Parliamentary Notes, for the years from
1845 to 1850, inclusive.
th
24th August, 1849.
:
COLONIAL
ESTIMATES.
HONGKONG.
1850.
nalosure to I in tespatch for 81 of 1864 7.
:
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COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
-- J
3
46
A.
Abstract of the probable Revenue of the Colonial Government of Hong- Kong for the Year 1850, shewing also the Revenue received under the similar heads in the Year 1848, being the Year previous to that in which the Estimates are prepared.
LAND SALES,
LAND REVENUE,
RENTS, EXCLUSIVE OF LANDS,
AUCTION DUTIES,
LICENSES,
TAXES,
POSTAGES,
FINES, FORFEITURES, AND FEES OF COURTS,...
ESTIMATED FOR 1850.
HONGKONG:
PRINTED AT THE CHINA MAIL OFFICE. 1849.
FEES OF OFFICE,
SALE OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY,
REIMBURSEMENT IN AID OF EXPENSES INCURRED BY
GOVERNMENT.
MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS,
INTEREST, ...
SPECIAL RECEIPTS,
2
REVENUE OF 1848.
T
£ S. d.
£ 3. d.
A
A
A
A
**
11,427
1,916
A
>>
ל
A
15
A
77
11
12,616 9 91
1,739 17 2
266 0 8
83
5,240 9 4
4,416 7 3
2,800
*
55
2,575 18 4
**
1,500
剪
888
*
60
A
55
**
1,572 18 10
1,073 6 4
127 1 9
>>
A
10
A
A
J
00
276 3 8
5 13 10
**
5 0
A O
**
55 >>
422 2 2
226
:
*
A
32
Total............£
24,090 0 0
25,091 19 11₫
Do.
The Aid by Grant of Parliament for the CIVIL GOVERNMENT of the Colony for the Year 1848-49, was,..
Do.
for the SUPERINTENDENT OF TRADE and CONSULAR SERVICES, The portion of the Expenses to be Contributed by the EAST INDIA COMPANY, was,
The Revenue received in 1840 in the Colony, is
Do.
Do.
by the Agent in London, is
£25,000 00
32,429 0 0
8,000 0 0
£25,072 345
19 10 7
1
4
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
LAND REVENUE:
Lease Lands,
Lands not Leased,
Fees on grants of Leases,
RENT, EXCLUSIVE of Land:
Government Markets,
Government Buildings,
DUTIES: Auction,
LICENSES:
Spirits,
Pawnbrokers,
Auctioneers,
Salt Broker,
Billiard Rooms,
Opium Dealers,
Stone Quarrier,
REVENUE DETAILED.
:
11,000,
377
50
1,600,
.316
A
ל
K
ESTIMATED FOR 1850. REVENUE OF 1848.
ララ
1,200
>
583 6
250
800
ララ
ララ
£
d.
£
8.
d.
11,427
1,916
+
*)
לל
A
00
8
A
לי לי
REFERENCE
TO
REMARKS.
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
REVENUE DETAILED.
Brought forward,
REIMBURSEMENT IN AID OF EXPENSES INCURRED
ESTIMATED FOR 1850. REVENUE OF 1848.
£ $. d.
23,831 9 4
£ 5.
24,388 0 3
d.
47
5
REFERENCE
TO
REMARKS.
12,616 9 94
A
BY GOVERNMENT:
Sick stoppages from Police Constables,
+
£
100
$. d.
Hospital and other Expenses for Distressed
Seamen,
25
A
**
A
>>
A
1,739 17 2
B
266 0 82
Subsistence Money of Military Prisoners in Gaol, Medicines supplied from Civil Hospital to Go-1
vernment Servants,
50
**
51 5 8
226 5 8
276 3 8 8/1/
I.
83
о
MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS:
Sale of Port Regulations and Charts, Over-payments recovered,
**
A
A
J.
**
**
**
>>
INTEREST,
*
>>>
ララ
>>
>
*
"
55
A
10
00
8
4
1,860
17
}}
416 13
4
+
120
>>
5,240 9 4
4,416 73
D
Serangs,
TAXES:
Police Assessment,
POSTAGE,
FINES, FORFEITURES, & FEES OF COURT:
Fines,
Forfeitures,...
450
**
100
950
A
11
*
17
A
2,800
55
2,575 18 4
E
A
59
A
>>
A
ララ
F
>>
55
17
1,500
节
1,572 18 10
F
Fees,
ララ
*
FEES OF OFFICES:
Marriages and Burials,
86 G 8
Registering of Boats, and Hawkers, ...
610
A
Official Signatures,.......
100
Registration of Deeds,...
75
A
A
R
Conveyances,
Sailing Letters and Passes,
SALE OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY:
Houses, &c., on Lots resumed,
Condemned Stores,...
+
16 13
50
10
*
F
4
+
Carried forward,
888
ララ
1,073 6 4
Q
60
127 1 9
II
**
+
£ 23,831 9 4
24,388 0 3
SPECIAL RECEIPTS:
Superannuation Contributions of Police force, Drawback on Stationery shipped in England,
27
A
5 5 0
32 5 0
422 2 2
K.
Total,
£
24,090
*7
25,091 19 11/
REMARKS.
A
4. LAND REVENCE:-Decreased in 1849, £1189, 9s. 91d., viz :-£1212, 10s. 62d, on LEASE LANDS, on which the amount due in 1848 was £11,306, whereas the collections for the same year amounted to £12,212, 10s. 62d., the excess of the Receipt over the amount due being Arrears of former years; a further resumption of Lots reduced the Annual Rental to £11,000, the sum now estimated. small decrease of £17, 11s. 8d. is anticipated under "LANDS NOT LEASED," being from villages, &c.; and an increase of £40, 12s. 6d. is expected on FEES receivable on grant of Leases, in consequence of their extension from 75 to 999 years.
B. RENT EXCLUSIVE OF LAND-Increase in 1850 over 1848, £186, 28. 10d., viz :-£56, 5s. Od. on MARKETS, being the difference of the amount due and collected in 1848, and £78, 17s. 10d. ou RENT FROM GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS,- -one of which was occupied for 6 months only in 1848,-and the anticipated Rent from a Bungalow on a Lot resumed by Government.
C. AUCTION DUTY, has been abolished from 1st March, 1849.
D. LICENSES:-The anticipated increase in 1850 is £824, 2s. Od., viz :-£1073, 85. 4d. on SPIRIT and PAWNBROKER LICENSES, which in 1848 produced £709, Os. 4d. only, arising from the greater number of these Licenses being granted in 1848 for one month only, and the difference having been received in 1849. The increase on AUCTIONEERS' LICENSES will be £208, 11s. 9d., the Fee payable on each The expected of them having at the time of the abolition of the Auction Duty been raised from £10, 8s. 4d. to £31, 5s. per annum. decrease on SALT BROKERAGE is £295, 16s. 8d., and on STONE QUARRYING £179, 3s. 4d.: the nature of the first, and the decline of Public and Private Works, would not warrant a higher estimate. The estimated decrease on OPIUM and BILLIARD LICENSES is £10, 6s. 44d., and merely accidental. The increase on SERANG Licenses is £25, 175. 4d.
E. TAXES: The estimated increase on the POLICE ASSESSMENT for 1850 is £224, 1s. 74d, over the Receipt in 1848, being on account of the occupation of a greater number of Houses and the extension of the Tax over the whole Island. On the year ended 30th June 1849, the Tax amounted to £2816, 2s. ląd.
F. On FINES, FORFEITURES, and FEES OF COURT, the decrease anticipated in 1850 is £72, 18s. 10d.
G. The probable decrease on FEES OF OFFICES in 1850 is £185, 68. 4d., of which £91, 15s. 6d. is on MARRIAGES and BURIALS on account of the Arrears recovered in 1848, and £61, 17s. 6d. on REGISTRATION OF BOATS and HAWKERS, the number of which has declined in 1849.
II. On the SALE OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, a decrease of £67, 1s. 9d. is on the Estimate for 1850, a number of Houses on resumed lots
having been sold in 1848, which is not likely to occur in 1850 to the same extent.
I. ON REIMBURSEMENTS in Aid of Expenses incurred by Government, the decrease in 1850 is likely to be £49, 8s. 0дd. The reduction
of the POLICE FORCE alone will cause £74, 19s. 5d, decrease on the Sick Stoppages.
J. MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS :-No sums have been received at the Treasury for PORT REGULATIONS and CHARTS since 1845.
The
K. The probable decrease on SPECIAL RECEIPTS is £389, 17s. Ed., of which £334, 4s. 74d. is on account of CLOTHING STOPPAGES from the
Police Force which have been discontinued since 1st January 1849, when an alteration in the Pay of the Police was made. reduction of the EUROPEAN POLICE FORCE will cause a decrease of £18, 198. 9d. on Superannuation Contribution paid by them.
1
1
ام
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
..
B.
Abstract of Sums required to Defray the Expenses of the Colonial
De saber, 189
at is mien di
of Hongkong for the Year from
for the Year from 1st January to 31st
shewing also the Amount expended for the Year previous to
stimates are prepared, viz: 1848.
7
48
PAGS
El
OR
OF
DETAIL ESTIMATE.
ESTIMATE JO 1850.
EXPENDITURE OF 1848.
SALARIES.
OFFICE
FIRED PROVISIONAL ALLOWANCES CONTINGEN
ESTA ELIST- HENT.
AND TEMPORARY.
CIES
£
$.
d.
£
d.
14
1
ESTABLISHMENTS, 26,008 10, 4,225 7 25
959 13 4
35
>> >>
31,218 10 4
35,123 6 2
14
2
14
14
PENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, & GRATUITIES,
REVENUE SERVICES, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS,
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE,
20
83 15
*
175
153 16 7
"
5
Ditto,
145
ま
355 18 32
15
5
ECCLESIASTICAL,
Ditto,
>>
A
*
"
5
>>
55
15
15
15
CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES,...
EDUCATION, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS,
HOSPITALS,
A
35
A
A
A
#
**
A
Ditto,
254
10
A
101
68 15
282
6 01
5
15
POLICE AND GAOLS, Ditto,
16
10
RENT,
1,626 16
910
2,138 8 3
**
16
8
1,088 1 5
16
TRANSPORT,
307 10
357 10
>>
16
12
CONVEYANCE OF MAILS,
174 8
4
51
16
13
WORKS AND BUILDINGS,
7,531
3
>>
14,080 176
17
14
ROADS, STREETS, AND BRIDGES,
2,000
11
A
110
17
15
MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES,
3,520 17 6
3
+ 476
17
16
INTEREST, ...
A
A
55
2
*
*
>>
A
39
17
17
18
18
LAND AND HOUSES PURCHASED,
SPECIAL EXPENSES,
15
5,000
な
25
55
25
2 312 16
A
A
ל
*
18
19
TOTAL COLONIAL ESTIMATES,...
SUPERINTENDENT OF TRADE,
44,388
14
4
63.143 17
3
5,890 16
8
5,107 4
19
20
CONSULAR SERVICES,
19,800
22,590 11
1
>>
Total,.......
£
70,079 11
90,841 12
7
The above COLONIAL EXPENDITURE for 1848, includes £834, 18s. 3d paid by the Colonial Agent in London,-being £263, 11s. 2d. under ESTABLISHMENTS, (£83, 17s. 114. Salary of the 3d Clerk in the Treasury on sick leave and who died; £179, 13s. 3d. Contingencies for Stationery, Surveying Instruments, &c.); £297, 17s. Od. under WORKS AND BUILDINGS, for Materials from the Ordnance; and £273, 10s. Id. under SPECIAL EXPENSES for Standard Weights and Measures. The Amounts paid in England on Account of the Consular Services are not knowu in the Colony.
"T.
00
8
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
EXPENDITURE DETAILED,
CIVIL.
GOVERNOR.
SALARIES:
His Excellency the Governor,
Aide-de-Camp,
Comprador,
Shroff,
Porter,
Four Messengers, @ £12, 10s. each,
Gardener,
Scavenger,
ALLOWANCES, Nil.
CONTINGENCIES:
Furniture for Government House,
Incidental Expenses,
+
+
SALARIES:
COLONIAL SECRETARY.
Colonial Secretary,
Chief Clerk,
Second do.,
Third do.,
Fourth do.,
FIXED ESTABLISH-
MENT,
PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.
TOTAL.
ALLOWANCES, Nil.
CONTINGENCIES:
Printing, Advertising, and Newspapers,
Petty Repairs to Office,..
Stationery,
•
+
Incidental Expenses,
Office Furniture,
Postage, ...
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
EXPENDITURE DETAILED.
9
FIXED ESTABLISH-
MENT.
PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.
TOTAL.
49
COLONIAL TREASURER.
£
d.
£
8. d.
£
s. d.
£ &.
d.
£
$. d.
£
s. d.
SALARIES:
Treasurer,
900
ララ
6,000
300 "
Chief Clerk,
405
59 35
A
Second do, and Accountant,
300
W
32 10 0
25
20
50
51 35
""
A
A
12 10
12 10
A
**
**
ララ
Third do.
250
I.
T
**
1,855
>>
**
** **
1,855
6,300
152 10 0
>> 39
6,452 10
ALLOWANCES, Nu.
CONTINGENCIES:
Printing, Advertising, &c.,
Stationery,
Incidental Expenses,
وو
Postage,
AND
23 31
10
A
**
**
11
10
A
A
2
27
**
£
45
ל ...
45 37
1,900
严苛
AUDITOR.
150
150
チラ
ララ
59
SALARIES:
£ $. d.
£
5.
d.
£
8. d.
6,602 10 0
Auditor (the Colonial Secretary,)
Clerk,
>>
300
55 >>
*
300
"
100
75
**
50
55
57
હું
d.
£
મે
**
1,800 "
472 10
270
243
A
>>
216 >>
"
ל
d.
£
8.
d.
ૐ
3,001 10 0
>>
ララ
+
120
2
*
A
A
A
10
"
>
8
+.
A
>>
5
*
**
150
""
ALLOWANCES, Nil,
CONTINGENCIES:
Printing, Advertising, and Newspapers,
Petty Repairs to Office,
Stationery,
Incidental Expenses,
3,001 10 0
SALARIES:
CLERK OF COUNCILS.
Clerk of Councils,
ALLOWANCES, Nil,
CONTINGENCIES:
Printing, Advertising, and Newspapers, Stationery,
Office Furniture,
>>
"
150
19 >>
3,151 10 0
:
A
75
A
2 1
120
"
A
00
8
5
6 5 0
203 6 8
203 6 8
503 6 8
£ 5. d.
£
5. d.
100
33
A
19
30
5
A
A
5 **
A
40
A
**
A
**
A
મ
£ 8. d.
100
A
>>
40
*
>>
140
>>
>>
A
10
COLONIAL ESTIMATES HONGKONG.
SALARIES:
EXPENDITURE DETAILED.
SURVEYOR GENERAL.
Surveyor General,
Clerk of Works and Civil Engineer,
Clerk and Accountant,
Overseer of Roads and Convict Labour,
Chinese Overseer for
do.,
Three Surveying and Road Coolies, @ £12 10s.,
Office Coolie,
-
ALLOWANCES:
Horse-keep to Clerk of Works,
CONTINGENCIES:
Printing and Advertising,
Office Furniture,
Postage,
Copying Plans and Charts,
Instruments,
Stationery
Incidental Expenses,
+
FIXED EXTABLISH-
MENT,
PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORATY.
TOTAL.
£
8.
d.
£
5. d.
£
d.
800
550
""
>>
A
A
>>
>>
270
*
>>
180
*
A
>>
1,800
+
REGISTRAR GENERAL.
£
S.
SALARIES:
Registrar General (the Colonial Treasurer) Clerk,
Chinese Clerk,
17
d.
>
15
35
300 ララ
37 10
53
37 10 >>
37 10
12 10
87 10
**
1,887 10
12
11
两步
*
00
30
10
15
وو
4
6
A
A
多吗
>>
25 >>
A
>
45 10
45 10
>1
L
3.
d.
1,958
命局
22
F
||
S.
d.
>
A
Three Constables @ £13, 10s. each,
40 10
A
>>
337 10
40 10
378
**
25
ALLOWANCES, NU.
CONTINGENCIES:
Printing, Advertising, &c.,
Stationery,
Boat Numbers and Flags,
12 1 8
4 55
20
A
55
ララ
1
A
¿
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
EXPENDITURE DETAILED.
HARBOUR MASTER.
SALARIES:
Harbour Master,
Assistant Harbour Master,
Clerk,
Indian Interpreter,
One European Constable,
Ten Chinese Boatmen @ £18, 10s.,
ALLOWANCES, Nu.
CONTINGENCIES:
Printing,
Stationery,
Purchase of Boats, and Repairs,
Flags,
Oil, for Lamps, ..
Postage,
FIXED ESTABLISH-
MENT,
PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.
TOTAL.
50
11
£
600 多多
8. d.
£
$.
d.
£
8.
d.
300
*
200
55
A
}}
37 10
11
43 10
>>
27
>>
185
11
ラタ 15
1,137 10 0
228 10
0 1,366
>>>>
POLICE RATE ASSESSORS & COLLECTORS.
SALARIES:
One Sub-Collector,
One Shroff,
ALLOWANCES, NU.
CONTINGENCIES:
Printing, Advertising, Publishing Return of Collections, &c.,... Stationery,
!
Incidental Expenses,
20
>> 11
>>
15
61 15
**
A
5 11
14
55
A
35
5
A
**
101 15 0
101 15 0
1,467 15 0
+
£
S.
க
d.
£ s. d.
75
A
40 55 71
115
115
*
17
70
*
5
A
A
*
79
**
**
79
+
194
11
**
POST-OFFICE.
(The Postmaster renders his Accounts direct to the Postmaster-General, London.)
TOTAL CIVIL ESTABLISHMENTS,
HIS EXCELLENCY THIE GOVERNOR, COLONIAL SECRETARY,
+
+
£16,331 3 4
£ 3. d.
6,602 10
AA
TREASURER,
AUDITOR,
++
+
CLERK OF COUNCILS,
SURVEYOR GENERAL, ...
REGISTRAR GENERAL,
---
36 1 8
36 1 8
IIARBOUR MASTER,
-
POLICE RATE COLLECTORS AND ASSESSORS,
414 1 8
3,151 10 1,900
>
15
503 6 8
140
1,958
11 **
414 1 8
1,467 15
19
194 争夺 19
16,331 3 4
r.
T
12
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
EXPENDITURE DETAILED.
JUDICIAL ESTABLISHMENT.
SUPREME COURT.
SALARIES:
Chief Justice,
Attorney General,
Registrar,
Deputy Registrar,
Clerk of Court
Clerk to Chief Justice,
Hindustani and Malay Interpreter,
Usher and Bailiff,
Under-bailiff,
Chinese Clerk and Shroff
Mahomedan Swearer,
Three Messengers @ £12, 108.
ALLOWANCES, Ni.
CONTINGENCIES:
Printing, Advertising, and Newspapers,
Stationery,
Office Furniture,
Incidental Expenses,
་་་
COLONIAL ESTIMATES HONGKONG.
EXPENDITURE DETAILED.
13
FIXED ESTABLISH-
MENT.
PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.
FIXED ESTABLISH-
TOTAL.
MENT,
PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.
TOTAL.
POLICE, INCLUDING GAOLS.
£ S. d.
£
$.
d.
£ s. d.
!
SALARIES:
3,000
£ 8. d.
900
£ s.
d.
£ s. d.
*}
Chief Magistrate,
1,500
700
ララ
Assistant do. and Sheriff,
195
"}
750
>>
350
Superintendent of Police,
500 ** 51
**
300
Assistant do.,
312 **
59
300
>>
>>
>>
50
**
A
>>
A
150
""
37 10
A
Second do.
do.,
25
6
>
15
62 10
>>
12 10
37 10 *7
European Office Usher,
do.,
6,437 10 0
112 10
59
6,550
Indian
do.
do.,
"
"
Chinese
do.
do.,
Chief Magistrate's Orderly,
do.,
do.,
20
A
5
Messenger,
do.,
>
A
A
#
>>
A
Cooly
Two Deputy Inspectors @ £100 and £75, Chinese Interpreter,
First Clerk of Police Court,.......
Third
do. and Iliudustani and Malay Interpreter,
Mahomedan Priest (Swearer,) Police Court,
175
>>
**
125
*
11
A
"}
250
19
187 10
100
*
A
15
12 10
74 8
25
15
A
*
11 >>
19 多多
12 10
26
35
>>
26
**
15
6,576
ECCLESIASTICAL.
SALARIES:
£ 8. d.
£
8. d.
£
d.
Chaplain, Clerk,
700
ララ
10 17
0
710 17 0
SALARIES:
EDUCATIONAL.
Three Chinese Schoolmasters @ £25 each,
MEDICAL.
SALARIES:
Surgeon,
Sexton,
Two Burial-ground Keepers @ £12, 108.,... Messenger,
ALLOWANCES, Nil.
CONTINGENCIES:
Incidental Expenses,
HOSPITAL.
SALARIES:
Dispenser,
Cook,
Cooly,
Dispensary Cooly,
:
£
8.
d.
$.
d.
£
s. d.
75 35
>>
ง
75
55
£
8. d.
£
8. d.
£
d.
600
>> >>
60
55
25 59
12 10 55
600
97 10 0
++
697 10 0
5
£ 8.
d.
75
17 10
+
ララ
5
**
ララ
702 10 0
4+
£
s
d.
12 10
12 10
35
117 10 0
117 10 0
Two European Police Sergeants @ £47, 10s. each, Five Acting do. do. @ £37, 10s. each, Eighteen European Constables @ £32, 10s, each,... One Clerk to Superintendent of Police, One Indian Sergeant,
Four do. Acting do. @ £25 each, Thirteen do. Constables 1st class @ £20 eacli, Seventy-one do. do. @ £15, 12s. each, One Chinese Sergeant,
Three do. Acting do. @ £17, 10s. each, Nine do. Constables @ £12, 10s. each, Two Horse Coolies @ £12, 10s. each,
One Station Cooly,
One Lamp Cooly,
Jailor, (Sheriff's Departinent.)
Assistant Jailor,...
Turnkey,
European Turnkey,
Six Indian do. @ £19, 7s. 6d.,
One European Headman,
Eight Indian Guards @ £19, 7s. 6d.,
One Chinese Guard,
**
12 10
19
12 10
ララ
95
+
187 10
A
585
55
50
25
32 10
* 9
A
>>
**
100
260
1)
55
1,107 12
A
>1
A
13
ง
17
20 7) >>
52 10
112 10
25 >>
12 10
5 >>
A
>>
A
11
*
125 >>
50
37 10
58 10
116 5
36
>>
5 7
155 33
A
*
>>
ALLOWANCES, Nil.
CONTINGENCIES:
Printing, Advertising, &c.,
J
Petty Repairs to Office,...
Stationery,
Incidental Expenses,
Office Furniture,
Postage, ...
51
15
3,249 10
3,378
*
6,627 10,
43
15
25
6
>>
10
A
A
*
#
15
>>
11 3) 11
5
10 00
梦梦
**
>>
78
6,705 10
>>
:
14
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
No. 1. RECAPITULATION OF THE FOREGOING ESTABLISHMENTS.
SALARIES.
FIXED EXTABLISHMENT.
PROVISIONAL & TEMPORARY.
ALLOWANCES.
OFFICE CONTINGENCIES.
TOTAL.
CIVIL ESTABLISHMENTS:
THE GOVERNOR,
£ s. d.
£ §. d.
£
s. d.
£ 3. d.
£
8.
d. i
6,300,
152 10
150
A
37
*
A
"
6,602 10
A
17
COLONIAL SECRETARY,
3,001 10
J
55
ל
A
TREASURER, - - -
1,855 "
ララ
>>
A
>>
AUDITOR,
300
"
,
21
*
A
F
A
31
25
A
A
**
51
+
CLERK OF COUNCILS,
100
A
*
3
11
A
SURVEYOR GENERAL,
1,800 "
87 10
40 10
33
25
A
A
A
>>
A
*
71
*
A
150
45
**
5
203 0 8
40
45 10
36 I
101 15
15
3,151 10
1,900
>>
"
503 6 8
140
**
200
**
>>
1,958
8
A
55
414 1 8
1,467 15
19
COLONIAL ESTIMATES HONGKONG.
No. 5.-ECCLESIASTICAL, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.
Nil.
No. 6. CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES.
Nil.
No. 7.-EDUCATION, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.
NIL.
A
59
16,331 3
19
F
3 +
No. 8. HOSPITALS, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.
Annual Donation to the Hospital of the London Missionary Society,
Provisions for Patients at the Civil Hospital,
Bedding and other Necessaries,
REGISTRAR GENERAL,
337 10
59
11
A
#
>>
59
>
HARBOUR MASTER,
1,137 10
228 10
多多
A
A
POST OFFICE,
ל
**
*
A
F
**
*
POLICE RATE ASSESSORS,
115
>>
**
"
14
11
A
TOTAL CIVIL, .......
-Г.
14,946 10
509
55
97
A
JUDICIAL ESTABLISHMENT,
6,437 10
112 10
**
55
A
15
5
**
ל
>>
"
79
194
11
+ 15
25
850 13 4
51
55
51
26
55
ECCLESIASTICAL
do.,
700
10 17
**
A
*
-1
EDUCATIONAL
do.,
75
**
59
**
**
**
>>
MEDICAL
do.,
600
97 10
A
55
>>
55
HOSPITAL
do.,
117 10
**
>>
>>
A
A
A
55
A
A
A
POLICE AND GAOLS
do.,
3,249 10
3,378
**
17
A
A
TOTAL,...
[26,008 10
4,225 7
ל
25
1
55
*
6,576
13
710 17
**
15
55
73
Clothing,
R
77
A
75
>>
>>
55
Medicines,
702 10
A
>>
A
55
Treatment of Patients,
117 10
15
53
"
Light and Fuel,
78
**
**
0,705 10
**
:
Incidental Expenses at Hospital,
959 13 4
31,218 10 4
CIVIL:
No. 2.--PENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES.
Annual Pension to the Widow of the late Inspector of Police, Thomas Smithers, who perished
during the Typhoon on 1st September, 1848,
No. 3.-REVENUE SERVICES, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.
Total,
...
15
52
4)
£
S. d.
62 10
80
10
70
A
35
12
ל
A
2
ララ >>
15
57
17
+
A
15
A
**
254 10
No. 9.-POLICE AND GAOLS, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.
POLICE:
3. d.
Clothing and Accoutrements,
20
>>
Veterinary and Farriery articles,
Bedding and other Necessaries, ...
£
s. d.
Remuneration to the Assessors and Collectors of Police Rates, being 5% on the Gross Amount of
140
55 55
Commission to the Government Auctioneer on the Sale of Licenses and Land,
35
ララ *
Total,
175
17 19
No. 4.-ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.
Expenses of Witnesses,
Expenses of Inquests,
Expenses of Criminal Punishments,
Payments to Interpreters on Trials,
Total,
:
£
S. d.
110
"
20
A
15
>>
**
31
>>
A
145
>>
Forage,
Remount Horses,
Medicines (included under Hospital,)
Oil and Candles for Lanterns,
Purchase and Repair of Boats,
Rations of Constables,
Incidental Expenses,
GAOLS:
Provisions, Wood, Water, and Extras for the Sick, Clothing,
Bedding,
---
Medicines, (included under Hospital.)
Fetters, Tools, and other articles,
Oil for lighting Prisons,
Shaving Prisoners, and other incidental Expenses,
Total.
550
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19
31
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8. d.
484
17
2
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25
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55
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20
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178 16
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930 16 27
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696
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1,626 16
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16
COLONIAL ESTIMATES HONGKONG.
Residence of His Excellency the Governor,
Central Police Station,
Police Station at Showkewan, Civil Hospital,
No. 10.-RENT.
No. 11-TRANSPORT.
Boat-hire for the conveyance of the Registrar General round the Island, Conveyance of Convicts,
COLONIAL ESTIMATES HONGKONG.
No. 14. ROADS, STREETS, AND BRIDGES,
ROADS.
NEW ROADS:
£
625
208
s. d.
From Albany Godowns to Wong-nei-chung,
*
**
6
00
8
REPAIRS:
15
Road round the Island,
55
>>
62 10
11
Do. to Ty-tam,
Total,
Do. round Wong-nei-chung Valley,
910 16 8
Queen's Roads, (not in Victoria Proper,)
Streets in Victoria, in addition to Convict Labour, ...
BRIDGES.
£
3. d.
NEW BRIDGE:
7 10 35
At Causeway Bay,
300
**
>>
Total,
307 10
0
REPAIR:
Of Bridges round the Island and Wong-nei-chung,
...
Total ROADS,
Total BRIDGES
53
.....
17
£
3. d.
300
D
>>
A
£
S. d.
100
A
*
100
**
17
30 **
50
**
55
20
F
19
A
300
A
17
300
600
**
115
415
No. 12.-CONVEYANCE OF MAILS.
NEW:
£
s. d.
To the Hongkong & Canton Steam Packet Company, for keeping up the communication between
these two places, per annum,
DRAINS.
of}
Side Channels and Gratings under Report and Estimate No. 13 of
1845, amounting to,
of £2,660 15 3
174 8 4
Of which expended,
2,130 12 6
530
Required for 1850,
11
REPAIRS:
No. 13.-WORKS AND BUILDINGS.
NEW WORKS.
£
d.
£
$. d.
GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS:
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, &c., (under Report and Estimate No.1 of 1848) £14,940 7 7
amount of Estimate,
Of which during the present year,
Remains to be provided for,
Of which probable Expenditure in 1850,
TIT
SUPPLY OF WATER TO GOVERNMENT HOUSE AND OFFICES, (under £804
Report and Estimate No.) amounting to,
Of which expended,
To be provided for 1850,
5,000 00 0
+
£9,940 7 7
6,000
77 >
under}
0 0
297 17 0
506 3 プラ
500
13
A
25
**
>
PROPOSED ARRANGEMENTS AT THE COURT HOUSE AND POST OFFICE, FLAGSTAFF FOR HARBOUR MASTER,
To GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS,
REPAIRS.
7,031 3 0
500
>>
多多
Total WORKS and BUILDINGS,
+
7,531 3
0
:
7
To Drains and Side Channels,
100 ** 59
Total DRAINS,
630
150
وو
A
100 ** }}
105 ** 25
A
355
Planting Trees on Roads, and at Government House and Government Office Grounds, Grassing Slopes in neighbourhood of do.,
Implements for Convicts employed on Roads, Streets, &c., and other Contigencies,
Total ROADS, STREETS, and BRIDGES,...
No. 15.-MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES,
Nu.
No. 16.-INTEREST,
Nil.
No. 17.-LANDS, PURCHASED AND CLEARED.
Nil.
2,000
F
**
18
COLONIAL ESTIMATES HONGKONG.
No. 18. SPECIAL EXPENSES.
Distressed British Seamen, ...
£25
SALARIES:
Secretary and Registrar,
Chinese Secretary,
Assistant do.,
Senior Assistant,
Second do.
Third do.
Fourth
do.
Canton Consulate,
Amoy, do.
No. 19.-SUPERINTENDENT OF TRADE.
Foochow foo, do.,
Ningpo,
do.,
£
1,500
8.
d.
£
d.
£
$.
d.
Shanghue,
do.,
*
1,200
37
55
Two Supernumerary Interpreters @ £150 each,
One Chinese Clerk,
One do.
Two do. £37, 108. each,
Four Messengers @ £12, 10s. each,
Four Chair-bearers @ £12, 10s. each,
Burial-ground Keeper at Macao,
+
Annual Allowance to Aoan, Comprador, .......
ALLOWANCES:
To the Family of Poo-ting-pong,
To the Morrison Education Society, (Annual Donation,)
CONTINGENCIES:
Printing, Newspapers, Periodicals, &c.,
400 37
472 10
400
270
55
A
לל
270
>>
A
>>
A
300
93
A
62 10
*
50
**
75
ל
>>
A
50
50
17
ง
>>
A
55
*
12 10 >>
20 16 8
5,000
**
133 6 8
5,133 6 8
Postage,...
Stationery,
Office Furniture,
Incidental Expenses,
Total SUPERINTENDENT OF TRADE,
37 10
250
55 **
287 10 0
150
100
A
>>
A
>>
55
50
ララ
10
23
A
>>
160
77 25
470
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
No. 20.-CONSULAR SERVICES.
..
19
£
d.
£ d.
+1
5,600
A
*1
3,850
A
A
31
2,550
>>
2,800
*
ל
ง
5,000
Total CONSULAR SERVICES,
***
19,800
REMARK.
The above Estimate does not include any amount that may be required for the CONSULAR BUILDINGS at Shanghae.
54
tå
5,890 16
8
:
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WORKS AND BUILDINGS,
!
20
SALARIES, ALLOWANCES
AND OFFICE CONTINGENCIES.
PENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES.
CIVIL ESTABLISHMENTS:
£
S.
d. £ s. d.
The Governor,
6,602 10
>>
Colonial Secretary,...
3,151 10
カラ
Treasurer,
1,900
>>
35
A
15 55
Auditor, ...
503 6
8
[
Clerk of Councils,
140
Surveyor-General,
1,958
A
A
A
A
Registrar General,
414 1
00
8
Harbour Master,
1,467 15
Post Office, ...
Police Rate Assessors,
194
A
140
55
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JUDICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS,
6,576
53
ECCLESIASTICAL do.....
EDUCATIONAL do.,
710 17
77 i
75 >>
55
MEDICAL
do.....
702 10
51
HOSPITAL
do.,
117 10
POLICE AND GAOLS,
6,705 10
20
REVENCE SERVICES.
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.
ECCLESIASTICAL
CHARITABLE
ALLOWANCES.
EDUCATION.
HOSPITALS.
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
SUMMARY OF THE FOREGOING ESTIMATES, SHEWING THE TOTAL CHARGE
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
FOR EACH DEPARTMENT, SO FAR AS THE SAME CAN BE APPORTIONED,
ROADS, STREETS, AND BRIDGES,
LANDS PURCHASED AND CLEARED,
31,218 10
4 20
175
145
** **
** **
254 10
19
1626 16,,
910 16 8307 10
174 8 47,531 3,, 2,000
*
*
>>
; £5 A. Governor--The Decrease in 1850 is £1,20217s. 10d.; being £1011, 10s. 8. on Fixed Salaries, Arrears of 1847 paid in 1848
Reductions on Provisional Salaries; £76, 78. 2d. on Contingencies for Furniture for Government House; and £100 Rent on the House for the Staff of H. E. the Governor.
B. COLONIAL SECRETARY-Decrease in 1850, £54, 0s. 74d. ; of which £52, 9s. 3d. Arrears of 1847, being Salary of 2d Clerk returned from
Sick Leave paid in 1848; and £1, 11s. 44d reduction on Contingencies.
C. TREASURER-Decrease in 1850, £366, 2s. 4d., viz :-£273, 10. 1d. Special Expenses for Standard Weights and Measures; £10, 18s. 9d. Miscellaneous Expenses, Fecs in two Actions for the recovery of Rent; and £100 under Transport, being the Passage of the 3d Clerk to England-less the amounts of £9, 12s, 6d. estimated more in 1850 for Commission on the Sale of Licenses and Lands, and £8, 13s. Od. under Establishments.
D. AUDITOR-Decrease in 1850, £80, Os. 8d.; being £130, 8s. 8d. on Contingencies, less £50 Increase of the Clerk's Salary.
E. CLERK OF COUNCILS-Increase of £22, 158. 11d. for Contingencies in 1850.
F. SURVEYOR GENERAL Decrease in 1850, £442, 10s. 10d. ; viz., £392, 10s. Reduction on the Establishment, £25 for Allowance discontinued,
and £25, 0s. 10d. less Office Contingencies.
G. Registrar GENERAL £414, 7s. 7d. Decrease in 1830, being Reduction on the Establishment, the duties of Registrar General being per-
formed by the Colonial Treasurer.
II. HARBOUR MASTER-Decrease in 1850, £114, 98. 2d., being Reductions made on the Establishment.
1. POST OFFICE-The accounts are rendered by the Postmaster of Hongkong direct to the General Post Office, London, The £174, 8s. 4d. under Conveyance of Mails, has been estimated in accordance with Despatches Nos. 35 and 67 of 1848, from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
J. JUDICIAL-Increase in 1850, £52, 78 81d. ; being £374, 6s. 13d. on Salaries, being part of the £1250 paid last year in England to the Chief Justice (which for want of information could not yet be brought to account); £12, 5s. 74d. on Contingencies, less the £123, 5s. 9d. for Rent of a Court House paid in 1848; and £210, 18s. 34d., decrease of Expenses on account of Administration of Justice exclusive of Establishment, particularly on Criminal Crown Prosecutions.
K. ECCLESIASTICAL-Decrease of £44, 6s. 9d., being for Contingencies now paid from the Pew Rents.
L. EDUCATION The apparent Increase of £6, 5s. in 1850 arises from only 11 months' Salary having been paid to the Schoolmaster in 1848.
A
25
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44,388 14 4 63,143 17 3
M. MEDICAL-Increase in 1850, £69, 5s. 7d.; being £70, 8s. 8d Increase of the Colonial Surgeon's Salary, (from 15th August 1848 at the
rate of £100 per Annum), less £1, 3s. Id. on Provisional Salaries and Contingencies. N. HOSPITAL The Civil Hospital being established in October 1848, an apparent Increase of £156, 7s. Gd, is under this head for 1850. O. POLICE AND GAOLS-The Decrease under these items for the year 1850, is £2,981,8s. 94d., of which £2,311, 178. 4d. alone are Salaries, the 5s. number of the Force being diminished and the Pay reduced; £63, 15s. being less under Retired Allowances and Gratuities; and £101, under Charitable Allowances; £511, 12s. 3d. is the calculated saving under Police and Gaols exclusive of Establishment, chiefly for Rations, &c. The Medicines, which in 1848 amounted to £255, 3s. 43d., are in 1850 included under Hospital. £6, 0s, 8d. less Rent for a Police Station at Aberdeen, 17s. Gd. less for Office Contingencies and Standard Weights; and £36, 1s. 04d. for treatment of Patients in the Hospital-making a total reduction on 1850 of £3031, 8s. 94d., from which £50 increase in the estimated amount for Conveyance of Convicts is to be deducted.
P. £7,015, Os. Od. is the amount less required for Works and Buildings.
Q. £1,520, 17s. 6d. less for Roads, Streets, and Bridges.
R. NOTHING required in 1850 for the Purchase of Houses or Land.
Nett Decrease of the Estimated Expenditure for 1850, as compared with the Expenditure for 1848, £18,755, 2s. 11d.
The Estimated Expenditure for 1850, as compared with the estimated Expenditure for 1849, is less by £7,807, 168. 4d.
Marine
Colonial Secretary.
3
POLICE AND GAOLS.
RENT.
TRANSPORT.
CONVEYANCE OF MAILS.
WORKS AND BUILDINGS.
ROADS, STREETS, AND BRIDGES.
£ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
£ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
625
£ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
£ s. d.
£
8.
d.
7,227 10
8,430 7 10
A.
ララ
ל
3,151 10
3,205 10 7
B.
5
1,935,
2,301 2 4
C.
>>
503 6 S
583 15 1
D.
wwwwwwww
140
117 4 1
E.
>>
1,958,
15
2,400 10 10
F.
710,
421 11
8
835 19 3
G.
25
יִ
1,492 15
1,607 4 2
II.
174 8 4
I.
174 8 4
334
334 2 10
55
71
6,721
6,668 12 3
J.
**
145
59
-
710 17
755 3 9
K.
55
75
68 15
L.
ל
702 10
633 4 5
M.
>>
1
254 10
35
1626 16
>>
223 6 8 300
11
7,531 3,,
2,000
62 10
434 10
8,875 12 8
7,531 3,,
278 2 6
N.
11,857 5 5
0.
14,546 3 0
P.
2,000 "
>>
3,520 17 6
Q.
ל
5,000,
R.
6
MISCELLANEOUS.
INTEREST.
LAND PURCHASED AND
CLEARED.
SPECIAL EXPENSES.
TOTAL AMOUNT
ESTIMATED FOR 1850.
TOTAL AMOUNT
ESTIMATED FOR 1848.
REFERENCE TO RE-
MARKS.
-
--
21
55
:
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HONGKONG:
PRINTED AT THE CHINA MAIL OFFICE.
1849.
No 82.
182.
Financial.
RECEIVED
OCT31
My Serd,
91. 12 March 130.
Draft with you Iph No 21-25 Augjug.
Copy to read. 31
deria, Houghong
56
25th August, 1849.
In Despatch No 81
this date, I stated that I
3&the
should address Your Sordship on the subject of the erection of a Jovemment
t House
*
of
of
2. Ju
he my Gespatch N.o 53 f 1848, I forwarded .
24th July, 1848.
Plans and Estimate
of.
out House, which could
Government
be erected at a Cost of S. 14.9.46 7.7. and Your Sendship in reply.
Despatche Nutzer of of the February
N295
The Night Honorable,
The Earl Grey,
Ne
Je
in
4
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i
57
P
last, generally apprived of my proposal, leaving
it to
my
discretion to determine at - what time and with what
expedition it should be prec
with, Reference being
be preciad
had to..
artain instructions that had
ded to me relative
been forward to the expenditure Becks generally
3.
There
ore
Public
Colony certain stores and
Materials, suche
CHA
the
Socks, Hinges,
។
Grates, Mantle Vicces, &c, valered at S. 1815, but, which have been
sent out from England for the Government House, but Icannot learn that these articles have
-
been paid foor Hence of the
provision for
Imust make
Y
3
}
Settlement of this account out of
Weis
year's recipts, as it re... impossible to say when the
demand
ell.
neay
be made.
Your Lordship will
I trust have
I
that since.
have been in cha
charge of the Gevernment, I have taken
every proper the
a
asion to reduce
expenditure; and hence I think that at the close of
the
present official year, Ishall
have at my disposal out of this
v's Note and Nevonne
years
of
a Jene
betivecu L. 44, and 5,000 available,
which I am disposed to decole
to the
こ
ce
f
کرو
thee
out House, but before
Government
making
this
Co
I stevuld like to be verlaine that
!
4
I may depend on the sum t have asked for in my despatch
above alluded to,
viz
S. 20,000
being granted for 1850-51; for,
rere
this
not
granted,
and were I to sanction
any
outlay that I may have from my saving of the present year,
-1
it would prove
:
an entire love,
and one which under the
C
circumstances this beleny
of I should regret to feel had been caused by my
want of
foresight.
5.
The following Mome
randum
servc may
to
inform
)
and out-offices Ainque. 7-7.
58
of this I have made,
made provisions
for
de pay for
thee articles above
alluded to.
Ishall have
February next, I think :
to coun
ce
with from
I. 1815.6.1
the founds of the year 1849.50. If a Parliamentary
S
Nole
is granted of £. 20,000 for
1850-51, there will be
available
which will leave to be
-
provided for
in 1851-52
Serdship of my financial
position with Reference
Your
porect.
The Estimate of
to this
6.
thee House
#
4,500, 0, 0
C,000.0.0
2,625.1.6.
Bingray-p
14.940-757.
At present the Colony-
Rout for a Goverment
paying Rout
House to thee.
unt of £625.
7
lo
lly, and for the respectability
the office and
ecomoney,
legard being had
I think it would
be advisable theat this House
should be constructed; best
unless I am sa
sutisfied that
for
the
year
1050-51, a
sume of
not less than £. 20,000 will be granted, and that a provision to the extent of £ 3,000 will be made on this account in the Vote for 1851-52, I cannot
my
responsibility undertaking.
the und
I have the honor to be,
eve
With the highest respect,
Your
Lordship's,
Most Obedient
Humble servant,
Istihare
ри
59
PT
A
1
$
Gov: 9202 & Hong Kong.
9203
Hong Hong Estimates.
60
1 . The Extimate submitted for Parliament
last year may
be summed up as follows:
Civil Services - £39.219
Public Works & Arrears &
Public Works Z- 14.553
ettel
53.772
25th August 1849. Governor Bonham-
to
The Carl Grey.
Received
A 82.
Relative to the
erection
of Government Houses.
PT.
Dednet estimated.
local Revered & £25:432 Expected Savings 3:340 28.972 £25.000.
Then
observed
2. Although the Civil Services were
stated at £ 39.219, it will be obed that an allowance was made for expected Savings to the amount_
of
Mr Mininale. I how
WHame
See 9202. Hong Kong. It will equire
considuation,
Whether the
vime
anthaired to incur this Expense, as
it appears to depend on
The question.
whether forrenment is prepared
преброе
a wok of #20, 001
In Hong Kong this year.
Hm N. 1.
be forefined
cant
well acganialect with all the zwith which were prised as to the Hong Kong extimatit I think it may be porttoned, but is on What is
when the Find with him to
4
the give me his opin "efore mater couse tive twhen put t
Ab
....
of £ 3.340 . These have been accomplished,
with £1.022 more up to the Together with
of25
date of the Governor's Despatch of 25 August 1849; and we have since heard of additional
Jua
sa
savings of 2
£850, king a total reduction since 184), of £ 5.212 upon the Civil Establishment and Contingencies.
3. "The Governor's proposal for this year is for Civil Services - 34.857
Works
-
9.531 £44.388
This includes £6.000 for a Government but he says that imless he is
House, but he
eure
2
61
of a note of at least £3.000 for
he would xt year
the same
pur fose next
not commence the Work,
4. I conclude that the Gout Po will be sanctioned. It has indeed
-long been contemplated, from as for back as Lord Stanley's administration The reasons in the Governor's Deepitch 9203 appear fully to bear out the propriety of supplying a Residence for the Governor of Hong Kong and Chief Supt of a Frade which gils mkenndix Millions per
British Exchequer.
to the
5. But
ײ
owing
5. But add to the Civil Savings which have occurred since, the Gour will have,
if his proposal be adopted, £ 10.082 instead of £9.531 for his
Works, so as to add £550 to the amount
of £6.000 on which he reckoned for this spar's progress of the House.
6 Should these views be adopted, the Treasury should be written to accordingly, the Gour should be apprized of the recommendation cent to them, and the Parl: Estimate will still be £20.000 instead of
1₤25.000
B
as it was last year. 7. 7. S. ab/any.
I among the things Komy Estimate)
an 21ad harper to fame it, it
to g
1. when he apeseened
the
2.7.5.2071
WI....
Pu. Der derfulch quod de unt entinbry
The
me as to the recepity for this longe
outlay for
done. her care can be at
be lice
all confident best it wie
the Estimate the pre
pe this sume.
arquis some unfirmation _ &' linale losus additional few of the mesity
индискат is wanting.
The
pom the unsonal other Ten duties I do ust admit. The Submry is a my
now paid the for. qu
lunge qual unforsibility-
выки
вид
of namely
Kee
pr
this
62
only question
the estimated cost-
covost abrotatily weepery?
Ott.
I think a house absolutely necessary. I am not able to judge what it ought th it but it wo be
to build a good me. - The propored Mtimate -- G.28%
my not
вил ести bery feee nootject to
ну Удес
по
Victoria,
•
63
Sir C.R. Trevelyaw J. CB.
fr
Forwarded by.
Willial
Wollervale
W Stawes
&
-29 Jant
29
Earl Grey
3
th
&.
7 1850.
Col Office. b. Dev 1898 Treasury. 30 Jan 1807
No82-25 Aug 18449
Sii,
Downing Aut 31° January 1850.
With reference to
the Correspondence noted
in the margin upon the
subject of
a
the erection off
Government House ats
Hong Kong, I am directed
by
Earl Grey, to trousmit
to you, for the considus
-ation af the Sords Com :
- missioners of the "Treasury,
copy of
A
the enclosed
a.
Despatel From
-
!
2
64
from the Governor, affly.
- ing for instructions
whether be
may
now
enter upon that work.
2. I
Ans
desired to
state that considering
that the construction of
R
Government House, at
Fron as it could
convemently be underta:
-hev
evas
long ago
sanctioned by Her Majesty's Government;
& that
a
large part
of the Internal fittings,
valued at near
ly
£2000, have been
already purchased
and sent out from
this
<
-*
1
!
X
this fountry, that the
Public is
at present
put to the expense
of an Anual. Kent of £625 to furnish
Accommodation in bei
of a Government House,-
and finally, that it seems fit to supply suitable residence for
the Governor
of
this
a
Colony, and for the Chief Superintendent of a Trade which gields
mellions Annually
many
to the British Exchequer -
Ford Grey thinks that
the time
شده
Cerne
when
the commencement of
this
4
this work may pro- = perly be authorized. It will be observed
that assemming the Parliamentary Grant to be reduced from £25,000 to £20,000, the Governor estimates that this will leave him
$6000 available for this Service in the ensuing Financial Year, to which amount there will be
an addition of about
£550 in
Consequence
of subsequent Savings upon Civil Salaries .. I
они
to state that
Lord Grey proposes,
65
if their Lordships concur
Сенсии
to sanction the commence.
-ment of the work, and the Parliamentary Estimate
my
Auggested in letter of this
this day's
18
W
framed.
other
date
in accor=
-dance with this proposal.
Hewet
I.
1
:
Sr. 83.
Miscellaneous.
The
Mly Serd,
*
EIVED
D.
00T31
849
66
Victoria Hongkong,
28th August, 1849.
With Reference to my
Despatch. N274 of the 2320 July. I have the have to
actinouledge the
the Receipt of
the following Despatches.
the 18th Frestaurt.
Jos
Nr. 1150 122, the last of the
7th June, 1849.
供
Military Nub of 24th May, 1849,
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OCT 27 Dictoria, Hongkong,
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29th August, 1849.
My Serd,
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myself the
honor to enclose for your Lordship's information Copy of
Despatch which it has
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my painful duty this day to forward to Viscount Palmerston, reporting the Assassination of Senhor João
Maria Ferreira de temaral,
Macao, and
tate Governor of which will
1 place your
Ludship in possession of all the particulars with
The Wright Honorable
The Earl Grey,
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Governor Bonham, 28th August, 1849. Victoria, Hongkong,
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the
occasion.
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our Fordship's, your
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I have to acknowledge
your despatch NBA, of
the 29 August, enclosing a lopy of your Despatch to Viscount Palmerston
reporting the assassination of the late Governor of Macao Senhor Joar Maria Ferreira do Amaral
I have her rused
with painful intentat the particulay you
have communicated
respecting this melancholy
occunence
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My Lord,
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Victoria Hongkong
29 August, 1849
I had the hover to cuclose
of a
to your Lordship in despatch A5.go of the 21% fune last the translation Placard posted at bauten, which remarked in
in angry
terius
upon
the
conduct of Senter Amaral The Goverun of Macas, as also oue of a Proclamation issued by Seu highly approving of the removal from Mlacas of certain merchants in consequence of the acts of the Governor which had been stigmatised by the Chinese as
by the Chinese as tyrannies
The Right Honorable,
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The Viscount Palmerston, G. C. B.
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dre. Sre.
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in the said Placard.
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It is now
my
4 melancholy Lordship that
er was m
was murdered
a
auty to report to your this unfortunate Officer
evening of the 22 instant by party of bor & fierseus close to the Barrier of Mlacae . His Didi - de Camp who was riding with him escaped and the murderers then cut off the head and single arm of the Governor and carried
away leaving the trunk in the
them
road.
News of this terrible event
having reached
reached me on the mor ning "the 23. I considered it advisable to 2 @ 4. that a man of war should be sent to Macas, to ascertain the particulars, as well as to afford protection to the - Subjects of Her Britannic Majesty residing there, as they might by the consequences of such a catastrophe be
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placed in a position of great insecurity.
The Senior Naval Officer o
the Station, Captain Troubridge, commanding. Her Majesty's This Amazou, concurring
with me, sailed
at Noon, accompanied by Her Majesty's
Steamer Medea, and arrived in Macao Roads the same
ME
evening. Sconsidered it my duty also to address the Imperial conmissioner upon the subject, and
p5. have the hover to enclose
po
copy of my 6. communication and his reply this day
received.
MANO MAN AM
Alpon the 24" nothing reached
official form, but on the 25", the Plenipotentiary Ministers of the Spanish, American, and French nations No2748. forwarded me a letter addressed to Seu
to which they requested me to affix No 9___my_uamme. Greplied that I had already
myself upon
written to him
the same
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No12.
By the Medex which
brought over the letter of the bouncil, Salso received one from baptain M12 - Troubridge, stating that the bouncil
had written to him, first, to inform him that Sew's reply to them was so
unsatisfactory that their troops had taken a fort which it was their intention to hold and
again,
to _.
request that he would immediately apist them, as a Chinese fort had ired on their troops. He therefore
fired
requested my
instructions. In
my
M/_reply, Sexpressed a hope that the
presence of two British Men-of-war would deter the Chinese mob, within
-
Macão, from any
acts of violence which might place in jeopardy the lives or property of British residents,
recommended that he should
and re
sufine himself to the protection of
Victoria, Hongkong,
nath Anoush 19/1/19
1.
subject, and much in the same terms,
and as I declined on
I declined on that accou
account to
subscribe their letter, I returned it as
they requested.
att
No 10.
Upon the 26th I received an application from the bouncil administering the Provisional ___ Government, requesting that I would send to assist them repelling attack threatened by the Chinese . Alpon referring to Sir John Davis & correspondence in October 1846, with Captain M2 Dougall R.N., when a similar request was made by the. Macao Government, I found that his proceedings on that occasion had been entirely approved of by your Lordship, and in my reply, I of course, declined to act any but a neutral part, in
accordance with the instructions which
had quided my predecessor.
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these alone
alp to the present time, although there is of course much confusion at Mação, little alarm -
to be felt by the British residing there; and none have been frightened
seems to
away either by the assassination itself.
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the exciteurent thereon consequent
sortie
in
The Portuguese Soldiers have, defiance of the bouncil, made a
atie in which a number of Chinese
reported to have been killed, ramongst these an officer, whose head
was cut off and carried back to Macao, where it was stuck upon a pole.
are re
ours
runtour
arc
There touching the
course war cous
variou
of course
the immediate cause
do not
of the apassination: which many resitate to ascribe to the direct influence and instigation of the Chinese Government. The late Governor had
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undoubtedly rendered himself very unpopular both with the Chinese Government and inhabitants of Macas,
and there were re
ago,
reports two months. that a large sum of dollars, varioust, stated, had been offered for his head... Without at all wouching for the truth of similar reports, or concurring in conclusions arrived at, it may still be safely assumed that the perpetrators of
that
in the
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the act were aware the removal of obnoxious a person would not be unacceptable to their Authorities.
In the meantime, as our
own harbour has been left unprotected, Shave deemed it expedient to request baptain Troubridge to send over the
Medea, as there are numerous Pirates in the adjoining seas who might be tempted by the absence of the vessels of War. I have also hunted to him privately
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114 of Macao, the enclosed rejoinder to the reply which I gave that Body, and which forms Inclosure No: 11 in this Despatch
(signed) S. G. Benham.
{ True Copy,
Maine
Colonial Secretary.
PT.
that it would be well to come as soon as posible to a decision as to the length of time he
may see fit to keep the Amazon
at Macao. There are at present in the Macao Roads two American and one
quite
French Vessel of War, which are enough for the security of the place should their assistance be required; - whilst if they were to withdraw before him, he might be embarrased by the difficulty of leaving the spot
I have be
(Signed) S. G. Bonkame
(True Copy,)
Maine
Colonial Secretary
P.!. 30th August. Since writing the above, I have received from the
bouncil in charge of the Government
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Governeda Provincia
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carsequencia da
merte de Exmve. Governader,
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do Amaral, tem sentimento de
participar a Mxt, que henteir
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Mr Bonham to Viscount Palmerston,
Despatch from 4.E.
announcing
the assassination
and transmitting
of the Governor of Macas,
Documents
melancholy event.
connected with that
and Correspondence
29th August 1849.
No 84 of 1849.
Inalosure No I'm Keshi
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de 1849.
Illme: Cence sur: Samuel
George 1 Benham, Gwemader
de Hongtong.
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Macao.
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Miquel Pereira Simocis.
José Bernardo Gue larte. Manoel Pereira
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of the Province Most Illustrious and Most Excellent hie,
ofe
Micene Timor,
and Soler.
The Government Council.
general having according to Law assumed charge Department of the Government of the Province, in
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No: 59.
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consequence of the death of the Most Excellent Governor The Councillor foão Maria Ferreira & do Amaral, regret to report to your Excellence that yesterday evening at sunset. His Excelling The Governor returning from his usual ride va's attacked wear the middle of the Is this
band of Chinese assassins who rushing on him unexpectedly, succeeded in therowing His Excellency off his Horse, and cruelly. .-_ assassinated him ; his Aide-de-bamp
by a
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also wounded, but fortunately escaped alive:
With the knowledge of this
deed and its accompanying circumstances, which had they time, they
unable under
their present feelings to particularize, the
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Council
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apprehensive, and ou sufficient
grounds, that the safety of this Establishment
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your
is endangered; they therefore hasten to bring the face under the notice of your Exciliency, hoping that following the Example of 4 Excellency's Predecesser similar secasion in October 1840, Your Excellency will be picused to afford to this settlement and to the subjects of Her Majesty therein resident, the necessary assistance
in
cause o
of used.
The Council have lustly to
transmit herewith for your Excellency's information a Copy of the Protest which
they, under this date, have addressed to the Vice. Roy of Canton
Ged Preserve
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Macac 282 August, 1849
(Signed) feronimo Bishop of Mlacas
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Joaquim Autonie de Moraes vorneire,
Ludgere Joaquim de Maria Neves,
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Miquel Pereira Simcoes.
fozé Bernarde Goularte,
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the Governor of
Macas, and enclosing
the murder
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novo
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semelhante acto de traição
barbaridade, tende offendido e
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Governader
todos aliados de
Sua Magestade Videllissima,
a cada lun dos
quacs vai
per remittido luna Copia
desle Protesto. Macao 23 de
-
Agosto de 1849. Hatter - famcin Neves Simes. Genlacte: Freira.
7.
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[ Signed) A.J. de Mirenda.
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Celarial secretary.
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Most Illustrious and Most Excellent Six,
The Government bouneil
having assumed the Government of the
Province, in accordance with Law, in.. consequence of the Death of the Most Excellent Governor The Councillor foão Maria Ferreira do odmaral, which occurred at six o'clock
Ľ
yesterday evening, have to perform the painful duty of bringing under the notice of your Excellency the circumstances accompanying this atrocious assassination which has been committed by Chinese. The Most Excellent Governer was returning
home
ewards from his usual ride, accompamed by his Aide - de Camp, when near the middle of the Isthmus he was attacked by
number of Chinese in disguise, who throwing him from his horse, cut
off his
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and
head werd hand which they leaving the body
wounded.
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they carried
carried away. the ground covered with
stabs; his Aide-de-Camp also
This outrage is of se atrocious a
coas
nature, and attended by circumstances so extraordinary that it cannot be looked upon
the simple act of Assassins. contrary, all its characteristics are
CCA
but on the
those of
an act premeditated and deliberately planed -- This is evident, for your Excellency
must be
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of the advertisements and
notices which some time
age were
in banton, and which there are
distributed
are good...
grounds to believe, if they did not originale
with the Chinese authorities themselves, -
were at least approved and sanctioned by them. The bouncil therefore transmit to
Excellency this Protest Excellency
this Protest against the insult and assassination perpetrated by Chinese Subjects on the person of the
your
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Representative of Her Most Faithful Majesty, _au unheard of outrage which calls for redup proportioned to the brime.. Pending the Commands of Her Mest Faithful Majesty on this ubject, the Council
the bouncil require and PT. demand from your Excellency the immediate capture of the briminals, and the delivery of the head and hand of the assassinated Governor, that these in
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by
to
for
the
consequences.
be buried with his
In the mean time, the council
your Excellency
Excellency that they are compelled to make the present demand the circumstance of it's being necessary give honorable burial to the body of the highest Authority and Representative of Her Most Faithful Majesty in ellacão; but this act of theirs does not prejudice in any
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way the Right of Her Most Keithful Majesty who has been thus outraged.. In order to uphold this Right the bouncil again protest to your Excellency, for it is imposible that
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over all t
I such treaclury
they should pass over act of such and barbarity, which is au
ist the Law
against
0
offence not only
of Nations, but in particular
against the Sovereignty of ter Most Hailliful
Majesty
The Council finally
Excellency that they are going
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your
to br
bring
this
lamentable event to the Notice of the ellinisters
of
of Spain, Trance, and the United States edmerica, and also to that of the Governor of Henghong, all of whom are Allies of Her Most Haithful Majesty, and to each of them
a
copy of this Protest shall be transmitted.
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Macas, 25 August, 1849.-
(signed) Matta, barucire," Sèves,-
Simões, Goularte, Pereira..
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( siqued ) Auto Jo, de Miranda:
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L.d'Almada e Castro. (signed) L. d'Almada
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Mame Colonial hentary
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No 84 of 1849.
Inclosure to 3 in Desp:
Copy 50:244
85
Eveellent Jers.
Victoria, Hongkony,
24th August, 1849
It is with extreme pain that I have the houer to acknowledge the receipt of
une,
relative
your Despatch of yesterday's date, with its "cuciosure, which has just reached to the distressing subject of the death of your
late Excellent
1 Governor.
Early yesterday the sad tidings of
The Right Reverend
Dour feronimo, Bishop of llacas,
His Soner,
Joaquim Antonio de Moraes barneire, Major Ludgere Joaquim de Faria Neves, Miquel Pereira Fimmens, Esq.24 Jozé Bernards Goularte, Esqrt,
Manoel Pereira, Esqpe
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charge of
Government of
the
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the Council
Commissioner,
to the Imperial
of Macas, addressed
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the
of the Governor of
subject of the murder
Macas.
23?? August 1849.
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the melancholy
uclancholy event reached
and Captain Froubridge of Her Majesty's ship Amazon: the Senior Naval Officer at this station, having volunteered his services to proceed immediately to Macao, left this Harbour about und-day, - together with H. M's Steamer Medex - These vessels no doubt arrived last night, and I am in hopes that their presence will prove sufficient to cusure the tranquillity of ellacas, and to suppress the excitement that must..... Settlement the naturally be expected in a yovernor of which has been deprived of his
life
in so atrocious and brutal a manner.
captain Froubridge for the present
will remain at Macas, and I trust the
will
arrival of St. M's Nessels at this juncture
H. be sufficient to shew the Chinese authorities that the British Government fully sympathize with that of Her Most Faithful Majesty,
ou this distressi
distressing occasion, and that the Enner will, if evilly disposed, be induced
Chinese
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in consequence to refrain from any further acts of aggression.
I yesterday, addressed a Letter to the High Commissioner on the subject of this atrocious murder, and informed him that
Sconceived it to be one in which all the
Representatives of the Moreign Powers in
directly concerned, and that I
bhina
were
uce
fully expected that he would cause the perpetrators of the Bloody deed to be al
apprehended, should they have taken refuge within the dominions of the Emperor of
China.
bondeling with you
sincerity on this distresing
I have se
as I do in all
occasion.
(signed) I.G. Bonham
(Frue Copy,)
Colomat Secretary.
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have this instant heard to
my Great horror that a most atrocious murder has been last night committed on the person of His Excellency the Governor of Macas, who when riding.
riding close to the Barrier Gate,. and who, when stain, had his head
was attacked and shot at
severed from his body and carried away by his murderers.
I lose
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time in bringing
Excellency.
this sad balamity to your
knowledge
as it is oue in which all
"Horciqu Powers, having Representatives
His Excellency
Lew
Imperial High Commissioner,
fic. &c. &..
in reply to Inclosure
Br. Mr Bonham
No 2.
# 24th August 1849.
in china, take a deep and direct interest,
is
of the British
and I therefore in the yovernment, call on your excellency, "immediately to apprehend the Perpetrators of this Diabolical act, in order that they -
uray
be dealt with in such
such manner, as
to proclaim to the Chinese
as well
well as to
Foreign Natious, that
Vâtious, that your Authorities,
equally with those of Western States, detest
and will inevitably bring to condign
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Punishment the Perpetrators of such frightful atrocities.
During the present interval
of suspense and until the particulars counceted with this Fearful Tragedy known, I have caused a Tirigate and Steam Scop to proceed to and remain in ellacas roads.
are
Accept the assurances &e.. (signed) F. G. Bonham
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Colonial Secretary
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No 84 of 1849.
Malomere 15 in Delth.
PT.
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Seu, High Imperial (omuissions,
te,
te,
de.
Sends the following Reply to a
the Honorable Envoy, dated
letter of
7
6th day of th month (230. August) which he just received, and fully perused.
A local
6 pectition ( from the local authorities? ) informed
yesterday that the Portugues
Commandant had been in
e..
injured. When I the great Minister heard of this, I was extremely astonistice . Ore lothing however at the successive -reports of the Heangshan bruil and Military authorities and the assistant Magistrate of Macae, and at a copy of a
Proclamation
issued by
the . Portuguese Senate, it
would appear, as if these nuurderers
were not respectable people of Macas,
Seu, announcing
42. Mr Bonkam to
the
apprehended...
232350 August, 1849.
that the murderers be
of Macas, and requesting
murder of the Governor
1
TRE,
F
2.
ingagei
in trade; and words to theat
effect . The murderers are there-
fore not natives of the place. Portuguese themselves threew .
Mie
I find that the Commandant
of a very cruel
Amaral
disposition, and that the.
of all
Leis
to
ex
people head.
and the
a pitch and .
in
indignation
they wished for of this I . the Great
livre ; -
satisfactione,
Minister beard at
Foreigners
- early date.
ds w
well as natives
have such their peculiar sphere
which it is not advisable to
overstep. There
2463
for instance
in the fourth month (Jarve).
procession in honor of
the Gods, at which a subject of your Honorable Coventry- seized and imprisoned. The Chinese
Merchants who trade at Macao
F
being very
much
uch afraid,
afraid, that
90
trouble might enove, whereby they
would be involved, resolved to
ret
cove
avoid
tegether to Mampea to
creating or causing any mischief. This is clearly proved.
It
Oc
however not be
known heav urderers coming from without, could have been
care
beforehand, that the
Commandant Amaral that day
ent of
ove
would have galloped
of the gate,
7 his
illegally
ovore.
or whether not.
in sceret au Mt.
people combined Stealthily plotted to vent their indignatione
Moreover after having him, they out off
killed His head
and hand. These circumstances
make one the
suspect...
that they likely harbored deep
PT.
4.
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that the innoccnt
involved, and the real
are in
criminals
breast
I
for
eunuity
and resentment.
Since you Envey entertain in
neighbourly kind feeling.
you the Honorable
a
hope you
your
will institute son
secret enquiries with the
e
Portugu
MELE
about this, and
cat, Minister have also
the Great.
manded the Civil and
Military authorities of Nerung:
the matter.
gate the
shan, to investigate
with strictness and despatch,
and they
st endeavour to
get at the facts and the tone
murderers, that
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they may
punished accordingly
there
sume up
be
the whole,
are distinct laws in the
code for
those that kill others,
and neither foreigners
least
ought to show the knot
natives eight=
Ca
fly far away,
thus (others) could not be
deterred in
Jutiere. Whilst sending
reply, I wiste
sending this
you
happiness, and address the
Jame
To
His Ex: H. 13. M. Plon : S. G. Bonham, &q
Javu
Je
14
Tvontwang 29th year
hove
10th day.
fer
C. B.
He
6th mantle,
37th August. 1879
True Translation.
(Signed) Charles Gutzlaff, Chinese Scerclary.
True.
(Tone Copy)
Mama
Colonial secretary
PT.
to 84 of 1849.
Malonere S6 in Despi
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The
in reply to Inclosure perial Commipioner
1:5.
27th August, 1849.
92
Macas 23 nout 1849.
Monsieur le Ministre et cher Collégue,
[
Vous
di recevoir
avez
comme
nous
la Communication de la note
que les autorités Portugaises out
adressée
au
Commissaire Impérial a
l'assassinat
Canton, à l'occasion de
de l
EPT.
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du Gouverneur
de Macas.
Nous avons pensé que
bes
représentants
en
Chine des puissances
amires de S.M. I F ne
IF
pouvaient
s'abstenir
en
présence
de cette
présence
Communication et en
d'un attentat aussi horrible que
Son Excellence Monsieur Bonham,
Ministre Plénipotentiaire de
Sa Majesté Britannique.
TH
celui
qui a
été
journée
commis dans la
du 22. nous
avons
nons
abstenir de
pensé, dis-je, que pouvions nous parvenir
Aw
Chinois
une
ne
gouvernement
faire
preuve de notre
sympathie pour les Portugais
at nous
vous
в.
offrons, Montour
le. Ministre et Cher Collègue
de vouloir bien signer avec nout
la note ci-jointe que
avons
rédigée
en
nous
que
nout
commun et
soumettons à votre
approbation. Si votre Excellence
consent
an
à apposer sa Signature
dessus des nôtres, nous
la
prions de vouloir bien, four se pas perdre de temps, faire envoyer elle même notre lettre
à
Canton et dans le cas
contraire la remettre du
la remettre a M. H.
L. Haskell
agent
93
Consulaire
de France à Hongkong qui nout la renverrait. La note an
Commifaire Impérial ser trouverait alors annulée, car nous ne voulons faire
démarche
que
cette
Collectivement.
Agréez, Monsous le Ministre
Monsieur le Ministe et cher Collègue, be assurances
de la haute consideration
avec
laquelle nous avons l'honneur
d'être
de Votre Excellence,
Les très humbles et très
Obeissants Serviteurs,
(Signe) Sinibaldo de Mas-
) Jno: Mr. Davis.
(.) Forth Rowen.
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A Seu.,
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Commissaire Supérial
fu
te
M. le Commifiaire Impérial,
ou Go
Vous
connaissez déjà la march Gouverneur de Macao, consi que tous les incidents de ce b horrible Evénement, dont le
Gouvernement be Inacco trent
de nous donner Communication
Officielle. In notre qualité de Représentants de Pruisances Amies de la Reine de Portugal,
hous
Croyous devoir vous témoigner
toute
AZ. "Mr Bonham
Foreign Minister to Communication fromis
cnolosing
a
addressed by
Sen.
them to
letter
2329 August, 1849.
toute l'horreur que nous éprouvons pour un pareil attentah, chla Counction profonde où nous sommes que les Autorites - Chinvives feront tout leur possible pour arrêter ct punir
suivant la Loi les Centeurs de
Ce Crime, qui après
l'avoir
Commis se sont refugie's sur
le Territoire Chinois -
С
Signé ) de mas
"
) Forth Rouen
J. W. Davis.
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Honorable Sirs,
Victoria Hongkong,
25th August, 1849.
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I have had the honor to receive
this day a Letter from your
Excellencies,
-
dated the 23′ iust:, upon the subject of the assassination of the Governor of Macar
The moment that I was informed
of this terrible outrage, I addressed to the Imperial Commissioner, Sex, a communi. cation, of which I beg to cuclose
From this
Cl
copy. -
your that, in protesting against this fearful .. atrocity, on behalf of the British Nation, I have associated with that of my
Excellencies will learn
State, the
Their Excellencies.
u a me
o w li
of every Foreign Power
Don Sinibaldo de Mas,
J. W. Davis, Esqre,
M. Le Baron Forth Rouen.
PT.
2
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Copy of asdrefeed to the Chinese
Commissioner by Foreign Ministers
Communication
the
residing in Macos.
3
represented in China.
Your Excellencies will. I trust, ful assured, upon the perusal of my Letter
cordial
to the Imperial Commissioner, of my sympathy with the sentiments it has secured good to you to express, and of this the termus of that letter can leave the Commissioner himself in
it might
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in no doubt. I think therefore that seem to hum superfluous affix my signature, at this comparatucly late period, to a communication so similar in letter and spirit, to that which must
have
se reached him yesterday, and I beg
accordingly
Chinese note sie
to return herewith the official
siqued by your
Excellencies.
with the highest consideration,
I have, &c.
[siqued ! S.H. Bonham
17ue Copp!
Main
Colonial hentary.
97
PT.
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No 84 $1829.
Inclosure AG in Despi
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Copy
More Ex Ser
in
7, declining to sign
apply to Inclosure to A.2. Mr. Bonham
the
apsassination.-
on the subject of
addressed the Commissioner
he having already
conjoint letter to Seu,
the
25th August, 1849.
PT.
T
Este Conse the tême de
NExa
деле
lendo sido satisfactoria a resposta,
que recebee cercct do atrecissimo
attentado praticado
6 pratica. neo dia 22
de Corrente, revolveo este Conse
mandar huje cocupar for
força portugueza i testo da Vecto
do berce, para conservar lain. perariamente, on quanto
negocio se
não terminar
to cute
vatisfacti.
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desta resolução foi esta manhaä aquelle Nosto occupado militär.
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por
quamição;
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apenas esta
ali okegon, o pequeno forte
alone
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da Verta abrio
força que
• foge
sobre a nosal
the respondée; o térotico
continua de parte a parte;
Chinas cortinam
grande
ro de
e força
qual be provavel meditam
alaear
invadir a bidade. Nestas
circunstancias este Conselho
Re
apressa
the pedir
Mexr pava
de Jua
Magestade Fidellwima, tintiga
Fiel Aliada de sua Magestade
Britanica, haja
con
de
brevidade possivel o
Socorro de que
пор
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varece
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segura
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habitantes urgenté-
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Dons Gr. a VExr. Macar,
25 d' Agosto, 1849.
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&
George
Allen & Erme Aur Sammel
N Sanbaw.
Governader de Houghing.
Jo
B
Yo,
Jo.
PT.
(Signed) Jerem
Joaquim
Terenime. Bispe die Mação.
Antonio de Moraes fu mein
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(") Miquel Pereira Simcens.
) Manoel Forcira.
1 Semards Contacte.
Ludgere Joaquim
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Faria Neves.
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Colonial scordary.
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(Translation)
100
Mest Illustrious and Most Excellent fix
The Council have to communicate
to your Excellency that in consequence of the unsatisfactory nature of the auswer received relative to the most atrocious outrage committed on the 22a Instaut, they resolved this day to order the occupation by a..... Portuguese Horee of the Post at the Barrin, with the intention of keeping it temporarily auted this afair shall have been satisfactorily concluded.. In pursuance of this resolution,
occupied this morning by a Military Horce from this Garrison, but it
until
that Post
had
WWCS
no sooner arrived there, than the small
The Most Illustrious and Most Excellent,
Samuel George Bonham
Governor of Hongkong.
Sec. &c. &c..
EPT.
6.
fort calside the Barnier opened fire upon
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troops which was returned.. Ime fring
continues on both sides; out as the Chinese
i re
reyuthering together a large force it is._ provave that they intend to attack and
invade the vity..
Aluder these circumstances, the
Council lose no time in a
applying to your
Excellency, requesting in the name of Her
Most Haith
Hauthful Majesty, the ancient and
faithful ally of Her Britannic Majesty, -
that
you
will send us
with
Of
little delay
as
possible the assistance of which this Establishment
is in need, and which the safety of its inhabitants urgently demands.
God Preserve
?
Your Excellency -
Macao, 25th August, 1849..
(signed) feronimo, Bishop of Macas,
Joaquin Antonio de elloraes barucing
() elliguel Pereira Simões,
Mansel Pereira',
101
(siqued) Jozé Bernarde Goularte.
Sudgers Joaquin de Faria Neves.
( Frue Translation)
[(signed) L. d'Almada e bastro
(Face Copy)
4
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Colonial
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Sentary.
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EPT.
1082 $184+9.
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Copy
Honorable
onorable Jers
Victors Hongkony
102
26th August 1849.
I have the hover to
acknowludge the receipt of your letter of the
25" diagust, requesting that I would assist attack upon llação
you in repelling
threatened
by
CC
Chinese force.
Under the instructions of my..-
yovernment I am precluded from any armed interference between the Portugues and...
The Right Reverend
Dom feronimo, Bishop of ellacas,
His Honor,
Joaquim Antonie de Moraes barueiro, Major Ludger Joaquin de Faria Neves,
and the other Members of Council in
charge of the
Government of Macas.
EPT.
attache by the Chinese to repel a threatened applying for assistance AE. M. Bonhamo Council of Macas to Communication from
m
the Eity of Macas.
25th August, 1849.
7
chinese, and this was fully explained to
CC
your
correspondence
late lamented Governor in which passed between him and my predecesor
in det. 1846.
to
Were the danger umpending to be feured from the act of a Chinese mob within the bite, I should feel myself called upon to render all the assistance in my power the Portuguese Government in restoring order, thereby to ensure the safety of all British Subjects residing at Macae. But in the present instance
our
your
if I rightly understand communication, the hostilities stated
"to be actually in progres are the result of your having taken possesion of a Fort, not "heretofore occupied by your
your troops with
the avowed intention of continuing
it until
to hold
shall have received some.
you satisfaction from the Chinese Gout for the terrible asupination of your lamented Govt . The Chinese have in consequence
opened a fire upon your troops
were
you
to
103
I should be much concerned
suppose that I viewed with
indifference the fearful catastrophe which is connected with present events; but from
o w w
your parties, the dispute has assumed the
report of the proceedings of both
of an
form
au international quarrel, and in such my instructions clearly and positively prohibit my interference.
This reply
to
your
will be conveyed
reply will be
K. W's-
Honorable Council
wait by
Steamer Media, which with the M's Ship
Amazon "will remain in Macao Roads the time being, and I trust that their have the effect of preventing
for
presence may
any
disturbance which might otherwise
arise within the bity.
"I have se
(True Copy)
Maine Colonial Secretary
(signed) IG. Bouham
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EPT.
ato 84 of 184-9.
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PT.
Copy
Jir.
Macao, 25th Aug 1849.
3 PM.
104
I have the hover to acquaint
Your Excellency that I have just received "two communications from the bouncil.
The lone
oute sa
that in says
consequence of not having obtained a satisfactory Explanation relative to the horrible event of the 22" cush it has resolved for the safety of the Establishment to send a Portuquen Force to the Forte de ceres (or Barrier) to occupy temporarily that post under ulterior satisfactory resolution be
tory resolution be come to in the business.
#
"The second one is to the
the Chinese Fort has fired
is to the effect that
on the Portugues
troops and requesting immediate assistance.
To this I replied in person to the council
to Inclosure No 10, declining
A.2. Mr. Bonham in reply
sx st
assistance,
to afford the
interference in
forbidding him from
from AM's. Government
his Instructions
required
any questions
Chinese governments.
between the Portuguese and
26th August, 1849.
that I was b
5 by
prepared to wage
a
war with the Chinese, but that I would land & force (as the Americans have done) to
lllαil ole
of the
protect English lives and property, and that if it were necessary I might. Horts for the same purpose.
Iintimated that I was about to
send your Excellency a despatch by the Raven which the American bommodore had kindly placed at my disposal and I would send any despatch for the Council. It appears from .. what the President. The Bishop, told that the Council forced into this step by the pressure from without . The People...
wanted to avenge
told we
Isaid I...
their Governor. unwise and unnecessary to take
thought it unwise and
the "Barrier as they could not keep it without also taking the Hort which commanded it
were
and from which the bhinese had already opened fire, but that now Chinese troops
ling
to reinforce the Hort, they had better
landi destroy the Barrier and retire within their
105
own walls. It would be desirable to have the illedea" here and I have sent a letter to that
effect to Commander Lockyer who I have also desired to wait on Your Excellency for
Instructions
&
is as to what
what assistance I am to
au
any
render the Portuguese and if under errcumstances I shall be justified in taking an active part with the Portuguese
I have Se.
7
(Signed) &.& Groubridge
I should not be at surprised at a Revolution taking place here.
( True Copy,)
bolomcat Secretary.
PT.
Inclosure No 12 in sesp
wat 84 of 184-9.
;
EPT.
Copy
55.78
Jir.
the
Victoria, Houghong,
106
26 August, 1849
I have the hover to acknowledge
receipt of your Letter of the 25 Justant enclosing the request of the Council of llacas for immediate assistance &e
&c.
Upon referring to the records of
a
the Superintendency. I find that in betober 1846 the late Governor of Macao applied to my Predecessor Sir John Davis for his and in repelling
attack threatened by Chinese force. Sir John Davis declared himself to be precluded by his instructions from interfering in any way between the
Portuguese and blunes Governments and
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CaptTM E. &: Troubridge R.M
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H. M's Ship Amazon.
the Portugueses.
25th August, 1849.
justified in assisting whether he would be for Instructions as to Mr Bonham, applying Trombridge, R. N., to H.E. Letter from Captain
7
his letter to Captain Me Dougal R. V. of which
7
a
Icnclose a copy recommended that Efficer, ར༩་་
will perceive to take no other than a neutral part. The whole correspondence on being sent home was approved by His Lordship the Keretary of State for Foreign Affairs. It is therefore obviously out of my power to adopt- any other course but that approved of in my predecessor's zase. I am in hopes however that the presence of H. ll's Ships Amazon and Media may be sufficient to deter the Chinese mob -
acts of violence which
within Macas from any acts of
may place in jeopardy the lives or property of Hill's Subjects residing there. Should it unfortunately prove otherwise you will take such steps as may seem to advisable for the security or withdrawal of the British
residents.
you
I am confirmed in
my opinion
that we should confine ourselves to the
protection of our own countrymen, by my-
i
107
lief that the hostilities stated at present të be in progress have originated in the cecupation by the Portuguese Government of a Barrier fort,
t, which was within the last few months in the possession of the Chinese,
I have Je..
(signed) S. G. Bonham
(Frue Copy,)
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Man Colonial Secretary
PT.
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1849.
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108
Gevesue da Provincia de
Macao, Timor
Solör
Exporrente Geral
Jobs.
Huw Era Senhor
Q
O Conselho do
de Gover
Provincia de Macue, Jinver
Dolor, ten
recepção
peão do
PT.
du
houra de
accuzar
Officio
de VEx a
serto do-
de 26 do Corrente,
e.
Couthende passa a exper
V Exa
• seguinte.
& Socorro e
auxilio
este Censethe requiziton
a.
VCC a não era nem
ilia que
a
ia ser
· podia
entre, que e prestade pelo
antecessor de V.Ex & em outubro
de 18416, cujo excmplo este Conselho citad officio que
dirigio a
V.Eer em 23 do
V&c
Corronte con o
о
N° 59. Elle nuo
H.E. Mr Bonham in
переве
forbed him from taking
that his Instructions to Inclosure N 12-
an
between the Portuguese
and Chinese Governments.
any questions arising
active part in
26th
Angust,
1849.
7
1
2.
importava tuum acto de aggressão e hostilidade contras
chinas,
protecção
Pa) co
0000
sinu
habitantes de
Colonia Portugueza, entre
quals se contour
subditos 1 Britanicos.
ao
lon
aggressão
Quante as Caze de appressin Portuguezes e China
entre on
or
elle não principion de corto da
ador de
nossa parte. O Governader
Macco for
barba
neute
assassinado por subditos chinas,
que depois de commetterem & attentado, passaram pela porta de Aree que era guardada
Greo
Chinas levando a
for C
e
ex
Cabeça
unica mão do illustre
finado ; e o Geverno procedeo lege,
21 00
the cumpria
averiguação daquelle quote ;
37
3. 109
para este fine fez vir algune
Chinas daquelle lugar, cujas
declarações attestäm Crime,
f
CA
co facto de terem escapado assassinen, pelu Porta,
logé abandonada.
tempo que
qual for logo
ao mésano
Caza branca
a
se reunia munità
gente armada; e se este
CH
Governo mandou occupar
for para não deixar pas livre por
ella
a
assassinos, que ainda vendor-
Porta guardado commettirane
bove.
horroroso.
attentado do dice 22, ne
à vista della
à força que
por tanto
Cidade, este
for
e passo por
de absoluta
necesidade
da Cidade,
para a segurança
give
altamente
reclamava.
PT.
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;
4.
Este Conselho tem
penderar
v
do Cerco,
0.0
&
Festa
делс
Barreira
livrites do nosso,
territorio chineze
que
ella occupa por he limitropée,
e.
do
terraco
tauti
não he
excluzivamente portuguez China, mas de ambos,
føde ser guarnicide por
por outro, nem hé
on
exacto o pensamento de não haver sido aquelle ponto-
occupado por nossas
tropas, por quanto elle não
de ser de direito sempre
si o pode
que as circun
slaucias
reelamargue 10 ja effectivansenté o for, proie
ainda não là lu
que alli estére estacionada
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a
per alguns mezes una portugueza;
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disto não se
ex
Forta,
temporariamente cans whe Cacethe já e
exte
declarou
de
acto
uzuspação. violação de territorio, que pudesse
To contra
justificar a aggressão
nos começada
no dia 24 do
Corrente pela força Chineza,
da
Fortaleza de Tavsathar,
que for a primeira
fazer fogo
sobre
a
força
EPT.
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pozicão e
1
nella incomodada,
for precize dezalojar da Futaleza a força Chinez
que
nella
Como
A.
achava bem
differentes outras
pozições proximas,
effeituon
dia com a
da
A..
is to
tarde do mes
a parte ;
feliz resultad
voltando
força finda aquella
expedição posto
ainda se
occupar o
verv
Porta do Cerco, ande
Corrserva.
Come esclarecimentos
0-3 03
acima dados,
8. julga
exte
Concethe ter cabalmente
encials
edae1.
illucidado os pontos da questão, para Vlx" bene
Ex Ex
ição eu
conhecer a pozição
a
en que
tanti este
o, cor
Governo,
Ciivas, estão com
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a ella; restando the
ac
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agradecer a Mx a fromptidas can que corresponded
dezejos deste Conselho,
andando Conservar
Wada desta Cidade o Vapor
Medeo", e a Cérveta "Amazon,
não
aquas
cija prezença nestas
pode deixar de offeitos dezejados ; podendo
0
assegurar
for.
a
V. En a
produzir
que
bé de intenção
еск
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27 de Agosto de 18.4G.
Hlu: Cenue: Sr. Sammurt George
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Government of the Province of
112
(Translation)
Macao. Timer, Most Illustrious and Most Excellent Six,
and Soler,
General
The Council of Government
Department of the Province of Macuo, Giner, and Solor have the houer to acknowledge the
dor de
Jer
Je.
S263
Bachane, Governader Houghing. Her
(Signed) forenine, 1 3o pro de Mação.
Joaquine Antonio de
Moracs Carneiro.
Iudgore JeagTM" de Haria
Neves.
) ■ Miguel Pereira Simocus.
José Bernarde Galarte.
Manvel Véreira.
True Copy)
Maine
Colncial Secretary.
receipt of your Excellency's Despatch of the 26th Justant, and in reply proceed to state
as follows
The aid and assistance which, the Council requested from your Excelling was not nor could it be of any nature than that afforded by your.
other
Excellency's Predecessor in Oétober, 1846.
The Most Illustrious and Most Excellent,
Samuel George Bonham,
Governor of Hougtong,
Ge.. &c. &c. -
EPT.
10.
which insinuce the Council pointed out in their Despatch No. 59 of the 23 Iustant, To act of hostility or aggression against the Chimse was evertemplated thereby - but merely protection to the inhabitants of a Portuguese belony, wherein there are many British Subjects.
aggression
With
.
nd to the case of...
regard
between the Portuguese and Chinese, it certainly did not originate you our side. The Geveruer of Macas was barbarously assassinated by Chinese subjects, who after committing the outrage, passed through the Barrier Gate, which was quarded by Chinese, carrying the
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head and only hand of the illustrious
of
in
the
deceased, and the Government proceded
imediately, as was
as was its duty, investigation of this act, and for this __ purpose caused some Chinese at that __ post to be brought before it, whose depositions
*
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113
11.
attest the crime, and the fact of the assassins having paped through the Gate, which immediately abandoned, whilst -
was imme
many
armed men were
con
congregating at baza Branca. If therefore this Governante ordered the occupation of the Barrier, it was to prevent the free passage through it either of assassins who although it
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quarded, nevertheles had committed the horrible outrage of the 22 Instant, or of the force which threatound the bity: and thus this step was of .-- absolute accesity in order to secure the safety of the bity, which imperatively. -
demanded it.
The Council have also to
represent to your Excellency that the Gate at the Barrier or the Barrier marks the Boundary of our own and the blunese territory. The ground that it occupies is therefore neutral [limitrophe}]
EPT.
:
12.
It is neither exclusively Portuguese- Chinese, but both, and can be garrisoned by one or the other; neither is the Supposition that it has never been sccupied by our Troops, connect, for not only can this be done rightfully when
may require it; but less than a year ago a Portuguese force actually stationed there for
circumstances
WELI AVTOC
was
acouths
SOME A A A Ø A
very gate which exists at
and the very
present
was made by the Portuguese Government without any opposition
on the part of
v o u
the Chinese Authorities- nor indeed,
regarded
could they offer any by night. Under these circumstances, the lemporary occupation of the Gate cannot be as the Council have already observed,- in the light of an usurpation or violation of territory, which justify the act of - aggression commenced against _ the 24" Instant by the Chinese force at
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114 /3
the fort of Pasalhão, who were the first to fire upon the Portuguese Froops. . Su order that the Portuguese might retaine their position without being harassed by cecessary to dislodge
the Chinese, it was nece
the chinese force from the fort, and the
adjacent positions occupied by them, and
this was
effected tie
Ja uue col ut i g with
evening
the most fortunate results ou our
part.
our
force at the conclusion of the expedition
o
w
returning to the Barrier, where it is at present stationed. -
The bouncil are
of opinion that the explanations above giver completely clucidate the essential points of the question, and that your Excellency will thereby clearly perceive the position in which this Government and the - blinere
placed with respect to it.
se are
I now remains to thank
for
your Excellency
the promptues with which the wishes
PT
14.
of the bouncil have been responded to by your Excellency having. ordered the detention in the Roads of ellacas of the Steamer "Midea and the borvette il mazou", whose
presence in these waters cannot fail to produce the desired effects. The bouncil apere your Excellency that it never
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was nor is it now the intention of the
Government to employ any auxiliary force to attack the Chinese, but everely to have assistance to protect the bity
ay
and
of uced, against on the part of the Chinese:
it's inhabitants in case any aggression
God Preserve
-
your Excellency -
Macão, 27% August, 1849
(signed) feronimo, Bishop of ellacao,
} Jouquen Antonio de Moraes baruciro, Ludgero Joaquim de Haria Neves, 1 Miquel Pereira Simoens, () Joze Bernardo Goularte,
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7.
(signed) Manoel Pereira, 115
(True Translation)
чис
(rgued) L. d'Almada e bastre.
(Frue Copy,)
Manin Colonial Secretary .
15.
PT
: No 84 of 1829.
Inclosure No 14 in Desp
SEPT.
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Duplicate. No. 85. Military.
116
Victoria, Hongkong. 6th September, 1849.
In compliance with Your Lordship's instructions
conveyed Despatch. Military
in
80% of the 5th
5th June, 1849.
I
have the hover to state that
when the surveyer General
the 2517 May last.
reported
year
2.2
the completion of the
defensible Bartack al überdeen, I decused it proper
that it
should be inspected by myself and the Major General, and consequently on the 39th of the
The Right Memorable the Earl Gray.
Ac
Yo:
Inclosure
in rejoinder to
to AE. Mr Bonham,
Council of Macas
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27th August, 1849.
Duplicate.
No. 85.
• Military.
116
Victoria, Hongkong,
My Lord.
In
6th September, 1849
compliance with
Your Lordship's instinctions
conveyed Despatch. Military
d in
5. G of the 5th June, 1849. I
have the hover to state theat
when the surveyer General
the 25. May last
reported
year
22
the completion
of
of the
defensible Barrack al Aberdeen, I deemed it proper
that it
should be inspected by myself
and the Major General, and
2%
consequently on the 27th of
The Right Henerable The Earl Grey.
Yo
Yo
No
the:
Inclosure No 14 in Beth:
No 84 or 1849.
in rejoinder to
Pouncil & Macas
& HE. Mr. Bonham,
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27th August, 1849.
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· proceeded in
the Medea" Steamer to inspect the work, accompanied by Sintenant Colonel Willpotts, :ding Royal Engines,
Sieutenant Colonel Ey
Commanding Moyal trotillery,
& together with the surveyor
General, and
the
General's Aides de Camp. After
making
the inspection of building, we proceede
this
round
the Island,
Victoria the
tetueried to
vening.
It will be obvious to
Afour Sevdship that it was
desirable that I should
very make
X
personal inspection
of the coast Round the Island
to enable
nature an
me to judge of the
utility of the outposts,
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and to perform
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117
service
efficiently, it became necessary
theat the officers before named should accompany
This is
is all the
cation that Scane afford
the subject,
Your Lordship
(x)
the Tates paid to Commanders
Majesty's ships while
services
of thiev
of Her engaged i description, settled by Adusvally Regulations
.
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the
I have the hover to be, With the highest aspect. You Host Obedient Lordship's,
Humble screant,
Stratam
No. 86.
Financial
Coppy to Lead 5 F150
My Lord,
c
118
990 trong trong
Wictoria, Hongkong,
77th September, 1849.
With reference to paragraph
142 of my Despatch marked Separate of
the 27th December, 1848, wherein
I
suggested the reduction of the Office of Bistant Harbour Master, I have the
honor to inform Your Lordship that on the pet instant I dispensed with the
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Governon Benham,
6. September, 1849.
The Carl
Gup to 85
Grey.
Received
Replying Steamer "Medear. Governor in Her Majesty's by His Excellency, the Aberdeen in May 1848, Defensible. Barrack at "If the inspection of the of 5th June last, relative, Despatch Military to to this Lordship's
services
of Mr. Lena
in
that
capacity,
but
in consideration of his claims and services
I
appointed him to the situation of blick in the Registration Office, for the purpose of assisting the Colonial Treasurer, under whose charge that Department has been placed since the departure of Mr. Inglis,
The Right Honorable The Earl Grey,
&c.,
sc
&c.
as I have already reported in my Despatel
No 56 of 24th May last
I have assigned to Mr. Lena Lutary of £300 per annum,
a
the same which
he has hitherto drawn as Assistant Harbour Master, and which amount I had allowed
to the temporary bleek employed in the Registration Office subsequently to the resignation of Mr Inglis. The
Laving in
ت
this Department is therefore still the same
as
that stated in Despatch No. 56,
my
above alluded to, namely
cause a
the
annund.
but £450 per removal of Mr. Lena will
further saving
saving to the
to the Government
of £. 300 per annum in the
£.300
Harbour Master.
of the
Office of
I have the honor to be,
With the highost respect,
Your Lordships
Most Obedient
Humble Servant,
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this reports the restriction of the Office of leforti Herboren
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Governor Bonham # September, 1849.
Received
Grey.
N86.
and stating further saving Registrar General's Office, this measures._
Master, as "Clark to the
Lena, the Assistant Harbour
Reporting transfer of Mit
erfected
120
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9.907 H. Kong
Sin C. Trevelyan
M. Cellist
2
Mr Ererivale 2
JW. Hawes
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Sir,
5th Feb 7 - Jun. 1850
With reference to
the proposed Reductions
at Hong Rong which
were communicated
to you in my
letter of
the 3rd of April last, and on which the views of the L. Ist of the Treasing
Treasury.
were conveyed in your reply of the 19th of fine
burl
I am directed by Earl Grey to transmit to
You
22 86, 8 Septying
you, for their Lordships information, the
enclosed Copy of a Despatch from the
Gour of Hong Kong
reporting
that he had
been able to dispence
with the services of
Mr Lend as
Assistant
Harbor Master, by
means
f providing for him
another appointment.
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For 9908 Hongkong Trean] 13544 Hong Kong
Governor Bonham
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Mr. Elliot
M. Merivale
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22
M. Hanges
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19 Fely. 1850.
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164
121
23. Febr. 1850
With reference to
your (Despatele h:860
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the 7th of September last I have the honor to approve
of your appointment- Mr Lend to be Clerk
of
of the Registration office
under the Beasurer, d
per
Salary of £500 for
annum.
I take the
opportunit
of transmitting the endlech -letter from the Treasury
and
.....
and I have to
that you
regneef
will report.
to me your opinion
the proposed
reduction of the Salary
to £200
of
a Vacancy.
the occurrence
I have s
2.
$2
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RECEIVED
NOV. 26
1849
122
Freesia, Hongkong,
13th
My Serd.
September; 1849.
With Reference to
Despatch N. 83 of the 28th
August, I have the houer to acknowledge
the
Recipt of
the following Despatches, on
the 11th Instant.
Vo
Originals.
No3 193 @ 130, the last of 14th July, 1849.
Military No 9 of of th July. Circular, Private, of 15th June,
Circular,
of 22 James
The Right Honerable,
The Earl Grey,
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Military N° 2. 4@8. the last
29
of 23 the fire, 1849.
I have the hour to be,
With the highest respect. Your Lordship' s,
Most Obedient,
Humble servant,
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118
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123
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My Lord,
Your
RECEIVER
NOV 26
124
Hongkong,
18th September, 1844
I have the honor to enclose for
-Lordship's information a Medical
Certificate granted by the Colonial Surgeon, setting forth the necessity for the removal of the Honorable W. Japier, block of the Works and bivir Engineer, from this Colony ; and being satisfad that his immediate departure is absolutely necessary to save his
I have this day in Council that gentleman leave of absence for twelve months com
life-,
&
:ommencing from the 29.
С granted
the instant,
on which he will quit Hongkon
the date on
In
th
& quit Hongkong.
my. Despatch marked Separate
of the 27th December, 1848, I have reported
The Right Honorable
The Earl Grey,
&c,
Je
де?
Governor Bonham, 13th September 1849.
Victoria, Hongkong,
eto
The Earl
Received
1.87
Grey.
Private of 15th June, 1849, of 14 July, and Circular of Despatches to No 130 Acknowledging receipt
fc.
5
that I think the appointment of Clerk of the
Works
can
be dispensed with : I shall not
therefore appoint any person to perform Napier's duties during his absence.
Pd S.
I have the honer to be,
Mr.
With the highest respect, Your Lordships,
Most Obedient
Humble Servant
Montaur
The Certificate of the Colonial
has
Freasurer, altecting that Mr Napier -received sulary from the Hongkong Treasury
up to the 28th instant, inclusive, is herewith
transmitted for Your Lordship's information.
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granted to the Homes W.
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the Copy of a Despatch from
the
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Governor of Hory Hery reporting that he had granted tuche Muths leave of chemce
to the Hemble to refier, click of the works and Civil Experien
As
Country
proceed to this lo
for the recovery of his health and as it appears from further abspeth from
Governor Borbem that a
wich has been then art
this officer for L 155. for
work said to have been
agreint
performed for the Gott_
Ihan an to
am to convey to you. his Lordships instructions
not the issue any portion of Mondefiers half Salary
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127
Hongkong, Sep 8, 1849.
I have the honor to inform you
that
the Honorable Wm. Napier, Clerk of the
Works, has been for declining
such
an
some time in a
very
state of health, and is now in
alarming state of debility and atrophy, arising from functional or organic disease of the liver and spleen, especially the latter, that I am of opinion that his life depends upon his immediate removal to
mor
congenial climate; and I would recommend that a sick leave of absence
should be obtained for him, so that he
may
nine
at once preceed to England or the South of Europe ; for which end a leave of -months' absence should be requested from
To Charles St. George Cleverly, log:
Surveyor General,
So,
&c.
His
:
Excellency the Governor
I have, &,
Yo 84 Miscellanious.
William Morrison,
(ligned)
Colonial Surgeon
1¦
1 Free Copy,
Colonial Secretary.
To Treasury for exponnation 8War
My Lord,
9910. Hong have
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C.D.
NOV 26
128
1835950 Victoria, Hongkong,
th
27th September, 1849.
In accordance with the Colonial
Regulations I directed the officer in charge
of the inventory of public furniture, to inspect
the same, and have now the honor to submit
his report for Your Lordship's information: "With regard to the
unserviceable
articles at Government House remarked upon by that officer, I have to state that they
properly belong to the Superintendents Department, having, I am informed, been purchased by the
Hewry Pottinger previously to his
Sir
appointment
to the Government of this Colony, and are
The Right Honorable The Earl Grey,
&
of little or no value.
This Report is made ein
and shar
pursuance of a general.
be sent to the Treasury for their informe
a b Va
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I have the hover to be,
With the highest respect;, Your Lordships,
Moss Obedient,
Humble Servant
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I am dicitud by Reel Gey
to
hausmit to you
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Information of the Loras
Commisscover of the Jessay
copies of a bespotch and of it's enclouence from Goversion Bonham reporting the result
of the inspection of
the
Public Furniture of the
Got House and the
Several Public Officer in
Hong-
Ihave
ม
the
130
Victoria, Honghong,
77796
26th September 1849.
In compliance with
Mis Cellency
sands of His Geo
mands
the Governer I inspected the
Public Furniture at the Government: House, and at
the several offices of the fivil Department; and I have the
honor to state that the whole.
good
order avd.
of it is in preservation, with the
exception
of a very few articles which
have becorve
from fair
there
avcar.
crviscable
I have to add that
are in the store at
nt
Goverment
articles in
House, smiry
4s, carthenware,
glasp,
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1 butlery, and other materiale, which having been bought either previous to or in
immediately the formation "Colonial Government
after
much defared
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of
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very
eed and altogether serviccable, and should
progr
therefore be sold by publie
Auction.
(Signed) Ld'Almoda efaster,
in cha
charge of the Inventory of Public Purniture.
(Ioue kopy)
Colenial secretary .
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Miscellaneous.
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RECEIVED
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131
9754. Any hong
Victoria, Hongkong,
My Serd,
28th September, 1849.
In continuation of
my Despatch N. ss of
8
the
29th 1ltimo, I have the hour.
to forward, for Your Serebship's
I have this
this da
which
addressed to
50. 11. information, Copy of and
day Viscount Falmerstone, enclosing
the further correspondence a
that has passed between
the Smperial Commissione
myself,
(simer,
and the Provisional Geremment
lacát, consequent
of Macão
or
the
murder of the Governer of
that settlement.
The Right Henerable,
The Earl Grey;
Ac
Jo
:
I have the honor to be,
With the highest Respect,
Your Lordship's,
Most Obedient,
Humble Servant,
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132
27 Now/49.
Ib are to acknowbuse the
receipt of your Despatch
Lepen. eneloning
h.go of.
the 28
further correspondere
the
between yourself, Imperial Commisioner,
and the Provisional Govern
ment of Macas relative to
the murder of the
of that Settlement.
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Yo. 132.
My Lord,
In
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133
Victoria, Hongkong,
28th September, 1849.
Despatch Nr 121 of the
th.
29
-ulteins, it was my painful duty
to
of
announed to Your Lordship the murder Senhor Amiral, the late Governor of Macas,
and I at the same time transmitted
copies of all the
corre
spondence which
up
to the departure of the Mail had taken place between myself and the Council
of
the
Mação, the Imperial Commissioner,
and
and
Foreign Ministers, respectively; I have now the honor to enclosed for Your Lordship's further information, transcript
of some additional letters which have passed in connexion with that snelancholy
The Right Honorable
The Viscount Palmerstond, G. C.
&c.,
&c.,
fo
B.
2.
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2.
event
On the 1st instant I received from
the Conncil in charge of the Government of
Maca's, the accompanying
nication,
cnclosing copy of the Chinese Commissioner's
reply to the letter which they addressed to
that functionary announcing
the assassination
of their Governor, and also copy of their
rejoinder to Seu's
Council in their
I
communication. The
Rejoinder,
whilch witerating
: their demand for the head and hand of
not ther
the deceased, protect generally against unsatisfactory nature of the Commissioner' = reply,
but more particularly against the tone adopted by Sew whew speaking of Senhor Amarab. I have by the annexed seply, simply acknowledged the weeipti of the founcil's communication
further
to
Enclosurd No. 5 is the copy of
nication from
the founci
my address, relative to the return of
p 2 @ 4.
No 5.
Nb.
i
"Her Majesty's ship Amazon" to this harbour, and in schick they request
134
at that
I would afford to the Establishment of
lacão such protection
rotection as the pressued
Mação
of a British man
of w
fore
war would naturally
ty offer. Ferro muy esply Your Lordships
will observe that at the time Her
Majesty's this "Amazon "left Macas
Road's, there avere anchored there
American and as
French frigato,
πω
besides
3.
war, so that it was
A N
American Brig of
war,
amply protected
cvident that Mação was an
ò
and did not require the presence of a Baitisk ship of war, whilst this harbour was at the same time left without a Single pennant. To this circumstaned
my duty to call the attention of Captics Loubridge, and, the snowe, so
I deemed it
on
as at that moment, tumours averd
sifin is the folony of a large flects of Pinto : being anchored in the vicinity of
Prates
4.
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!
this Island.
I take this opportunity of
cuclosing to Your Lordships, copy of an officia
nication from the Imperial Commis:
communication
sioner to
the
vny address, announcing seizure and executiond at fanton of a Chinese called. This chi liang, whom ho
states to be the real mundeier of.
Governor of
the
Mação - Ibe add's that the
head and hand of the deceased having
-bcew discovered, had been sent to Macão,
together with the head of This chic
liang, to be exposed at the spot where
the murder was committed. the
that the
and it
Not being at all satisfick
man executed was
the real. Murderer,
being, beyond, all doubt that the
crime was
perpetrated by six or sever
Ão 8.
individuals, Icalled Sen's attention to Ng.
the fact, and.
any
ur
airged-
time in cause
causing
στ
him not to lose large to be
those at la
135
apprehended. I was principally induced.
to take this step,
as
5.
I was desirous that
the fommissioner should sed that I was
not satisfied that the maid who was
beheaded
as the
was
the real murderer. The
410_ Commisioner in his
dejoinder insists upore This chi liang being the principal in the Governor's murder, but promises
No 11.
adopt certain measures
nevertheless to adop
for the immediate pursuit and
apperchension of the other Criminals The accompanying
Ino moraudien
drawnd us by Mr Meadows, the Interpreter
at
t from the
tow, will show that
fantow,
inquiries that goutte
ttoman has been a bles goutte man has
to make relative to these quatters, ho has
arrived at the belief that the
ONA A
excented was not the real murderer,
but
arbber of the District of Meang
a nr.
shaw ( in which Macao is situated),
for whom the authorities were
keeping
6.
7.
136
A
strict look out, and who, foresexing that he must eventually be apprehendeds and
beheaded,
the
5 gentry
Inuadere v
of which
1003
prevailed upon by
to deliver himself up
donò
as the
of
of the Governor, in consideration
seward เบ
of $1000 would be
paid to his relatives.
Fres opinion of Mr. Meadows is conroborated by a note received by Mr. Wade from a Chinese Correspondent, the evening
of the day
A
Sew's letter to me arrived.
The note stated that this chi liang,
notorious murderer of the district in
which Macão lies, knowing that from the
gravd
charges against hind he must be beheaded if takes, good himself up to justice, in the hope of having his sentence
mitigated one degree. Contrary to
sxpectation.
usage, the authorities excented him_
and n
two da
days
afterwards, under the su
warrant - The note did not in
summ Summary
an
sert in any way
connect this Shiw chi liang, whold cxccution
Seid now
now reports to
one,
with the murder
of the Governor of Macas, for which Seed declares him to have suffered.
Up to this date I have heard nothing from the Portuguese authorities at Macas respecting
the ecccipt of the head and. hand, of the late Governor, on the head of the alleged assassin.
or
the whole of the
Uper reviewing particulars of which I am at present in possession, Scannet divest myself of the belief that the man who has suffered
a
is & supposititions offender; a fact quite in accordance with the custoud of the
Chinese whew in a dilemma, as is
1 proved by the existence of a law in their codo against the picismnation of friminals. The difficulty of authenticating any report here or at banton is however inconceivable, and Your Lordship will
:
be, from the papers I have the hours to sucesso, quite as well able to found are opinions upor the truth of this statement as
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the
spot.
an
as any ond avho We have hardly any personal
communication with, the officials or the better classes of the country, and are gobolly dependent. for our informations upon commercialeots of
minor defrid, brokers, compradores, and sucks people, who have no objects in enlightening us,
and with whose interest it rather consists
to keep
ne is ignoraned of all matters
directly or indirectly political.
Shave, offe,
Aigned) S. G. Bon have
There fores
Main blonial Recrotares.
(Copy)
da Louvine
de Maeus, Tinner, & Soler.
Cxpediente Geral:
No 6%
Mline: Cenie: Sur-
O Conselho de Give
Provincia tem u
transmitter
de V. Exea :
137
Severne desta
Honra de
aqui juu
into as mãos ia de officio que
Copia
Zeçebeo do Suuté de Cantão
cto
resposta the dirigio
gare
este Coneetha-
data de 23 do
Corrente relativamente
Assassinie
Governador do
sader da Provincia,
de Ernie : Governa
ben
nceta
assine.
a do outro
dala
Consethe resetter
Smité eu
que
deferido
resposta ao princire,
colccimenti de
tudo para conheci 4. Exe, fins
tee.
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V.Cx?,
Does Guarder Macáo 31 de Agosti de 1849
Hlure: Cenie: Sur:
Samuel
6. George Benham.
Governador de Honghong.
Ne,
(Signed) Geron
Joaquim
again
Jer
Bispo de Macao.
Autovio de Moraes Carnsire
) Indgere Jenquine de Faria Neves.
) Miquel Pereira Simões.
Jozé Bernardo
13emardo Goularte.
& Goularte.
7 Manvel Pereir
Fra
None Copy Mame
kolarial Secretary.
(Copy)
Government of the Rovince
of Mia
Macác "Timor, & Solor. General Department.
No. 677
h
1381
Franslations)
Most Illustrious and Most Excellent Fir
The Council of Government of
mil
this Province have the honor to transmit herewith
for Your Excellency's information, copy of a
received from
official Despatch which they
CT
aw
the
Niceroy of Canton in answer to theirs
in answer to theirs of the 23′′ instant, relative to the assasination of the
Most Excellent Governor of the Province, as
well as
are
about
copy of another which they to forward to the aforesaid Viceroy in reply to the first named communication.
The Most Illustrious and Most Excellent
Thamuel Gonge
Bonham,
Governor of Hongkong,
Se
yo,
&e
:
بھر کے
གི་ཐོང་ཆེ་་་་
God. preserve Your Excellency. Mação, 31th August, 1849.
(signed) Jeronims, Bishop of Mação.
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de Faria Neves.
Joaquim Antinio de Meract Carneiro: Ludgero Joaq Miquel Pereira Semerès.
fozé Bernardo Goularte .
Manoel Pereira.
Frue Franslation_
(signed)
L. d'Almada e Castro.
Fruc
True Copy
Copy
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(stemal Leccitary
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139
OCT.
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A go of 1849.
Iclosure to 2 in Belp:
140
Copia
Sive Sivo. Mey
de Cantão &c.
M.
giving cover
from Council of
Macao;
to Jen's
of Sawhor Améral.
relative to the assassination
31th August 1849.
reply, and their rejoinder
:
Respirendendo ao officio,
do Castle do
Governo de Macúr datado de 5 da prez Sua (22 de Agosti )
dizer que
o
li
Ca
a prezentes
• grande
surpreza a desgraça que accenters as Nobre Governader. Tive tambem participação deste
Xav
ce
da
asse du Estação de Hieu-
e de Mandarine de Macao, accompom hada da Copia do
Codital do Conselho de
Governe.
Neste Edital pois vejo que
Jer
aggressores não podiae youté pacifica e Negociante
de Macao. Sego
de
não haviaë
indigenas que
mettessem està
مردگان که مکه که
مدربه دود
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os de
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conve
he
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pode saber? pode
pressa we pode
LU
0 Nobre Governader
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cruel,
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da
(for) de genie
sabe
propria Nação /
the tinhão
gonte para
mal
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3.
141
poderei entregar? He por tanto
tavla
i
fora
ora de boda.
Officie
que
razão exposto . sobre o Assassinio
Ley nobre
está clara, he necess
que
indagações sé fação tanti
per
lem
lade
Re
por
irano
outro
کھیوں کی یہ
verdadeiro
para contecimento de facte a fine
de poder julgar
دی
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vida de Hemen her
本國
Ique
مربرباده باده کرده در
aversão al
the
Hazer afin de satisfazer
· cdio? O dizer que
te
احمد گرم
Cantão tem havido pasquins
Q
< proclamações, e que
thevidades Chinas device.
Sabe-lo;
seque
este assassinio
teuthoridades
então que
fosse obra das
Demais hé
: precizo que prendamos
so saber onde
Assassinos para
Cabeça, e Mão;
estud a
jaso
donde he
que
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Al Kapon ngang Phir kompakt en
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deve
tanté lançar cenfazamente
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tenlo
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naquelles.
responder
to Conselho de Governo de
a
Macae, 10 da 4o Sua do
ツ
Anno 20 de Santuang-27
de Agosto de 18.40 . Traduzide
por
mine abaixo o
abaixo assignare
fear Rodrigues
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2
testá conforme
(Signed). A. J. de Mirandas
(True Copy) Maine
S. L.
Colonial secretary.
Copy.)
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Franslation:
5 142
Seu, Viceroy of Canton, &e, in reply to the Despatch of the Government Council of Macas dated the 5th of the present sucon
(micon (22". August,)
I am to state that I read with
the
from
station, and the
great surprize misfortune that has befallen the noble- Governor . I had also a report of this event
the Hiangshan
han station, a Mandarin of Macao, enclosing a copy of the Proclamation by the bouncil of Governmen In this I see it stated that the aggressors could not be the peaceful people or tradesmen of Macáo. Then the act was not committed natives of the place but by those from
by
without. This
being
the case,
how
car
it be
known with such speeds?
As the Noble Governer was of a very
cruel temper, who knows but that those of
本國)
his own nation ( ) who entertained
have bubed people
aversion towards him,
may
to do him this evil in cider to satisfy their
OCT
J.
6.
hatred ? You say
that at Canton placards
and proclamations have been posted up, and that the Chinese authorities must have
known it; does it then follow that the
assassination was the work
the work of the Chinese
authorities ? Furthermore, it is
to sei
ins,
seize the assassins,
the head and hand
can
in
necessary.
in order to know where
arez
I deliver them to
Without this, how
you
? What is stated.
· your Despatch is therefore altogether
unreasonable.
"The law relating
to anurders is
clear . It is necessary that researches should
be made alike
both sides, in order to
7
143
To the Council of Government at Macus.
"Taukwang, 29th year, 7ft moen, 10
th
th
the moon, 10th day
[ 27th August, 1844].
( Frue Franslation) (signed) Joxe Rodriques Gonsalves.
(Frue Copy)
(signed) A. J. de Miranda,
1 Frue Franslation )
(Signed)
Jue
S. G
£. d'Almada e factio.
Tone Copy
(이
Mais
lonial
Secretary.
CT
:
ow
arrive at a true, knowledge of the facts,
!
and thus to allow of judgement and sentence being passed and carried out.
The life of man is the gift of
Heaven; therefore we should not thoughtlessly
judge
this one or
have to answer.
the other. This is all I
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Ao go of 1829.
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Macae, respundendo no officie
de V.Ex ? de 27 de Cerente.
posta
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que
J
the dirigie tem de dizer
syport) yor
22. deste mez.
blade de exame
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Geverne
sobre
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tarde
mez ficou
خود در خود خاطره
to prevod
1o Que aquelle barbare e brutal acto for perpetindo por Chinas à luz do dia, e
vista,
à pequena distância
וי
CT
Ten to the Council
of
Macao.
27thqust, 1869.
buy coprppp
p
ه د برید مهره و نابوده وره خرید دورود
guarnecida por
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2.
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145
sende isto allestade før leskemmtias
de vista.
و خرد کرده به درد
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consumade
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se di.
C
دره
در چه مردد که بود
dirigirao
levando
Cruie:
vea
mão de
Governader para a Perla do-
Cesco, por ende passarão
indumes,
allesta
declaração por escrito do
Cabe China da Guarda d'aquelle Veste, constande tambem
Assassi
inc
ali
Ke
que
demoraráð
algum tempo e fizerûe sacrificios
libaçõès
Cabaia
ali
Pagode, & que
huma
comprovado por
envangnentada que action, e pelos vestigios
ae
de Ionu
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ainda de frever
0....
contrarás
varia 2
partes de Edificio.
Edificio. Que
1
attentado não for simplest
obra de Assassinio
Salteadores
acto de
be evidenciado polo facto
lerem sido levadas
mão de Illustre
o que
هزار گره جمه به هار
a
Cabeça
tive finado,
C.
N.&c. Talvez
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presumpção de
estarem elles preûgidos pola
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certeza da sua
impumidade quando Commmellerão
o crime? e esta pr
prese
presun ição- não somente hé bem fundada,
L.
cada dia esta seudo-
confirmada pola mere-idade
negligencia
convi que
thoridades Chinas
DC
may
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havide neste
le
negocio,
obstante ser
elle tab
grave
consequências,
е деяние
que
não vê, dos
que tom
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conhecimento da actividade
da Policia chineza,
que o punco que
adiantado
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to
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V. Ec: quão mal cabida
asserção de ser
féra
ira da
razão quanto este Conselhor
expoz
V & ?
Co.
a
officio que
everendo a
22 de Corrente;
boa
quanta justiça poderia agera este Consethe frizer applicação de terme de officio n que está respondende; de quat
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vê alaramente qual hé o
desigr
nio das Authoridades da
Trovincia a
f
Consethe
V Exa
que V.txt preside,
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que somethantin
deelurar
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carneter de Inecionarios das
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poderão servir
poder
-vej
82.2
tenha
evadir a
e
020
to fine que
vista, de
responsabilidade
lal.
o
presente cazo; por quanto e-
Consettee reiterande
protesto que
agora
V. &c ? C
a
22 de Corrente, renova a
reclamação que então fez da
C.
prizão dos Criminozos, e da
restituição da Cabeça.
Н
6.
147
de Illustre e sempre chovad
Governader, pondo a Cargore responsabilidade de V. Ex...
todas
as
conscy
puderem regullar de não ser prompta
cabalmente satis-
feita esta reclamação, ficande
livre & salvo
Direito de sua
Magestade Fidelissima A Rainha de Portugal offenida Representant
Pesson do seu
a.
€ Officio de V. Ecṛ hé concebido nos termos de lauda
indifferença quanto no efacto
e tuo offensives
acontecido.
ao
caracter de Illustre finado,
e
pove
Credito de todo este bou
Portinguez, que es te
Conseller
LOJY.
ode ver
não pode
espanto e indignação, e
lle a
tempo que repelle
maligna
&
ação que
V.Ex a se não pejen de Comear
huum papel official,
my
do de seu
signade
e proprio
punlie; o Consethe protesta
V. Ex: cotra este novo involto
(2
a
ultrage por V. Ex & feito
a
CO
oria de Illustre Repre=
zentante de sua your
Magestade Fidelissima, e fallecide ywvernader e à diguidade e bons da Vação Portugneza repres
utada pelos habitantes destä.
Cidade! Macao 31 de Agosto
de 1849. Jorenine, Bispo de
Macau
leaquine Antario de
Joaquin
Miracs Carneiro,
Joaquim de Paria
Miquel
Sudgero
Neves.
Yoveira Siaviões
Bernardo
Jozé
Carter-Mavod
Bemarie Golark
Pereira?
ista
CT
?
8.
Esta Conforme.
(Signed) A Jode 1
de Miraida.
S. G.
(ImeCopy)
Manne
Colonial secretary.
1 Copy. 1
(Franslation.)
148
9
To Seu, Viceroy of Canton .
The Council of Government of
Macão, in answer
to
Your Execellency's
Despatch of the 27th instant, replying to the
one
they had addressed to you
on the 22nd.
have to inform Your Excellency that the examinations and inquiries instituted by this Government with regard
cruel act committed
on
Instant, clearly prove :-
اپور
was
to the atrocious and
the ever
evening of the 22d.
That this barbarous and brutal act
: perpetrated by Chinese_ in full daylight
and in sight of and at a short distance-
which was " gate, which
from the Barrier gate,
by Chinese- soldiers,
2nd
• garrisoned
as is attested by eye witnesses.
That the murderers, after the
commission of the crime, proceeded with the head and hand of the Most Excellent Governor
towards the Barrier
~ gate, through which they
passed unmolested, as is attested by the written
CT
10.
deposition of the Chinese Corporal belonging to
the
quard at that Post, it appearing also that the assassins remained there for
sacrifices and libations to the
the circumstance
dress ], which was
some time, and offered
& gods,
as is
proved by
of a bloody Cabais [ Chinete upper
1 found there, as well as
· from traces of fresh blood met with in several parts of
outrage the building. That the oute
was not the act of assassins and highway robbers is evident,
mere
+ from the
head and hand of the illustrious deceased being
carried
away, which Your Excellency perhaps unintentionally
Despatch; and since it is acknowledges in your Despatch ;
certain that the assassins fearlessly canied with them the proof of their crime, is it not natural to conclude that they were assured of prote
asured of protection and safety when they committed it? This presumpition is not only well-founded, but is being confirmed daily by the delay and negligence with which the. Chinese authorities have acted in this affair, notwithstanding it's being of to grave and serious a nature, and who of the activity and: resources of the
that is aware
T
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11.
149
Chinese Police, does not see that the little advance
made by them in the present case is the consequence
might
of some calculation, the motives of which it
not perhaps be very difficult to discern?
From what has been stated Your Cricetiency
will perceive the utter groundlessness of the assertion
or
to
Your
that: the whole statement made by this bouncil to
in their Despatch of the 22th instant, is Excellency
nable, and with what justice they might
unreasonable,
bring a similar charge against the Despatch they
are now
: replying to, by which the objects of the authorities of the Province presided over by Your
Excellency are clearly manifested. The Council. again -declare to Your Excellency that such evasions and tengivermtions are not only unworthy of and degrading to the character of a functionary of Your Excellency & rank, who boasts of sentiments of justice and reason, but that they
the end, as is perhaps
will never serve the end, as is
contemplated, of removing responsibility in the present
case.
The Council therefore, whilst reiterating
protest, they transmitted to
the
to Your Excellency on the
E
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12.
22 instant, renew the demand which they made at the same time for the apprehension of the criminals, and the restitution of the head and hand of the illustrious and . ever lamented Governer, laying to Your Excellency's charge
and
dof
: responsibility all consequences which
in cale
may
ensue
of this demand not being promptly and entirely complied with; the right of Her Moch Faithful Majesty the Queen of Portugal, insulted in the person
of Her representative, remaining
intact.
Your Excellency's Despatch is conched
in terms of such indifference to the act that has been committed, and is so offensive to the character of the illustrious deceased, and to the credit of all good Portuguese people, that the Council can only regurd it with astonishment and indignation; and whilst they repel
nt insinuation which Your Excellency
the malignant ;
was not ashamed to make in an
with Your Excellency's
official paper, signed
own hand, the Council again
(c) fresh insult and outrage committed.
protect against this fresh
against the memory of the illustrious representative of Ther Most Faithful Majesty, the deceused Governor,
:
150
13.
(c) of the Portuguck
and against the dignity and good name of the nation, represented by the inhabitants of this bity. Mação, 31 August, 1849.
(signed : feromine, Bishop of Macáe
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Joaquim Antonio de Moraes Carneiro.
Ludgere Joaquim de Faria Novel
Miquel Pereira Simoens. Bernards Goularte.
1 Jozé
Manoel Pereira.
Frese Sopery
(Signed) A. J. de Miranda,
(Fruc Franslation/
(Signed)
L.d'Almada e fartin
Conial Secretary,
&
CH
151
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CT
(Copy.) 47o. 258.
Exxcellent Sirs,
152
Victoria, Hongkong,
3rd September, 1849.
I have the honor to acknowledge.
the receipt of Your
Excellencies
>
communication.
of the 37th ultime, with its enclosures, being copies of a letter from the Viceroy of banten
th.
dated 27th idem, und of the rejoinder that it was the intention of Your Excellencies to
make thereto.
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I have, &c.
(Signed) S. G. Bonham.
Truefopy
ノ
Maine
Tonial Secretary.
The Right Reverend Dom pronimo, Bishops of Macão. His Honor Joaquim Antonio de Moraes Carneiro: Major Ludgero Joaquim de Faria Neves,
and other members of the Council in charge of the Government
of Mação.
J
OT
Jogo of 1899.
Melosure No I'm Seipi
to Sai's Reply
31th Augush 1849.
The Council's Rejoinder
1
Je go of 1849.
Inclosure to 5 in Despi
(Copy)
sc. 68.
Illine & Exxe Senter.
O Conselho do Governe
desta Provincia sent
153
honra de
F
reply to Inclosure No 2.
3rd September, 1849.
A.2. Mr Bonham in
ورد دره گردد در محدود کرده دویده دوره در کر کرده به مه گرودی بر
CE
F. Ex a the
exercve o
N. 958.
is do forrente
O. Consethe approveito esta
occazião para levar ao
mento de t. Ex ?
muito
que
Q
que.
lle
coulcer
Me scutio
bem de serviço publico
dessa Colonia reclamasse ali a
prezença da Corvella Amazon, e
consequente retirada da tada de Macao, conforme o siguin
o
fiem a este Consethe, & Capitão Troubridge Comm'ancante superior da Estação. A vinda da Amazon à Mação não se concorred
neo para dar
te Governo na prezente
força
ev le
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2.
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154
o ja
este cinselhe
¿ão de declarar
V. Exa
love
oceayião
I
mos tambem para
1
habitantes desla Cidade que
n'aquelle
vazo
da trmáda Britânica
hum mere de protecção seg
prompta ;
repentina reté.
rada por tanto da rada de Macae,
produzie todo o
tento
offerte que
de esperar, trazendo
desa :
animos dos habitantes,
a
quiça debilitand força
مرده درد
moral
na actual crize
Governo, que 4. Ex : de certo hade querer ang.
mentar
Lende
perigo
Este Conselho por tanto,
vista
de que
que está
ameaçado exte
Estabelecimento, não tanto de
lenma
aggressão aberta da parté
de Governo Chinez, quante de bunn
1k
assalle traiçoeiro de inimigos
elle occultamenté autherizados,
por
não pode
200
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deffer
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a
e
allendende
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que poder com
ve
entomoulé des-
pensar the, durante a prezente não sendo talvez preize
orize,
outra.
alguma demonstração da parte desse Geverne para obstar, e prevenir
desastres
2
Cerc
este Estabelecimento,
traição ecenlla
medilam
Cleinas, de
de Lem
agoas
icia de qualquer
que contra elle
زاده ده ده
vazo
1370
de Macão:
duvida
Cor
cre
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Septembre, de 1849.
Mlm Ex
no saw Soumwel
1 George
Je,
1 Benham, Governader de Hanghong, He.
Signed) feren
Yo
ime Bispede. Mação-
(+) Joaquim Antence declerces,
Warneiro.
Sudgere
Seays " Miguel
loze
de Faria Never
Pereira Simões.
1 Pernardo Goular
Goularte
Manoel Je Zeira.
(Sone Copy)
Wolonial Secretary.
1
No 68
(Franslation.)
Most Illustrious and Most Excellent Six
155
5.
The Council of Government of this Rovince have the honor to acknowledge the recipt
of Your Crescellency's Despatch No 258 of the 3rd.
instant
The Council avail themselves of this
opportunity to acquaint Your Excellency that they much regret that the public
Service
of the Colony
of Hongkong should have demanded the presence of the Corvette "Amazon "there, and her consequent withdrawal from Macão Roads, as Captain Troubridy, Senior Naval Officer, signified to the Council:
of the Amazon" at Macáo not only contributed to give strength to this Government
The arrival
JJ
at
the present juncture,
e, as the Council have already
The Most Illustrious and Most Excellent
Samuel Gonge Bonham, Governor of Hongkong,
&c;
F
6.
had occasions to state to Your Excellency,
but also
to animate the inhabitants of this bity, who saw in the presence of a vefect of the British Navy a
and .
a means
of
sure and d from it protiction . Her sudden withdrawal
therefore from Macão Roads has produced, all the
-bad effect that could be expected, bringing discouragement
on
: the minds of the inhabitants, and
of
posibly
#
weakening the moral force of this Goversement, which
in the actual crisis
1 Your Excellency
Excellency must certa
must certainly
desire to see increased.
The Council therefore, in consideration
!
the imminent danger which threatens this
on
a
treacherous
of
from
secretly instigated.
of
Establishment, not so much from open aggression
the part of the Chinese Government, as
assault by
encmies secre
by it, cannot avoid, looking to the slight
Mans
deferice at their disposal, applying to Your Exallincy
will
again afford to this
Establishment such protection
as can convenu
conveniently
other
be granted it, during the present crisis, no demonstration be
being perhaps necessary on the part
to request that you
156
7.
+
of Your Excellency's Government, - to guard against
- _
and
in
1 prevent greater disasters to this Establishment, -
consequence of secret treachery which the Chinese undoubtedly meditate against it, _ than the
-
preance of a refeel of war in the waters of Macio. God. preuve Your Ascellency
Macãe, 6th September, 1849.
(signed) Jeronimo, Bishop of Mação-
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Joaquimd Antonio de Moraes barneir?.
Ludgerò Jeaquini de Furia Neves
ruel Pereira Simors
1 Miquel
Joze
Bernarde Goularte.
Manoel Pereira.
True Translation
.
(Signed) L. d'Almada efastor . True Copy.
!
hereta
fotenial Sunitary
+
No. 90 of 1849.
Melonore to 6 in Deip
(Copy)
No. 2.61.
157
CT
Erscellent Tirs,
Victoria, Hongkong,
8th September, 1849.
I have the honor to acknowledge
of the
the receist of Your Excellencies ietter both instant, regretting the departure of Iber
Majesty's ship Amazon, and requesting that I would direct Captain Troubridge to retursi
to Macão.
Britannið.
In reply, I must first inform Tour Excellencies that although I considered it my duty to call the attention of the Senior Naval
the station to the unprotected state of the harbour of this Colony, I have
Officer
authority
30 au
to direct the movements of any ships of war in
The Right Reverend Don Jeronimo, Bishop of Macáo; His Honor Joaquind Antonie de Moraes Carneiro.
Major Ludger Joaquine de Faria Neves,
charge of the Government
and other members of the Council in chary
Amazon".
departure of
their regret at the
H.2. Mr Bonham expressing
Commcil of Macao to
AM
j
6th September, 1849.
of Macao
חיר יה דייב
1
!
them seas. They in Chief alone.
receive
their orders · from the Commander.
I am prevented, as
Your Excellencies
Your
have been aluady informed, by the positive orders of my Government, from interfering in this matter
in an
any way
whatever, unless instructed to that
by the Court of Pertagal to that of Great Britare; and
effect upon representation made
even
of my instructions admitted of my supporting the Government of Macás by demonstration I force against that of China, I could not this Colony of all protection for
deprive
indefinite period.
azo
I should be concerned that Your
Excellencies were to suppose
were to suppose me by any
que ans
indifferent to the safety of your bity, but I must
think that this
long
be
in no dVA:
can
way endangered
·d as
us one. French and two American vessels
war remain in Mação Roads.
of wax
steamer "Medea " has
, доно
to
158
Hae nan in quest
in that
of a fleet of Pirates said to be
cruising under the command of the notorious
vicinity
Leang.
and should she fall in with them,
their dispersion cannot but tend to the
of your position.
I have fo!
( Ligned.) S. G. Bonham .
(Frui
Copy)
سکا ہے کیسے
Conial Secretary.
secser
security
Itake this opportunity of informing
Your Excellencies that. Her Britannic Majesty's
helosure to 7 in Deip.
Go
1849.
דיר
CT
(Copy)
.159
Seu, by Imperial appointment High
General
Commissioned, Governor Eenembe of the Two Kwang
12
communication.
&c. makes
At the time that Ah (Amacal),
the Commandant of Macas
muadcid
AUK
I
I immediately gaver orders to the Magistrates of the different
districts to use all'alike their utmost endeavours to apprehend the
concerned.
-parties
Upon the 13th instant Reiter,
Chief Magistrate of the Shun-tch District, having brought to the. Citif
the veal murderer whens he had.
ひど
arrested, and the head and hand.
which he had taken out ( of the ground)
I caused (the prisoner ) to be brought before myself, and
a again cœaminet hine; when he confessed (his crime)
in reply to Inclosure
A.2. Mr. Bronham
I ap
8th September, 1849.
()
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2,
without acservations. Accordingly, on the
16th instant; I caused the criminal to be carried forth, bound, and executed,; and despatched an officer with his head to the scene of his crime, thew to expose - pole for example's sake ; and
it ow a
to
carry
the head and hand of the Commandant Amaral, at the same
time to Macáo, and to take
for the ne.
RZ
accciph
I therefore make this
communication to ajowe, availing myself. of the opportunity to wish that the
blessings of the seasord may daily increase to Your Excellency
Awimy
.
communication; to
ortant comi
Aw importar
which is appended a copy of the note of the confession of the criminal. The above is addressed to this Excellency Samuel George Bonhand, leq : CB.
Ke
"
Tron Kwang, 29
#
year
160
8th mook
7th day - 17th September, 1849. Received 19th September
T
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Franslation of the Confession .
161
Shin chi leang states, that he is a native of the District of Hiang tháw, aged 45 years. This grandfather and grandmothers and both his parents
ts are dead, and her has brother, older, or younger than himself.
-
of the
He is married to a womand surname of Lu, by whom he has one Low . He has here to fore been in- trade at Macão . The Portuguese Governor (head of soldiers), Amaral,
Avas Savi
20
savagely tyrannical in his conduct; in making a horse road, without the
he levelled and destroyed
San pa gate,
all the
graves
therea bout; from the first
CT
he had numbered -
every
shop in Mação
with barbarian characters, and. had
extorted, sent from them; he also
-
tried to retort. Ononcy
Quancy from the
different ships and brats, fn his use,
for
6.
J
7.
162
should these resist, he avoued. lead. on
barbarian troops against them, seize, flog, and imprison (their people ) : he would also, upon the plea that they had infringed the night regulations imprison the inhabitants wrongfully and extort money from them. The whole population were in a state of exasperation not to be appeased. The of the soil too, by
The Portuque
Lea Lord
barbarians
of Amaral's
levying contributions on them, making short issues of pry and nations to the troops, and
having
ving criminal intercourse with their avomew, all spoke of revenge. The graves of six of the prisoner's ancestors having been lovelled, by the
road which Amaral, avas making
idexo
making, he cherished in his heart a feeling of resentment, and conceived, the of watching his opportunity to put as end to the evil by the munder of
Amaral. On the 22th Cingust, having heard
it eumoured
by
some of the barbarians of the soil that in the afternoon Amaral
would go out of the Barrier gate to vido,
accompanied by but few persons,
concealed
he
his person a pointed knife,
and, avaited, by the side of the road
thether until the Yu. trine -
leading
by.
(5 to 7 p. 9.) when Amaral vode- The prisoner, when he saw him, took advantage of his being off his guard to
him off his horse, pulled out the
drag
off
dagger
he carried, about him, cut
his head and also one armð. Amaral
died immediately, and the prisoner thow took his head and arms, and. sacrificed to his ancestors, announcing (to them what he had done). He now a absconded ;
make
and orders having beer issued to onako inquiry for hind, and to seck and apprehend hius, in fear of his life he
8.
fled to various places to hide himself,
until he was arrested
by the troops police . "the head and hand of
2
and
Amaial
he had buried in a place known, as
Lang ties (the mulberry ground) and.
theso had now beew taken up and sout forward to be ide
As his amurder. identified .. of Amaral, was indeed, in consequence of the wrath he felt against him for levelling the graves of his ancestors, and he had no other reason for committing it, he could only
beg for encicy.
His Statement is true.
Frue Kanslation
Signed F. Nãdo.
Afst. Chinese Secretary
Lone Copy
Colonial
and Secretary
+
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(Missy)
163
Victoria, Haugtuig,
19th September, 1849.
I have this day
the
received
Your
yous Creellency's letter of the 17th reporting
Capture Fond Execution Shin chi bang,
and to be the murderer.
a person said to be the
C
of the Governor of Maene, and
stating theat Officer bead
been despatched with the head tive hand of the late Gevemer,
ther with the head of the
logether
Murderer, lo Macae, where the latter was to be expèred on a pole.
Your Excellency has also
sent for
my information the
His Excellency,
Seu, High Imperial Commissioner,
Je,
Je,
Yo
Confession of the above persons.
Gleis
i
matter
ent
particularly beliveon the Portuguese Gover that
thear
of Your Excellency, but
I must remark nevertheless that it is notorions that the
one
Murder of the late Governan was not committed by individual, but by bor%, and as all implicated
licated in this
Iransaction
avere e
equally
quilly, it seems to me that
time should be lost in
apprehending the remainder of the party, which that Your Excellency have apprehended one and 6 found
The head and hand, canno
ot
be a matter of any difficulty Irepeat that
1.
164
atrocious murder was committed
by several individuals who
BI QE VA
mediately after were Cunning away in company. Ally these
are
equally quilly
am Your Excellenty
look no time in a
o
hould
causing
these
to be apprehended,
at large to be that they may
be bree
brought to
trial and punished.
Accept 40.
(Signed) S.
G. Banham.
Tone Copy
15
Colonial secretary.
+
(Copy)
165
Sew, by Imperial appointment,
High Commies Governer General of
Five Kiary,
reply.
ཡ། ཨསཱསཏྟསམཱ ན
ofe
the
Je
بعد دوه کرده میرے
of Your Excellency's letter of the 20th Instant.
Sustant, upon the
and
subject of immediately directing the pursuit une apprehensive
the parties
of
Portuguese Governor's
in the
quarder,
who had excaped : in order that
the
might be brought to
trial and punished: with the of which I have made
contents
myself theroughly acquaintée. -
It appears that shin- chu liang, whe
executed was, in
072
latice
in fact, the
in reply to Inclosure
AL. Ir Bonham-
ف میری
urging
the
accomplices.
seizure off the other
197
先
#September, 18349.
Jo 90 $1849.
Enclosure to 9 in Deipi
זי
2.
principal in the above
Now that, be leas been betrended
and that he is bead has been
n
for
Lended,
exposed, the remaining parties
I get apsive being individually liable to
ކ
severe
of
punistinent, have course, upon hearing
most strict searclé
that
doing
made for them.
theme, absconded and
concealed themselves. I have
sent positive orders to the
several (evil an
officers.
certain
Military
all alike, to adófét
ves for
the
sedi rediale pursuit and
apprehension ( of those parties), they shall have
and as
been seized
seized and brought to the tribunal, they shall of course
satisfactorily
be
•
punished,
3. 166
C
CH
ing against
lawless + hanicide
ocre
empty
as
As these Criminals
ever
words
ne allusion
get arrested,
improfitable,
was made
made to their
capture) in my former letter
I therefore
tion to
matic Whi
Car
o you availing
good.
myself of the opportunity to
Excellency o
Your
fortune, and prosperity, und
comfort for many years.
?
successary
ca:
lim, addressed to His Excellency
lawless or premeditakeel : tted by
voler
person regardles
pa
and not upor
as
Low;
of the Law ; the impulse
of the moment.
C
7
Wr. V Penham,
H. B. Mr. Plenipotentiary
де
да
your
Je,
Then Kwang, 39th year & Sleen, 8th day, 24th Sept. 1849.
Neceived 25th soptr.
Ime Translation.
(Signed) K. Wade
Asst Chinese secretary
(Ime Copy)
Molacial secretary.
(Copy)
Memerandum.
167
+
T
j
Since Saturday the
15th Justant,
have
been prevalent in Counter that.
that day the
day
Assassines
of
Chief of the the Governor of
Macão had been
e sce
bed
with eighteen other criminals at the Excention Ground. The
official Reporter of
that da
day
merely stated that sinction
bandits
کرو
the
Ying.
lile, and
king quen districts - the in king-yuan.
districts which
of
2
the seat
the inte invurrectime - lead
been
the authority
ted after the
had been issued by the Govenor
General .
and the
an
. Geverner, at
PZ
2
L
the tann of the latter. It
200
ל.
certain that. mingleew
ME AC
day, of
Like
excented on Heal
whom
dressed
Mandarin in plain
Clothes, and was carried out
in a
the is
Chair; and further that
during
the transit
through the streets, hept
saying
it.
to the spectators that: be who had killed.
d a
the Portuguese Governer, and complained of the Requital made to him for so good deed. on these points the accounts have differed very little. But they have been quité contradictory
theis
adas,
ow to whe
making curderer of the Governer, others, a tought
him the real murderer
7
substitute. The following
168
which I
account of line which
......
10
have just got foun a very
Source
good worthy of belief.
He was
*
to
robber
the district of Wenng.
e
(theat in which Macão is situated ) for whom the
keeping
authorities
v
strict look out, and who
feresceing that he would
C
or later be taken and
exconted,
22
prevailed on by
Mee
ve lots
easily
Favutson (the
the
first of the Gentry of Heangstone) to give himself up,
The Govenor; by
murderer of
doing
which his relatives.
would get the reward of
#4000 offered by the late
J
}
!
Subprefect of
Iseën shan
Assassin,
and the District Magistrate of Meningshan for the apprehension
sion of the Chief "The Subprefect his post at Caza Branca,
4 who had left
order to start for
Jokiu,
" few days before the
in
only
murder,
the officer appointed after
that event lo
affair;
manage
ed being
and
being very
to leave, be moved the
of
the
gentry
of Heungshan to find substitute. Iliis infenvat
given by Pautsun, the gentleman
relation
bove named, who has
of
lian:
Cave
to attend the literary cramivation
i
The Hobber
AVELS
169
brought
by
Frontier to the
your
of the Prefect of Living Chevr
(Signed) Thomas Guyter. Meadows
Intrpreter .
19th September, 1849.
(Iine Copy) Maine
Colonial Secretary.
about to
car
ec
hore, to ove
from
of
leis Brother Candidates,
a friend of when it has reactied
!
in go $4849.
Inclosure Still in Desh:
170
No 91.
Miscellaneous.
Vide holle Baller Bee/49
Vede to his smith Payne Hunther 19 Wee in reply to
25257525
#ift in Mistapen Letter Whong 4/7/
Lood,
RECEIVED
NOV 25
View, Hongkong,
29th September, 1869.
With reference to
Despatel to 88 of the Instant, I have the shower to acquaint Your
Lordship that a
morning
this
Writ has
been taken
out against the Honorable William Napier for £155, for work said to have been performed for the Government,
but as this work Jauthorized
was not
і
or sanationed by me,
Right Honorable
!
Cantons of the alleged
Mr Meadows's Memorandum relative
to the excention at
the
Murderer
Governor
Вчасно
19th September,
1849.
The Earl Grey,
te to
de.
F
I have realined to pay it. Mr Napier assures me that the claim is unfounded, but
as
it
impossible to
was imp
allow Mr Napier to be detained,
as
he is in such a state
as to render it resepary for
him to be carried
on
board
the mail Packet, two of his friends have become bail
to the nation,
on the under=
рау
this
= standing that if eventually
про they be compelled to anmount; he will refund it in England out of the proceeds of the half pay to which зна
he will be entitled during
his absence.
Under these circumstances
I have consented to move Lordship that instructions
Your
}
:
171
may be issued to the Colonial Agent Mr Baillie, not to pay Mr Rapier any part of the Salary that may become due to him while in England, until this matter
be finally adjusted; and
necepary,
this is the more
be vaddled
as it is possible that the Government m with this expense.
have
I
may
I beg to and that I'
no reason at present
to attach
any
blame to
Mr Napier, for it seems to
me
that the Plaintiffs this case have wilfully
in
allowed the claim to remain
a
period
unadjusted until when they were thoroughly Satisfied it would be totally
انه
4.
out of his power to resist it, whether it be just
or otherwise,
as the Packet in which he has embarked leaves this Port tomorrow at daylight
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
Your Lordshift,
ale
Laggog Hong Kery
26 V PL
jesume
this direction must ballensed
& the agent. informed ausdingly?
Mes Incen
의
mort obedient
Humble Servant,
..
river Bonham C. B.
Goriver
jak.
Jade's
23
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48Hams Harl Grey
126an 150
24
24
15
4911 Gru
Henry
477 Vanderhein Wang Hang 172 En 159
250 Jany /50.
سناک
With reference to your
Despatch N91. of the 29. f
Sepo reporting thick legal
proceedings had been tiken.
Honble
against the Steuble : W. Reper
for the recovery of a tune of £155. on account of work said to have been performed by for
the Gook of Hong Hong, there
the boven to troussil the
have letter which There
Cory of a revered from tt b Gentlemen
on the subject of the clarin
preferred agonist him, and I have tho mstruck you,
aupon
the Conclusion of the
CT
Frisl, to furnish me with
a
Refioch repon the stole
Case.
Hav
173
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Fituren Story Kary
My Lord-
29
9765. Hong
RECEIVED
NOV. 21
ng
10749.
174
My public despatite mich toen erfarend Z hardship that Shren abolished the Office. of leputy Machane Kaster, and that b2t happine I lack of the Waks retions to replaced by the
affectunity, then topther with other rederction, thel Sham abeady made, have nearly brachy the Elabteshment to the scale that tham mus - ported tobe necessary for the efficent new = ginal of the lecting, all these that how to be expected in the way ofsaning ment her in the nduction ofselenies. Caluin of the humaing Offices as they humore
hmaisen
racant_
R. M. Hemble
The Earl hey.
Fit there is one
ل
paint trakish
BM Reshar
to
Euch
in the came
Jubject.
за
how
came
175
Muntimest
bo on the Sheen the Conclusions Sum
tion these abservation, drm but bes that Evere of apension, the Chomilad
Sam discious of dracing gone budskife alteration and the day before the Apertural hogs hate and
desicaues Jo
Condition - The Surveyer Ennal e on for the consideration of the Matter, and a quatre exponesine in the fitury. Jame catifert also in endepperent Health, and has for furn "What
the sphild Sallende bi dag, hem onfined to his House. Thumb Had the Appure must be s Uut of the Celonial heasure. The office an ad frontendships with three details, because from Action to the datension of the bearing pufans then eagle guthiend son for my thee hulosere appertaining that has been abole, hand, and cetheils the Reenen and genraly assert, whereas his Feriens du réguilt. _ Abellanion of the. but is moram porticaturel requid hen, for, from come cause or other, we
Funiturnaus Lave always home of ill . _ their gestudly the Suchan Master
femm wen confined the Bed with fe
сти
ши
mich der
Land. masume thenld act he met and
thanks wen
Beeth
thinker hope sheld from benchship act lame replied to my des patil of 27 lefer this letter caches. that this qui mayhe allowed treener.
under tubes. _ When
ener under
that des patch was purned Senper
Iwas out
rifer
Both peat respect.
Reen the honor toucause thephard.
Juur het, hep abuds! Thumble.
арий
Echline sit.
Usalam
dent of In affecies at Stery Kony Colonial Secreting;
"
#
en
Shuditin
176
Reason, Repsteme End. Hellette offertions. Juneya Guil.
Auf Magerhate affalii.
thut
Ap
Le
Clinial Chaplain
Suspen
"
Sunfief Iwa, act here that the assure we met luper
app fluous beat the effects of the past best Season
wn the stealth of the Exlubles hement querial Les enter pred me that the Office as per ances Beme
an abe, abut if y, intial of the offiint dichunge & the the next mail Shape tobe able
the duties of the End &. treply to yn het, his on the taljet of und My Chinein Lebarre, to Minised Whitich Sapume Count "Guaina. Ens present burperson of the They with on no auvent re at there_ I find have that one Shefment estaban
h
ones made time years go.
= Musid de Quaint
that
and Jain pes.
of the Mannu
L
where
that hansaction trumnated, but Sotaite bet recein it befen the tails have
Sommerarmony Bitti pentru pert
16
4
Притя
Starbam Martin.
Jaft of Paler
Revenue.
Any
add peren
Mut ween the Colonial Sus befalesick. She
Learn
h
Ther
The only per
in
to the appui
competent
Ner Ellish
The public les pateties referred to bare mesh
averest, they will probably
Firethaneptors.
22hon. W
be sent wer
Win heller han have long suspended with
chotten in
么
The Hong. Kony
Reduction, and Estimate
The principal Best of it is t
Une the offin of
artikens, on this will
not to Dame
Bonham will ham that
mult form the
Danim
при
h
Not cums
seich
Offert with le an sufficiens
intimation to Man
Ans to this fallen.
7.7.5.28/07 1850.
i
177
Separate
CE
9765.
Hong hong
Eubs
६
Ex
Governor Bonham 22. Fably.
M. Cellist
M. Merivale
Mr Hawes
Carl Grey &
Feb 3/50 2. JubJ/60
2
For,
I duly
1850
178
received your
letter of the 29th of
Lept r last explaining
the grounds on which you have come to the conclusion that the office of Colonial
Treasurer could not be
dispensed with. This entirely accords with the opinion which has been formed by myself and the L. Cr of the Ther
and
and I am glad, therefor that your wishes on
the subject will be
fulfilled. You will
see
um general
Jublic
by my Despatch upon the
proposed reductions of Hong Hong Wat
The Treasurership is
not to be abolished
I have 57
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!
179
C
7
י
Y
RECEIVED 469, Hou houg. 180
Destrelches, transmi
JAN
Schedule of Governor of Wong for
the Colonies! by vrà southampton,
of Qale of
err
1850
tted by
the
the secretary of state the Mail steamer Braganza
the 30th November, 1849.
Subject of Despatch.
едо
Deap: Desk:
1849.
Duplicates.
Girly Returns for
the
72 187 Debr. TrauemiMting Quarterly Ret
93220
911 2300
95 2404
Quarter ended 30th September, 1849.
Transmiting for
Shareholders of
Bio Lordsleipé
consideration Copy of
the
OL
letter from the
Hongthing Club,
relative to an action brought
against them by the administrator of the
the late MrRobert Edwards': Estate.
Acknowledging receipt of Despatches to
No138 of 115. August, and Circular Military of St Auquet, and Despatch 810. Military of 18th August, -together with sundry
of
ther
Circulare. Nous
that r
of
Acknowledging receipt of Circular-
and Bla
stating
quarantine Establishment is in existence at
Houghong.
Novis
46 250 Replying to Circular of 200 buly ...
relative to capital Bullielumento. Non
i
بمد
s of Date of
J
Deap Drop-
1849.
Subject of Despatch.
9% 2 theth : Transmitting Treasurer's Returne
98 29
12903
i
the
of
Receipts and Payments for Quarter ended 30 September. 184, together with the Report of the Board the for dctober, of of Survey,
the
beld
80 of
Pof. Date Deep Deep:
of
Fends in the Colonial Treasury 37
mitting Copy of Despatet. 8150
to Viscount Palmerston,
Preston, enclosi
onctoring
further correspondence connected with the assassination of Governor
Amaral.
-
99 29th = Reporting demise of Rear Admiral
Francis A. Collier, C.B, K. C. H.
Naval Commiander-in-
тема
1054 19 Hovb". 19°
Subject of Despatch
munitions of
War at
Hongkong.
180 A
Reporting sale of certain Crown Lands,
on the 5th October, 1849.
105 212 Stating circumstances which have
reet
ognition by
resulted in the the Clience High Commissione
the inviolability of the territory
by Houghing.
19.
106230.
chief,
OLA
the
corning
eing of the 28th October 1847 . . Nave
1849..
107 262
Originals...
RECEIVED 21
10828t
车
the LAN Convicts to
101 10 3800. Reporting transpor
Penang.
1850h
letter from
102 14th - Forwarding a letter
L
the Mu
Manager Hong
of the Oriental Bann at story hong and applying for
instructions.
subject of Governor Bonham's Despatch
439
103 162 Forwarding correspondence passed between
himself and the late Naval Commander
-chief relative to the sale of
-in
110
1848.
+
100"
ミ
to Mr Gear of the Western Market
dell, for a fresied O the 14 November, 1849...
Five years commencen
meing from
Acknowledging Teceipt of Despatches to N143 of 15th September. 1849..... the leave of absence
Reporting 12 mon
ted to Mr. Sena,
grante.
sick
Certificate, to proceed to England, and recommending
this officer
to His Lordship's favorable
Consideration
sale of 9 Sots of Land on the
Reporting Sale of 9
2 of the November, 1849.
Applying for instructions celative to the
disposal of European Convicts senter
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Despr
Subject of Despatch
to Transportation, and submitting
for
decision
the
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of one James
John Burke, lately sentenced by the
Admiralty Aurt to 15 years
N of ahvel:
15 years transportation Nove
111 28th Boob! Bringing under His Sordabip's notice
112
the cases
of 4 European
Military Convicts under sentence of transportation,
confinement in the fail..
in
Replying to His Fordstrip's Derpatah No 143 of the 11th Septt = last, relative to a surplus of L. 324 d. 2, in the Treasure chest.
113 29th Conclosing Copy of
nd Marseilles.
114:30th
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his Despatch Nesyl to of Viscount Palmerstone, reporting that the hood and heud of
the late
Governor Amaral have not yet
been delivered
Cutheri tien
ress by
the Chinese
suggesting
that Sabuan be appointed
f
the places of transportation
For
chinese and Asiatic Convicte
from Hongkong.
Maria Colonial Secretary.
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Wan
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MENT
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Chinese lakom
topucand from China Brave West Endin
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111
Date of Деяр
Subject of Despatch
to Transportation, and aubmitting
for
decision
the
Casl
of one James
N of daved:
John Burke, lately sentenced by the
Admiralty Court to 15 years transportation Nove
28th Woob! Bringing under Wie Sordship's notice
7.
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Confindin en
Replying to His Fordstrip's Despatule No 143 of the 18th Septor last, relative to a surplus of L322 d. 2, in the Treasure Chest
113 29th. Conclosing Copy of his Despatch Noryl to
Marseilles .
Via Marsei
114 30th
ず
th
Viscount Palmerston, reporting the
the lead and hand
that
the late
Governor Amaral have not yet
been delivered upe by Authorities.
suggesting
ove
for
f
the Chinese
that Sabuan be
be appoirited
the places of transportation
chinese and Aviatie Conviete.
from Hongkong.
Maine
Colonial Secretary .
OPG Hong Kong 181
C.D.
DEC 23
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fully with In Main this Bratter, and he has prominal toundi & Amay fathe prepone of abtaining further information relative to the Jali of the Ceilers shipped to the Havana: Main the than the returned fun that Place, with of 10,000 buy undeslied both desa. lent, abonary Hour Wherein requested
at
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The Chinese settlers in the Straits
and in all parts of the Eastern Archipelago are principally from the province of
Fohkien, the natives of which
only of a
of which are not
more adventurous disposition
than their neighbours of the banten province, but from their superior applicability and docile. nature much better adapted-
for Colonists . One particular feature.
of this province
also characterises the men
•
viz : the general love of their native country
and the desire to return to it
after realizing
what thei
consider a
competency, which pervades all- classes of emigrants therefrom. In Manila, the climate of which, it is to
be presumed, is much similar to that. of the West Indies, they ard very have become from long
numerous,
!
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intercourse quite-
habituated to the
the co
country
with
A
and climate, and intermar
intermarry freely
the
aborigines, a very great advantage, as with exception of Singapore and other places in the Strails, Manila is the only part where they have been found to do so, a circumstance of no small importances. The extreme repugnance of the Chinese husband or father to remove his family from their native country, besides the illegality of such a proceeding by Chinese laws, is too well known to require comment,
and this must ever
ever be
a serious impediment
to emigration:
It may not be generally
· generally known
that the Manila Government had it
in contemplation, about two years ago,
one of the Philippine
to colonise one of
with : Chinese, permitting
Islands entirely
· governed by
them to be
subject only
their
own
laws,
in extreme cases to the
A
approval of the Manila Courts.
The writer was
184
applied to by
the originator of this scheme to procurd 300 male and 50 7 female emigrants,
feme
but although the former could have been easily
obtained on the usual terms,
ad
the latter could not be procured
except by purchase, the commission
was declined.
In the island of Bourbon the
Northern Chinese have been
answer extreme
extremely well, and
" found to
very many
of them have voluntarily renewed their
when expired, but at. an
agreements
cements when
increased rate of wages.
In Mauritius they
лосге
found
to be troublesome, and many had to be
but: as they sent back to Penang, but as
wvere
originally the very offxourings of that
settlement, it is not to be wondered at
Of 800 Coolies sent to Havana
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and British ship Duke of Argyle, from Amoy, nothing authentic is known, excepting that the speculators, (alpanish -merchants resident in Manila), lost
very considerably by the operation, and that one of the Coolies returned to -
Hongkong
in about 10
and Amoy in a
a sum
months after leaving, with no less than
$16,000 in
d in
gold, which he realized
that short time by practising physician .
it is
as a
.
Havana being a slave bolony, - very questionable if the terms of the original contract wore fulfilled by the parties who engaged them.
The Nimrod. " took about 120 Coolies from Amoy to Australia in
1848 : this is said to have also been
losing operation, and it is
a.
stated that they
wvere
not
further
· found to answer;
..
185
- but neither of these cases can be quoted
as a
criterion of their incligibility, for
the reasons
before mentioned as
regards Havana, and the well-known and
Colonists
acknowledged objection of the beleniets of Australia to the immigration of -foreign labourers ; and ample proof of the value of the Chinese as such is to be found in the successful result of their importation to Manila, the Straits Settlements, Bourbon, and Java.
As the English. Agent who
· very
procures the Coolies involves a heavy moral and personal responsibility them to leave their families
by inducing
and country for a distant place where that the engagements
he has no
on
that
no secu
security
his part will be performed, while
on
theirs are certain to be exacted,
the trade is in
a ver
hands, one of private hands,
able nature, but, when
very disagreeable
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J
the
agent knows that he has the faith of Her Majesty's Government for the performance of his undertaking, there can be no possible objection.
The Chinczo labourers
are not
affected by a change of climate, and
within the Tropics
are in general very healthy. But like the Swiss, they suffer occasionally from "Home Sickness;
which, when it once makes it's appearance,
as it is in most cases
ous as
is as contagious
fatal . Its existence can always be
detected
r and trivial
by a very singular
symptoms, viz : the constant doubling of their thumbs . When this is observed, the subject should be removed, others, and treated. promptly, disease will extend. The experience of
from the the
Or
the writer convinces him that under proper treatment, with strict, and when required., even stern discipline, the
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186
northern Chinese would be found the
most useful class that could be sent
to the West Indies as labourers.
The terms on which he has
them at Amoy for
engaged.
6. Amoy for the French
nment are, sva
Government
wages
$ 3 @ $ 4 pr
month, free passage to Bourbon, 2 suits of clothing for.
Prannuno,
annum, house, food, and medical attendance), in consideration of which they agree to
serve
for 3 @ 5 years, and to work every lawful day, from sunrise to sunset, at whatever they may
be set. This
agreement is printed.
printed in Chiness and in the language of the bolony for which the emigrant
igrant is destined, is
signed by both the contracting parties, and transferred .
The foregone remarks embody all the peculiarities and particulars regarding the emigration of Chinese
10
i
Coolies which have occurred to the writer.
Some allowancò ma
partiality
and
men may
been
be made
do for
for any
towards the northern Chinese,
an
among,
which a five years' residence
intimate knowledge of their character and disposition may have
induced ; as also the apparent prospect of a favorite theory of some standing
at last brought into practice .
[(Signed) I.D. Muir
being
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Hongkong. 3a October 1849.
Fenses 19rtum. Hir attesting
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entions
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188
rations, but I infer that Cookies proceding
to the West Indies would probable reguend
pass
$4 free theath at chil cale including the Account of this pach, age each Cabli would cost his Mastic independently
half aclues for then the - euphong lun toline fine Аритав Zars. The proposed tune of Apuments
of her nations sex and a
of 155 pap, age Mony-
240 Wager for 5 years
fu 1395
I annually
19
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of abendune of Labomes ling willing "Bembark fum Anway, hell have att.)
equally im
they kee that the henen forth onery suh batin. fre to prevent them
Or
Inter expercally if affect be made to the Authorities besten Zind, Relatives of there abent togint Country _ _ On this bulijiet Shelin a exfè - hushum made togon turdship pine the Colonial Land and Eupation
Kannd dalist 31 Jaming
Jamay last With the highest bespeel --
Shantha horin lunain Schind
ек
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This letter to
there an Whely to be if the claff I emigrants suited to the W. Indies. request to be informed whether be registered & a copy to de Getzlaff with.
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Memorandum of Agreement made and entered into this
day of
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and BETWEEN
a native of China, of the one part, and
.of
in the Territory of New South Wales,
́, and such person or persons in the
of the other part: WITNESSETH that the said agrees to serve the said
whom he may place in charge over the said capacity of Shepherd, Farm and General Servant, and Labourer in the said Territory, for
the term of Five Years, to commence from the date of the arrival of the said
in the said Territory; and to obey all his lawful orders and
the orders of such persons as may be placed in charge over him. AND the said
agrees to
pay
the said
Three Dollars per Month, the said amount to be paid in Dollars,
or in sterling British Money at the Exchange of Four Shillings per Dollar. And also to provide the following Weekly Rations, namely,--
8lbs. of Flour, or 10lbs. Rice, at
lbs. of Meat,
option,
20zs of Tea.
10
892.
Financial.
ŕm
10,984 Hong
My Lord.
ريا
DEC.25 1840
Mong.
190
Fictoria, Hongkongs,
18th October, 1846.
I have the honor to enclose herewith, for Your
Sordship's information, and
that
کرو
The Serds
lords Com
Commissiones Treasury,
Her Majesty's Secassey,
the Quarterly abstracts
Copics of
for
the
Quarter ended 30
the
September, 1849.
1. Changes
in the Holders of
Offices and appointments in the Colony of Hongkong.
The Right Honorable
The Earl Grey,
Yo,
Jo
+
but 10748-
تسلم
-vich ging
10
༡. - Additions to Salaries and
allowances in the Colony of Hongking
3.-
Creation of new
Mr.
office, and
vents in the
appointments
Colony of Houghing.
Tayments of
asual
description and for. extraordinary, Services,
I have the houer to be,
With the highest respect,
Your Perdsleips,
Your
Most obedient,
Humble Servant,
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Mr Merinle
I see nothing to remark upon in sensory, the usual the
rettern to the Treasu
Tramon W.24/12/47.
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pon sp
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познато металев
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th. September, 1849.
CHANGES in the HOLDERS of OFFICES and APPOINTMENTS in the Offices of HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended 30th September,
OFFICE.
Colonial Lecy's.
Office
2nd. Clerk.
3rd. Clerk.
4
the black.
Harbor Master's Office
Name of the Officer who formerly held the appointment, and annual Salary.
Name of the Officer who is now appointed, and annual Salary.
I. d'Almada £270 &. M. Newman,
& Castro.
half salary £135.
A. Grand Pré. S 243 H. 7. Hanc ₤243
G. W. Newman. £216. A Grand Pré £216.
Aest : Harbor Master. A. Lena. £300.
Office of Asst: Harbor Master
abolished
Registrar General's H. F. Hance, £300 A Lena, £300.
office - Clerk. I
Supreme Court
Under Bailiff. C. Napier. £37.10 I. Cavok £37.10
If appointed by Her Majesty's Government in England, date of au- thority of the Secretary of State.
If newly appointed by the Governor date of authority.
Colonial Secy's letter No.255 1 Repli Do. Da M3·252 3/et. August. Do. Do. No. 255 jet. Septr:
No.253.31th aug.
If promoted from another Office or Government situation in the Colony, description of former pointment.
Formerly
No 254.1th Sept: Assistant
ap-
Harbor Master.
Formerly
a
No. 259. 3 Sept: Constable in the
Police Force.
(True fipy) Manic
Date of Governor's Despatch respecting
the Change of office or appointment, or
the new appointment.
th.
192
No. 86 of 7th Sept. 1849.
Column for Remarks..
Mr.I.d'Almada
is absent on sick leave. Mr. Newman temporarily
's
employed at the Registrar General's Office Mr. Hance and M Grand Pré have resumed their respective duties as 3rd and 4th. Clecks
in the Colonial Secretarys
office.
(Signed) "Mfaina
Colonial Lecretary.
Auditor General.
OFFICE.
A
ADDITIONS to SALARIES and ALLOWANCES in the Offices of HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended
Name.
Date of Appointment.
Original Salary.
Present Salary.
the
30th September,
Date from which increased | Date, and description of Authority for
Salary drawn.
increase.
1849.
Column for Remarks.
193
Mil..
(Signed) Auditor General.
Maine-
True Copy.
Colomial Lecretary
OFFICE.
}
CREATION of NEW OFFICES and APPOINTMENTS in the Offices of HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended 30th September, 1849.
Name.
Annual Salary.
Date of appointment and of authority from the Governor.
Date and description of the authority or Date of the Governor's Despatch to Her instruction (if any) from Her Majesty's Majesty's Government in England, respecting Government in England, în consequence of the transaction in cases where no previous which the appointment was made.
authority may have been received.
Column for Remarks in any particular case, and for the statement of any special circum-
stances.
Mil
(Signed) Maine),
(True Copy)
Auditor General .
Colonial Secretary.
1943
PAYMENTS of an unusual or special Description, and Payments on Services amounting, to £200, incurred without previous authority from Her Majesty's
Secretary of State, for the Quarter ended 30th September, 1849.
Description of Service.
Amount.
To whom paid.
the Governor.
Date and description of the authority or Date of the Governor's Despatch to Her Date of authority from instruction (if any) from Her Majesty's Majesty's Government in England respecting Government in England, in consequence of the transaction, in cases where no previous which the payment was made.
authority may have been received.
Column for Remarks in any particular case, and for the statement of any special circum-
stances.
195
Mit
(signed) Maine)
(Frue Copy Copy
Auditor General
ノ
Colonial Secretary.
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No. 93.
"No.93 Miscellaneous .
Ans
159-
58
My Lord,
of the
10,980 trong trong
196
Victoria, Hongkong,
22nd October, 1849.
In the concluding paragraph
accompanying letter from the Shareholders of the Hongkong blub,
Your Lordships will observe that I am requested to submit it for your information,
now the hover to do
and I therefore
so.
have now
This letter is I believe, signed
by all of the principal merchants, and by decidedly the most respectable and influential inhabitants of the belony.
The statements contained in the latter part of it will be seen to be much in unison with those, I have considered it
The Right Honorable
The Earl Grey,
&o.,
&c.
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my duty to submit to Your Lordship when I have had occasion to speak of - working of the Supreme Court.
the
The facts of the
case which
have caused the Shareholders to address
to me the letter
the letter now enclosed are
sufficiently
clear from that communication, and it
does seern to me that the action
certainly does seerv
certainly raised by the Administrator of the late Mr. Edwards's estate against the Shareholders of the Hongkong Club ought to have been instituted against the local Government. I however thought it my duty to submit the question for the opinion of the Attorney Goveral of the Colony, and I now enclose copies of my and of his reply on the subject ; as well.
letter to himi
answer to the Shareholders
as of my
grounded
on
the
that
opinion.
The case as represented by Shareholders, so far:
far as I can
I can judge
No. 2.
No. 3.
No. 4.
4.
from
the Records of this Government,
to me to be fairly
appears to me to be
197
stated, and I
entertain strong hopes that unless they
be thrown out
of Court on some technicality
form, they will obtain
ow on
their favours
PT.
verdict in
W V
the merits.
I have the honor to be;
"With the highest respect,
Your Lordship's,
Most. Obedient,
Humble Servan Istratame
the above, I have
Since writing ascertained that the Plaintiff's Attorney
has proposed to the Defendants to compromise the matter on their (Defendants) paying $1,000 and costs. These coits abready
amount to $1126, besides the bill of the Plaintiff's Attorney, which will
in the probably
way
that matters are
>
14
conducted here, amount to
third
more
a
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The Defendants have therefore declined-
to accede to the proposal.
Defendants' boots,
Court Fees.
Costs.
Plaintiff's Corts
$656
70
$231.
$238.50 $1126.
27alty
198
any
thebestcome
will be admontese, to say that I do not. perceive in what manner it
Mus
is in my power to sute diminish
any
Measures
to simplify
Me corks of legal proceedings must
injinate with the God & his connect, but improvements in the excelf law which they can offer
nee of aloitantial purtive and encet with my : which seem likely to promote this object, & ut the same time.
the performance Cy. 25
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of the nature or circumilames of Be care.
Dut at
for
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which the
Gown ight to take
day part. It is
only point, a
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imposible for us, & equally cod
affichend for the forumon, to say whether or not the only
point in isme is die 10. Pottinger have to fut up this land
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&
Bonham.
Sir,
Your
29
I have received
despatch N° 98 of the
22 October haus mittorig
the copy of a
Letter and
pom the Shareholders of
its accompanying enclosur
the
on the subject of a
Hong Kong Club House
action
which has been preferred
against them by
Admuestrator of the
Late
Edward Estate
carefully somed the
Although I have
papers
to me
-hand fore anded
been unable
to
perceive in what
Manner I can interpre
case, especially
in the polit
Whilst a suit is pending on he dichas any
y
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te
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The pred oljust since sequre the performance
complaich but pureed of substantial justice In the heart and the Boy will meet with seey
Kary
chulfouce, it in
Quy
measures
to simplify
gainst Alig Where papers do not
with much right
Held
What so much венет herein that 30
And dimerish the cost
of legal proceedings
Must originate
with
and bi and
the Givernon Council, but any misisse.
=ments in the wisting
car
Law which you Offect in comment with that Body which seem
de
ais me sufficient information disabisfaction wrist with
to warrant an in
the ashimistiction
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for any wint actions on the picker in that corny, and
вот
with
foljet of them. Aft sofer that you effe to state
safa
I campert
тирите
May for
Астана dircity any interference with the wich which affean to to funding, nor do I
deicom in
likely to promote that any
biject, and at the same
what manner
uch ütehneen well
مسا
te hacficial to the parties.
with nefnt Trann
in it. Any masme
When to which can simplify tepel for certig
& diminish Mir cost,
mnt onginate, not with This frummet heres bs with gruself & Jour Commiss. But gue may
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in my
Entire
жу
satire appreciation.
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appulation of any
croviding measmer
such
wold
refore, which pay
which may offer likel
at once to diminish the Expence solley of litigelin
to permite ontlantich
justice.
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Fo
His Excellency
202
Samuel George Benham, Leger
6. B. He,
&c.
او
undersigned, shareholders
Sir
Be the
the und
of the
the Hongkong Club House, vesiture-
the
in the
argain
again
to bring to Your Excellency's notice,
matter of the suit now,
pending
Supreme Court; somò circumstances
connected, with which have been already
represented to you by the Standing
Committee of Shareholders.
We believe Your Excelioncy
already acquainted with the most important
facts connected with the property in dispute, but it
not be irrelevant to offer
may
circumstantial details of all proceedings
respecting, it
On the ptt. Me
May,
, 1841, Captain
E
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تن
Eilish issued a notice that allotments of "land would be made pending_
Her Majesty's
further pleasure .
notice for w
a
On the 18th October following,
sain
land wous
second sale of land
a)
published, the regulations for which were
to be the same as at the first sale. The sale took place on the 1th December, 1841, when lot Mr. 16 was taken by Mr. JW. Gabell,
Gabell,
on
it
who on the 26th. Miril, 1842, transferred. to Mr. R. M. "Wichele, who again Bctober, 1842, transferred it to Mr. R. Edwards On the 10th April 1843, Sir Henry Pottinger, "in consequened of instructions. "received from Her Majesty's Government,
published a notice
calling upon all holders
ca
-land to furnish him with
full cxplanations
was to their claims to such land, concluding
in the following
words. _ It has been
repeatedly intimated that the terms and tenure "of holding
the Island of
all lands ow
203
"Hongkong.
were to depend solely
the
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" pleasure and commands
of Her Majestie's
"Government; and the information called
" for in this notification is required beford
such terms and tenure can
to the Public," And.
again.
Excelle
be
Obv
announced
the 2176.
tified, -
August, 1848, His becoltancy not fad, " that. Her Majesty's Government
ment do mot
or Sales
or
" recognize the validity of any grants "of land that have been made, or
"may
may
have taken place unders any authority "whatsoever previous to the exchange of the
" ratifications of the treaty, upon which event " the Island of "Hongkong
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became a bonas
fide - possession of the British- Crown
On the 15th. December, 1843,
ney Shr
His Excelle
Excellency
Shore Henry Settinger
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special report upon the claims which-
had been made to the lot c. 16, decided-
that it should be sold, without reference
to what had previously passed, and
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that. Mr. Edwards had no claim to consideration.
1004 AE
The land was
at public auction ou
and was it
accordingly, fuit up.
の
the 22nd January,
1844
knocked, down to Mr. Lg. T. Braine)
from
who subsequently took out a lease for it Government, at the same time making transfer of the same to certain parties as the thon" "Standing Committee of Shareholder " of the "Hongkong blub. "
This transfer
lvas
duly registered
in the Land. Office in pursuance of
Colonial - Ordinance No. 3
of 1844.
Your Excellency will therefore
Lee
that the. Shareholders of the Club are in
of possession of complete. legal. title deeds
and that, on the other hand,
the property it was decided. by the representative of Hor Majesty's Government, by virtue of the
powers entrusted. to him, that. Mr. Edwards had. not even a claim - for consideration, in reference to it
This It is not
for
204
us to discover the
Reasond
which the Administrator to Mr. Edwards'
cetate, has found for commencing his action. against the Shurcholders of the blub, but Your Excellency will perecios that we have beew compelled to come forward as the Defendants acts of the former Governow of this Colony :
ts in an endeavour to set aside the
Notwithstanding the evident invalidity
of the claimed, it has been necessary to go through.
a series
Equity,
andiver
the Bill in
1 of legal forms to answer
back as January
rs far back as
and as
tvas
last aw
d in the Supreme Court by
· filed
the then resident Members of the Standing
Committee.
"We need not trouble Your Excellency
with a detail
a détail of the vexatious proceedings
have sined been subjected to ;
subjected to ; suffice it to
that it has been even
I we
say
- found necessary to obtain
the sanction of This Honor the Chief Justicen for
with the services
%
our
dispensing
"the Attorney
had hitherto employed.
and there
Being
being
then without a legal adviser,
no other in the .
Colony, This Honor
the Chief, Justice was solicited both, by letter and petition to take the circumstances relative to the proceedings of both. Attornies into consideration, and to allow the standing Committee to appear personally in Courts to produce the title deeds of the property, in order that the matter might be tried upon its merits.
we are)
Such a proceeding, however, informed by His Honor's block is not usual,
bring
and we are in consequence still unable to bre the matter to issue.
The Plaintiff's Attorney now proposes that the case should be withdrawn from the. -Court here, and a reference be made to the Attorney and Solicitor General in England, the Honorable the Attorney General herr
proposes that
we should accede.
and to this
With all deferener to that Houseable
gentleman's opinion,
comprehend the reason
ive are
utterly at a
205
loss to
3 for such a proceeding:
the action was commenced in the Supreme Court of this Colony by the Plaintiff, and
might be easily brought forward for
now, were)
decision
his Attorn so inclined, and we do
not understand why it should be necessary
Her arising
in and having reference
that
a matter
only to this Colony,
for
decision).
be now
ne
referred to borgland
be
If however Your Excellency
disposed to consider the advice of the Honble : the Attorney General to be the best under the circumstances of the case, we would respectfully submit that that Honorable, gentleman. be now directed to take the matter ups on behalf of the broww, points at isend and actually the legality of the proceedings of Your Excellency's firedecessos; and the issue
and costs of the present, action,
be, will ultimately affect
whatever they may
a.d
the
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(Signed) 6. J. Braind
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John Dent
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R. J. Gilman.
and fall upon the Government alone.
In conclusion we have carnestly to
Excellency will be
will be pleased to permit the Right Honorable the Earl
request that Your Excellency
to be made acquainted with the particulars this suit, as it will then be evident to "Ibis Lordship that: a Supreme Court of Judicature,
4
for this Island, which is governed by the Rules of the Court of Westminster, while unsupplied, with duly qualified Barristers,
or even
can be placed,
: justice to
Attornies in whom confidence ca is not merely insufficient; to ensure H. M. Subjects, but on the contrary, is incapable of preventing a repetition of similar vexations
proceedings
Hongkong,
as
those now detailed.
5th September, 1849)
We have, &c,
(signed) Wal : Davidson .
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(a)
Pat: Dudgeon
The: D. Ncave.
Peter Young
John Holliday.
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P. S. Forbes.
I. G. Livingston.
WW. Parkin.
W. F. Gray
Fr. T. Bush
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все
Colonial Secretary.
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(Copy.) Yo 285.
Six,
208
Colonial Seretary's Office,
Victoria, Hongkong,
3rd. October, 1849.
I am directed to transmit for your information a letter in original from the shareholders of the Hongkong Club relative to an action pending
at
present in the Supreme Court, by which their interests are a affected, and to
request that
• you
will be pleased to
you
- your opinion it be should take up
the
say whether in proper that
on behalf of the brown, as suggõited
case on
by the Shareholders.
It
is His Excellencu's intention
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Carl
:
to forward a copy of this letter to bard"=
The Honorable
P. I. Sterling, Esq. Attorney General
.
of the Hongkong blub, Letter from the phareholders
detailing
the facts
connected
with the suit instituted
against
theme.
the
Mr. Robert Edwards's
"administrator of the late
e
estate.
Inclosure No. 1 in Despatch
so.
99 of 1849.
5th.
September, 1849.
i
1
Grey,
and he is therefore descious that
you should offer any further suggestions
that
may
occur
to
you
in
reference
to
this subject as may
to
enable His Lordship
eri
fully comprehend the sucrits of the
cado.
Copy
L
I have, &er
(signed)
Mrbaine
Colonial Srorotary.
Trace fopy
lonial Sper
Sheretary.
Six
5th October, 1849.
209
Gough Street.
I have the honor to acknowledge
3rd:
as to
the receipt of your letter of the god instant, ( with its enclosure herewith returned), requiring my opinions whether it would be proper that . I in my official capacity should take up
of the churcholders of the blub,
them, and stating
the case
αλ
ting that :
suggested by them, and it was His Excellency the Governor's desire that I might offer any furthor__
no that might
gestions that
suggestions
occur to me int
references to the suit, to enable the Carl
Grey fully to comprehend the merits
this case!
The Honorable
Major Caine,
Colonial Secretary.
With
respect to the
required.
opinion, it appears to quer to be more desirable that the case should not be taken up by the browns, not only account of the frame of the bill, but as it might be dormed an undertaking on the part of the local Government here to indemnify the shareholders, (who have
(the lot), large sum of money
sunk a
زم
decret which
have
and their mortgagee, from any might be made, and inasmuch as I ham_ offered the parties to afford, ang
long since
advice they might require of
mer
With respect to the · general
merits of the case, it would seem that-
as administrator
of
the plaintiff, ( Edwards), relies on Mr. Johnston's
t to let the lot to Edwards, agreement to let the
his temporary possession, and small outlier thereunder, as
as also on outlay
Edwards
having attached Mr. George T. Braine,
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with notice of this
210
who afterwards became brown Lesse of it;
of this agreement, previous
The case made for
to his tena.
tenancy.
for the
defendants is that. Mr. Johnston had
power to alienate the lot, and that he
anore Ø ver/
nerely contracted to do
merely
so.
subject to the condition that the brown should approve of or confirm his act, and the defendants, after alleging that the brown by public acts and documents refused its sanction of this agreement, further rely on the facts : __ that the plaintiff lay by without institu proceedings, until the defendants expended.
large
a.
nstituting
sum on this lot; that the
niginal lease and assignment thereof is
as also the mortgage to the
duly registered, as also the
defendant Dudgeon, who states in addition that he is a purchaser for valuable consideration without notice of the plaintiff's claims.
As the letter of the shareholders
į
me
refers to one individually in that passage where it is said they are utterby
at a loss to know why I advised them to accede to the plaintiff's propositions for having the case decided by the joint opinion of the Attorney and Solicitor General of England, I would beg to state here that. expressed reason for doing
it
AVAS AU-
so was,
snay
that.
obvious mode whereby the
whoroby
Defendant's might avoid three circumstânces
of which they complained, namely
delay, and costs of suit.
solicitor, the delay.
I have the honor, &
their
(Signed) Paul Sterling
1 True
Copy
Meisie
olonial Secretary.
(Copy)
I
No. 288.
Gentlemen,
your
211
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th October, 1849.
I am directed to acknowledge letter of the 5th ultime addressed
not, and
to His Excellency the Governet,
received about a week or 10
10 days since,
10 days
and to inform you that that portion of
your
communications which related to
the action instituted by the administrator to the Estate of the late Mr. R. Edwards against the shareholders of the "Hongkong blub having
been referred to the Honorable
the Attorney General, a reply has been revived, of which the accompanying copy is forwarded for your information.
-Messrs: Davidson, Dudgeon, Neave, Refers
Young, Holliday
and others,
Shareholders of the "Hongkong Club
¡
12
From this letter
you will.
perceiver that This Excellency
is advised
that it is not desirable that the case
should be taken up by the Crowns
With peference to the latter
the subject therein
part of your letter, the su
had His Excellency's :entioned. has long had His Excel
Men
attention, and has abready been brought by him to the notice of the Legislative
Council. He will nevertheless submit.
a
copy of your
communication to Lord
Grey by an early opportunity
I have, &e (Signed)
True Lopey)
MW. Caine,
Colonial Secretary.
Maine
Lecretary.
Colomal
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Nr. 93 of 1849.
Inclosure. Nr. 4 in Desp:
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Miscellaneous.
10.980. Song Mong.
RUTENED
DEC 96 1840
213
Devia, Honghingt
2,3rd. October, 1849.
13
My Sord.
With Reference to my Despatch No 87 of the 15th. September, I have the houer
to acknowledge the teceipt of the following Respatches on the 20%
Instant.
-Originals-
11
No 131 138, the last of the 18th.
angast, 1849.
Circular. Military of Women
Military. Von 10-10 18
Circular
Circular
16
17 20th July
The Right Honerable, the Earl Grey,
C
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Secretary to the letter
Reply from the Colonial.
from
Attorney General's opinion
enclosing copy of the of the Hongkong blub
shareholders
thereon.
6th October, 18449,
thil.
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(iventar __ of 211th July, 1849.
Greular
Grenlar
of the lingust, a
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Military - N°. Ge of 7th July 1849.
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I have the hour to be,
With the highest aspect,
Your Serdships,
Most obedient,
Humble Servant,
19laur
10,987. Hag Hong
2
214
No. 95.
Mivecllaneous.
RECENED
DEC.26 1849
Victoria,
My Serd
Hongkang,
24th 1849.
October,
hu reply to Your
Serdship's Circular of ou August requiring a
Quarantine
of the Expenses of Inacombina
in the Colanies, I have the
lavor to state that
Establishment of
the kind
in existence at Houghing,
and consequently no expenditure
curred under this hood.
lazily
The Right Henerable
The Earl Grey,
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Shave the never te ber With the liighest lespect,
Your Sordship's
Palia
amentay
Clark
26/12
Most Obedient Huable Servant,
Hestream
Is in or Pen't det kome spie suly, 1830
No. 96. Judicial.
PRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT Capital Emerimisk-14761867
My Lord,
RECEIVED
PHO
134
Victoria, Hongkong
th.
25th October, 184.9.
I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of Your Lordship's Circular of the 20th July last, on the subject of capital punishments, and in
to state that na crine/
noply for which capital
punishment has been abolished in
England, is capitally punished within this Colony.
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
Your Lordships,
The Right Honorable
The Earl Grey,
&c.,
&v
&o.
Most. Obedions.
Humble Servant,
Mr. Merinte
Mr Merinte
Parliamentary
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Financial.
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Not
No. 27.
My Lord,
10,900 trong trong
RECEIVED
DEC 26 1849
216
Victoria, Hongkong,
27 th October, 1849.
I have the honor to transmit
to Your Lordships the account current
the Colonial Reasurer for the Quarter onded. 30th September, 18497, together 26 with the requisite Vouchers in support
of the
Lame.
The Report of the Board of - Survey of the "hunds in the Colonial Rreasury, herewith enclosed for Your Lordship's information
I have the honor to be,
held on the 1th instant, is also
With the highest respect, .
The Right Honorable
The Earl Grey,
so,
&c.
Your Lordships,
Most Obedient,
Humble Servant,
Montam
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5
Treasur
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No 98.
Miscellaneous
5951617
My Lord,
10,803. Hong Long.
RECEIVED
DEC.20
18499
217
Victona, Hongkong.
1
24th October, 1849.
I have the hover to
transunit for your Ferdship's
1a
information copy of
Despatch,
80, 150, which I have mder--
this date addressed to Fiscounté
Palmerston, enclosing the further correspondence which has passed
assed between myself, Provisional Gover
& Government of Macão,
and the Imperial Commis
relative to the
Commissioner,
delivery of
the head and hand of the late
Senhor Amaral.
The Right Honirable. The Earl Grey,
Ac
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homemate
th?
12 13
I have the hiver to be,
With the highest respect,
Your Serdships,
Your
Most. Obedient
Humble Servant,
Esthan
The q sempremtak
218
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(Copy.)
No. 150.
A
Nos. 2 @ 13.
My
Mr. Lord,
219
Victória, Hongkong, October 29th, 1849.
In continuation.
of my Despatch
No 132 of the 28th altime, Shave
now
the honor to transmit copies of several communications which have passed between the Provisional Government of Mação and myself during the present mouth, on the subject of the assassination of their late Governor.
I had the honor of stating to Your Lordship in my last Despatch that the Imperial Commissioner had
forwarded to Macá ́s the head and hand
the deceased Governors,
Governor, which had been discwered through the instrumen
The Right Honorable
The Viscount Palmerston, G. C. B.
tality
The Earl Greyp.
Governor Bonham
294 Bctober, 1849.
Victoria, Honghong,
+
1998.
17 Inclosures.
Receiver
Frans
mitting copy
Hp Als patch
connected with the assassination.
enclosing further correspondence
N° 150 to Viscount Palmerston,
of Governor
Amaral..
ve.,
&e!
Je
murderer
been
of one Thin chi liang, who had been excented at bantow as the alleged of Senhor Amaral . A day having fixed for the reception of these remains, the presence of the Council of Macao,
in
and
the Forei
Foreign Representatives residing at assembled at the
that Settlement, they all assembled.
Barrier for that purpoed. But to the great astonishment of all parties, the magistrate them up of baza. Branca declined giving
until three Chinese, seized at the Barrier
gate
the
very night
accomplished,
Portuguese.
complying
wvere
the
murder was.
delivered
over
by the
authorities. The latter declined
with this undignified proposal, and the correspondence, enclosed in the
unications from the Council to
commun
myself, has been carried on ever since,
and is not
to this da
day
s to an
" yet brought to
the head and hand
end, and
are still
in the possession of the Chinese authorities.
No. 14.
/Yos. 15 @ 17
220
On hearing from the Council the terms proposed by the Commissioner for the delivery of those remains, I addressed the -accompanying note to the Chinese Minister,
expressing my astonishment that he had. not kept the promise which he had made both to the Portuguese authorities and to
myself,
and reprobating the idea of the head, and hand being made
a matter of barter . I
ANNE∞
copy of his reply, and likewise copies of two other lotters which have passed. between us on the same subject. Your Lordship will observe from the Commissionon, reply of the 15th instant, that he reports
the
capture of two other Chinese, whom he states to have been engaged
in the murder. One of these, it appears, was fired at when being seized in a boat, fell.
overboard, and was drowned; the other is
reported to be dangerously
wounded, and
I shortly expect to hear that he has died
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(Franslation)
221
of his wounds.
As regards Macao itself, the most perfect tranquillity prevails at that settlement. One French and tivo American
wissels of ward
war are at anchor in the Roads,
and so
attack
long as they
or o
remain there,
no-
outbreak need be anticipated.
Indeed, for my
opinion that .
own
I am of
part, I am
even Avere
those vessels to leave
ow
the Roads, now that the person whom the Chinese villagers looked upon
as obnoxious
to them on particular grounds, is no more, peace and quiet, would still prevail.
(
I have, yo, (Signed) S.G. Benham
True
copy)
Jame
lonial
cretary.
Covernment of the Province
of Mação, Timor, and Solor
General
Department.
No.
Most Illustrious and Most Excellent Sir, The Council of Government of
this Province have the honor to enclose
herewith for Your Excellency's information copies of the correspondence that has passed between themselves, the Viceroy of Canton, and the Mandarin of the District, relative to the delivery of the precious
of the Most Excellent the late-
remains
Governor of this Provincd .
the
Your Excellency will porocion that
perceive
sw his chops of the 16th instant,
Viceroy
roy in
- informs this Council that he was about to
send the head and hand to be delivered to
The Most Illustrious and Most Excellent;
Tamuel George Bonham, Governor of "Hongkong:
them without
any
clause or condition, and
from the chops of the Mandariw it will be
seew in what manner the latter insisted.
the previons surrender of the three
chinese who came
from the barrier
gate,
and are detained here, as a sine quâ now condition for the delivery of those precious
remains, which
are still withheld by the
Chinese authorities.
The three Chinese detained here
successary to accognize the assassins
are ou
whew they may be apprehended, and to be examined concernin
concerning. the bloody cabaia,
( Chinese upper dross) which was
at the Barrier gate, and;
found
for other inquiries
indispensable for the knowledge of the truth;
and
from this circumstanced as well. as from others that have occurred since the.
22nd August, Your Excellency will observe
the
anxiety with which the Chinese
: authorities endeavour to conceal it, to the
manifect prejudicd of justice, and also
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arrive at the same conclusion as this
Council, and, which is expressed in their replies to the Vicery
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Seu to the Macao Council.
Seu, Viceroy of Kwangtung and Kwangsi, &c., in reply to the requisition of the noble Council [of Macao.]
I have to state that the Mandarin of Shop-tak on the 26th of the 7th moon apprehended a criminal named Sen-chi- liang, wh committed the murder on Governor Amaral, and also discovered the head and hand which were concealed at San-tim,† a village of Shon-tak, and conveyed thein to Canton
I personally examined the aforesaid criminal, and he con- fessed that he was the real murderer. On the 29th, the said Sen-chi-liang was taken to the place of execution, bound and decapitated, and a deputed officer carries the head to be publicly exposed at the place where the crime was committed, as an example to others. I als send to be delivered to the noble Commeil the head and hand of Governor Amaral; and the noble Cou cil ought immediately to restore to their post. the three Chinese soldiers who are still in custody Enclosed is a copy of the confession of the assassin Sen-chi-liang.
Taoukwang. 29th year, 7th moon, 30th day, (10th Sep- tember, 1849 )
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To Seu, Viceroy of Canton. The Council of Government of the Province of Macan, Timor, and S. lor, zeceived on the 18th instant the Despatch which your Excellency addressed to them on the 16th, an- nouncing that an 48555ins of the Most Excellent Governor. João Maria Ferreira do Amaral had been apprehended by the Mandarin of Shon-tak, and that the bead and hand of the illustrious deceased, which had been discovered at Sain- fim, a village of the same place, was entrusted by your Ex- cellency to a deputed officer to be delivered to this Council: also that your Excellency, having personally examined the criminal, a copy of whore confession, unauthenticated. was enclosed in the Despatch. had ordered han to be executed, and his head to be delivered to the same deputed officer, to be conveyed to Macao, and exposed at the place where the crline was committed, as a warning to others."
This Council had Intended deferring their reply to your Excellency's Despatch until after the receipt of the head and band of the illustrions Governor, but as they have not been delivered up to this date, which is exceedingly strange, after your Excellency had positively stated that they had been sent on the 15th, the Council has judged it proper not to delay their answer any longer, chiefly because it behoves them on this occasion to condemn the unheard-of tanner in which your Excellency has thought fit to treat this affair, and to protest against the fresh insult which has been conveyed to the Portuguese Government in the aforesaid Despatch, as will be better perceived in the course of this reply.
In the first place it behoven this Commeil to insist in the most positive manner on the prompt delivery of the head and hand of the late Governor, the detention of which can never be justified after the official declaration made by your Excellency in your Despately, in the face of which the delay that has occurred must certainly be regarded as inest ex- traordinary and inconsequent.
As to the treatment of the myfortunate man Sen-chi-liang, who, it is said, declared himself to be the real asassin, no one should lament it more than your Excellency; inasmuch as the preceedings not having been legal, but rather in oppor sition to the laws and customs observed in all civilised countries, without excepting even the Empire of China, where trials in similat cases are conducted in a very different principle, and which in this instance were evidently altogether disregarded.-the deviation that took place in the present case tends greatly to aggravate the position of the Chinese authorities in relation to it.
On whatever side the proceedings adopted towards this unfortunate man are regarded, a precip tancy is conspicuous, which reveals an immoderate anxiety on the part of those | who condemned him summarily to remove him from the
scene where he occupied so important a position.
It is publicly notorious that the outrage of the 22d August was committed by seven Chinese: and even admitting that one man was capable of attacking two persons on horseback, it would have been impossible for one person, on that occa- sion at least, and in the short space of time which that atrocious act occupied, to consummate it so completely and with so much barbarity as those who have seen the mutilated body of the ever lamented Governor can attest. It being itherefore evident that Sen-chi-liang, if he really was one of the assassins, had accomplices, and the criodinal having con- fessed his erine, it was the duty of the authorities, before ardering him to be executed, to discover and identify not only his accomplies, but those also who were cognizant of the crime; and the necessary inquiries and other formalities indispensable, as required by the Law, should have been proceeded with, not only in order to arrive at an exact
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knowledge of the truth, and for the satisfaction of the party offended, but in the present case, even for the interest and dignity of the Chinese authorities, as this was the only method of removing from themselves the responsibility which still atuches to them. And finally, if the allusion made by your Excellency in a previous Despatch, and which is re- peated in the confession of the criminal, viz.-as to the possibility of the assassins having been bribed by Portuguese, was not calumnions, this was the occasion for your Excel- lency to justify it, and if the opportunity was not taken advantage of, it is not the fault of this Council, on whom it ig incumbent to protest, as they do, against all these viola- tions of rights transgressed, and more especially that of Her Majesty the Queen of Portugal, to whom entire and complete satisfaction is due.
To the paper which came enclosed in your Excellency's Despatch, and which your Exceliency wishes us to revard as the confession of the crimi al, this Council will merely here allude for the purpose of declaring to your Excellency, that besides its not possessing any character of authenticity, it is deficient in all the proper forms necessary to establish ita validity, notwithstanding your Excellency personally interrogated the criminal; and furthermore. between this paper and the first despatel from Your Excellency such an identity of ideas. language, and even of style, is perceptible, us leads to the supposition that either both those productions were from the same pen, or that advantage was taken to reiterate in the confession the insults and ourages of the Despatch and under this supposition the Council repel them, renewing their former protest; and they demand fr Your Excellency the withdrawal of the order which is said to have been given for the exposure at Macao of the head of the executed man, under the assurance that the Portuguesc government will never consent that such an exposure should be made in their territory.
In conclusion this Council would observe, that the proceed- Ings taken by your Excellency, far from diminishing, aguravate your responsibility in the case of the assassination of the illustrious Governor of this Province; and that instead of being a reparation for the laws and rights transgresseil, or a satisfaction to outraged justice, they appear to set at naught all laws and rights, and to outrage justice still further, which can never be satisfied with sindar subterfages, as unworthy in themselves as they are derogatory to those when make use of them.
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In the last place, this Council have to declare again to your Excellency, that reparati in being due to Her Majesty for the offence committed against her, this Council reserve to their ! Sovereign, free and intact, the right of taking that satisfac. tion which may seen good to her in her wisd the Council confining themselves, as their strict duty compela thew, to protest to your Excellency.-1st against the u justi- fiable detention of the head and band of the illustrious Governor, which should be delivered without d. Jay.-20, for the apprehension of the principal and accomplices in his assassination, for which your Exeellency is dumbly responsible since the aprehension of the above mentioned Sen-chi-liang, which must have enabled the competent authorities to discover them, and 3d, against the intended exposure of the head of that unfortunate man at Macao, holding your Ex- cellency answerable for the consequences which may result in default of compliance
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The Council of Government of Ue Province of Macao, Timor, and Solor, to Seu, Viceroy of Canton. MOST EXCELLENT SIR,-The deputed officer sent by your Excellency to make the delivery of the head and hand of the Most Excellent the late Governor, the Councillor Amaral, declined yesterday to fulfil bis mission, though, at his own request, the place and hour for that purpose bad been fixed by this Government. After this he affirmed through the Tao-tang that he had orders from your Excellency not to make that delivery unless he drst received the three Chinese who are detained until the necessary investigations into the barbarous assassination of the Illustrious Governor are termi- nated: thus causing a great confusion in the arrangements which had been made, and grave inconvenience not only to the Foreign Ministers and other residents here, but also to many persons who had been invited to attend that ceremony. This Council do not yet know whether to believe that this conduct on the part of the deputed officer, as offensive as it is unjustifiable, could have been authorized by your Excel- lency, in the face of your Trespatch of the lith instant, and therefore they hasten to bring it to your Excellency's notice, in the hope that the just reparation for this unqualified insult will not be delayed; but should it be so, they must lay it also to your Excellency's charge, protesting from this moment against the proceeding, in order to leave to Her Majesty the Queen of Portugal, before whom they have already laid this circumstance, the free right, at a fitting period, of demanding due satisfaction, besides making it known to the Representatives of the Foreign Powers in China. Macao, 28th September, 1849.
JERONIMO, Bishop of Macao-Joaquм ANTONIO DE MORAES CARNEIRO.-LUDGERU JOAQUIM DE FARIA NRYKS. -MIGUEL PEREIRA SIMÕES.-JOZE BERNARDO GOULARTS. -Manori PRAKINA.
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CORRESPONDENCE
BETWEEN
THE COUNCIL OF MACAO
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THE MANDARIN OF THE DISTRICT.
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The Mandarin Tro-lang, Wang, to the Procurador... The Mandarin Teo-tang. Wang, &c. I make known to the Council of Government, that I have received a Despatch from the Mandarin of Caza Branca, in which he states that
he has received from Gan-cha-su another Despatch informing him that the Mandarin of Shon-tak had seized a criminal and discovered the head and hand of the noble Governor, all of which he had taken to Canton to be examined:
That the Lieut.-Governor, after trying and sentencing the assassin, had ordered his head to be taken to Macan by a deputed officer, there to be exposed to the publie, and at the same time to deliver the head and hand of the noble Governor:
That the three men, the soldier Sem-fong-liong, Bi-lin- pin, and Tung-to-shen, should be first surrendered, in order
to show good faith.
Under these circumstances, I address this Despatch to the noble Council, that they may order the inmediate delivery
of the three men, Sem-fong-liang, Si-lin-pin, and Tang-to- shen, that I may make it known to my superiors; and as Boon as the deputed officer arrives, I shall again address you. Taukwang, 29th year, 8th moon, 4th day. (20th Sep- tember, 1849).
The Procurailor to the Mandarin Teo-tang, Wang. I, the Procurador, de, make known to the Mandarin, that having laid before the Council your Despatch of this date, they direct me to inform you, that they have already received a Despatch from the Viceroy of Canton on the subject, stating that a deputed officer has been despatched
to deliver up the head and hand. It is necessary, therefore, that they be given up immediately without any clause or condition whatever, so that after being identified as the real ones, they may be received, and in default, the Council will not answer for the consequences.
The Council further direct me to inform you, that they will never consent that the head of that unfortunate wretch who was executed be exposed at Macao. Finally, they order you to be advised, that it is not your place to correspund with the Council, and that you are well aware of the course to be followed in this respect, and no further correspondence will be received by them from the Mandarins of the District.
Macao, 20th September, 1849.
MANOEL PEREIRA.
The Mandarin Tso-tang, Wang, to the Procurador. The Mandarin Tso tang, Wang-In reply to the last Dee- patch of the Procurador relative to the murder of the noble Governor Amaral,-
I proceed to communicate to you, that in a case of this nature. His Excellency the Viceroy of Canton could not fail to use diligence for the apprehension of the culprit and discovery of the head and hand, which he in fact obtained; and, as has been already intimated, a deputed officer will bring the head to be delivered to the Portuguese Government. The deputed officer is expected at Caza Branca in the course of the day, of which I inform the Procurador, that you will let me know the hour to-morrow on which the reception is to be made, in order that when the deputed officer arrives, he may make the delivery at the appointed time.
With regard to the three men belonging to the Barrier gate, it would be convenient, when you are about to give them up to me, that I also should receive previous notice, in order that I may report the same to my superiors.
As to the hend of the criminal, as the Portuguese Govern- ment does not wish it to be exposed at Macao according to the laws, I will select some other place to expose it to the pubile. As soon as the deputed officer arrives, I shall again address you.
Taukwang, 29th year, 9th moon, 9th day. (25th Sept.)
The Mandarin Wang, Tso-tang, to the Procurador. Wang, Tso-tang, &c.-I make known to the Procurador, in eunsequence of your answer to me stating that the reception of the head and hand of the noble Governor will take place at the Barrier gate, and that I should inform you of the arrival of the deputed officer, in order that you might fix a day for the reception, that the deputed officer has already arrived with the head and hand of the noble Governor; and I hope that the Procurador will let me know when the re- ception will take place, in order that the said deputed officer Inay go and deliver them up.
I hope so that you will inform me when you will aur- render the three individuals belonging to the Barrier gate, as this is necessary.
Taukwang, 29th year, 8th moon, 10th day. (26th Sept.)
The Procurador to the Mandarin Tee-tang, Wang, I the Procurador, &c., make known to the Mandarin, that having laid your despatch of this date before the Council of Government, they direct me to communicate to you that 5 o'clock on the morning of the 27th instant is the bour fixed for the reception of the head and hand of the most Excellent deceased at the Boundary Gate, when the delivery should be made at the appointed hour.
MANOEL PEREIRA.
Macao, 26th September, 1849.
The Mandarin Tso-tang, Wang, to the Procurador. The Mandarin Tao-tang, Wang, &c.-I make known to the Procurador that you having addressed me several times requesting that when the deputed officer should arrive, I would let you know, for the reception of the head and hand of the noble Governor Amaral; you however have never mentioned the three individuals belonging to the Bar- rier gate, and even yesterday, when you stated that the day and hour for the reception had been fixed for 5 o'clock in the morning,you did not allude to those individuals. Asthe orders given by His Excellency to the deputed officer were, that the head should be given up after the three individuals had been delivered to him, therefore, as these have not been surrender- ed, he cannot answer to His Excellency, and as a deputed officer from the Imperial Commissioner, how can he dare to deliver them of his own accord? I therefore address the Pro- curador that you may deliver without delay these three men, when the head of the noble Governor shall be immediately given up; and if you are not going to deliver them, it is un- necessary to fix the hour for its reception.
I have thought proper to communicate this to the Procu- rador.
Taukwang, 29th year, 8th moon, luth day. (26th Sept.)
The Procurador to the Mandarin Teo-tang, Wang, 1, the Procurador, &c., &c., make known to the Manf darin Tao-tang, by order of the Most Excellent Council o- Government, that a long time having already elapsed since the hour fixed at your request for the delivery of the head and hand of the Most Excellent the deceased Governor of tbis Province, the Councillor Amaral, which delivery bas not taken place, owing to th non-appearance on the spot appointed for that purpose, of the person charged to give them up, in grave violation of the consideration due to the Portuguese Government, and of the good faith with which it has a right to be treated, the Council direct me to intimate to you that such a proceeding on your part, which would have been very reprehensible in other circumstances, is intolerable in the present case, as it is in opposition to what was com- municated to the Council by the Viceroy of Canton.
You were well aware, for you had been informed, that the delivery was to be unconditional; and therefore I am charged by the Council to repeat to you that they do not admit any other terms or condition than that the delivery be made before 4 o'clock this afternoon, the latest period the Council can tix; and if at that hour the bead and hand are not effectively handed over to the persons entrusted by the Council to receive them, the Council will not hold them- selves answerable for the consequences that may ensue, owing to the excitement of all the Portuguese people, justly irritated by such a proceeding.
Whilst writing this (10 o'clock A. M., I received your chop of yesterday, stating that the deputed officer, having orders from the Viceroy not to make the delivery until after receiving the three Chinese, who, not being criminals, are only detained here until the conclusion of the necessary investigations,-cannot avoid complying with them. The Council, before whom I immediately laid your communica- tion, desire me to inform you that the Viceroy, in his chop to the Council, clearly and explicitly says that he was about to send the head and band of the deceased Governor, to be delivered to the Council, without making any condition. The Council could neither accept them with any conditions whatsoever, nor the Viceroy impose any without compro- mising himself gravely: and if in the beforementioned chop he alluded to the release (and not to the delivery) of the said three individuals, it was evidently to make it dependent on the restitution of the head and hand of the Illustrious Governor, which is due to the Government of Macao ag the most sacred of all rights, and which the Council cannot renounce, but which it is indeed their duty to maintain, as they are decided to do at all risks. Having adverted in your previous chops to the delivery of the aforesaid three Chinese, inquiring when they would be given up, you only now think of invoking the name of the Viceroy to insist upon it as ad,
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indispensable condition for carrying into effect the restitution
of the head and hand of the Governor, from which it is evident that there is falsehood either on the part of the Viceroy or of yourself.
The Council therefore wish that I again repeat what has been stated above, viz: that the delivery of the head and hand of the Illustrious Governor must be unconditional, as no other terms can be admitted by them, much less any eruuanating from yourself, it being necessary that the de- livery take place at 4 o'clock this afternoon,
Macao, 27th September, 1849.
MANOEL PEREIRA.
The Mandarin Wang, Tro-tang, to the Procurador. Wang, Tso-tang, &c. In reply to the Despatch from the Procurador, I have to state, that I see by it that you persist in not declaring the time when the three soldiers belonging to the Barrier, Sem-fun-liang and others, will be given up. If, therefore, as you say, they are not criminals, they should be immediately surrendered, particularly as this is the order of His Excellency the Commissioner, which ought to be com- plied with, and in this I cannot interfere, neither can the deputed officer make the delivery [of the head and hand.] How many times have I mentioned these individuals in my Despatches, and yet I have never seen any allusion to ther in your replics, and now you say that they will be released, without ever having said so before. Now, supposing that we had detained for a long time any Portuguese whatever, would be fail to be inquired after?
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The day and hour fixed by the Portuguese for the reception yesterday, I wrote even yesterday to say that I could not accede to. The Despatch was sent, but the Interpreter Gonsalves refused to receive it. The people here, secing this, are excited, and it has been difficult for the Mandarins both Civil and Military to restrain and appease them. may be said that excitement exists on both sides. I there- fore again address the Procurador in reply to your Despatch, that you may without delay name the day fixed for the delivery of the three soldiers, in order that the head and hand of the noble Governor may be immediately given up, This is all I have to write to you.
Taukwang, 29th year, 8th moon, 11th day. (27th Sep- tember, 1849.)
• It came at 2 o'clock in the morning.
The Procurador to the Mandarin Tso-lang, Wang. I, the Procurador, &c., make known to the Mandarin that I laid before the Most Excellent Council of Govern- ment your ehop of this day, in reply to mine of the same date, and they charge me to state, that with regard to the three individuals Sem-fun-liang and others, they have already said about then what they had to say, and have As to the delivery of the bead and hand of nothing to add. the illustrious Governor, as you have declined to make it at the fixed time, the Council will say nothing more to you about it. This is all I have to communicate to the Man- darin in reply to his chop,
Macao, 27th September, 1849.
MANOEL PEREIRA,
Copy. No. 286.
Excelton's Sirs
of the 29th
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Victoria, Shanghong 4th October, 1849.
I have the hover to acknowledge
the receipt of Your Excellencies letter 29th ultimo with it: enclosures, bring the correspondence that has passed,
between
yourselves, the Victray at Cantons and the Mandarin of the District, relatives
remains of your
to the delivery of the
of your late
Most Excellent Geverner,
17, and to express
my
extreme surprise
a
surprise and regret to find
that, after the Viceroy had promised to
surrender these remains uncondition
aditionally,
he has now failed to fulfil a promise that
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The Right Reverend Dom feronimo, Bishop of Marie "His Honor Joaquim Antônio de Moraes Carneiro.
Major Ludgere Joaquim de Faria Noves,
and other Members of the Council in charge of the Government of Macáo
:
he has so sole
to solemnly
made.
I am aware that, it is not within
The
my province to remark on the acts of the Government at Macáo; I trust however
I may take the liberty of saying that I entirely
concur in the sentiments contained in the able and dignified reply that Your fit to make to the
Excellencies have seen
Viceroy
Your
on
the occasion.
I take this opportunity of informing
Excellencies that
as soon as
I was
advised that the Viceroy had recovered the head and hand of your late lamented Governor, I replied to him that he could
the
have now no difficulty in apprehending accomplices of the person whom he had reported that he had caused to be executed,
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&c.,
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assassins Shave, 140.
Aligned) S. G. Bonhamn.
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Colonial Scretary:
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Government of the Rovined dut
of Mação, Timer, and Solor. General Department bircular No. JJ
228
Most Illustrious and Most Excellent Sig
The Council of Government
have the honor to transmit herewith
of
for Your Excellency's information, copies of two Despatches which they have received from the Viceroy
Canton, dated respectively the 28th. and 30th ultimo, and also of the Council's reply thereto of the present. day ; from which Your Excellency
the fresh
will see-
see the
insult that the
Chinese. Government, has directed.____
The Most Illustrious and Most Excellent
Samuel George Bonkans. Governor of Hongkong!
towards Her Mosh Faithful Majesty, by the iniquitous traffic which the
Viceroy
disposed, to make
leu seems dispose
Sew
with the remains
of the Most
of
-Excellent Governor of this Province,
which he has not hesitated to detain
ll as
as well
illegally; as
reg.
the want
of
ad and ordind consideration
axy
d. towards
which he has displayed.
the persons of the Representatives of Foreign Powers in China, by the aunqualified manner in which he
has outraged and continues to outrage
nemory of that of Her Most.
the late Governor.
the
Faithful Majesty,
God preserve Your Excellency.
Macáo, 3rd. October, 1849.
(Signed. ) . Geronimo, Bishop of Mação.
Joaquim Antonio de Moraes barneiro. Ludgero Joaq " " de "Faria Neves
m.
(Signed) Miquel Pereira Simoens
Jozé. Bernardo Goularte .
Manoel Percira.
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Seu's Reply to the Council's Letter of 25th September, Seu. Viceroy of Kwangtung and Kwangsi, &c, &c. I acknowledge the receipt of the Despatch from the Noble Council, and in reply to that part of it which says that on the trial and sentence of Sen-chi-liang, who had been appre- hended, the proper formalities were not observed, &e, I have now to state to you, that after the Mandarin of blon- tak, who apprehended the criminal, had interrogated him and taken down the depositions, the criminal was conveyed to the Tribunal of the Town, from thence to that of the City, afterwards to that of the Gut-cha-si (Criminal Judge,} and finally to that of the Fu-yen (Lieutenant-Governor } I in conjunction with the Fu-yeu tried and sentenced him. This was witnessed and heard by all-how can it then be said that the proper formalities were not observed? Chinese Criminala are tried by the Chinese Laws, and foreigners by those of their own country. This is laid down in the Treaty equally for all nations,-how is it then that the Portuguese not acting in conformity with the Treaty, wish the criminal to be sent to Macao? The head of Sen-chi-liang was ordered to be exposed to the public at Macao, because the criminal in reality was carrying on business there, and was known to many; and therefore by this proceeding it is shewn that he was the real assassin, as appears from the trial, respect is instilled, and all doubts are removed: this is the strict rule in China. With regard to the other criminals, orders have been given to the Mandarins of the towns and cities, that they conjointly proceed with rigour to their apprehension. But as long as the criminals are at large, so many vain words are useless. After they have been apprehended, the manner in which they are tried and the case dealt with will be made known to you. This is not treating the matter with indifference. Now, where injury is done, it must have a principal originator, and one also to come forward against him. Here the real aggressor who caused the evil to the Noble Governor has been already apprehended and executed by the Chinese Government. But as to the three Chinese who are detained at Macao and who have nothing to do with the present question, the Noble Council bave failed to answer. Let me know then to which side reason inclines. Sen-chi-liang, recognized as the real criminal, was, în ac- cordance with the true circumstances of bis crime, strangled. and yet it is said that the execution was proceeded with inconsiderately: where is conscience manifest here? Argu ments are conducted according to reason, and not after the wishes of every one, unreasonably giving rise to disputes-- This is all I have to answer.
Tabukwang, 29th year, 8th moon, 12th day, (28th Sep- tember, 1849.)
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Seu's Reply to the Council's Letter of 28th September.
Seu, Viceroy of Kwangtung and Kwangal, &c. In reply to the Despatch from the Noble Council dated the 12th day of the 8th moon (28th September,) stating that, after the 11th of the moon and 5 o'clock in the morning had been fixed for the reception of the head and hand at the Barrier Gate, they [the Mandarins] subsequently wished that the three men should be previously surrendered, in order that they might afterwards deliver the head; and that this caused confusion, &c. I have now to state that the head and hand being objects of great regard to the Portuguese, as the ag- gressor is an object of aversion to them, it is for this that China took steps to enter into the case in detail, and still continues them, ordering that strict inquiry for the appre- hension of the other accomplices should be proceeded with; from which it may be said that bumanity and much justice have been strewn. Nevertheless the three Chinese detained at Macao, and who have nothing to do with this question, have not yet been given up. What is the reason of this? If it be said that in the Despatel of the 30th day of the 7th moon their delivery was not anticipated, it was clearly stated therein that the head and hand were to be delivered, and that the three soldiers who are at Macao should also bự restored to their post. Why has no answer been given abort this? I now ask by whom was the confusion caused? As- sassination was committed, satisfaction also has been afforded, which is to pay life for life To wish for further satisfaction is altogether unreasonable.-This is all I have to answer.
Tankwang, 29th year, 8th moon, 14th day, 190th Sep- tember, 1849.)
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The Council of Government of the Province of Macao. Timor, and Solor, to Seu, Viveroy of Canton. The Council have had under their consideration your Excellency's replies of the 28th and 30th September, to the despatches of this Conned of the 25th and 27th idem, from which it is clearly seen that your Excellency, feluring not to understand the solid and convincing reasons on which the just demands of this Council are grounded, is endeavouring to elude the principal question, avoiding an explicit and categorical answer. This Council most positively declare to your Exceller.ey, that if you think of making the hend and band of the assassinateri Governor an object of barter or exeliange, to procure thereby the release of the three Chi- nese detained here, not imprisoned, for the purpose of car- rying on exquiries, and who, when these are concluded, wilk be set at hberty, the Portuguese and all other civilized pations in the world took nyon such an attempt as an int- quitous and nefarious traffic, which demonstrates at the least the complacency felt by your Excelleney at the assassination of the Governor of Macao, the representative of Her Most Faithful Majesty; and therefore, as a fresh insult to Her said Majesty, this Council protest against your Excellency for the right of Her Majesty, outraged by your Excellency, and for the right appertaining to the family of the deceased; insomuch as the head and band belonging to the body of the deceased, and that to his family, your Excellency, by detaining in order to traffic with them, eummits a robbery, thus participating in the crime of the assassin, who, after murdering Governor Amaral, robbed him of his head and hand. The Laws of the Celestial Empire in cases of the murder of Authorities point out a different course, which is not simply to pay life for life, and your Excellency, by invoking the Authority of the same Laws with which you did not comply, has only shewn that you have violated them. Lastly, the answer of your Excellency as to the principal point of the present question does not satisfy this Council, and therefore they require of your Excellency, that you state most explicitly, whether you will deliver up the head and hand of the assassinated Governor as belonging to his body, or whether you really wish to negotiate with those precious remains? Your answer, affirmative or negative, the Council expect without delay.
With regard to the three Chinese detained here, who are not so unconnected with the present question as your Ex- cellency pretends, as Buon ns the reasons for their detention cease to exist, and providing no crime be brought home to them, they will be, as has already been said, set at liberty, or, in the contrary case, delivered to their authorities to be tried and punished according to the law.-Macau, 3d Octo- ber, 1849.
JERONIMO, Bishop of Macao.-Joaquim ANTONIO DE MORAES CARNEIRO-LUDOKRO JOAQUIM DR FARIA NRVES. -MIAURI PRREIRA ŠIMORES.- Juzь BERNARDO GOULARTE.
MANOEL Pereira.
NOV
No. 292.
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Victoria, Hongkong, 8th October, 1849.
Most Excellent Sirs,
I have the honor to
acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellencies" Despatch Nr. 79 of the
3rd. Instant with its enclosures, relative to the refusal of the Chinese Imperial Commissioner to make an unconditional surrender of the head and hand of your late respected Governor ; and I take this opportunity of forwarding, for the information of "Your Excellencies, copy of a
as, comnirunication
that I addressed to the Commissioner
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The Right Reverend Done Jeronimo, Bishop of Macie His Honor Joaquim Antonio de Moraes Carneiro. Major Ludgero Joaquin de Farias Novos,
Neve
and other Members of the Council in charge of the Government of Macão.
the subject,
so soon as
I became
melaware/
that he had refused, the delivery.
I have, 40%,
(Signed) L. G. Bonham?
(True copy)
Mains
Clonal Juistory .
Farry
Copy.)
the Council at Macáo.
H. E. Mr. Bonham to
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( Franslation)
Government of the Province/
of Macao, Timor, and Solaz General Department..
No. 80.
Most Illustrious and Most Excellent Sir,
The Council of Government of this Bevince have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your- -Excellency's Despatch Nr. 242 of the 8th instant, and to thank Yours Excellency for the transmission of the copy therein enclosed, of the communication. made by Your bxcellency to the Viceroy of Canton, on the 5th of this month, relative to the detention of the head and hand of the deceased Governot
The Most Illustrious and Most Excellent.
Samuel George Bonham, Governor of Hongkong,
&c.,
So,
&o!
The Council avail themselves
on)
also of this opportunity to acknowledge= the receipt of another Despatch, No. 286, which Yours Pxcellency did them the honor of writing to them the 4th instant ; and they can assure felt Your Excellency that they have, much flattered at the delicate expressions which Your Excellency was pleased
to
use on
your
con
that occasion, when signifying concurrence in the sentiments
uneyed
in the last Despatch from
this bouncil to the Vicer
pray
Sew.
God preserve Your Excellency .
Macáo, 15th: October, 1849.
(Ligned.). Jeronimo, Bishop of
Macão.
Joaquim Antonio de Moraes barneiro.
in. de Paria Neves.
Goagt. de
(.) Ludgers Goag
(
Miguel Pereira Simsons.
Jozé Bernardo Goularte..
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(Signed) Manoel Pereira!
True Translation.
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Castro.
(Signed) L. d'Almada & Castin
Truce Copy.
Meine
Comal Necretary
NOF
4
(Copy)
in reply to Incl: Hd . 12.
The Council of Maca.
13
th
October, 1849.
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Victoria, Hongkong,
5th October, 1849.
236
In your Excellency's reply
of the 17th Ultims which I have had the honor to acknowledge,
You informed dispatched
an
me that.
You
had
Officer with the
head and hand of the late
Portuguese Governor to Macas to deliver them up.
Having received this assurance from Your Excellency,
was much astonished to
hear this morning from the Portuguese Senate at Macar that unless 3 Chinese, detained
His Exalteney
Seu,
Imperial High Commißioner,
fe
¡
No. 98 of 1849.
Inclosure No. 13 in Desh:
2
¡
by
by them as
necessary Evidence
in this case, were
Officer deputed by Your Excellency would not give up to them
the head and
Governor.
0
This is
3
237
no
Common
matter, and Your Excelleney
be assured that without
released, the
may
any
the
additional circumstances of
aggravation of
this
murder, which are
in
-them=
hand of the
It is difficult for
to believe that
A
publie
me
Officer of Your Exalteney's
eminence,
undertaken
when he has once.
to perform anything
should suddenly
recede from
his
engagements, superadding conditions
which
were
never
mentioned
till his word had been given. The promise moreover, in Your Excellency's letter, being voluntarily
made
to me
as
the Representative
have ever
of my Sovereign, I have
right to expect its
fulfilment.-
every
exaet
=selves sufficiently atrocious, the Western Powers in general will not, when informed of it, express bss abhorrence
at this
crime than has been
abready shewn by their Representatives.
In cases like the present all foreign Nations feel in
Common, detestation
of the outrage, and compassion for its
vistim :
and it would
be as well that
well that their horror
at this apasination should not be increased by making
·
the remains of the murdered man
subject of newly started
a
conditions. -
My words should have
the more weight with your
Exalteney,
as
attached more
no
Nation
more importance rite of Sepulture
the rite
Your
own
L
to
than
Accept the apwrances te- (Signed) SG Bonham-
(True Copp) Manis Colonial heretary
238
Sou by Imperial appointments High Commissioner, Gaverner General of the
Two Hwang, for, &o, in reply.
I am in receipt of Your Esscollonej;
the 5th instant, a
instant, and have made.
letter of the 5th in
myself acquainted, with its contents.
With reference to the murder of
the Commandant Amaral, the Chinese Government seized his assassin, tried: him and executed him; and, at the
same time sent down an
officer with the head, and hand (of the Governor ) :
their object being
in the first instance
that, he should be decently interred.
men
Now with respect to the three detained in custody, who
AAC)
soldiers of the Barrier station, and. not commow peoples of China at all; the real delinquent having been convicted, how could these be said to
I
2.
ed as
be required
CALO
important evidences in this
? The officer despatched with the remai ..., arrived at: baza Branca ; but ( finding that ) in the
cation's that passed
lagistrate and-
Magistrate
Name 2018 A Comniani
between the Assistant
and the Portuguese Senate, the
Latter confined. themselves entirely to their
demand for the head and hand,
reply upon the su
made. To re
surrendering
210
and
ubject of
the three Chinese; as
power to undertake
his mission
a-
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down the head and hand ( of the Governor)
to the Portuguese Senate : and yet
latter continue to délair in custo
t the the
custody
soldiers of the Barrior station, who have
not the
very case.. Is
by their
to
he had.
• grave responsibility,
was ended, and he returned
to the City.
So that
010
"
سی کی
conditions " have
been "super-added " in any way.
In all questions whatsoever, due
weight should be
to their peculiar
given to their
circumstances, and their eg
equity
should
be well- considered; each individual (deciding) in exact accordancer with his conscience . Now the Chinces have brought the Criminal to justice, and have sent
smallest connexion with the
not the
aww
impediments so lf-causot
wilful vacillation ?
My farmer
er communicatinio aout
convey to you the intelligence that the delinquent had been seized, and justice done. No allusion consequently
was mader
in it to the question of the soldiers of the station. I now forward copies of my replies to the Portuguese, and to the Americans and French, by the perusal
will be informed exactly of which you
of the particulars of the question.
As Your Excellency's official letter putting queries (to myself), procesed
interest you from the neighbourly
you take
( in the affairs of the Portuguese), it is
4
of
course in
your power to
your
unde: standing
conò
to
with. ( the . Representatives of)
America and France, and to acquaint-
the Portuguese that they should
the three Chinese soldiers, to the end that
should give ups
this affair and the
be
nay
brought to a conclusio
062
nations)
strong
strengthened. thened.
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A necessary
COMMAN
nication.
Addressed to H. E. Mr. Bonham.
H. B. M. Plenifistentiary, the, H.
Tau kwany, 29th year, 8th amoon, 25th day
11th October, 1849.
Frue Kanslation
(Signed) F. Wade-
Ast: Chinese Secretar
tary
good, feeling (between-
As soon as
I shall have received-
your Excellency's reply, Ishall direct
the officer deputed, to surrender the head- and hand of the Commandant: Amaral, I therefore write this replyp
So be it.
to
availing myself of the opportunity with Your Excellency comfort, and- tranquillity . Appended is a sheet_ containing the copies forwarded. of my declaration in reply to the Portugues d
(Senate), and. communications in
My reply to ( the Ministers of ) America.
ased. France.
6
Sev, yo
Reply to the Portuguese Sonaté ?
I
241
ami in receipit of the letter
of
of your Conorable Senate of the 19th.. the 8th moons,
( 28th Septr : ) and have
(
thoroughly, acquainted myself with its
contents.
It is therein stated that on
early hour had been
the 11th. (27th.)
:( 27th) an early
appointed, for the reception of the head
and hand at the Barrier; but that
the surrender of the three-
men
having
been required, before, the head, and hand
could be restored to
neat matter
yow, a great
had been thus hindered. (for the sake
α-
་
less).
of your
value,
Now the object
of
on which the people
Honorable nation set. the greatest
Avas
the head and hand (of the
Lovisor); the object of their chief abhorrence was his assassins : with-
referenced to both, the proceedings of the Chinese were.
such that there could be
Aver: Auc
?
no
mistakes; and
for
having besides given the apprehension of the rest
the
orders
Marderers,
they may
of be said to have
done all that humanity and justice require. "Why
"Why then have the three men
at Macas who have not the
very
smallest connexion with the
not been delivered up
?
If it be asserted that.
case,
no mentiond
had been made of this circumstance before hand, ( I reply that ) so far back as the 30th of the 7th moon, (15th Septr)
iw on
may
as declaration, it was de
distinctly
said. " when the head, and hand
should be sent back to
the three
•
you,
soldiers still in Mação would have to
be forthwith given up ." "Why
"
логи гро
reply made to this ? Ask yourselves, who is it that has "impeded. the matter The forfeiture of a life. for a life taken
is satisfaction: your
retort, then, "what
satisfaction has been
unreasonables.
in rep
giver
دو
ناره گیر
242
G
the
More
I therefore make this declaration
reply. A necessary declaration addressed
th
to the Portuguese senate. Let it be received. kwang, 29th year, 8th moon, the day.
Täu kwär
:
the
30th Sept 1849.
True translation
14
(Signed) J. Wade,
Chainen Kuntary
Asst Chine
:
!
:
i
10
Reply to Mr. Davis, Commissioner of t United States.
You, yo!
the
I am in receipt of Your
243
Excellency's letter of the 14th of the 8th moon;
( 30th. Schtr.), and have made, myself- fully acquainted with its contents.
With reference to the murder of the Portuguese. Commandant Amaral, the Chinem captured the assassin, tried, him, and executed, him . If it had been their intention to
retain the head, and hand which had been
recovered, what, sued, was there for sending down an officers with them? The fact is, that the Portuguese word informed that when the head, and hand should be brought back, they would have to give up the throv Chinese,
LA
but reasonable; there
or
"
sors Mo
"trafficking n bartering" in this. The officer cent arrived, with his charged at Caza- (Branca, but ( finding that ) in their replies
30
12
to thi
communications of the Assistant - Districk Magistrater, the Portuguese confined themselves to the reception of the head-
and hand, and made, so promark with
reference to the surrender of the three. Chinese
power to take, upon himself so grave a responsibility,
then in Mação, as he had no
his mission
was ended, and he returned
to the City. It is stated, in the letter
cont, that
my
last
under acknowledgement, reply suade, no suention whatever of this
My carlier letters word written
surrender.
to inforind the ( representatives of the) different. powers, that the assassin had been seized
and the head and hand recovered, at
ghich time there was in
was in fact
no occasion
for alluding to this incident. I now
forward a copy of my reply to the
Portuguese senate,
which
прог
by
by the perusal of
will be acquainted with all
the particulars. As four bacolteney's
244
13
letter, putting queries to myself, proceeded from the neighbourly interest you take (in the affairs of the Portuguese) you will
of
" course be able to acquaint them that they should give up the three Chinese in their hands; that this affair maybe
+
brought to a conclusion . As poon as Ishale have received Afour Excellency's reply, I
shall send instructions to the
deputed to deliver
up
officer
the head, and hand.
To be it. I therefore reply to you, availing
myself of the opportunity to wish that the blessings of the season (autumn) may daily
daily increased to Your Excellency A necessary
communication, to which is sheet containing a copy of appended a sheet conta
my reply to the Portuguese Conator. The abood is addressed to His Excellency Mr. Davis, Commissioner to the United States, &o, for
Tan kwáng, 29th ajoor,
8th.
(ισσι,
20t
E
14
day.
6th October, 1849.
Irno Translation,
Aigned) S. Wade
Asst:
Chinese Beritory
:
245
15
Reply to M. le baron Forth-Roueus, Minister Plenipotentiary to the French Republic).
Yêu you
I am in receipt of Your Excellen
letter of the 16
of the 16th of the 8th
Octor :) (in which
moow, ( 2nd.
you express) a hope that
I will, order the local authorities to
to give
up the hoad, and hand of the Portuguese Commandant Amaral, as arranged
my
letter of the 124 of the oncowd. (17
with the whole of its contents Shaver
in
made. myself acquainted. With reference to the murder of
of the Commandant
Amaral, the Chinese local authorities
d.
seized.
the Criminal, tried him and
executed hind, and sent down and
officer
with the head and hand which had
been recovered. They had in the first instance no intention of interposing any
a: matter of
obstacle, or snaking, the so
.
barter : " The Portuguese, on the other hand,
were award that when the head- and
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16
hand, should be sent back, as
sents backs, as the murderer
would
had been brought to justice, they have of course to surrender the three Chinese, this being, but reasonable . The offices__ arrived with, his charge at baza Branca, but (finding that ) in their replies to the numerous letters addressed
by the Assistant 6. District Magistrate, they confined themselves to the reception of the head- and hand, and made no remarks upon
the
- question of surrendering the thron
to them
Chinese then in Mação, which does not appear consistent with reason, as he had no
power to take upon himself. grave a responsibility, his mission
at
so
Avus
ed to
an end, and he returned to the city. My carlier communications addressed. the (representatives of the.) different
convey
to them
Powers, were written to the intelligence of the capture of the
assussin, and
the
recovery
of the head
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and hand; no allusion was therefore made
in their to the surrender of the Chinese soldiers. I now forward copies of my replies to the Portuguese senate, and the Commissioner of the United States ; perusal of which you will be informed
of all the particulars
Your Excellency
by a
17
and the Commissiones
of the United States having been both ( noved. by ) your feelings of neighbourly interest ( in the affairs of the. Poctuguese), to write these despatches putting questions
to me,
1 you
will of course be able to
Poitique so
acquaint the Intigues that they should deliver up the three Chincze in their hands, with a view to the
-termination of this case, and the consolidation of (international) goods
freting
As soon as
Ishall have eceived
Asus Excellency's 20 ply, and, that of
Your
i
18...
the Commissioner of the United States, I shall direct the officer deputed to deliver over the head, and, hand. So be it
I therefor reply to you, availing, myself of the opportunity to wish that
Your Excellency may enjoy
the blessings
and comforts of the season-
season - (autumn).
A necessary
ds ar
communication, to
sheet containing,
which is appender copies of a declaration in po
reply to the
Portuguese Senate, and
of a
a. communication
in
reply to the Commissioner of the
United States.
The above is addressed to the Brrow Rouen, Minister of the French Nation.
the
Tankwang, 29th year,
8th. October, 1849
nd.
8. the moon, 22th day,
Fue translation.
(signed) Wade
Asst. Chinees Secretary
بردوو
Joue Copie
Copies
Mamie Colonial Secretary.
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A
דמזיי-
247
(Copp)
I.
an
In sebay
Victoria, Hongkong, 13th October, 1849.
248
in receipt of your
Excellency's reply to my
letter
of the 5th Instant addrefsèd to your upon my hearing from the Senate of Macar that
the remains of the late Governon Amoral were not to be given ups, by the delegate sent with them, unless 3 Chinese,
detained as
in Macar
nesepury evidence
liberty
were set at
set at libe
In Your
by the Portuguese. In
are enclosed your
Letter
His Excelleney
Seu,
Imperial High Commissioner,
fo
Xe.
in reply to Inclosure:
H. E. Mr. Bonham,
Commiftioner Sen to
No. 14.
11th October, 1849.
No. 98 of 1849.
Inclosure No. 15 in Desp:
w
to
Excellency's Declaration to the Portuguese Senate, and Your Communications in reply the Ministers of France and America respectively upon the
same subject.
As to what your Excelleney's letter says upon
Coming
to
aw
understanding with the Representatives of France and Ameries, the
Communications I have
this
addressed to your on subject were none of them
made at the request or
the suggestion of any of above authorities or Ministers, and I shall assuredly not
enter into discussions with the Representatives of other Powers, upon this
now
matter..
to the
My
249
Letters with reference
Murder
of Senhor
Amaral have been all dictated
by
a
feeling of horror at the event, common, as I have acquainted your Excellency, to all foreign nations, in which
Your Excellency
has
informed me you yourself participate. [Vide Sen't forst reply of 27th August. ]
Decency requires that
the remains of person
a murdered
be interred
as toon
they shall have been
as
discovered:
such
a matter
should not be made
a
subject of stipulation, on any
The ground whatsoever. surrender of the I Soldiers
:-
250
now in cu
in custody appears to me to be entirely distinct from
the
above question, and
should in
my opinion be
separately discussed.
calls on
In the meanwhile I You'n Excellency for
decency's sake to withhold no longer from the Portuguese the head hand of their
and
unfortunate Governor. _
Accept the assurances, de- (Signed) LG Bonham.
(Fine Copp)
Colonial heretary.
Sie, by Imperial appointment, Imperial Commissioner, Governor General of the Two
Kwang, &c.
makes
a communication,
Yik, the Prefect of Kwang
that upon
chaufú has reported to me,
αι
representation privily made to him some that certain of
days ago by an informers, the parties concerned, in the murder
murder of the
Portuguese Commandant Amaral, who
still at
way
large
were at that moment on
to Húnan; and that he was
рес
tvere.
their
ready
to conduct his emissaries to the spot where they might apprehend them ; he had
immediately and secretly despatched some able police in pursuit of them. On reaching
place in the district of Leh chang
a.
the Department of Shaw chan fir, the informer pointed out : a small boat, a head of them, in which were Kwok a ngan and. Li & pau, two of the parties concerned
!
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251
in the above caso . As they closed upon them
to see
seize.
them, however, they had the
audacity to defend themselves against their captors, by firing upon thene ; the soldiers and- police fired, in their turn, and struck Li á pán,
who fell into the water and was drowned.
Search.
was made
" for his
bo
body,
but it was
not recovered. Kwók á segáns
was cut dowis
board, by the swords of the soldiers and
police, who carried, him prisoner to the
"When brought up for
Avas
examination, as
Citiz.
he
- found to be very severely wounded,
1 givew for his surgical treatment.
orders were
By
you
the perusal of a copy of his statement,
will be informed of all particulars
I therefore
ke this communication to
make
you, availing myself of the opportunity
to wish that Your Excellency's happiness,
whether in action our
be daily
repose, may increased. A necessary communication
dressed. to
ad
to His Exc:llency Mr Bonham,
H. B. M. Plenipotentiary, &o, yo .
a. c.
Apponded is a sheet containing
7
(
copy of the statement of the prisoner) . Jaw Kwang, 29th year, 8th aurons,
15th October, 1849.
th:
2.9th day.
Frue-translation,
(Signed) S. Wade,
Asst:
Sec.
Chin. Prog
A
+
:
Kwch a
According to the statement
he
252
ngaw, is a native of Hiangshan,
father and mother
36 years of age; his father
are
both dead; he has neither elder brothre
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child; has always
sex younger, wife
Macáo, gaining
20.
esided at Macho,
as a
his livelihood
small dealer. The conduct of the Portuque so Commandt: (head of soldiers)
had been all along savagely tyrannical :
in mo
making a horseway he had entirely
gato, he had.
the graves
aves in
the
outside the San pa
levelled arid de
de strayed
-vicinity, to the greate
tion of all mons, both Chinese, and
indignation of a foreigners. The
The graves of the ancestors
Thin chi liang, of the prisoner,
of
and Li à pau
and
been destroyed by Amaral, thin conceived, the design of killing
having chi liang
Amaral, to avenge himself, and by his
counsch, and. at, his instance, the prisoner and. Li à pau became his accomplices
in
the act . Elhen chi liang likewise induced.
|
ا بیان
two others of the surmanies respectively, to aid him in way of the person
he
on he wA I
of Chan and Chin blocking up (the
s going.
to kill);
and in the 5th of the 7th moon (22 Aug :)
on
having:
ascertained that. Ararat gush
pass the Barrier as he went out
ride, the whole party:
until near evening
for his
waited, there abouts,
evening, at which time Amarai . rode up. Thin chi liang had an umbrella under his aro, in the handle of which he had concealed, a pointed, knife, (or sword); and with a mock potition (in his hand) he cried out that he wanted his to be set. right. Amaral, stretched, out hand to receive the polition, upon which Shin chi liang drew his weapon and-
wounded hime in the
wrong
his
arm; he rolled off his house, and Shim chi liang then out
off his head, with which and his armo
he, the prisoner, and the rest.
of the party
fled through the Barrier, and after sacrificing
to their ancestors and au
aunoun
(what had been done), they
253
ing to them
escape
made their
in different directions. Hearing subsequently
being
of the strict search that was
them, the prisoner and Si à paus
for
made
agreed, to take a boat, intending to abscond
to Húnan province. The Police however, led. by an informer, had overtaken them in had fired, a fowling
Lia
Lịch chủng vi phân hành
piece to defend himself against his captors,
wvas
runners,
fired upon and hit by the fell into the water and was drowned.
then jumped on board, and the prisoner
defending himself against thone with- sword,
They
a
was in consequence wounded,, takew prisoner, and brought to Court . "What he
has stated is the truth
True translation
(Ligned)
T. "Wade., Apt: Clunce bay.
( Frue (opies),
Colonial Secretary,
Deep : No. GB of 1849.
Inclosure No. 17 in
Duplicate.
se qq
20/12/49
Miscellaneous.
254
Victoria, Herghings
26th October, 1849.
My Lord,
I regret to
et
to report to your
Serdship the decease of Niv... Excellency Rear - Admiral Sir- Francis R. Collier, C. 13, 1. C.A.
Naval Commander in-
chief
ዕ
the East India and China stations,
which took place at Honghong
early yesterday mornings
His Excellency
been in a
had.
last.
had
long
declining state, ander
die Stroke in
Paralytic
May
aunorencing
H. E... Mr. Bonham
Commissioner Low to
the
capiture
of two additional_
"Chinese who had been
engaged.
in the
assassination of Governor
Late
Amaral,
15th October, 1849.
The Night Honerable :-
The Earl Grey'
Jo
Jo
Jo
I have the hour to be,
With the highest respect, Your Lordships,
Most Obedient;
Hemble servant
*
29/30
Governon Bonham, # October, 1849. Victoria, Hongkong,
Duplicat. Dis. 1
00
Yo 100 2/1/20 Miscellaneous.
Nos. 1 @ 4.
My Lord,
255
Victoria, Sengkong,
3rd. November, 1849.
I have the honor to enclose
for Your Lordship's information, copies of - four Despatches with enclosures, which I have recently had occasions to address to Lord Palmerston, respecting.
sonne
very
successful attacks made against the
Pirates
on
the beast of China by
Her
14
East India Company's Steamer Phlegethin,
by
by
which Your Lordship will,
7 perceive Piration' messels
that no less than
been
99
have beow doctrayed, as well as as very
large number
of Pirates; and that the fou
The Right Honorable
The Earl Grey,
&c.,
&c.
&@)!
I have the honor to be,
With the highest Refund.
Your Serdships.
Most Obedient;
Hemble serveur.
:
**
Duplicate Dis w
AL
Yo: 100 2/1/1/50 Miscellaneous .
Nos. 14.
My Lord,
255
Victoria, Shongkong,
3rd November, 184.9.
I have the honor to enclose
for Your Lordship's information, copies of four Despatches with enclosures, which I have recently had recasion to address to Lord Palmerston, respecting
some very
successful attacks made against the
very
ther
Perates on the beast of China by Majesty's sloop Columbine, Steamers
Medex" and "Fu
#
"Fury","
" and the Honorable.
N
Cast India Company's Steamer Phlegethon,
which Your Lordship will perceived Piratical vessels
by
that no less than
99
have been destroyed, as well as as very
large numbers
sumber of Pirates; and that the four
The Right Honorable
The Earl Grey,
&c,
&c.,
&@)!
Governon Bonham, 29th October, 1849. Victoria, Hongkong,
{
th
that remain are
as to ensure
2.
their
so
completely dispersed. being unable
congregate
to
again in any force for as considerable time.
I take this opportunity of bringing particularly to Your Lordship's nation great benefit that: the Colony
the
must
me a dures ow
-
derive from these energetic the part of Her Majestie's Navy, and- I trust that the activity and zeal__ displayed by Commander
ander John C. & John Dalrymple. Hay of the Columbines, and Commander Robert Willcox of the Fury, have been sufficiently conspimous to authorizze your Lordship's bringing their merits to the favorable, consideration of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
I herewith enclose copy of as letter to my address from Commander Say, wherein he speaks in the highest terms of Mr. Daniel Richard. Caldwell,
3.
Interpreter in the Chinese language
/
and
"1
No 5.
256
Assistant Superintendent of Potive of this
Colony :
Commander Hay indeed states
Hay
that without his services, he does not think
he could have succeeded in the late
.
oficrations . I believe that
important operat
Mr. Caldwell does not
ad
belong to Her Majesty's
Flect, he will not be entitled to
any of the
benefits likely to be derived by those engaged. is the destruction of the Pratical floots
Now
-reported ; but as there cannot be a doubt.
that it was
through Mr Caldwell's
energy
and local knowledge that those marauders were discovered, and destroyed, I therefore. respectfully and carnestly beg
carnestly beg to recommends
that, this gentleman
NI MAA)
be: considered to have
On
the same, claim as Livutenants engaged these services, in the participation of any
Head-money
that.
may
be awarded to the
captors under Act 6 George IV. chapter 49;
and if this suggestion cannot, with reprence to the provisions of the Act, be adopted, I
SALON.-'.
י -די
would submits that I be permitted. to present Mr. baldwell with a donation equal in amount to that, which an officer of the above rank would
be entitled to.
4.
fficial avoca
Your Lordship will observe that
the deities performed by Mr baldwell have been of a most important and responsible nature, and, totally unconnected with his ordinary
avocations; that, he has undergone the same personal fatigue and danger officers of the sessels engaged in them. _____ expeditions ; and I therefore trust, he will be considered to be entitled to that notice and
as the
compensation which I now respectfully submit for the favorable attention of Your Lordship.
I have the honey to bey
With the highest respect,
Your Lordship' s,
Most Obedient,
Humble Servant,
Mature
L
(Copy.) No. 126.
Nos. 2 @ 4.
My Lord,
257
Victoria, Hongkong,
12th September, 1849.
I have the honor to forward
to Your Lordship copy of a Despatch addressed to me by Captain Treubridge, R. N., Commanding H. M. S. Amazon',
and Senior Naval Officer
on this station,
by the enclosures in which Your Lordship will be infouned of the success of Acting
Lockyer, of Ther Majestie's
Commander Socky
Steamer Medea, against certain piratical
ks, with which he foll in
Chinese
ll in on
the of th instant near Tenpak, a district,
town
v ow
the south coast of the Canton province, some
some 200 miles to the westivard of thongkong.
The Right
The Right Honorable
в.
The Viscount Palmerston, G. C . B.
&c,
&e.
Se.
اله
2
Commander Lookyor having been
directed to proceed coastivise to Hainan in
search of the "Sylph," a merchant vessel. said to be in the hands of pirates, left this harbour upon the 5th instant, and arrived at Tienpak on the morning of the of th. He there found a large fleet
of vessels which he had strong
to believe were
reason
ates with their
pirates
- prizes,
aived, in
but in absences of proof, he refrained, accordance with the instructions issued by the Admiralty, from attacking those,
until he had taken on board a Chinese
to one
belonging
- of the Junks detained by the Pirates at the above proct : Under the guidance of this individual, his boats boarded and destroyed, 5 large pirate punks, with the loss of one
e mant
killed
and ten wounded. The state of the Medea's " machinery obliging hine to return to Hongkong, he arrived in this harbour on
3. 258
the 19th instant, and upon his report, Captain Troubridge has now written to me requesting
to be informed if the the C. I. C. Steamer Phlegethion,
services o
at
+ present anchored off the Factories at Canton, could be spared for a work or ten with a view to the complète=
lays, with
days,
extermination of the Piraté
fle
flect.
for
Some
There have been rumours
months, of evertures being
made by the
Chinese Government to Chang-shih-won called in the local patois Shaping-tsai,
the leader
leading Pirate of these seas; and the latest intelligened, (which, however, it
of course difficult to authenticate),
- it: that he had made his teams the effecti
is of c
was to
with: the Governer Govoral Seu, who was
to
give
him both
money
and honors; in
return for which he would undertake the booty to disband his fleet, as soon as
on
board his Junks was disposed of, and
4
T
to su
suppress, if he could not bring
over, a pirate.
of inferiors celebrity to his own. Our contemplated.
operations may
tend to vitiate this compact;
should it have been concluded.
Since
arrival in China, I
may
and within the
have not neglected to urge the Commissioner to the adoptions of energetic measures for the suppression of Piracy : last mouth, Dr. Bowring, the consul at Canton, under the authority of Your Lordship's instructions to myself, in Your - Despatch. No. 96 of the 31th October, 1848,
ed the services offered the
of the Steamer Canton,
placed at his disposal by the Peninsular
and Oriental Company, under certain conditions of remuneration. Of
these, he declined to avail himself, and in his communications with, myself, which have
number,
seventeen in num
been no fewer between the suonth of June, 1848 and the present time, his answers have been
most unsatisfactory.
In
one
indeed, he asserts that owing
259
of those,
to the
exertions made by his orders, the evil is
already
on the decline.
In reply to my first applications
to him;, 4th June, 1848, ont which I dwelt on the the
the
& in
subject;,
good of the convey
systems, and instanced the advantage: "Her: Majesty's brig Espiègle had been enabled. to afford to the authorities at Ningps,
be
replied that officers of rank had received orders to exterminate the Pirates. When I
ainst some Prates
Mear
Amoy,
reported last month H. M. Brig Pilot's success against. I took occasion to recapitulate the different
committed in this
this vicinity
acts of piracy during the past year, repeating my
demand
for the murdevers of Captain Da Costa and Lieutenant. "Dwyer,
in
the apprchensin
of
when there could be no
difficulty,
they
were notorious pirates,
tes, and we
QA
well
J
L
known to the local authorities on the opposite.
coast. Ience
- pressed upon him the
measures, and
importance of corperatives offered, if he would supply quides, to send ressols to destroy a nest of these people said to be established on the Island of Chang chow, near this, in regular strongholds. The replies by a personal compliment to the report of our success, defends the population of Chang chow against the charge of lawless pursuits, the ground of their being wealthy and- respectable, and ridicules the ideas of the forts affording
ovi ou
cover to pirates; insinuating remark that I had been
in reply to my unwilling to attack
to attack people living Chinese territory, that cach,
on
Government
is bound to attend only to it vermont
DWW
subjects.
For the real state of the seas within a day's sail of the belony, I beg to refer Your Lordship : to Commander : Lockyer's report .
جاده ای در مداری برنا
A
"(
260
The Steamer "Phlegethow" has ben considered by baptain Troubridge the vessel
water and
best calculated, from her small draught of I preuliar equipment, to performe the service owi which he proposes
efficiently
the
to send her. Of this he must of ca
allowed to be the best
remained
2.40 be
course
+ judge. It moroly
1 for me therefore, upon the receipt of his application, to decide whether she could be spared or not
· from her post at
Citi has
Canton . The most perfect tranquillity
prevailed for
some months past,
both in
and about the bily, and I see nothing
in)
the present aspect of things at that place to prevent my acceding to baptain Threading, request, with which I have accordingly
I have, for,
complied.
(Signed) S.G. Bonham
( True Copy.
Colonial Secretary.
,
(Cossy).
Inclosure No. 1 in Dispatch No. 126 of 1849.
261
Ther Majesty's Ship Amazon, 13th September, 1849. Hongkong.
Sit,
I have the honor to forward
for Your Excellency's information copies of the Proceedings of Commander
Lockyers,
in the ""Medea", "between the 19th.
5th and 12
instants, by which Yours
Excellency will perceive that there is
dai
day's
a large fleet of Pirates within a sail of this harbour .
Should Your knowltonay be
CAAV
of opinion that the Philogottion be spared, for a week or 10 days for the purpose of destroying His Excellency
I. G. Bonham, C. B., Governor of Hongkong,
nd Minister Plenipotentiar
to the Court of China.
then. I
į
¦
1
will give orders accordingly.
give
(Copup)
Inclosure No 2 in Gespatch to 126 of 1849
262
I have, &o,
H. M. Steam sessol Medea, in
Ligned.
E
E. N. Troubridge, Captain and Senior Officers.
Tienpak Roads, 8 September, 1849.
Sir,
1.True Copy 3
lonial Sccrctane
Secretary.
orders
In compliance with . your of the 5th instant directing, me to proceed
coastwise to Hainan, Thave to report to that. I left Hongkong on the evening
but in consequence of
your
of the same
day,
the bursting of several of the tubes in the boilers, being unable to keep up-
fires, and there being
tide without any
the
at the time a strong,
wind, I was compelled.
to coud to an aucher off the Island of Lintin at 9.
P. M.
By
the exections of the
Engineers who worked during the entire
night, ( the thermomotor standing
Captain & . N. Froubridge,
Sber Majestie's chip Amazon
1
in the
263
stokeholes at 111"),
boiler which had
been partially tubed, previously to my
лая со
departure rendered equal
completed, and two others to
& to one : I was therefore
cnabled to proceed, the next morning
at
7 o'clock, and the. Medear "anchored off Tienpak at 7" 30" on the mars.
7th instant.
morning
of
the
lled into the ba
I immediately pulled
SC.
bay
in my gig, accompanied by Mr 86. " W. Jauncey, Mastor of the Mazeppar," Dr. Hastings, Acting Surgvow of this ship, and . a . Chino w Interpreter, with the view
4. for the couch of Shainaw, of obtaining a Pilot for the and if possible to procure information regarding the missing ships
coast
armed
On entering, the harbour, I found it completely filled with : heavily junks to the number of fifty or thereabouts, fifteen being, very large with upwards of 20 guns cach, all full of men, and
одина
ま
nswering to the description of the piratical
kels vessels
1 givens in Mr. David. Juylor's letter of the 4th of July last . Thern
upwards of one hundred.
car
10010
likewiser
cargo junks,
several of whom I boarded, with the intention
ascertaining the residence
of ascertaining
on.
the residence of the Mandarin
shore ; from them I learnt that he had. retreated into the country, and that they
themselves
wore detained by the abovementioned
armed junks, until payment had, been made for
of their vessels.
the
Jan Somal
The appearance of this stoom reset in the Roads, and the approach of my
into the harbour caused, much excitement gig into the harbour
amod- jean
- junks, and. 0
amonget, theso armed.
board
the Tower
considered, it prudent to returns on the "Medea." without, landing, being
some distance in land.
Whilst pulling towards the
ship, I observed, a division of five large armed- junks get, under weigh, and-
stand out : these afterwards anchored, in a
Creek
near
the entrance of Tienpak harbour:
On a cureful perusal of the orders
relative to Piracy,
that there
I did. not conceive--
sufficient, evidence of these
junks being, pirates, (although morally
certain of the facts), to justify
making, any
me. An
attack upon thom, event
provided Scould have moved the shif
sufficiently
near; and their force
AvaA
too
great to admit of a possibility, of their bing, takow by the ship's boats. I accordingly
weigh for the
judged it best to get
under
Taya. Islands in further queet of
tions aclative to the vaissing ships.
information
M.
ab 6 PM, and
ighed at 15
We weighed
having passed. Ty fung Island, came up with a junk which had been observed
beating about the. Bay
in a
fuspicious
alongside, and from
manner all the afternoon without, anchoring.
I hailed their to come
264/5
the Chief officer of her I obtained, the information contained in the enclosed copy of his examination.
with the
As his description corresponded,
appearance of the junks which
I had observed, mo
moving
to the brock near
he
the mouth of the harbour, and, as stated his capability, to point out his companion's junk, and the pirates which
had captured her, I resolved to return with his resel in tow to Tienpak, reads,
where we anchored at 8" 00 PM.
Having
8:00
made the détermination
to take this
discovering
man, in, with a view and recapturing
view of
the junk stated
by him to have been seized by the piantes,
at 6 o'clock this on
morning, armed. the boats of this ship
in the
I manned and
að
specified
accompanying list, and proceeded
with them towards Tienpak.
On arrival off the entrance
F
265
:
of the creck already mentiqued, and whilst requiring from the Chinese who came out board the previous evening, to paint
the
the
laid
junks which had taken his consort,
armed, junks who had springs out, brought their broadsides to bear upor the mouth of the creek, which was very up their boarding nothings,
narrow,
triced
and opened a very sharp fire upon us.
I then
gave
1 for the boats
orders for
-to pull in, returns their fire, and board;
and in the short space of a quarter of an hour, the whole force, amounting to
vessels, heavily
toere o
five
armed and full
full of men,
captured, with a considerable, loss the part of the Chinese from our fire of grape, and musketry, besides several
on
who were drowned in: endeavouring
make their escape
On our side I
the loss of
shore .
regret to state
lide. I regret
ond mani
killed, and ma
to
many
1
wounded, and have the honor to encloso
list of these
If
casualties.
:
impossible to bring
out
of the brook those which we had captured,
as ali, the armed-
- junks in Tienpak,
getting
Harbour were observed, to be
weigh, evidently
our
with
under
view of preventing
return ; I thereford found it sucessary
the prizes, which blew up and werd
to fire the prizes,
consumed, and. we
then pulled to the
thip under as heavy fire from
the armed.
who
mina o
junks of the largest size,
very nearly
If, owing.
to
succeeded in cuttin
cutting
of
being obliged to wait
for the cutter, which had boarded.
A
محمدی وی
cargo
junk detained by the Pirates, and which.
answered to the description of the -mentioned by the Chinese of the junk
outside.
crew
I brought away one of the
of this
cargo junk ; and two others
who
Avcre
und in chains
in chains on board end
found. of the prizes.
our
I cannot speak too highly of the assistance afforded so by Me Jaunery, master of the Mazeppa, Dr Hastings, Acting Surgeons, and Mr. Sheng, my
Clerk, who accompanied
me in the gig, and. I feel great pleasure
in
stating that Mr. Wood, the Senior Lieutenant, Mr. Brodie, Acting Master, Mr. Walker, Acting Mate, Mr. Kent, Assistant Engineer, Mr Mr. Grath, Gunners, Mr. bass,
Boatswain, Mr. Edwards,
Acting, Carponter, Messieurs Prowse, Harrington, and
ton, and. Wilkinson, Midshipmen, Mr. Ansell., Master's Assistant, together with the Seamen- and. Marines empécyed
behaved, with the upon this
mosh
my
this occasion,
conspicuous gallantry, and have
warmest thanks.
It is a source of great
266
gratification to ane to have been enabled this to destroy a portion of this - formidable, piratical force ; but finding probability of the large junks being got within range of the ship's
there is no
guns,
I consider it advisable to proceed.
to the Taya Islands, in furtherance of search after the Flylph and bewasjee.
my
Family?"
I have, 40!
})
Aôt
(Ligned ) W. N. L. Lockyer, Act: 7. Command,
True Copy
Colonia?
·louca & Secretary
|
(Copy) Inclosure No. 3 in Hespatch N 126 of 1812 267
H. M. Steam vessel Mcdea","
Sit
th
at Thoughing, 12. of September,
1849.
I have the honor to report to
that. I left Tienpak Roads on the
your
evening
of the 8th instant, in further search of information relative to the missing vessels. At 6 30th the following morning
+
L
I arrived off the Taya Islands and spoke
Leveral Leve
whom
whe
fishing, junks, all of
British lugger
wverò aw aro
that.
α
had
been seized by the Pirates, but had -
heard and seen nothin
any
other
wrecked, or
nothing whatever of
vessels either having
- captured; and
been
ond
of
every then stated that the fleet of piratical se sols had gone
to Tienpak.
Captain
E. N. Troubridge,
Sber Majesty's ship
"Amazon."
www.
!
22.
then proceeded on, and hone
to off the entrance of Junk's channel, but having no pilot .
pilot on board, the place being, surrounded by sand banks, and. thero being, no junks in sight with whom I could communicate, I did not conceive it prudent to remain there in Her
Majesty's steam vessel under
&
my
command; and the island onentioned in
Mr. Taylor's letter being,
more than 25
spot
where I
miles distant from any could with safety anchor, I was unwilling
boat up the channel to make
to send a
inquiry, as I imagined such a proceeding would be attended with too much danger. I therefor steamed slowly down
the coast of Hainan, speaking, opportunitie's occurred, with such of the fishing, vesels as lay in my couses, and proud all of them I obtained, precisely the same information
as
had been
y
268
previously afforded mo by the junks communicated with off the Taya. Islands. There did not appear to be the
habitation along of
Early
ow
slightest sign
the entire coust.
the m
morning of the 106.
instant, I arrived off Tinhosa Island,
but I found this place, like the other parts of the coast, entirely
neither
Avcro
uninhabited ;
entirely uninha
there any junks in sight;
ba
bay
and after looking well into the without mooting, anything which could, have conduced to the furtherance of this
bject in view,
in view, I judged it
I judged it my duty to
return to Hon
Hongkong.
I had intended on
my passage
back to this Soit to have touched, at Tien.
- pak, with the view
of ascertaining whether
the piratical fleet
tical fleet were still at aw
anchor there; but at 3 o'clock on the
the
30
morning of the 11th instant, several of
the tubes commenced to giver way.
in the
boilers; and shortly afterwards
accident occurred in
the
an
engines, which
detained, the ships upwards of five hours
Under these circumstances I did not
myself justified in feralanging
conceive qu
25
Inclosure No It in Despatch No 126 of 1849. 269 A List of Piratical funks taken and destroyed by the boats of Her Majesty's Steam vessel "Medea", on the 8th of Sapterüber, 1849 .
Mt. 1 funk
230 Tons
10
Guns.
30 Men.
Nr. 2. Junk
.
230 Tours.
10 Guns.
-50
50 Men.
acjoin)
7: 3. Junk.
230 Tons. -10
arrival
No. 5 Junk.
150 Tons.
the absence of this ship from Hongkong, and. I accordingly determined to
without loss of time.
you
I have to report my
here, and have, &c.
Signed) W. N. L. Locks
Lockyer, Acty Commander.
True Topy
olonial
Suntary?
+
Guns - 50 Men.
Nr. 4. Sunk. - 150 Tons - 8. Guns.
8
40 Men.
Guns. - 40 Men.
The bow and stern chasers
junks дина
Avero
wver e
board these
long 18-pounders ; the other 12-pounders. There were, besides,
board
on
a great number of Gingalls eachs, and immense qua and shot laying about the Docks,
quantities of powder
Commander
(Siqued) W. N. L. Luckyer, bemann
(Free Copy)
Look
Colonial Secretary)
closure
Alin Despatch
1:100 of 18.49.
(Copy)
$% 131.
Fuplicate.
Fis Excelin ay
Mr Bonham
against Pirates._
Her Majesty's Steamer "mede a" relative to the proceedings of from Senior Naval, officer,
12th September, 1849.
transcript of Corres por. dence Lord Palmerston, transmitting
270
My Seid,
Vrateria, Wangsring,
September, 27th 1849.
In continuation
of my
Despatch N. 126 of the 19th
Instant, I have
the hener
Scrdship
te acquaint your Feedstup that the Firme of
Hoss the
ardine. Matheson 7 (o having
determined
red upore sendi
the
Merchant Steamer Cantou ine
A
search of the
the n
missing
Vessel the
Sylph, supposed to have been
Hainan,
captured by Pirates off Captain Fronbridge, after
seating
The Right Henerable
The Viscount Palmerosive, G. O. 153.
Jo
Ve.
}
the subject, directed Sueutenant Mened with a Midshipen
25
From Her. Majesty's
ship "temazon, to proceed
board the bunton,
the event
20
on
that, in
aird
that steamer falling
in with Pirates, are it
&
being
decmed advis able le attacke
them, there might be a
force
board be
destruction.
here
271
doubt
during her couize in destroying Junter, which there whatever belonged
to the Pirate
fleet of shaping - bar, besides
56
37 Prisences.
Si
Prates, and
making
3
my Despatch. 8496, I stated that the H. C. Steamer
"Phlegether"
sufficient
their
ne
for a
The "Canton" returned
the 16th Sustaut, amet
and
beg to enclose for Your Sordships information copy of Captaine Frenbridge's Cispatch to my
address,
· giving
cover
to Sicutinant
Mould's report of what look
place during
be
the Expedition. From this report it will that the Cantou succeeded
Jos ha3.
would be removed.
short time from off the Factories, le proced in
in search Pirates. The accordingly
for this
left Hougtong for
the 19
purpose
th. Sestant, her Crew
C
having been strengthence by party of seamen frome Her
Majesty's ship Amazon, and Her Majesty's Brig Column tine,
places under the
who
evese.
-
Command of Comunander Hay
of
the latter Vessel.
*
from
Your Lordship will barn
Commander Hay's Report
all the
that, notwithstanding Islands in this neighbourhood
thereughty searched, nor
que re
tiratical Craft.
that nothing
and that i
nothing
Some wrecks
as
discovered,
A
except
probably fanidered during the Typlin, with which this
་
Colony
PV AV
Justaut.
There
visiter
thee 186th
i's recSONS
reAA
to suppose,
from what Commander
under Hay.
states, that the chief Pirate
shop-17
tai, withe about.
30 Vessels, was
at analur ata
some 150
place called Chapa, miles to the Westward of ~ - Houghings Her Majesty's ship "Amazon in Company in the the
Jos 4145. (not sent)
Phlegethon.
02-1
ence
Consequen
the 25th Sustauct
272
*****ས་ལུང་བསྟན
in searche
of this freebooter, and am
I in that if Captain Frenbridge
hopes that
succeds in falling
in with the
flect in question, the whole of
this sormidable bain
1
داکار
marauders will be exterminata:
by
The Prismers benght
brought
the steamer "Canton have
been examined by the Chief
This Veling Magistrate of
also
3)
Colony,
wtwo is
of the... having
Admirally Court, and
submitted the
the evidencl
line for
before him
of
p
tahov
the consideration
the Allowey General, the batter has informed me that there is
of eve preecedings
which he presumes may
evidence le instituée to
in air Court, but
be
supplied by the Chinese Geocomment. through is local interest.
beling
upon this opinione,
seeing that the whole of
Ohinese
the Prisoners
subjects.
that their agy
vessias
have been confined to the pe
and property of their un
and hoping
the
have
may
persons
lamtry.
teat
moreover
Fintend pursuing
influence
C
conciliating the que will of
good
"
the
Chinese authorities towards
the British Governm
possibly promote some coöperation
of
thie
suppression
their part ofor this nefarious system, I
have déterminée,
the returne
of the Phlegethow, on forwarding
the whole of
the trismers, to the
Superial Commissioner, with
b.
wt sent.)
the Chinese accompanying
veriau
of the
273
Car unication.
I have, te
(Signed) S. G. Benham,
(Tone Copy)
Colonial Secretary.
:
Copy
9.
Inclosure N. 1 in Dorpatch. 8/31 of 1849 .
Sir,
274
Her Majesty's this amazon!
Houghing, 18 September, 1847.
I have the houer to
forward you Copies of
If H. E.
Sieutenant
Mentel's proeccotings against
the "Canton
the Pirates
steamer, witle Mi
shipman this ship, by
Mich.
Edyc 25 mei from
which
Your
Excellency will perceive they have been eminently successful, are they have avecrtained that the Sylpli has not been taken
S. 6. Bonham, C. 13,
Governor of Hongtong,
Minister Plenipotentiary,
Jo,
Yo.
(Copy).
(signed)
E. N. Troubridge.
e of
by Pirates this side Hainan. The Weet of Pirates at Tienpak bad dispersed
The 2/1 Prisoners, A
Woman àm 2 Children have
Inclosure No 2 in Despatch No 131 of 1849.
Sir
been handed
Cver
to the Civil
275
Her Majesty's Ship Amazon,
16th Septr: 1849.
Hongkong,
In obedience to
your
orders of
of the
8th Soptr :, I left this anchorage with
the party placed at
my disposal, in the Seninsular and Oriental Company's
Authorities .
I have, 4.
N.
(Signed) C. Mr. Frenbridge,
Captain
ि
Senior officer.
True Copy!
Cetenial Secretary.
Steam
Macao,
ve
"ssel "Canton", and proveded to
the
riving at that place at
arriving
midnight, and left at 1.A. M.
gth . _ At 11 A. M. we boarded a piratical
9
rau
junk mounting 11 guns : the junk close in shore, and most of her crew escaped by juruping, overboard. "We killed 4 or 5 and took 3 prisoners, one of whom being, a
a woman, a
apparently an idiot,
was landed afterwards
Prwards at Now chow,; afterwards
set
fire to and test
coc
destroyed. this vessel ; the
Captain C. N. Froubridge,
H. M. Ship Amazon
Senier Officer.
had
I just plundered a fishing boat . At 6.30
I. M.
LOC
boarded
laden with su
nk bound to Macão,
a junk
Sugar.
From her
the information that Shap ng Tienpak, and had just received
this reseel;
of $1100 for this
we received.
thai was at
a ran soud
she had seen and
lish War steamer, but had had no
English
a.
communication . At 11.30 we passed. flect of junks sailing by the wind. At 3 A. M. ow the morning of the 10th. anchored off · Tienpak, when at daybreak I went with the cutter and. Canton's
wve)
jolly-boat to board. three gunks, the largest of which, when we came within 20
yards of her, threw a fire-pot into the cultor, which burnt Thos. Quarrier severely; they then commenced throwing pikes, and as
was evident nothin
nothing could be effected. without the assistance of the Steamer's guns, we retreated for this purpose, and pursued them in her . The crews, on
- perceiving,
it
:
the Steamer's approach,
276
commenced: making
their escape in their boats; the steamer
followed, and destroyed many of them.
The
Cly - bout at the same time attacked
Ce jolly,
another junk, and thot several of the the others escaping.
men
The lar
largest of them
mounted 19 guns,
junks .
guns,
for being
the smaller 4
which werd dismounted, apparently
thrown overboard. We captured
вандо
5 :
11 prisoners frond the largest and 6 from the smaller . We left these junks burning, eventually, blowing up. We then proceded to Now chow, boarding a trading junk,
and ow recei
receiving a pilot from her, we anchored off Now chow at 44 P.M., when) + I went on
shore, accompanied by Mosers.
Olding, and Bowring
to visit the
Mandarin, from whom we received, no information . We remained off this place,
.
in consequened of the darkness of the night,
until. 6 A. M. on the morning
ts, until. 6
277
}
of the 11th, when we weighed, and prouded
to Pow keew, a village about 60 miles to the southward of Now chow, and 18
Hainan head. We boarded a
>
from= junk,
·ond an
=
but gained no information, beyond -English vessel rigged like a junk having- beer takow last June. From this place
proceeded to Hoi chow, about 20 miles to the westward of the former place, where
I went on
we arrived at 3 PM. I wents
shore
accompanied by Messrs. Jamieson, Soames,
Bowring, to visit the
Olding,
and
Mandarin, who treated us within
- great kindness. After obtaining all the information we could, we returned to
of the lowness
the ship, but on account of. of the tide, we did not reach the steamer
on the morning of the
until 3 A. M.
12th. We
were detained. here until
9 A. M., when the. Mandarin returned our
visit . He was conducted round the ship
and engine-porn, at
-room, at which he expressed
his astonishment . He questioned some
the Prisoners, who
appeared much,
میرے
frightened. On the flags which had been taken being shown to him, he said
belonged to Shap
ng
tsai. He
said the
they
was Avad der
very
civil and attentive to us, and sent us a
present of bullocks, téa., &c.
came AA
up as a passenger
:) in the steamer ;
he speaks in the highet torms of the Mandari, at: whose house he had been staying. The Mandarin expressed a great wish to have the Pirates delivered up to him, offering reward, which of coured was refused.
sed. We left this placd at 9.30 A: M., eoturning to Now chow, where we discharged. the pilot, and arrived at Tienpak at
of
PM.
1 Avcro)
It being too dark to see into the harbour, and having heard that the pirates assembled at Long you anchored at midnight. We we
dnig
we went
EW QULA
ands
We weighed at
::
ht,
daylight, a
t, and stood along the shore. At 8 we discovered two junks apparently making
the best of their way
chard, running the other into a
to the shore,
100
e quier
one on shore, and following
bay. The inhabitants of the village armed themselves, and assembled on the beach, murdering all those who attempted to land. At 9f the cutter boarded.
the junk, mounting / guns
gingals;
s and several
we secured of
1 of Prisoners and semiè
piratical flags;
vver
then destroyed
the
junk . From the Mandarin of this place
we
received information of other junks.
On leaving this anchorage, another junk.
observed, to which
e guver
chave
I found her to be the same which had
and
NAV ow
shore just before She fired two broadsides at us, and then ran on shore. I then boarded her in the cutter. We had scarcely gained a forting on board. the junk, when the cutter swamped
in the
T
TH
278
surf . The life -boat from the Cantor was
then sent to
OUV A
assistance with hawsers to
1. failed
heave the junk off, which she
doing, owing
to the heav
heavy surf..
led in
At sunset
went to pieces, I and my party
the junk wont to pieces,
remaining
shore at: the wreck, and
on L
t at
at a
village at the
a v
passed the night weets and of the bay, quitting
it in the
morning for Mamed, where we found the
steamer. The steamer anchored at Mamee
was a
a pirater,
at 8 A. M. with both auchors, there being 8 or 10 junks, one of which but on account of the bad weather, and the bantan being in only one foot water than she drew, the junk escaped. We returned on board the steamer on
the
the
even
& more
cerning of the 14th, having Manier on the 15th, arriving
morning of the 15 anchorage.
th
at this
at 1. A. M. this morning.
I enclose a list of coounded., also a
list of pirates brought to this place, and of
those killed, arid woundeds.
I cannot speak too highly
commendations of the cool and steady behaviour of Mr. Won. Hy bdye, midshipman, and the
Affen. whole of the party placed at may disposal.
:
I have, yo,
(Signed) William Mould,
Copy
Inclosure N°3 in Desp: No 131 of 1849.
(Signed)
E. N. Troubridge,
279
Capthin and Sencer Officer.
of
List of Pirates killed on the West boasts China by a party from Her Majesty's Ship Amazons . Hongkong, 18th September, 1849.
#
Killed. Prisoners Escaped. On board.
в
No. 1 Junk.
5
4
30
37
25
10
#
44
80
10
6
95
41
2
38
40
16
#
77
30
yo
71
Total 59 27
314
301
Senier Lieutenant . H. M. S. Amazon.
(o True Copy)
olonial Secre
Sorotary.
Γ
i
2
.3
4
5
b
"
(sd.) William Monld.
Senior Lieutenant : M. M. Ship Amazon
J
L
21
20.
नां
да бор
Copey.
(Signed)
E. N. Troubridge.
Captain .
in
attack
List of wounded belonging to Her Majesty's Ship Amazon, who were engaged on Piratical funks
16 September, 1849.
on the West bouch of China
Thomas Quarrier - Able Seaman :
(sd) William Mould
Sew Lieutenant . H. M. Ship Amazon.
Copy. (signed) E. N. Troubridge,
From bridy upitacions.
.
280
List of Pirates captured on the "West boast of China, and brought to thoughang
in the
"Canton" Steamer, 16th September, 1849.
1th Junk at St. Jolini's
2
do.
3
do.
4
do.
5
ds.
6
do.
ہوگا
Tienpak
3 Prisoners.
A
Mance.
Hin ling san
Total 27 Prisoners.
(sd.) Willian Mould, Senior Lieutenant.
True Copies)
****** ***
کم کم
H. M. S. Amarm"
lonial Secretary
:
:
Inclosure N. 2 in Setpi:
No 100
4 1849.
(Copy)
17o. 142.
Net/52.
My Lord,
281
Victoria, Hongkong,
October 23, 1849.
It affords me great satisfaction
to transmit herewith for Your Lordship's
- information printed copies of two- Despatches addressed by bennmander Johns C. Dalrymple Hay, of Her Majesty's Brig
"Columbino", to this Excellency the
Naval. Commander-in-Chieff, reporting
most successfu
b attack, made
by him,
in conjunction with Commander
"Willcox of Her Majesty's Steamer
Fury", on a large flects of Stratical.
anchored in Bias Ba
Bay,
a)
junks
distant abou to
forty miles to the northward of this Colony, Con the 26th ultimo, I received:
The Right Honorable,
The Viscount Palmerston, G. C. B.
&c.,
Je,
for
Suplicates.
Lord Palmerston-
14.2. Mr. Bonhams to
/
in
proceedings of
1126, reporting,
continuation of Despatch
the
the merchant
against Pirates.
H.C. Steamer "Phlegethon"
27 September, 1849.
"Steamer " "Canton", and the
were
special Report from the Superintendente of Solice of this belony to the effect "that 200 sail of fishing boats word detained by Pirates in a brook called, Ping hoi, close to Bias Bay, and that this information had been obtained from the owner of one of the fishing beats, who had succeeded in effecting his escape. I thereupon immediately addressed
the accompanying cation to Commander Kay, when that officer suost readily and ohverfully
communi
undertook to proceed in search of the
marauders; and
next mornin
day,
morning,
accordingly
left as
the 27
the
On the afternoon of that
Rear-Admiral Sir Francis
Collier arrived in the "Hastings from Singapore, and on the 30th. His Sousellency received Commander Hay's report of the same date, (Inclosure. 1)
No. 3.
No. 4.
upon which This Cerecollency
souding,
Her Majesty's
#1
282 determined
steamer
"Fury" to assist the Columbine in totally destroying the Piratical flock. Your Lordship will learn from Commander
fleet
very successful
October,
b results
Hay's second Report of the 2nd Retaker, (Inclosure 2), the of the combined operations.
The fleet destroyed
occasion was under the
bhui Apes,
on!
command
this
of one
the individual who, with
six others, is supposed to have murdered; Captain Da Costa and Lieutenant Divyer
ou
this Island in March lastin
I thought this, therefore, as favorables
opportunity of giving publicity to two official lately addressed, to the Chinese Commissions, (with that Functionary's reply to the latter), relative to this man and piracy in order that Her Majesty's
communications which I have
generally,
Subjects in China might know that I had not lost; sight of the one or the other, and that. I had not been inactive in
remonstrating,
strating, with, the Commissioner, and in repeatedly bunging, those sabjects to his especial notice).
q
There is reason to suppose that the notorious Shaping -tsai is at present to the southward of this bolany, in the neighbourhood of Hainan. On the 8t instant, the Admiral despatched, the "Columbine", "Fury and Phlegethon in search of this freebooter, but those result
vessels 4 yet returned. As soon as
their
have not
operations are made known to me, I shall not fail to communicate the same to Your Lordship .
It will be observed
Lordship that in one of my
to the Chinese boun
。
by Your
communications
Commissioner, I have not
hesitated to tell hime that
as he did. not
283
see fit to cooperate with us in the suposerosion of Piracy
in these seas, I had "determined
" to take stops for the despatch of vessels to
" scour the seas in all directions," ye, &a.
In his reply the Commissioner cxpresses his satisfaction at the success of ther Britannic Majesty's vessels,
not in
any way
but does.
allude to rendering
us
assistance or affording us any voiperation In fact, I am satisfied that the Chinese Government is altogether unable to capa with the Pirates, and the Commissioners, that he cannot defeat them, will,
seeing that he
I have
no
doubt, have
Coured to the
vo rec.
recourse
compromisor
ordinary Chinese mode of bribing then into submission, by making a conformin with their Chief, who will be bought vver with the gift of sowed honorary distinctions, and probably be taken into the of the state, to be employed
service
evesitually in the destruction and
:
6.
wverthrow of his former confederates.
I have the further satisfaction)
return of Chinese
to enclose an
official re
Piratical vessels captured and destroyed Her Majesty's ships, botwwoon the
by
between
months of May and October,
I have, &o,
1849.
S. G. Bonham!
(Sigued.) M. G.
(Irue
Copy
No 5:
Inclosure Not in Despatch No 142 of 1849.284
HEB MAJESTY'S SLOOP Columbine, TYPSUNG BAY, 30th September, 1849.
SIR, I have the honour to inform Your Excellency, that on the evening of Thursday the 27th instant, I left Hongkong in search of a Piratical Fleet, commanded by the notorious "Chui-a-poo," aud proceeded to Harlaim Bay where I arrived at Noon on the 28th, and found that after sacking the village there, they had gone to Tysami, off which place, I descried at 11 P. M., the Flect under weigh, consisting of 14 Junks formed in two lines, making off for the S. W. The village at this Bay we observed smouldering.
I attacked one of the largest I could reach, the wind being very light, at 11.45, and continued engaged with as many as I could bear upon, until calm and their sweeps prevented further engage-
Dient.
I chased them with sweeps and light airs through the night, and came up with them again at near noon yesterday, the 29th, when, to my satisfaction, the wind being still very light, I observed the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Steam Vessel Canton coming from the westward; that vessel seeing me chasing, as soon as she could opened her fire, and thereby threw the Junks into confusion, when numbers began to jump overboard and took to their boats. Mr Watkins who had chartered her for the purpose of looking after the Coquette missing vessel, and who carries this despatch, and who eventually served in our boats, most kindly gave up his charter to admit of Mr Jamieson, the Commander of the Steam-vessel, rendering me the assistance of getting near the Pirates, I so much needed.
I have the satisfaction of acquainting Your Excellency that three Junks have been abandoned, and one blown up, and destroyed, in these operations, the latter by the boats of the Sloop under the command of Lieutenant Bridges, Senior of the Columbine, of which I purpose furnishing Your Excellency more detailed particulars.
The remainder of this formidable Piratical Fleet, 10 in No., are now at anchor at the bead of Byas Bay near Fan-sokong in sight, and I feel confident, if promptly assisted by the Fury, and such other disposable force as Your Excellency may be pleased to send me, can be effectually destroyed; as they shew no intention at present of coming out; and I have good information that they purpose repairing their damages where they are.
We have destroyed at least 250* Pirates since 11 P. M. of the 28th, but I regret to state that our loss has been three killed, one officer and six men wounded.
My ship's company having now been 40 hours at the sweeps and quarters, are necessarily much fatigued, and the sick list leaves me not more than 60 effective people on board.
Mr Watkins will give Your Excellency every information of the proceedings of the Sloop under my command since noon yesterday, which, from my anxiety to put Your Excellency in possession of these proceedings, and to get the Canton under weigh for Hongkong, I cannot at present furnish,
My ammunition is much reduced, but if, to increase my present stock, would detain the expedition, what I have must suffice.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your Excellency's most obedient humble Servant,
JOHN C. DALRYMPLE HAY, Commander.
J
lonial Sear
Secretary
! 10.50 A. M. 30th September, 1849, Sunday.
His Excellency
Rear-Admiral Sir F. A. COLLIER, C.B., K.C.II.,
Commander-in-Chief.
****
285
Inclosure N° 2. in Despatch N. 142 of 1849.
|
HER MAJESTY's Scoop Columbine, PIRATE's Cove, BIAS BAY, 2d October, 1849. SIB, I have the honour to inform Your Excellency, that my anticipations have been fortun- ately realized, and that the Piratical Squadron of "Chui-a-poo" has been totally destroyed by the force you so kindly and promptly placed at my disposal. Twenty-three Piratical Junks averaging 500 tons, mounting from 12 to 18 guns, three new ones on the stocks, and Two small Dockyards with a considerable supply of Naval Stores, have been totally destroyed by fire; and of 1800 men who manned them, about 400 have been killed, and the rest dispersed without resource.
To Commander Willcox of the Fury, whose great ability and zeal are already known to Your Excellency, I must give the principal honour of the day. To the Fury's unrivalled accuracy of firing, must be attributed the bloodless termination to us of this affair.
The Columbine being unable to come close up in the narrow channel where she would have hampered the Fury's movements, I went on board the Fury, to share in the action. The piratical fire was silenced in about 45 minutes, during which time only one man was slightly wounded. The Boats of Hastings and Columbine under Lieutenants Luard and Bridges, Senior of those ships, whom I beg to recommend to Your Excellency, then assisted in completing the destruction, and Lieutenant Holland and the Marines accompanied me in an expedition to scour the heights, but no opposition was offered to us, the pirates running in all directions.
The Officers, Seamen, and Marines employed have conducted themselves in a steady, quiet, and gallant manner, and I am sure, if the resistance had been much larger, similar success would have crowned their efforts.
Mr Caldwell of the Police Force, who acted as Interpreter, has proved himself invaluable in collecting information.
I send this at once by a Chinese boat, and I hope to succeed in destroying some detached Firstical Junks of which we have information, in the course of to-day and to-morrow; after which we shall rejoin you.-I have, &c.
JOHN C. DALRYMPLE HAY,
His Excellency Rear Admiral
Sir FRANCIS A. COLLIER, C.B., K C.H.,
Commander-in-Chief, &o, &o., §e.
Commander.
:
1
(Copy)
N97
Inclosure No 3 in Despatch No 142 of 1849.
Sir,
Victoria, Hongkong,
th
September 27th, 1869.
With reference to our
conversation of this morning,
the honor to
I have,
now
286
transmit for your information
Special Report
Copy of
made by
the Superintendent of
Police, relative to 200 Sail of
Fishing Boats said to be detained by Pirates in a
Creek called
Ping hoi, about 50 miles to the Eastward of this Place.
I
Am
aware that those
}
Commander
John C. Dalrymple Hay,
Her Majesty's Big "Columbine",
Senior Naval Officer.
are
reforts foundation; I have.
often without
вир
every
on
re a Lon
much
this occasion
to believe,
from the information I have
received,
is
that
a.
actually lying
reported
Pirates fleet
Should you
to send
Your power to
at the spot
a
have it in
горов
to disperse, and if possible
to
destroy,
this Band
of
marauders, you would be
287
Inclosure. No 4 in. Despatch No 142 of 184.9.
From His Excellency Mr Bonham, to Sü, Imperial Commissioner.
VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 20th September, 1849.
but as
I have already upon several occasions addressed Your Excellency regarding Pirates; long as they remained at a distance and did not interfere with British vessels, I did not consider myself bound to interpose. Lately, however, acts of piracy have been more than ordinarily frequent in the vicinity of this Colony: one Junk, the property of a British subject, has been seized off Hainan, and there have been rumours that a British vessel, long missing, had been captured by the Pirates in that neighbourhood. A vessel-of-war was in consequence despatched to make search; and on the 5th September, in Tinpak bay, fell in with a fleet of Pirate Junks, of which she destroyed five. Upon her report, a second vessel was sent upon the 8th, which also destroyed five. These vessels were undoubtedly piratical, and formed part of the fleet of Shap-'ng-Isai. They were pointed out as such by some of the Chinese whom they had detained at the above place, and the Chinese authorities on the Coast, who are all much gratified at our success, also made a statement to that: effect.
It is clear that your Naval Authorities have not the power to destroy, or disperse, these marauders. Now that they have come to the vicinity of this Island, I have determined to take steps for the despatch of vessels to scour the seas in all directions, more especially as I understand that Tsü-á-pò, who murdered two English Officers in the month of March last, is a leading man amongst them. I have twice called Your Excellency's attention to this outrage, committed by one of your own countrymen, who afterwards fled from my jurisdiction. He must now be in that of Your Excellency; nevertheless nothing appears to have been done towards his apprehension; and if, in the attempts which 1 myself am making to arrest him, accidents should happen through ignorance ou our part, the blame of these must attach to Your Excelleney, for not having earlier caused this miscreant to be apprehended,
I am aware that there may be some difficulty in effecting his capture; but I feel sure that, if Your Excellency would take the usual steps to secure him, it would be in your power to send him to me to be tried and punished.
This murder took place 5 months ago; but it is still fresh in my memory, and will remain so until satisfaction has been afforded for só abominable an outrage.
His Excellency Sil,
Accept the assurances, &c.
S. G. BONHAM.
rendering
ai
very
useful
l Service
to the interests of this Colony
as well
as to the cause of
Humanity.
I have te.
(Signed) SG Bonham.
(True Copup)
Colonial Secretary.
Imperial High Commissioner,
Sc., 4o., &c.
From His Excellency Mr Bouham, to Si, Imperial Commissioner.
VICTORIA, Hosokong, 8th October, 1849.
I have again the honour to communicate to Your Excellency the particulars of a successful attack made by two English vessels-of-war upon a large force of Pirates.
Information having been received that a large fleet, under Tsu-á-pò, were at a place called Ping-hoi, in the district of Kweishen, a brig-of-war was despatched in quest of them on the 27th ultimo. She arrived at noon on the 28th, found that they had sacked the village, and gone to! Tysumi,* off which place she saw them about 11 P. M.-fourteen sail in all the village at this place was also smouldering. The brig continued to chase them the whole night, but the wind was light and she was long in approaching them, until, on the morning of the 29th, an English merchant steamer coming up, towed her close to a large junk, which, going into shoal water, the brig's boats attacked and boarded, Two forts on the shore also opened fire upon the junk; and her crew, as soon as she was boarded, blew her up, destroying some 90 of themselves, while a British officer and 3 seamen were killed, and seven seamen injured. Of the pirate's squadron, three vessels, abandon- ed by their crews, were rendered useless by our people; the remaining ten got away and were pursued by the brig. On the 30th, the wounded were sent back in the merchant steamer to Hong- kong, with a report of all that had taken place to the Naval Commander-in-Chief, by whom orders were instantly given to a large man-of-war steamer to proceed to the spot and assist the brig. These two vessels returned to this harbour on the 4th instant, and announced the total annihilation of Tsü-á-po's fleet, consisting of 23 piratical Junks, averaging 500 tons in burden, and mounting from 12 to 18 guns.
350 Guns had been also destroyed; and two new Junks, on the stocks, at a place in
the vicinity; as also two small Dockyards, and a large supply of Naval Stores had been burned. There were besides some 400 pirates killed, and the rest, some 1400, dispersed with arms, indeed, but without any means of continuing to exercise their dangerous vocation.
As regards Tsu-a-pò, who, as I mentioned in my letter of the 20th ultimo to Your Excellency, I had reason to suppose was a leader amongst these pirates, it is stated by a wounded Chinese who was picked up in the water, that he had been wounded in the encounter and carried off by his followers. There would therefore be, I should imagine, little difficulty in discovering him; and the local authorities of the Coast districts will, I trust, receive immediate orders to search for and seize him; and to lose no time in following up this successful attack upon his band, and utterly exter- minating them,
I have much satisfaction in communicating these particulars to Your Excellency, and take the opportunity of remarking once more, that our success in completely putting down this nuisance, which is even more hurtful to you than to ourselves, would be sure, if I could prevail upon Your Excellency to concert with me those measures of cooperation, the advantage of which I have so often pressed upon your attention. In my communication of 20th ultimo, above referred to, I said "that I was determined to take steps for the despatch of vessels to scour the seas in all directions ;" and I shall only add that, whether Your Excellency is pleased to cooperate with me or not, I shall accordingly miss no opportunity of destroying these common enemies of mankind, wherever they are to be found in these waters; that the spreading of this evil may be effectually put an end to.
Accept the assurances, &c.
S. G. BONHAM.
His Excellency Sü,
Imperial High Commissioner,
&c.,
Lo.,
$c.
*Probably Shán-mi or Sán-mí.
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288
Sü, by Imperial appointment High Commissioner, Governor General of the Two Kwáng, &c. &c., &c., in reply:
I am in receipt of Your Excellency's letter of the 22d of the 8th moon, (8th October), and have fully acquainted myself with the contents of it. My mind is most anxiously concerned about the injuries which the men and officers of Your Honourable Nation, engaged in the extermination and capture of the pirates, have suffered from the ignition of the powder to which the latter, in their desperation, set fire. The Civil and Military officers to the Eastward had reported that, on the 10th of the 8th moon (26th September), certain pirates, whose vessels were in the harbour of the military station of Piug-hái, had fallen upon Tá-ngáu (Tái-ò), a village within the creek. Shin, the Chief Magistrate of this district of Kwei-shen, acting in concert with the military authorities, had¦ put himself at the head of the troops and volunteers, and from the fort of Cheb-tsang, had sunk three! and burned one of the vessels of the pirates, of whom upwards of 100 were killed; some ten of the troops and volunteers being at the same time wounded. The pirates now made for Shan-wi (Sán- ! mi), and being there again beaten off by the troops and volunteers, stood out to sea, where they fell in with the eruisers of Your Honourable Nation, on being attacked by whom they got away to the harbour of Tun-t'au. Here the Commandant of Hwui-chau, the Chief Magistrate, and an officer of the rank of captain, opened upon them from the forts, and having, by the cross fire of these, set one of the ships in flames, they took alive 18 of the crew as they were making their escape ashore, and as soon as they had extracted from them all they had to say, forwarded them to the city.
The destruction of the whole fleet of the pirates, and the death of some 400 of them, of which I am informed in the letter now under acknowledgment, will greatly gladden the hearts of all men.
Upon the receipt of the reports from the Eastward, I had already sent an express to the civil and military officers along the Coast, with orders to make search and to seize in all directions, in the hope that (the pirates) might thus be swept clean away, and utterly extirpated.
As Sü-á-páú (Tsü-á-pò) was wounded, he would, I imagine, have difficulty in flying to any distance. If he be not yet dead, as soon as he shall be taken, he shall of course be punished with the utmost rigour; there shall be no possibility of his resuming his evil career [lit. no sprout how- ever small (which might again flourish) shall be left.]
While thus replying to you, I avail myself of the opportunity to wish that the blessings of the season (Autumn) may daily increase to Your Excellency.
A necessary communication addressed to Mr Bonham, H. B. M. Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., §c.
Taukwang, 29th year, 8th moon, 25th day, (11th October, 1849.)
True Translation,
T. F. WADE,
Assistant Chinese Secretary.
Inclosure to 5 in Despatch N. 142 of 1849.
289
Hastings AT HONGKONG, 8th October, 1849.
List of Chinese Piratical Vessels captured and destroyed by Her Majesty's Ships, between the months of May and October, 1849 :-
PIRATICAL VKSSELS
NUMBER OF PIRATES
DATE
SHIP
CAPTURED
OR
DEST BOYED
Killed and Drowned
Captured
Escaped
Total
1849
May,...
: May,
June,
July,.
Inflexible
6
4.5
100
145
A
Pilot
10
85
167
not stated
252
Party from Ama-
September,
September, September,
zon on board Can- ton Medea
59
27
214
300
5
Columbine
ཚཊྛཱ
50
180
230
310
310
(Columbine, Fury,
October,
and party from Hastings
26
400
1400
1800
57
904
239
1894
3037
F. A. COLLIER,
Rear Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.
* Subsequently ascertained to be 310.
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Inclos
X. 100 of 184.9.
ure No 3 in Lesp:
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(Copy).
Yo. 153.
My Lord,
290
Victoria, Hongkong,
3rd November, 184.7.
In the hope that this Despatch
will reach Your Lordship by the semi- monthly mail, I avail myself of the departure of Ther: Majesty's
Steam
sloop "Bury for Bombay, to report
to great success which has attended. certain operations undertaken, against Pirates in the adjacent, seas.
It
Abas On
to
ny pleasing duty announce to Your Lordship, in my Despatch Nr. 142 of the 23rd ulting, the complété destruction of Chui-a-pois fleet, in Bias Bay, by the combined. operations of Her Majesty's Bring Colusabing,
The Right: Honorable,
"Coturubine,
The Viscount Palmerstone, G. C. B.
&C.,
&o,
Auplicate.
a most successful attack
Lord Palmerston, reporting #4.E. Mr. Bonham to
and
Made
copiary
"
the "Columbine"
U__
a
· piratical
fleet anchores in Bias
Bay
232 october, 1849.
:
2.
and. Her Majesty's steamer Fury', and
I had the hover of stating
at the same
time that these two actsels, in company with the Honorable Company's steamer Phlegethon, had proceeded to the southward in search of Shaping tsai, who, with the remainder of the Piratical squadron
under his command, was de.
:
and destruction alon
1
alang.
death
dealing the whole of the
seaboard in the neighbourhood of the
Island
of "Thainan .
It is
Mow a fourco
of great.
gratification to mor to be enabled to report
return to this harbour on the
the safe
1st instant, of those three vessels of
war
• after having, mot with the most signals success in their expedition, and having complotoby annihilated Shap ng téais
fleet of Piratical junks. I feel it would be superfluous on my part to narrate the particulars of and
imemento
No.1.
clearly
291
and
expedition which have been so ably described in the accompanying printed copy of bemmander Hay's Despatch to the address of this Excellency the Naval Commander in Chief. I shall therefore
simply confine myself to stating that 58 Piratical vessels mounting about 1200
of 3,000 mon have
and with crews
ns, an
guns,
been totally, destroyed by fire, without the loss of one single- life
on our side.
It would be taking up uselessly
Your Lordship's time, were
demonstrate, even
I to venture to
faintly, the great benefits which must accrue to our Trade and Navigation
au ders, and
do marau
by the annihilation of these
the destruction of their piratical fleets ; and I feel confident that, both Her Majesty's Government and the mercantile community
to Commander Say the credit
will
I give
to which his services so
fully entitle him.
Ine first of these expeditions, (the one against
292
Chui
Apeo),
was undertakes at myy
mendation and: request,
il consuIE
but on
&
fomman
umander
одеж
Kay's sole responsibility, and before the arrival of the Admiral at Hon
Hongkong
the second, was the natural, result of the
first, and was entered into in consequence) of information acquired during the execution of the first
but to Commander Hay's crance in his searches tting perseverance in his
it service,
uuremitting
for the haunts of the Pirates, his accurate judgements, and gallantry, aided, as he was
of Commander Willers, great experience in those
by the able services
who has had
seas, and of Mr. Niblett, must be entirely attributed the splendid success which has attended both expeditions.
I trust I may
not be deemed.
as travelling beyond the limits of suy particular functions, if I beg respectfully to express a hope that: Your Lordship will see. fit to bring to the favourable
notice of the Lords of the Admiralty; the
of Commanders Hay and Willcox
services
:
in these operations ; and to that of the Honorable the bourt of Directors, the mortts of Mr Niblett, Commanding the HC. C. Steamer Schlegethon.
that's for
f
I think we may fairly, assumed
some time to come at least, the
Pirates in the neighbouring
seas will not
two lessons,
prove very formidable, if two such as they have had within the last month, and which have resulted in the destruction of 88 of their junks, with: a loss of 2,400 killed and drowned, can bet productive of any good effects .
It is not the bast satisfactory
part of my duty to add that, Commander Hay
succeeded in obtaining
the co
cooperation
in
of the Governor General of Hainan his
operations against Shap-ng-trai' s squadron. That functionary most
293
cheerfully entered into the scheme for the destruction
of
to
the Pirates, and even wat the breathe of deputing a Mandarins of high rank, named Hwang, accompany the expeditions, at the head of a
small maval
" force. Hwang, for
accommodation, look a
a passages
021/
better
as
bourd, the
"Fury",
", and Commander: "Tay speaks in high terms of the zealous assistance por
that Mandarin dure
during
proceeding
dings.
rendered.
the whole of the
by
This will, I am sure, be viewed
by Your Lordship.
ad a
stop in the right
direction, and it were to be desired that
the Imperial Commissioner could be induced
to follow this good examples,
mple, and
be prevailed upon to coöperate with us in the destruction
of a
a conVNA UW
Sew on
the
foe.
It is
my
intention to address
subject of our late operations, and
I shall lose no time) in
forwarding to your
Lordship copies of our correspondence . In the meantime I have the honor to transmit
L
No. 2
No.3.
No. 4.
the copy of an additional Despatchs from Commander Hay to Rear-Admiral lin Francis Collier, and likewise a copy of
the same
communications addressed by the
officer
to the Governor General of Bainan. That functionary
has also written to me, and I
to enclose a printed translation of "His
beg Excellency
's communication, which I
trust may prove satisfactory to Your Lordships.
I have, &e:
(Signed). S. G. Bonham
Free Copy.
Colonial Secretar
Seccitary
4
将
Inclosure. No 1 in. Despatch N 155 of 1849. 294
HER MAJESTY'S 8100p Columbine, CпOKREм, Cocпrs-Chisa, 23d October, 1849.
SIR, I have the satisfaction to report to Your Excellency the great success of the expedition you did me the honour to place under my command. Guns, and with crews of 3000 men, have been totally destroyed by fire; and, by the blessing of God, 58 Piratical Vessels, mounting about 1200 without the loss of One life of the Officers and Men under my orders.
After leaving Hongkong on the 8th October, I searched the Harbours of Concock, Sattei, St. John's, Mong, Mamce, Sungyue, and Tienpak, aud proceeded to Now-chou. tion received there, I determined to proceed to Hoi-how in Hainan, inside the shoals, and From informa- through the Junk passage, for I found good pilots, and junks with 14 ft, draught going through, and we drew little more than 15 ft.; moreover Shap-ng-tzai had boasted he would go where English ships dared not follow him. This vaunt I determined to belie. We reached Hoi-how on the 13th, and found the Governor General (Ha) whom I visited at the Capital, in great fear of the Pirates, and with a most friendly feeling to the English nation. Mandarin named Wong to proceed with me, taking with him 8 War Junks, and I gave him He immediately ordered a a passage, to prevent delay, on hoard the Fury. On the 16th we reached Chook-shan, which the Pirate Fleet had left 5 days before, and we found the same sad story of towns destroyed, men murdered, and wonen taken away, that mark his track along the Coast. fell in with one of his look-out Vessels, which having got into shallow water, was overtaken by the On Thursday the 18th we Phlegethon, and destroyed by her boats under the command of Mr Simpson, 1st Officer. On the 19th we reached Hoo-nong, his reported haunt, and found he had gone about 12 miles further, and I feared we had lost him; but that invaluable Officer Mr Daniel R. Caldwell impressed me so strongly with the correctness of his information, that 1 decided on a reconnaissance in the Phlegethon in spite of our shortness of fuel; and proceeding in to Chokeum for that purpose, on Saturday morning the 20th, saw 37 of the fleet under weigh. From 7 until 4 P. M., like terriers at a rathole we hunted for the Channel. Then a l'ilot managed to escape from the shore. I proceeded in Phlegethon, with Fury astern, Columbine in tow, over the Bar 14 ft. (mud), and at 4.40 had the pleasure of finding all the ships warmly engaged. At 5.5 Shap-ng-tsai's Junk blew up with a tremendous crash, and at 5.30 they had ceased firing. Before 8 o'clock 27 were in flames, and the squadron in position to blockade the river. On the 21st October, the Steamers and Boats destroyed 24 more; and nine of them gave Lieutenant George Hancock in a Paddle-box boat of Fury, assisted by Captain ¦ Moore, R.M. and Mr Close, Acting Mate, with Mr Leao, an opportunity of distinguishing himself. Two large Junks turned to bay, to defend the retreat of the rest, but Mr Hancock so handled his bout and her gun, that after an hour and twenty minutes he had beaten them from their guns, and carried them by boarding without loss, and then pursued and destroyed the other 7. boldness in attacking, and correct judgment in managing this affair, are worthy of the highest Mr Hancock's praise; and Captain Moore, R.M., Mr N. N. C. Leao, a Brazilian Lieutenaut, and Mr F. A. Člose, Acting Mate, gave him the greatest assistance. On Monday the 220, I proceeded in Phlegethon and Boats to destroy all that were left. We found that the Mandarins had destroyed 4, and we finished 2 others. The low flat islands at the mouth of the river were at times covered with men deserted from the Junks, yet afraid of the Cochin Chinese, who had assembled in great numbers to attack them. The Ships' boats and small-arm men harassed and destroyed many by constant fire of shell and grape, whilst the Cochin Chinese destroyed and captured the rest. From the best information it appears that the Fleet consisted of 64 Vessels of War, which may be classed as follows:
Class.
1st
2d
3d
4th
Total,
No.
1
GNNA.
42
42
16
28 to 34
480
42
12 to 19
672
5
0
30
64
1224
Crewr. 120
75
40
30
No. of Men.
120
1200
1080
150
3150
Of these, 2 small of the 3d class and 4 of the 4th have escaped with Shap-'ng-tsai, but without much amunition ; and the Mandarin assures me he will shortly destroy him-now an easy prey. He took with him about 400 men,-so that 1700 having been killed, about 1000 more remain to be finished by the Cochin Chinese, who have already sent some prisoners to the Mandarius.
As I was
I shall now proceed to Hongkong with all despatch. I have the pleasure of mentioning the exceeding good conduct of the Officers and Men during these laborious and hazardous operations. Their unanimity, willingness, and cheerfulness have made it a most pleasant service, and no plunder, rapine, or misconduct, has tarnished their honour. Major General Wong, the Mandarin, proved himself a gallant, active, and efficient ally, and I trust his own Government may reward him for his good services. To have Commander Willcox with me, is, I feel, to have success. As a friend and an officer he is unequalled, and his ship is in such good order that I believe there is nothing he could not do. His judgment and gallantry are on an equal footing. Mr Niblett of the Phlegethon has handled his ship in a bold and determined manner, and has given me every assistance. frequently obliged to be in the Steamers, the command of this Sloop has devolved upon Lieutenant J. H. Bridges, Senior Lieutenant, and he conducted her in action on the 20th with much ability. Lieutenant Darnell, Senior of the Fury, in command of her boats, has also rendered good service. Captain Moore of the Hastings's marines has assisted me most materially in command of that body. Lieutenant Hancock, and Mr Chambers, Acting Mate, in command of the respective detachments of Hastings's men, have given me much satisfaction, and Mr Rathbone, Midshipman of the Fury, has brought himself into notice for his zeal. I have also to notice the name of Mr Algernon Woot- i tou, Midshipman, a most promising young Officer, who has acted as my Aide-de-Camp, and been useful on every occasion.
very
I have the honour to enclose a List of the Officers employed in the boats*, who I have no doubt would equally have distinguished themselves if they had had the opportunity.
I enclose a Journal of my Proceedings since leaving Hongkong, together with some Hydrogra- phical Remarks compiled by Mr Thomas Kerr, Acting Master of this sloop, which will, I trust, be of service to commerce and navigation in the Gulf of Tonquin, hitherto so little known.
Mr Kerr, during all this very hazardous navigation, has proved himself a careful and judicious Officer.
Mr D. R. Caldwell of the Police Force has again proved his talent as a linguist, his intimate knowledge of the Chinese character, and the thorough correctness of his information. To him in a great measure our success is to be attributed.
Mr Soames, Master of the Hongkong Company's Steam Vessel Canton, did his work well as Pilot, as far as lie was acquainted with the Coast.-I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant,
JOHN C. DALRYMPLE HAY,-Commander. His Excellency Rear Admiral Sir FRANCIS A. COLLIER, C.B., K.C.H., Commander-in-Chief, &c., &c., &c. * See next page.
:
+
(Document referred to in Commander Hay's Despatch.)
Officers of Her Majesty's Service employed in Boats, with Small Arm Detachments,
C+
and in Phlegethon."
Lieutenants James H. Bridges,
| Columbine
George Hancock,
Hastings
Captain
Thonias C. C. Moore, R. M.,
Hastings
Lieutenant
Philip W. Darnell,
Fury
Edward A. Blackett,
Fury
G. E. S. Pearce Servcold,
Columbine
N. N. C. Lean,
Fury
Slightly wounded in boarding a junk Brazilian Lieutenant
Master
W. H. Williams,
Acting Thomas Kerr, Mates Actg. Eunis Chambers,
F. A. Close, Douglas Walker,
Asst. Surgeon Dugald McEwan,
John Murphy,
2d Lt. R.M. R. G. Halliday,
Passed Clerk J. R. Benifold,
Midshipmen St George Rathborne,
A. K. Ford,
Fury
Columbine
Hastings
Hastings
Columbine
Bitten by a snake, while in com-
mand of small armi men.
Hastings
Fury Hastings Columbine
Fury
Fary
C. Crowdy,
A. G. Wootton,
T. Phillips,
F. A. Handfield,
Columbine
Fury
Columbine
Columbine
G. R. Harvey,
Master's Asst. F. J. Freshfield,
Officers of the Honourable Company's Service.
Phlegethon | 3d Officer T. B. Harton, Phlegethon | Midshipman C. C. Sevenoaks, Officers also hare brought themselves to my notice.
Columbine
Columbine
W. Hussy,
1st Officer
J. Simpson,
2d Officer
H. Barrow,
Phlegethon Phlegethon
The following Petty
David Stanhouse, Captain's Coxo, Columbine George Lawsou, Grs. Mate,
Thos. Flintham, Qr. Mr.,
Fury
Columbine
Sergeant Boltou, R.M.,
Blastings
Thomas Cook, Actg. Bs. Mate, Christopher Brooks, Actg. Bs. Mate, Fury
Columbine
Michael Bresnahan, Grs. Mate,
Hastings
James Warne, Bs. Mate,
Hastings
Henry Bartlett, Captain F. Top,
Fury
Henry Hoar, Captain M. Top,
Hastings
JOHN C. DALRYMPLE HAY,
Continander.
Fury
295
*
よ
(Copy)
Inclosure No.2 in - Despatch No 153 of 1849.
Sir,
Her Majesty's Hoop Columbine, Stoi- how, 27th october, 1849.
I have the honor to enclose
296
Your Excellency a letter addressed to Her Majesty's Phnipotentiary by the Governor General of Hainan, in which he expresses his high sense of the
benefit he and his Government
have received from the services of
Her Majesty's Ships
no
this recasion.
Itis reception of myself, attended by Commander Willcox,
His Excellency
Rear-foniral
For Francis A. Collier, C.B., H. C. H, Commander-in-Chief,
tc.
to_
te.
:
297
Mr Neblett, and other officers,
friendly
was
in the extreme, which he
1
took occasion to show by coming
and
on board the
several miles to meet us, then by visiting us Ships in spite of the unfavourable weather which prevailed._ As I
am
aware that it is the wish
of Her Majesty's Minister that
a
union
between the two Nations
for the suppression of Piracy should exist, I
am sure that-
which
the cordial unanimity has taken place whilst we have struck this great blow will be satisfactory to Your Excellency; and I think that
พ
opening most favourable
to British Interests has taken
plane
on
this occasion in
Hainan and its neighbourhood,
as well as
on the opposite Coast
of Cochin China.
I have te
(Signed) John ( Fabrymple Hay,
Commander.
(True Copy)
Colonial Secretary
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! Copy!
298
Inclosure. No 3 in Gespolch N. 153 of 1849.
Sir.
Her Majesty's Sloop "Columbine", Off Hoi- how, 25th October, 184+9.
I have the honor to announce
to your Excellency the arrival of the British Squadron under
at
my
command
your port - and I have the
gratification to inform Your Excellency that the Fleet of Shap-ng- tsai,
Common enemy
and the
thai, our
enemy of all
mankind, has been annihilated at
Chokeum..
My
#
illustrious Colleague
"Wong ", Commander of the Forces by
sea and land will informe Your
His Excellencey
The Illustrious Ho,
Governor General of Hainan
and Eleven Provinces.
Excellency of the particulars which
relate to this event. _ It it
sufficient for
me to say
that
58 Piratical Vessels, mounting about 1200 Guns, have been
destroyed, and that
Vessels
only
Six Small
remain of this formidable fleet _ That about 1700 of their Crews have been slain by ut, and about 300 only out of 3000 escaped in the six small
small repels
with Shap-ng- of the crews of these Ships driven
tsai: the remainders
are
without resource into the Country perishing from want and the weapons of the Cochin Chinese, and that a
few Guns and
prisonent as
brought
trophies have been
over and are at your
Excellency's disposal. As the
ве
very
on
short, I propose to wait
Your Excelleney
at 8 α. M.
299
tomorrow, if Your Excelleney will grant me the favour of a personal interview; and should Your Excellency
our
deign to honor
shall be
visit, we
Ships with a
ве че
ready
to receive
You at 10 A.M._ I must express the high sense I have of the Services of His Excellency "Wong",
and
I have the honor, te.
(Signed) John (Fabrymple Hay,
Commander.
(Fra Copy)
M
Colmial Secretary.
time of
oun
stay
here mush
300
Inclosure No.4 in Despatch N. 153 of 1819.
Translation of an Official Communication addressed by the Chinese Naral Commander-in-Chief
on the Hainan Station, to His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary.
Ho, by promotion Acting Commodore on the Yái-chau station, now Acting Commander-in-Chief at Hainan, &c., &c., &c., makes a communication.
Whereas the Pirate Chang-slih-wu-tsz' (Shap-'ng-tsai), and others, had, for some time past, been burning and destroying merchant vessels at Pih-hai (Pak-hoi), in the Department of Lien-chau, and all that neighbourhood, I had been apprehensive that he would find his way into the waters of Kiung-chau, and cause trouble therein. I had accordingly consulted the Intendant of the Circuit of Lien-chau and Kiung-chau, and the Prefect and Subprefect of the Department of Kiung-chau, and, with their concurrence, had instructed Hwang, the naval officer temporarily in charge of the Hai-kau (Hoi-hau) station, to put himself at the head of a naval force, and to take up, in addition, some tradiug vessels, and arm them properly. The Intendant, Prefect, Magistrate, and Assistant Magistrate also sent a contingent of troops and militia: and the 28th of the 8th moon (14th Oct.) had been fixed as the day on which they were to go to sea in quest (of the pirates.)
On the afternoon of the 27th (13th Oct.), two steamers and a vessel of war, despatched by Your Excellency, arrived at Hai-kău, the commanders of which being desirous of accompanying the government ships in the pursuit, as soon as I had had an interview with them, I desired Hwang, the Senior Officer on that station, to move on with the force under his command, to ex- terminate and make prisoners.
On the 5th of the 9th moon (20th Oct.), in the barbarian waters of a place known as Hwá- fung* they seized Chin-tsiu-ching and other men, 48 in all, Wang-pei and other women, 8 in all, and 6 children, whom they brought in to the city. I have had the prisoners examined strictly, and they have admitted their share in several acts of piracy. I have, in my turn, forwarded them to the Provincial City, to be tried and disposed of, and have at the same time given positive orders for the pursuit of the pirate-chief, Chang-shih-wu-tsz, insisting upon his apprehension and surrender, that he may be brought to justice. In addition to this, as in duty bound, I make this communication to Your Excellency, of the contents of which I hope you will inform yourself.
A necessary communication, addressed to Mr Bonham, by Royal appointment Envoy of Great Britain, Governor of Hongkong, and Superintendent [of Trade] at the Five Ports.
Táukwang, 29th year, 9th moon, 11th day, (26th October, 1849.) (Received 1st Nov., 1819.)
True Translation,
T. F. WADE, Assistant Chinese Secretary.
* Off the Coast of Cochin China.
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No 100 of 184-9.
Inclosure No If in Gesp:
301
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His
Sir,
Her Majesty's Shop Coleum biné Henghing, P. November, 1809
On
destruction
returning from
from the
of shape.
ug-
Squadron, it becomes
bais
vy duty
to express publicly be your Excellency the high sense I
entertain the services rendered
by
o
Mr Daniel Wichard foldwell,
Sub - Superintendent of Police, who was sent by Your Excellency to
accompany me
a
One thei
fermer
Wii
service.
erou as well
when
khui à - poo's squadron was destroyed,
Vis Cecellene
Honey
Samúel G. Bonham, &quire, C. 13.,
Governor of Mongrang,
Jo
Je
Ye.
Duplicate
Shap-ng. off the entrance, of
Cochin China.
Tonquin River, in
and "Plegathon" against trai's Squadron,
of the _ "Columbine" ", "Fury"," has attended the operations the great success which Lord Palmerston, reporting B.R. Mr. Bonham to
the
3rd November, 1849.
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I have found him next couthful
፡፡
and correct in his intelligence,
and with a judgment hardly capable of being deceived. Tiv intimate nasledge of the tical
dialects has also
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ncte uvisted
and I do not think, without
his services Seould have werreecked.
I have &.
(Signed) Jelen 6. Galrymple Stay-
(A true leopy)
(Signed) Prederich Harvey.
(Tone Copy)
Maine
bolonial secretary.
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No 100 of 1849.
No 5 in Des fr
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No. 101.
Judicial.
RECEITER
JAN 26
1859
My Lord,
Jona Hong
Bnvicts
303
Victoria, Hongkong, 10th November, 1849.
I have the honor to report.
that one Indian and sixteen Chinese Convicts under sentence of Transportation
were ow
Jenan
ing
the 6th
instant conveyed to
in the ship Mexander John
Herr", at the rate of $30 per man,
amounting to £. 106.5.0 for the whole.
The usual, documents.
samei
required for their detention at that place were forwarded by the vessel to the Governor of the Straits '
Settlements.
A Descriptive List. of thire Convicts is herewith enclosed for Your
The Right Honorable
The Carl Grey,
&e
&e,
So
Duplicate.
valuable services rendered
his particular notice the Bonham, bringing under Hay, R. N., to H.E. M? Letter from Commander
вер
in destroying the Chinese Expeditions lately engages
Mr Caldwell to the
Pirates!
1th November, 1879,
www.
Lordship's information.
I have the honor to be;
With the highest respect,
Your Lordship's, 4 Most. Obedient.
Humble Servant Plan
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Descriptive List of 16 Chinese Prisoners under
Alexander John Herr,
Yo.
Jame.
Countie Urs: & thes
Irade.
Crime.
Term of
Date of Height
بر
شکده
1. Lam Arseen, China 21
How Frheum.
26
Hawker. Hawker.
Burglary & Larceny. Burglary & Stabbing.
For Life.
1163
H. April, 184.9 5 3 Large
10 years.
16
#
52
23
6
#
36
#
36
#
27
29
26
#
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9
46
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22
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22
#
3 Seen Arming 4 Kwan lac keet.
5 Pang fat sing 6 Chun Aryow.
Chaong Ahsahm
Leong
Ahsei
2600 Ahsing
10 Cheong Urmung. 11 Lum parm thing
yau
aan ee.
13 Chun Arbook.
14 Lam yung moi 15 Tong Urfat.
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16 Chun Aryun.
Descriptive List
20
127
29
34
*
Boatman.
Boatman. Hawker.
List of an Asiatic or Coloured Prisoner,
Boatman.
Receiving stolen goods.
Shopman.
Piracy attended with violend
15 years. For Life.
Shopman.
Robbery, being armied.
Cooke.
Robbery, being armed.
Stonecutter.
Robbery, being
armed.
15
Boatman.
Piracy.
years. For Life..
Stonecutter.
Piracy
15
Boatman.
Piracy and stabbing.
For Life ;
years.
Shopman.
Piracy
Sirney and stabbing
Siracy and stabbing
For Life.
14
For Life.
14
Piracy an
and stabbing.
Boatmian.
Coolie.
Robbery, being armed.
Peracy and stabbing
Piracy and stabbing
For Life.
For Life..
14
14
th
For Lifer
14
15
5 years.
22d Octr
"Alexander John Herr,
17 -Mogul. Jauer. Mar 30
Madras
Doctor.
Stealing in a dwelling house to value of £5.
10 years. 7.
17 July, 1849 5:14 2 sears.
upon
the head
Sentence of Transportation, shipped per Gardner: Master, for Tenang.
Fransportation. Sentence. #4. In General. Description: Remarks.
95
the April,
15 years. 16th July
15 years.
16th:
th
117
10
10th
14
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Deeply pitted with smallper Sentence of death was recorded
5 2 Dark complexion.
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55 Dark complexion.
5 4 Light complexion
5 34 Wight mark over left eys 55 Dark complexion.
August - 5 42 Light complexion.
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521⁄2 Dark compleixim, moke on the liftterfie
aggiuch this aan, which was afterwards commuted to 10 years' Fransportation by H.E. the Gour: F.G. Bonham, Rog: 3rd May,
1849.
5 34, Slight scar on forehead. Sentence of death was recorded
5 51⁄2 Two moles on back of neck against these 6 men, which was.
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124 Large
Leard on
breast & body. afterwards commated to traxe poatation
531 sear on each temple. for Life by His Excertency the 5 32 Light complexion : Governor, S. G. Bonham, Es9:
smallpox, 5 74 slightly marked with smalijion. 21th August, 1849. 5 | 31⁄2
Light complexion: sear on
uftent
under sentence of Transportation, shipped her
Gardner Master, for Penang.
won upon left of neck
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Sheriff's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th. November, 1849.
(True Copy)
Marine
solonia
at Secretary.
(Signed) Charles Gordon Holdforth.
Theriz
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Yo't
Descriptive. List
J17
Convicts transported to Penang by the Ship. "Alexander John Kerr, on the 6th November,
1849.
Iclosure in Despalch No 101 $/1849.
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Duplicate.
No 102.
Financial.
Victoria, Hongkong,
11849.
Governor Bonhams, 10th November,
to
f 101. Inclosure,
The Earl Grey.
Received
of 17 Convicts to Penang
Reporting transportation
on.
the 6th November, 1849.
307
Victoria, Hongkongy,
th
14th November, 1849.
My
Lord,
I have the honor to
forward to your Lordship copy
of
a
letter from Mr Stuart,
the manager of the oriental Bank at Hongkong, bearing
1
32 مل
reference to
of
my
Деграсиво
th
15th June 1848;
An
I have respectfully to request
that your Lordship will be pleased to furnish
instructions
such
subject,
as
may
on
me with
the
selm fit and
The Right Honorabl The Earl Grey,
to
Ac.
:
308
proper, to enable
na
to
Communicate the same to
the Manger of the oriental
Мажде
Bank here...
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect, Your Lordship't, mosh obedient
Humble Servant,
19bitume
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Copy)
Sir,
Oriental Bank,
Wonghong, 1/8th Vovember: 18y
Hougheng.
6.
Ove the 6th
1849.
had the houer une, 1848 I
to address
you
on the subject of the Bank Notes issued by this Establishment submitting for the favriable
of this Excellency
sideration
the Governor a proposition that
thee
should be received
in payment of Monts Ve
under such
двох
the
out
vity of Government satisfactory to Nie
might be so Excellency.
The Honorable
Majer W. Caine.
Colonial Secretary,
Hongkong
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で
Understanding that the
matter was referred by His Excellency to Sord Grey
Duplicate. No 163.
Legislative
should be glad
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any reply
the
Serdship.
been received from His
subject has yet
& I have, yo
[ Signed) Charles J. X. Stuart .
Hanager
(True Copy!
Colonial Secretary.
Sos /@ H.
· My Food,
309
Victoria, Wongheigh
16th November, 1849.
I have the hover- to enclose for Your Seedship's information copy of correspondence. that has passed between the late Naval Commander in chief
of
..
myself telative to the sale Munitions of war
Colony, from
war at this
which
Your
Serdship will perceive that
Jav
opinion it could be entirely useless le attempt to prohibit their import, so long.
av
they
be legally exported.
The Right Woverable
The Earl Grey,
Ye,
Je,
Jo.
from Great Britain.
The question of importation of Five into the Forts of referred for
-
ar
China
the
the consideration
and orders of Viscount Galmerstuive by my predecesser ;
and Senclose N.5. Copy of His Fordship's Instructions.
806
te myself, with an enclosure 36
to
from
Her Majesty's advocate
General on the su
So long
subject,
British
Merchants and those of any
other nation have a right to
A
import
Five arms and
-
itions of war into China.
for sale, it would be useless
to pase
their
Ordinance
for bidding.
import into Hongtong-
mactment would only
Such an mactament
have the effect of inducing
310
Speculators these articles, to
i
Consign theme to Whampoar any of the five open Verto,
or
where it would seem
have
UC
power of interference
to prevent their Sport, and would therefore be
dead
tetter for all practical purposes.
I have the honor to be,
With the highest Cspect,
PS.
Your Sordships,
Most Obedient
Stumble Servant,
++
20th November, 1849.
Since writing the
above I observe from the public Papers that the following,
:
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132
Cannon have been exported. from Liverpool to shanghae.
Ime 29. Mandarin -40 Iron Cannons.
July 10. Monarch - 2120 and 11
August air
11 Carriages
ust 4. Ame aux fame = 56 Iron Commons.
August H.
195
Copy /
14
311
Hastings at Hongtring
8th October, 184G.
Siri
It
If bein
being generally
reported that within the last few days, many Guns
Guns and .
Shot have been sold by the
Shoptropers in the Town of
Victoria, and
ove
that
Live shells and Mockets are
publicly
and as
it is
nore
for sale; than probable
November, 1849.
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that. Wiese Munitions of War
ore.
purchased for unteux fuel purpose,
aus für
the
arming of Sivatical vessels, I beg to cast the attention
call
of your Excellency to the
His Excellency
A. G. Bonham, és qoo l. 13.
Geverna of
Honghong
[.Copy] Nr. 103.
312
ciranastane
I
I cannot fire
to
Excelimey,
offer any opinion to your contime.
have the sale
مرده
these articles is to
be checked, but I merely point
out the
subject
as deserving of
Your Exulteney's consideration,
at a time when Her
Naval Forces
Her Maje
Hajesty's
are called upor
to make strenuous efforts to suppress the unusual degree of
daring
which the Pirates in
this neighbourhood hawe lately
attained.
I have to.
(Signed) J. A. Collier.
Rear Admiral and
nder. chief.
[True Copy)
Maine
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Colonial Secretary,
Sir,
Victoria, Houghong,
13th October, 1849.
I have the houver to
acknowledge the leceipt of your Excellencys. Despatch of the 8th instant, telative to the sale of =
guns and shot in the Jowie Victoria, and to the public
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ce-
sale. of for
live shells and Cockets, which
it is inferred
are
e purchased
for unlawful purposes and for
the
a
Whis Excellency.
· piratical tessels. Whilst thanking Your
Rear Admiral
Sir Francis A. Collier, C. 13., V. 6. St.
Commander-in-Chief.
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2.
Excellency for calling my
attentive
to this circumstance, I beg to
observe that
of war
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40
long
Ma
munition
tions
allowed to be exported
from Englund, it is not at present
in my power
in
to obook
any way
the sale of these articles in this Colony; and that,
were
and that, if an Orirnance passed prohibiting their import, the good results that might be anticipates from -enactment of this nature would
be lost.
id
the Pirates con Ed easily
be supplied at Cow leon, tunsing me
ཊ • • ✖
at Canton, into whiche
places it would be
impossible to
prevent their import.
> I beg to enclose for tour Excellency's information, lify of
cation from
official
195
the Superintendent of Police, showing
the result of his
inquiries
313
to
the quantity of munitions of
avar
sale in the stores of -
for Victoria.
As regards the question
generally of the importation of
by British Subjects
Lire
a
into China, Itransmite here=
with a Copy of Visomut tahmenstag reply to a reference which Sir- folm Davis made to Alis Serdstrip on the subject. Your
Excellency will porecive, for the
stated by Discount Talmerston,
that it would be useless to prohibit
· British subjects from importing five-a
into China, and that
it is impossible for the Chines
authorities themselves to
prohibit such importation.
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I have, te,
[Signed ] A. G. Bonham.
[True Copy) Maine
Colonial Secretary.
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No 103 / 1849.
Inclosure No 1 in Despi
"
Copy
8° 16.
Sir,
315
Volice Department, Victoria,
11th October, 1847.
I have the hover to
Report to you for the information of His Excellency the Governor, that I have satisfactivity aveertained that at the present
time there.
are
any live
not any
shells or rockets for sale or Store in Hongt
Hongting.
Hess? Bowra Humphreyer.
have a few shrapnell shell,
and a for have
have grenades not loaded, intended for Einglish
vessels
the Court. There
is but a small quantity of
The Humble : Major baine,
Colonial Secretary.
publicly
Munitions of
pointing out that Governor Bonham Francis Collier to
Rear Admiral Sir
Jale
in
8
war are
announced for
the
6 Colony.
th
betober,
1849.
AMBE
316
Encoplan made Gunpowder at present in the Colony and
that chiefly of a fine description
in Canisters.
few moke to
-
There
manufacture - not readily sold.
kannen
>>
OV
I present muoti
enquired after by the Chinese
but there
obtained.
(...
are
few.
to be
I have, &c.
(Signed) Charles May,
Superintendent of Police .
(Tone Copy)
[olonial secretary.
Wastings at Houghing. 18 B. Balober, 1879.
13
(Copy/
Sir.
Excellency's
Sotter
lo
In reply to Your
کریم
this date, . 5. 13, stating that
it is not in Your Excellency s
power to check the sale Guns and Munitions
کره
of Mar
in this Colony, I have
be express my regret. subject; us, if
the
گردد.
such articles cannot be
enly
the
vale
+
of
-restricted here, it is more thome
probable that the chinesestimates
who have lately incurred a
severe.
His Excellency
loss, and
punis
ishment,
S. G. Bonham, Eq‰o, 6.13.
Governer of
Hongkong?
will very
to become
ouce
be in
position formidable,
to the Frade of Houghongs
I have to
(Signed) I. &. bollier; "
Rear-Admiral and
Commander in-
chief: )
(Ime Copy) Maine (olonial Secretary.
Copy
N? 15.
Sit
Vereign office.
317
February 24. 18.48.
With reference to Fir- John Davis's despatch. 8206
of the 30 of Greember, requesting instructions to request made
}
by swaying,
that the
importation of English toms into the torte of China should be prohibited,
I have to state to
it would be of..
you
Jou
that
to issue
an order prohibiting British Subjects from importing Five Arms inte behina for sale,
because if there
if
is
e
down and
for such things in Whina, that
dimand would still be
S. G. Bonham, Esquire.
fe,
fe.
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318
supplied by the ships Imerchants
of other Countries.
heying
The object contemplated by
could only be effected by
the Chinese Authorities themselves
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proteibiting generally the importation of Five tenues by the Merchants of any other country but Her Majesty's Advocate foural
of opinion, the enclosed topy of areport which I have received from
as you will see
by
the subject, that the Chinese Government commot de so
convistently with the stipulations the Treaties, by which it is
of
bound.
Jam G.
(Signed) Pulmerston-
(Tone Copy!
(Signed) Prederick Harvey
(True Copy) Blaine
Colmcial secretares
Copy1
34
My Lord,
Dector's Commene.
теб
February 230 18/48.
I am honoured with
Your Lordship's Commands,
in Mr Addington's the SP? Just: stating
signified
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letler
theat be
was directed to transmit the accompanying
Volume
caidaining.
the Treaties cxisting
between China & Great 13ritain,
France, and the United States,
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also to transmit
it a Despatche from Her Majesty's Whenipotenting in China, respecting the wish
of
liary
the Chinese Hique Commissiondi
Live
that the Importation
Lion of
The Right Honorable,
The Niscount Falmerston, G.M.B.
&c.
Yo
fo.
Arms into china should be
prohibited; and do
I that
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Ishould consider this matter-
with
the tex
Ceference to the abovementione Treaties, and le report le tour- Lordship, at my carliest convenience, my opinion whether the chinese. Government, consistently with
engagements to Foreign Towers, could prohibit the importation
its
aruus into china.
of Five
Fire ano
In obedience to your- Tidship's commands, I howe
considered this matter with Reference to the several Treaties entured into by China with Great 13rilain, the Miter states and France, and have the
to
hiner to report
Heat. Jam
that the Chinese
of opinion. Government cannot, consistently
>
i
with its
the
319
engagements, perhibit importation Five Arms
%
into China by the subjects of
those states.
In the Sariff of Duties
to the Treaty with treat Britain in 1842 ( Fage 15 of the
printed Buck) and also in that
Supplementary
annexed to thee.
super
Treaty of 1843, (Page 47) it is powvided that an ad valorem duty of 5 per cent shall be.
levied
the
importations of
all' articles not
and, as
C
a led;
véra
Fire Arms are not
amongst the
دیکھ
merated
articles, it should seem to
follow that they may
be
imported on payment of the ad valorem duty, especially
direct prohibition
there is no direct
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of them
AW
there is
of opium.
The Stipulations of the Treaty with the thuilée states and the Tariff annexed thereto, tend to corroborate this view of
the
Cave
4th
By the Vt arbole (p. by fit reed "That at each of the agreed "Vive ports, Citizens of the thuiled States Camfully engaged
in
" Commerce shall be permitter himport from their own ex- "any other Ports, into China.
" and sell there, and surchase
"Therein, and export to their
own, or any
other torts, all..
of Merchandize, of which "the Importation, or Exportation not prohibited by this Treaty
is
the duties thereon which
praying
are prescribed by the Tariff.
~ .
=
Duplicate.
intendent of Police, Report by the Super=
320
" herein before established und other charges whatsoever," aur in the Tariff (page 87/
regards
led articles,
it is mentioned that alt articles which it has not been
practicable de ammerate, therein
to be charged
Grecifically
ne
Puty of 5 por Cout, aué à e valorem. The Treaty with Finner
(Fage 104) and the Javity aunèzer therole (Page 132) are very nearly
to the
C.
effect.
I have only further to observe that the VIIIth Article of the supplementary Irealy ur the Great Britain (Inge 27) Stipulates Bat any
privileges
conceded
by China to other nations. shall be enjoyed by British
Subjects.
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1
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I have the hover,
to
Je
Jo
(Signed) J. Dodson.
(True Copy)
(Signed) Frederick Haway
(Ime Copy).
Maine Colonial Secretary.
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No. 104. Financial,
Johand 128 for information 30 for 50
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original
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RECEIVE
JAN23
1850
My Lord,
322
Victoria, Hongkong,
19th November, 1849.
I have the honor to enclose.
for Your Lordship's information, list of Crown Lands which were,
th
put up
: to public auction on the 5th October lack.
It will be observed that for
twelve lots there were no bidders, and that
on
tive lots
more than
an advance was anade
averaging
than one hundred per cost: on the upset price The Revenue- derivable from the
Cots sold is £. 1974 84 1. per
£.197
The Right Honorable The Earl Grey,
&o,
&e
&e.
annum.
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respoóm
Your Lordship's,
Most. Obedient,
Humble Servant,
Mtand
Dripliente.
22nd Febuary
by British Subjects.
relative to the importation of fore-arms into China
Advocate General, Opinion of Her Majesty.
1848.
No 103 of 18wy.
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My Lord,
RECEIVED
JAN 26
324
Victoria, Hongkong,
C. 21th November, 1849.
I have the honor to inform
Your Lordship that I have had occasion to assert. the inviolability of this territory, and our claim to exclusive jurisdiction
in
this island, in a corre
correspondence with once Sic, extending at intervals
the Commissioner isci, exte
over several months; and I am happy
to be able to state that in his last
ommunication
on this subjects, dated 12th instant, he informs me that,
"finding, that according to Treaty,
to Hongkon
criminals escaping to
be formally
Chinese
must
demanded of the British
authorities, he had written to the Civil
The Right Honorable
The Earl Grey,
So,
&je,
So
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and Military authorities of the District; fiw the immediatis, vicinity of Thongkong, the Magistrate of which had beer, as Elfour Lordship will see, below, complained
of by me) ; cujoining abide by the Treaty.
2.
them. henceforth to
"
I had had occasion in a _
correspondence, upon the suppression of piracy in general, and in particular
1
the capture of a notorious pirate, principal in the murder of Captain Da Costa, Nayal Engineers,
and Lieutenant-
seemed
Dwyer, beylon Rifles, committed, in March, to remarle, upon an expression of the Commissimer's which toonud to me indicative of ignorance or dinegard.
To the third or fourth of our right. repetition of my demand for the above criminal, he replied,, "that when taken, he should. assuredly suffer the extrême- panaity of the law, that an example....
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3 325
might be made of him. " I immediately quoted to him the language of the
Treaties with
reference-
to
our
tenure
of
the Island, and reminded him that
eur
Government, had always duly attended to the formal requisitions of that. of Chind for criminals taking refuge here . He rejoined however that
the criminal in
AVC- AVere-
- question being a Chines
bound to deliver him up,
our
even
if we took him prisoner : upon which, I explained to him at length= indisputable right, to try any person of any nation, here residing or found, if quilly of any breach of our law at the time of his residence:
3.
"Finding
me thus tenacious of
my point, he endeavoured to close the correspondence by declaring that the punishment of a robber and murderer
object; desirable in
seemed to him an
3265
itself, imcospectively of the territory
in
which he might be taken; but that, a
we
ތ
wc- claimed to try all persons committing offences here, henceforward, should any " people coming from the vicinity of Hongkong create disturbance, thirsin, be should not be so officious
he
so officious as to interfore..
in other words, that he should not
attend to future applications.
4.
At this juncture,
ncture, some-
police
was
been.
here,
:
from the District of which Hongkong
riginally a part, having from found here with warrants from their Magistrate for the arrest of persons residing charged, with certain offences
offences committed. within this jurisdiction, in replying to
rejoinder, I first remarked that:
misunderstood. z ve ey
his last
he had evidently
that : the Treaty obliged, our tivo nations
to a mutual surrender criminals,
demanded; that this stipulation
formally
19th November, 1849.
Victoria, Hongkong,
+
had been alwarts observed. us, and
be by
by
always would be ; and. I trusted would. the Chinese Government as well; and I then brought to his notice the inegular proceeding of the Police in the employ of his subordinate. In his reply he abundoned the previous discussion,
on
with reference to the criminal. Chinose demanded as a British subject, and attempted, to exonerate the Magistrate of blame ., in his violation of our right, the ground that his object in endeavouring to seize the parties named in the warrants, was the punishment of crime, and the consiquent, wellbeing of both
nations.
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I thought. it well to remind. him of the case of a block from the same. District, who attempted to lovy
taxes here in 1844, and was detained.
by Mr. Davis, until. Hoying had
-written to the local authorities that
British possessions,
"Hongkong
Avas a
had-
✓ right to go
reported to
and that no one. there to levy taxes, 800. "
6.
The above case, was
Ford. Stanley by Mr. Davis, whose -
were
measures and correspondence) approved by This Lordship in Despatch No. 98 of 30th March, 1845.
I further informed Six, to prevents mistakes, that any one attempting to of a foreign
execute here the warrant
to
authority, no matter of what : nation, would be surely punished, according :the circumstances of the assault proved- against him . This produced the reply which I have quoted. to Your Lordship at the commencement of this Despatch,
I consider it satisfactory, admission of the inviolability of our I have thought it prudent to
and as-
territny,
as an
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327
abstain for the present from further discussion upon the other part of our exclusive right.
&
Any attempt=
on the side of the
Chinese to exercise-
authority.
be
here would.
very easily resisted, and. I have little fear of the repetition of what in this
instance, occasioned.
9.
my complaint.
The other is a
matter, as it is
it is easy
easy
ar more, de
far
difficult.
to defeat our application
for the person of a native criminal escaping from this jurisdiction.
10.
The murderer demanded.
by
Inc)
in this case, proved to be the chief of a formidable pirate squadron lately annihilated by
(by Her Majesty's Ships
2
","
"Fury and Columbine ", as Your Lordship will have learned from any Despatch
No. 100 of the 3rd instant . He stands
charged, with
numerous
acts of piracy
and. violence-, committed in China and
8
on the
seas, for
for many years past. If
& probability
seized in China, he will in all- be summarily exccuted ; and. we.
shall
vither hear nothing of his capture or
deather, ove
Ave
ist in our
if we persist
our in
inquiries
shall be told that he was killed in
resisting lawful authority, or
or some
other
:subterfuge - will be employed, to prevents
the necessity of surrendering
d.
Chinese
to a foreign power; which is the construction that would be doubtless put by this -people- at large upon this act of their officers, should they fulfil the heaty stipulation in this respect .
11.
I have therefore deemed it wise to withhold, for the present, from further agitation of this question, and,
very fitting opportunity
unless
some
occurs, or allusion is made to this
individual. by the Chinese Government, I shall not renew - my demand for
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328
his person,
as I am satisfied_ that such application would be of no avail, and I should be confined to a reiteration
of all my arguments already on accord, to no purpose .
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respects,
Your Lordships,
Most. Obedient,
Humble Servant, Mtum
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Whether in returning
[
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Filmerton b-
except used wo imply that he had test, & Fout the enffered Ur Bonham, I have claimed the right as a general one exits according rules of international inw
Mr. Merivale
G. 207
on
to the
I have had an interview with Mr. Addington outhies outject
as directed; and I learn that the 8.0. framed then Letter upon
a tespeléh from Gov. Bonham
similar to this and after
a carel reference to the Treaty.
I send hereint the Treaty which M. Addington has lent me, & at
will see the article which
P. 22 you
Equilater." question concerning the restoration of persons who have
Governon Bonham 21th November, 184-9
Victoria, Hongkong,
The Earl
Stating
Received
A°105.
Grey.
have resulted in the
circumstances which
the Chinese
of Houghing..
inviolability of
recognition by High Commissioner of
the
the territory
Committed offences against their over Comment. There is no provision in the Treaty for the Surrender of a Chinese cubject, amenable to Colonial purisdiction for.
Offence committed in Hong Kory
or docchera whe
May
have escaped to China, non for the surrender gane Englishmen under similar cirées.
W tours
I am sony
AB: 30/1/50
I did not sen some houthe
by stating in my primer minste that I had
Examined the treaty when just i read the desfalt, salined myself that for? Bonham use much a misatfuchension - the treaty and Backwood dreurs Miges the Chinese is samenen Englite
Menders, but certainly not Chinese officer, an Sovi
Sov: now ham seems to imagine.
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330
No 163.
8. Feb750.
I have received your
despatch y the 21 Nov. 10
105 reporting the result
of a discusion in which
have been
you have
sugaged
with the Chinese
Commission Sie on
The subject y
the
muistability of the
Tevictory of Hong Kong,
And I have to express черев
&
to you my satisfaction at the course which you have pursued in afpecting
the undoubted rights of Great Britain in and
wer that bland.
I pied
That Viscount Palmerston
га
has steady addcaped a despatch to
on upon
you
the further question you have raised as to
the right of the Gorty
to demand
grounds in jutrich I 331
of this suzish, buthe differ from you in the your
Bant Meu Malthe
realize
to which you
reps appears to contain
черо
Construction of that part
of the Treaty with Chica
which relates to the
surender y
Offenders
deling Methiose against the den, and as
prisions for the
from the Chinese Authorities
Autrichies
1
Deilist
Chinese
Marley, hal home
hot home for the
the surrender of a
Subject who had readited
hunsel.
amenable to the
the Cotencial
prisdiction of the
to offfeures committed in Hory Korynebactere
tribunal, and who had
excaped to China. It
is theresse unnecessary
for
we
to enter usion
any rexplanation ite
have only to refer youto
that despatch fu y
daling witten of quisone Chinese spation
in
any future
case akit may arise
We presenting
cne
yon kane
19 have
mentioned.
13
106.
Financial
And? 2 Feb 1850, N160 Copy to hand B. pr'information
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Land:
332
Victoria, Honghongs
23rd November, 1849.
My Serd
The
privilege which,
was granted by my Predevesser to Chinese named "Acqui" for holding a Martiet for the pered
of five years
CH
Marine Set
to the Westicard of Victoria,
}
Knower the "Wester Marbot,
having expired
the 31st.
October last, Icaused the same
to be put up to Public Auction
similar term of five
for
a
years
rencing from
pt instant; and have
The Right Honorable The Earl Grey,
Yo
Cark
...
Yo
the
the
hener to report to Your Seurship that it was purchased by Mr. Garge Ouddell, at the late of 255 Gellars
mantle,
payable monthly and in
advance, which will.
"
Jum
Myield of £ 6357% 16.8. per
to the Revenue of
the Colony, being
increase
of I. 363.10.0, over the former
Rental.
A Leave
tation out
Mr Duddell, in which it stipulated that at the
by
is
expiration
thereen,
the
above period,
the market with the Buildings
arc
to revert to the
Government. Mr. Guddell
lso bound in the sume
of 2,000-Gollars, with tivo-
•
Suretics, for
the due payment
1
333
of the Rental into the folenial Treasury, and the performance of the other covenants set I forth " in the Sense.
I have the honor to ber With the highest respect,
Your Seedship's,
Most Obedient.
Henneble Servant,
Batum
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My apprnal of
прри
the
lease, for the terene of five
Governor Bonham, 23 November, 184.9. Victoria, Hongkong,
to
The Earl Grey.
Received
No 106.
Reporting lease
the
George Buddell, for
"Western Market" to Mr
a
1th November, 1849.
commencing from the period of five years,
Vi
Men Cllist
d
appeare
the avargnesh? Should the Deep. also be sent for the reforme lichnowledge
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26 Jan. 12
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My Lord,
TRECEIVED
JANSO 1859
336
Victoria, Hongkong,
26th November, 1849.
With reference to my Despatch
rd.
No 94 of the 25th October, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the following Despatches, on the 24th instant. Nov 139 @ 143, the lack of 15th September
1849.
Circular of 12th August, 1849. Circular of 31th
enclosing
2. copies of Blank Returns for the Blue- Book of 1849.
And Duplicate Despatch Military. Ho
10 of 18th August, 1849.
The Right Honorable
The Earl Grey,
so,
so
I have the honor to be
дать пр
Tut by?
26 Jan 11
"With the highest respect,
Your Lordships,
Most Obedient,
Humble Servant.
Metam
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No. 108. Civil.
My Lord.
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RECEN
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338
: Victoria, Hongkong, 28th November, 1849.
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In my Despatch No 86 the 7th September, I had the honor to report to Your Lordship the_ arrangements which I had made by transferring Mr. Lend from the __ Harbour Master's Department to that of the Registrar General; but unfortunately since then that officer's health. has gradually declined to such an extent, that I have deemed it only just, supported by the recommendation of the present and late Colonial Surgeons,
to grant him, with the advice of the Coxxecutive Council, leave of absence from
to
The Right Honorable
The Earl Grey,
&c.,
se!
Victoria,
Hongkong,
Governor Bonhame,
26th November, 184-9.
to
The Earl
Received_
$ 107.
Grey.
Despatches to No 143. of
Acknowledging receipt of
15
4 September, 184.9.
the Colo
Colony for a period of 12 months, commencing from the date of his
embarkation on this de
dayy.
In paragraph 13 of my
-th
Despatch "Separate", of the 27 December, 1848, I brought Mr Lena's Your Lordship's favourable
name to
-notice, and I beg
that, in
to
Now recommend.
йce
in consideration of his health having been destroyed in the performan of his duties, should it continue such as to prevent his rejoining his present appointment, Your Lordship will be pleased to take his
case into
your
the
compassionate, consideration . I really believe that he is, after ten years' -service, entirely dependant Government for the means of support =
Mr. Lena has received.
salary at the rate of £300 per annur up to the present-date-inclusive, as
No. 21.
J
stated in the enclosed. certificate from
Colonial Treasurer:
I have the honor to be,
339
the
With the highest respect,
Your Lordships,
Most Obedient.
Humble Servant,
Matam
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achnowledge the weight of
Joren Despatch a 100 of
the 20 how lush, and under
the Circumesterres stated
дз
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I have to Con
Convey
to you my appecial of the
leave of absence for tuche
Mouths which you
вале
to Mer Lena To
outed to Mer
grantial
Jnoceed to
this
Coumbry.
for the recovery of his health. Share
Governor Bonham,
28th November, 1849.
The
top
1108.
Curl
Grey
2 Inclosures.
Received
to proceed to England Lona, on sick certificate, of absence granted to han
Reporting 12 month's leave
mending
and recommen
this
favourable consideration.
officer to His Lordship's
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Houghing, Sept. 26 1849.
In the
year 1847. Mr Sena the Assistant Harbour Master
became most alarmingly affected with Rheumatie Sever. The issue of this attack chronie enlargement of the
out of the joints, continued pain . By
Colonial
the advice
of the then bolenint Surgeon, D
to
Young, Mr. Sena proceeded England, whence he returned
in
February 1848, his health
being entirely restore e . After
ter
his tetume to
ho was able to fulph
Haughing, be
the duties
of his office with his
usual efficimey ;
good
and his boutth until the Typhoon
the night
which occurred on
of
the 37th August, 1848. In the discharge of his office, directing such operations him
as seeived to
requisite for saving life- and property during
érable store, he
this
war
exposed to its entire violence.
On the three suceceding days,
in
the
rvas
necessary routine of duty,
ed, in
exposed,
open bout
of
to the several vicissitiides
rain cold and sun. The result
VVAI
recurrence with all it's
his former disease,
violence of his
long
great suffering. After
of unavailing treat
of hist
ment, by the advice
medical attendant he proceeded to Amey and subsequently to
the Straits
6%;
Malacca. Ha
returned to Houghing, having
1
no
342
derived ne benefit from those trips. We subsequently wont to Whampoa, to relieve the fuvular
where be renamed four
ut,
Agent,
months. On his return hie
symptoms became greatly
the submitted
aggravated. Whe
himself again to medical
treatment. At this time there
existed, besides
almost entire
the left side.
lop of power from disorganization of the " joints, subacute in
inflammation
of
collection
sae, in
inflam
the pericardimu, and a "othe age and pretio natural very large
of fluid within that impeding the action of the heart and producing painful dyspnoca. There
alarming symptomes muxpectedly relieved by
w were
the
to
343
treatment, and progressive improvement was indicated for several days. Within the
last week however, increased
debility has supervener and-
tendency to relapse into the dangerous has shown itself.
state indicated above
We the undersigned
having carefully reviewed
the
cerce
stances detailed
in this certificate
rtificate in referens
to Mr. Senci's health, and
having diligently investigated the present character and progress of his disease, stimply
reec
and that twelve
munth's leave of absences shall be granted to him, that he may once more odlum to England, with the view
view of recruiting his
•
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8
$
health,
being without such a change, his
convinced that
disease will proveed to a fatal
issue.
(Signed) William Merrisen, Colenial Surgeon. Voter Youngs
"/
late Colonial Surgeon.
/ True Copy
Colonial Secretary
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Colminl Treasury Melonu Hongkong.
November the 27th: 1849
hercly
Artify that Mr.
Alexander Lend), late Meistant Harbour Master, & now blesk in the Registrar General's Department has received Salary at the rate of £ 301 /. Threchundred Pounds Sterling ) per annum, to the tiventy eighth day of November 1849 niclusive, and to nor later period, Jusome sex having been
Sax deducted therefrom.
Digned in triplicate
Colmial Treasurer.
+
Medical Certificate by
Duplicate.
No 109.
Financial.
RECEN
JAN 26
1800
My Lord,
list of nine
d
sold
345
Victoria, Hongkong, 28th November, 1849.
I have the hover to forward.
nine lots of land which were yesterday by public auction/
From this paper Your Lordship will observe that the allotments in
£.29. 6-10,
question were knocked down at £.
advance of 52 1⁄2 per cent over
being.
an a
the upset price of £. 19.
#
4.3.
I have the honor to be
With the highest respect,
Your Lordships,
Most. Obedient,
Humble Servant,
Lplum
The Right Honorable,
The Earl
&e,
Grey
&o,
Se
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for
Mer Ellist
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(Signed) Cha Siteer@leverly.
Anveyor Genevalt.
Colonial Sceretury.
346
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Executive.
And. 29 Aug/50 N.14.
03
RECEIVED
JANGO 4:30
My Lord.
347
Victoria, Hongkong,
28th November, 1849.
In Despatches frau
Mis Office N. 48 of 12 May, 1846, und N. 52 of 7th. May. 1847, icference has been made to
the disposal of European Convicts sentenced to transportation by the Supreme Court of the
d
Colorry, and
Your Lordship's instructions in Despatch 807
of 3122 July, 1846, scom
direct that
lo
save Seconda
Secondary
punishment, be substituted for Transportation, and inform
The Right Honorable The Earl Grey,
Jc.
Je.
:
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·
me
Her
that: Sam not authorized to transmit Calferits of this description to any of Majesty's Colonies. On the 26th. Instant, one James Johur
20
Burke
wasI
convicted before
the admiralty Court, of.. Saveeny, and Sentenced to 15 Years transportation; I would therefore respectfully request to be informed of the
which I am to carry
in vv
out this and similar
Sentences passed Europeans. Should Your Sendshipe
be
· pleased to direct that
of this
Criminals.
this description
the Colony,
be not sent out of then I would venture to ask whether Your Sordaliip
would consider the ends
of
343
Justice salizéied by my
commuting the Sentence passed on James John
Burke to imprisonment.
for It years, which in this
climate would be
severe
a punishment as I think could reasonably be inflicted,
and I am not
axy
other that could be
substituted.
of
I have the hover to be,
With the highest respect,
Your Lordship's .
Most Obedient
Humble Servant,
Stum
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See the Minutes on Sir I Davis Desse hud. Day/leb
the accompanying
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that consider the total wount of any proper means
which I have forgot the whole sept. __ I am inclined to think This is wasther of the papers which I have found among a number of popotong of gre
prolonged imprisonment-
on
Europeans at Hong Kong, &
to be there senteneed to tranfur. the of infleitt.
small number of whites likely
tatt it will be the best course, to allow such convicts to be
Just to V. F's Lunch
mit will be necessary to ascertain whether there is hay thing
But before this is finally determined
the past
spondence which may make it objectionable (Gang
Victoria, Hongkong,
Governor Bonham.
The Eato
Received.
N70.
European Convicts sentenced to Transportation, and
submitting for decision the Case of
Applying for instructions
one
James John
Burke, lately sentenced by the Admiralty court to 15 years' transportation.
Grey.
28th November, 1849.
this stick. At Page 160. par: 17 of "Couvret
Supers July 1849
Graff verewith
for is Davison objects to the reception of convicts.
from other Colonies,- as he also does in a previous Despater. Sage 88 - "Convict Paper. May 1848 Sur section was informed 22 April 1848) that the practice of sending Convicte 5% Land pom Other Colonies had been almost entirely discontinued, - a few military Convicte from the east being the exception,
and, - Earl Grey's scoparth to the Governor of Hong Kong 81th July 1846. M.7 states that with regard to European Convicts the Governors proposition to send them to dan Dewer's land could not be acceded to.
Annexes is a short brem? respecting convict sent from the Colories to Van so brud.
Lood pay.
K. a.
Things with show with the anapor hand, how the came
then, I
2/6/20
K/W: stands and A Hong Kong.
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637. H. K.
Governor Birbams
N797
915 9: 9:
Forwarded by
1850
Mr. Ellist W. Augh the
Mr Hawes Carl Grop
Grey 29
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to
351
Downing St. 29 Qust 1850
With reference
your deepeatch No 110 of the 20th of November last, I
have the honor to
inform you best, in absence of the
Ala
any
means of making
then patio factory
I
arrangement,
approve
of
P
of your proposal to
the sentence of
commute
James Joler Burke, who
Avas
condemneds
to 15
years Transportation, to "Your years Imprison = "ment at Hong Kong.
I have Ir
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352
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353
5118.
Military.
Victoria, Houghingsi
28th November, 1849.
My
I have the honor to
c... 4
+ enclose for Your Sordship's -
information, a
list of four-
Military Prisoners who have been sentenced to Transportation by Courts Martial, and to state that since their conviction cue
sentence opportunity has offered for sending theme to Van Diemen's Land, and only to the Cape of Good Hope,
ace
on which occasion the Commander
of the Vessel declined to receive
The Right Honorable,
The Carl Grey,
to,
2.
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3.
2.
theme.
From the List Your Scrdship will observe that Prisoners James Whitlow and
Milliane Vance
were sentence
years transportation
to Seven of
as 9th
so far back on the of the May, 1848, being upwards of eighteen months and considering,
ago;
the imprisonment
the length of the
they
have
undergone,
and the
nature of that imprisonment
in
this climate, I should, under
circe
lances, have
warranted
ordinary considered myself
ammunting their respective
Sentences to tive
year!
imprisonment, but
C.
have been sentenced by
Court Martial and
they
Military
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Prisoners, I think it preferable
lo
bring their
to the notice
of Your Surdship, that I may
be instructed how to deal with them.
3. I cannot well receive.
mication
reply to this before the 20th April, 1850, which time these tive prismen will have undergone twenty- three months' close imprison = ment, and perhaps, under- these circumstances, Your Sirdship may be pleased to
direct their release, when opportunity offers for sending, them home. It would be
the
obviously impolitic to let them loose in the Colony fact of their being released.
aos
4
and at
at large might be an
inducement to the soldiers
stationed here to commit
the crime for which they
are
under sentence.
With respect to the
other tive Frisoners, they
will be sent to Vou Diemen's
100
کره
Weir
Land in puess sentence, if opportunity offers,
but ev
even
Vessel for
should there be a
for the
which Cape,
by no
is
probable, I
shall, until I hear from Your Lordship, detain them
in Custody.
کی
I beg to enclove Copy
of a
Petition from
the two first
named Prismers, praying
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that
Free Farden
be
may
granted there; also copies,
of the sentences of the Court's Martial, in
in pursuance of which these your Convicts- confinement.
arc
I have the honor to be,
With the highest expect,
Your Swdships,
Most Obedicut
Humble servent,
し
356
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4 Inclosures
Dup: N. 111.
The Eart Grey.
Governor Bonham,
28th November, 1849.
Victorias, Hongrong,
Received
under Sentence of Military Convicts Cases of 4 Europe an
Lordship's notice the
Bringing under tis
in
confinement in the Transportation, now
Jail.
:
riptive
at present Confined
List of Pour Military prise
Military prisoners under sentence of Fransportation Majesty's Criminal prison at Victoria, Hongkong,
Name
So..
Regiment
Date
Gute of Pale of sentence Term of
Date
Trial.
7
vol
mission into the Transporta. By what to all prison. tion.
-
Gut &
Curt Martial
Desertion May 1848 10 May
10. May 1848
7 years Military
6
"Hey, 1849 18th May, 1849
go
Jo
Private James Wisition. 81002 Royal Sappers Mine
Private William Vance N12.28
Private Alfredstunter 81155 H. Usq5 Reg ? Foot
Private William Gillespie 81842
Victoria, Houghing,
28th No
life
ber, 1849.
¡True Copy/
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(Signed) Charles & Holdforth,
Sheriff.
Colonial Secretary
357
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1
358
No 111 11849.
Diclosure to / in Delp
(Copy.)
کاد
359
His Excellency
His Excellency Samuel
George Bonhome, the r. c.18.
Governor and Commander-
in
Chief of the Colony of and it's Dependencies.
Hongkong
The Petition of
James Writton and William
fance, British subjects
most humbly Shaweth
Heat
your
Politievers
having upon the 8th day of May,
1848, been sentenced to Frausposta the term of Seven Years,
tion
for
from the
bosses of
for Deserting from
and Miners,
Royal Sappers and having since that perive,
year and nearly five
thes, been in close
List
of 4
Descriptive European Military Conviats under Ventenze
in Vistoria Jail.
28th November, 1818.
of transportation, now
confinement and in
conscquen
el
360
be
thered finding their healths a impaired; de mest humbly Solicit that something may done in their behalf, through Your Excellency's
consideration.
Your
humble Vetitioners
under these circumstances do
big that Your Excellency will be pleased to pardon the freedom here adopted
addressing you your mercy.
in
and impleve
In appealing to your Excellency your Politimers bey to state that they
are
Trades.
men, and have formerly
sustained. unblemished
character, and have in
power to obtain
their
upright
and honest livelihove should
it graciously please Your - Excellency to grant a free parden here, so that w
in in a
еее..
may be placed channel to retrieve that which in
an
wil hour
rve
C
lost, and
in time becouse useful.
members of Society instead,
outcasts.
Imploring your
-
of
lof
Excellency's merciful consideratione - Your Velitioner
dorty
-
in du band will ever
pray.
Signed/
James Whitton.
William Vance.
[Tone Copy)
Colonial Secretary.
No 111 of 1849.
Inclosure to 2 in Delp
361
(Copy)
Sentence. The Court
having found the Prisoners botle Guilty of
the charge.
hre =
ferred against them, which
being
in breach
nd takie
of the articles
←
of War, and t
taking into Consideration the foreur Conviction, and general Indifferent Character of Private James Whitler, and the ferner conviction and general Bad character
of Private William Vance, don
Sentence him the Prisoner
80 1002 Private
Private James Waitlen of the Royal Suppers and Miners to be Transported
as
a Selon beyond the seas for
period
the Seven Years, and
further to be marked on the Left side, two Inches below the
3
under Sentence
transportation, praying Free Pardon.
Vance, Military Convicts
Whitton and William
Eovernor from James
Petition to W.2. the
for
aome Wit, with the letter ID
to the usual foru;
according
the Court do also sentence
him the Prisoner No 1228,
QI A.
Felon
Private William Vance of the Reyal Sappers and Minere, to be Transported beyond the seas for the period of Seven years, and
further
to be marked on the left side, two Inekes below the amme Pit,
with the letter ID nocording to the usual forme
(Signed)
Victoria,
Henry Simmonds
St. Col: beyler Rifles. President .
this ninth day
of May. 1818.
Approved and Confirmed.
(Signed) W. Stavely, Mljeneral.
Coun
SmitCopy)
(Signed) Rodney Mylins, Captain
Brigade Major.)
No 1228. Private William
362
Vance and e 8o 1002 Trivate James Weitton will be struck off the Relums of the Royal Saphore and Miners from
Victoria,
this date.
(Signed) W. Staveley,
Mineral. Canz in China
7th May, 1848 }
(Signed) Wodney Mylius, hap: 1 Brigade Majer
(Tone Copy 1 Mani
Colonial Secretary.
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No 111 of 1849
halosure No. 3 in Getp:
Copy .
363
ستا
Sentence
The boust having found
the Prisoners Guilty of both the Charges preferred against them, which being
in breach of the
Articles of War, and laking into
consideration the
very
bad
Character but absence of forer
Convictions of the Prisoner Private Alfred Hunter ; are the extremely bad character and previous
Conviction
of
the trisover Private
William Gillespie,
do reow
Sentence line the Prisoner
No. 1155 Private alfred Hunter
of
the 95 Regiment to be...
Transported the seas for
AD CO.
Felon beyoud
Seven
years.
with the
to be marked un
further
other to be
and Miners.
9th May, 1848.
from the Royal Sappers Convicted of Desertion
Privates James and William Vande,
Court Martial on, Whitton
Sentence of a Military
364
T
letter M in the usual fore and place.
And de sentence line the Prisoner. Vo 1842, Private
th
William Gillespie of the 95th Regiment to be transported as Felon beyond the seas for
ex
Seven Year
years,
and further to be
marked witle the letter D in
the naval forn and place!
Signed) George Phillpotts.
60
Lieut. Col. Royal Congines
President.
Victoria, Honghongs May Fifteen, 1849.
Approved and Confirmed.
Signed / W. Staveley, M.Gen!
Mammane 7 in
China .
The teve Prisoners to be
handed over to the custody of
C
the Civil Tower ame struct
off
the Retures of the 45th Regt
from this date
95
(Signed) W. Staveley, M. Cout
kanmande Commands in
Victoria, Hongkong,
10 May, 1849.
[ True Copp)
élina.
(Signed) Rodney Myline, East.
Brigade Mejor.
(Bruce Copy)
ht
folonial Secretary.
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No 111 $1809
Inclosure 14 in Desp
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No. 112.
Financial.
Copy to hear
Off worst
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31 Ja
My Lord,
RECEIVED
JAN 26
Victoria, Hongkongy, 28th November, 1849.
I have the honor to acknowledy
Your Lordship's Despatch No. 142 of September last, with
the 11th.
Enclosure from the Secretary to the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
The
Treasury, accompanied by a letter from
Commissioners of
the be
Audit, relative to
surplus of L. 32 -8-2, which had
gradually accumulated in the Colonial
Freasure Chest, and was on
to the credit side
only brought
of the Treasurer's account
1848
at the close of the year
This surplus began to
in the teine
to accumulate
of Sir John Davis, and as
The Right Honorable The Earl Grey,
So,
&e
&e
تو
Sentence
Military
Court martial
on
95th Regiment.
from Her Majesty't convicted of Desertion
and William Gillespie,
Privates Alfed Hunter
15'
* May, 1849.
L
be
366
of thee to the periodical Surveys
Treasure which effectually prevents any surplus
remaining
unaccounted for.
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
Your Lordships,
Most Obedient,
Humble. Servant,
none
appears to have existed whow Mr.
i gave over
Montgomery Marter gave the Freasury to Mr. Mercer in 1845, I have
c.
every
×
charge of
4 July
reason to believe-
were
that the £32. &.2. referred to, first discovered in the manner stated. in Mr. Mercer's letter No. 148 of the 26th instant, a copy of which, with its enclosures is herewith forwarde for Your Lordship's information, and I trust that the explanation of
varded.
the
Colonial. Treasurer will prove satisfactory
regards the
both
manner in which
the surplus was first brought to light,
and the
readow a
it's not having
assigned by him for
been noticed at an earlier
period by the respective. Boards of Survey who examined and reported: upon the state of the Treasure Chest In conclusion, I beg to observe
that in future greater
care, and attention
J
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Inner Boschan C.B.
9541. Hong Hon
Governo
28th November,
7849.
The Earl Greyp.
Bonhams.
Received
Melo
N° 1/2.
Lures.
Replying to His Lordship's
الا
Dispatch No 142 September last, relative
to
in the Beasure chest.
as surplus of £32, 8, 2
Mr Memile
Free mich the Treasorios exploration to the Treasury for their reformation
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I have to acknowledge the
wish of your bus patit R112. of the 20. Inveruler lech relative to the sum of £32.0.2.
which had gondtually
ислити;
latest in the Colonial Chesh
and to
es
Care a
be geien
aquaint you
state that
6. gresh
thuch
attention will in Jucture
to the Grevodical
Surveys of the Chust, then
Leeds Convinson of the
Teway
clo such consider it
any further
Menforry that ar
steps should be taken in
the matter
Shav
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368
(Copy)
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Airs
Colonial Treasury
Victoria, Houghing,
26th November, 1849.
I have the hover to
acknowledgekleeeipt of your better of this date with its cuclosures, conveying
the.
:)
demarks of
the Go
Commissioner
the
of audit on surplus brought
to account at the olove of the last your.
At the time of bringing
this. Money to account, S
supplied
2
Memorandum in
cxplanation of its accumulation,
which I Mienu attached to the
The Monorable
Majer W. Caine,
Colonial keretary.
F
369
Accounts of
the year, and now
enclose herein.
As I have mentioned
in that Memorandum the
surplus
notice
172
bought to my my retum fpone from Ceylon in 1847 and until I could satisfy myself as to its
I directed it to be put aside, intending, when I had satisfied myself, be bring it
Oce
so so
inte
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account with
acompanying explanation.
: dave.
statement in
(
subsequently
At the three surveys Survege
1848. J
year
held during the mentioned the fact of the
surplus being
am stated
་ ་ ་
in
the Check
leasons for not having brought it to account,
and my proposal to do so at the first fitting time. So objection
made to this
tic
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No
awangement, cortificates
accept at of
ll show, and at the clove
1848 the sum of £ 32. 8. 2, SJ;
placed
the debit side
of the Treasurer's Account. The Surveys during
1848 I may Comark wore irregular,
of the
in
ее
cmsequence
misunde
derstanding
· Treasury Sustrue.
the new Treasury
tivus received at the
1847.
ده و متر مگر
The Carolus Gollars, to which I allude in the
Memorandum, think received
челене
reot
I
previously to the
carlier part of 1847, and
met with; but should
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370
they happen to come
the Freasury
Treasury, and
agai
into
Surplus arise,
in consequence, I have stated
as
in the Memorandum,
necessity of su
or ic
any other
of the
small payments, hould a Surplus in
way
arises
I have
given strict directions that
}
regularly
of them under the direct inspection
the Cashier:
in the
With reference to the
وم
surplus alleged to have existir Treasury at Macao, to which allusion is made by the
Commissi
at
of course give
the close of each week; that Surplus shall be truught to account . legures that part of my explanatory Memerandume, where it is stated that the Dollars
zvere
ted instead
of weighed in payment of
for
Small Smes
the convenience,
of the bashier & Shroff, I would
add that all
all payments in
the Treasury
made cone
by
the Shroff or Comprador, or both
Jean
of Andit, I can
no information. It does not appear that
the officers charged with the
cxamination
of the Public
when it was handed
coc
mevey
کرد که معروف
Stewart to Mr Martin, discovered
any surplus then, there found when the Treasury passed.
" Mr Martive to
......
has there been
tic
any
sinec, cxecpt S 32. On 2.1 which accumulated
and was
in
the
described.
brought to Account:
I have
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9
+
371
I have, &c.
Signed/
B. I. Mercer,
Colonial Treasurer.
ImeCopy
Maine
Colonial secretary.
Copy.
A Surplus having grainally
accumulated in the Chest
hest of
the
Treasurer, the same has baw
transferred to the Credit of
Wolny, being
in
Whe
amount $32.8.7%
£32.82% 17. Hicly two freunde vighet.
shillings stive pence halfpenny Herling).
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The principal
which this surplus
C. C
from
the tercipt from the Commipariat at different times of a quantity of Spanish Dollars of a better than the usual description, being Carolus Dollars que not like. the other spanish boin, broken, but full, with only the usual Chops or stamps of the shroffe
they through whose hands
сед
372
passed. The difference that
woister in the
isning
the same
by counting instead of by weight; might have been 2 to 4 Gollars
in the Thousaur.
For the Convenienec
from beylon in 18467 when I
usediately made the newssary
inquiry
after
time
cause,
satrefpect myself as to the cann
satisfied
of it.
Stie
The Money
f
Cashier & shroff these Dollars in payment of small sinus were
disbursed by Conting weight une no
been made by
instead of by
ins
complaint
the
parties, they being
receiving
has
in retail
in
transactions Current as full
Dollars.
the
The Weekly surveys of monies in the liam of-
the Cushier teen
gave
a.
senall
surplus, which he put every
week wxide in
in a
separate bay
ace the first intimation I got:
of the surplus
ご
retur
in
Јоселко
a
Mercy is now prod
the close of the year
fitting time for bringing
it to account.
It may be
that the
to as well le stuter
vory Coins forming this
C
surplus have never been removed
the reusurer's Chest:
from the Ive
Signed) W. K. Mercer,
Colonial Treasurer,
Victoria, Hongkong,
Gecember 3015 18/18
1 In Copy!
Signed) 14. Z. Mereor,
Colonial Treasurer.
True Gopy!
to lonial secretary.
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(Copy)
.)
We hereby Certify that we
were the three officers appointer
de
Survey
the
in the
th
Treasury Chost on the 197 November, 1847, one that
made
by
C
ction to the proposal
objecti
the Treasurer that
suoplus discover in the Chest should stane over without being
Laken to account until the
Ad
Treasurer who had just retuned from Ecylen could make eugung
satisfy himself
iud satis
Victoria, Hongrieng,
26th November, 1849.
(Signée)
022
to its
M.Caine.
(a) ABC.
Johnston (a) & har sthee (leverly
flone Copy!
Mairie
Colonial secretary
:
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We hereby Costfy that we, in accordance with the Gwerners
directions
ppy
vamp ppy
Survey
Colonial Treasury Chest on the 122 January,
18th February
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close of
the
accounts at the
year .
Victoria, Honghong, I
26th November, 1849.
(Signed) 14. Caine,
( ) Chair Athee: (leverly.
//
(True Copy) Macie
Colonial Secretary .
375
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$
No 112 of 1849.
Inclosure in despatch
71
串
376
113.
Miscellaneous.
the
RECEIVED
C.D.
JAN 21
1850
d
Victoria, Houghing. 34th November, 1849.
My Love.
With Te
to my
reference to
Despatch N98 of the 20th
N.
29
October, I have the hour to
forward for Your Lordship's information Copy of a Gespatch which I have this day.
addressed to Viscount Palmerston, from which it will be. perceived that the head and hand of the late Governor
Amaral have not
t beau
yet
given up by the Chine
Authorities, and that the
Right Honorable. The Earl Grey,
£32.8.2 in the the accumulation of
Freasurer with 3 Documents, cxplaining
Letter from the Colonial
Freasury
Chest.
26th November, 1849.
Je,
Yo
Jo.
Previsional Government of
Maçao har in conseque again protested
against the proceedings of the Superial
Conce
E
i
I have the hover to be,
With the highest respect, Your Lordships,
05/1/12
C
Hm lan
22
Most Obedient
Humble Servant,
Msham
(Copy).
No. 174.
My Lord,
to
377
Victoria, Hongkong, of November, 1849.
29
I have nothing of importana
report by this Mail with regard to the state of affairs at Macao, which remain in the same position
position as when I had the honer of addressing Your Lordship on this subject in my Despatch No 150 of the 20th, the that is, Seu declining to give up head and hand of the late Governor kept in custody
until the three
by the
MENU
29
Portuguese authorities
delivered over.
ltimo :
were
the
The Council have transmitted.
to me the Chinese Commissioner's reply
The Right Honorable,
The Viscount Palmerston, G. C. B.
378
to their
cou
munication of the 324.
ultimo, which formed Enclosure No.
Encl: No. 11 in Deep: No. 98
my Despatch Nr. 150. In it to bail Groy.
Lin my
Seu avoids all mention of the head- and hand of Senhor Amaral, which he still persists in keeping in his possession.
I do not deem it necessary to trouble. Your Lordship with the perusal.
of the Commissioner's reply,
with
a
the Council's rejoinder, which is very lengthy document, in which all-
the
arguments already stated. are
reiterated, and which concludes in
protesting against the acts of the Commissioner, holding hine responsible. for the assassination of Governer - Amaral, for the detention of his head and hand, for the violation of the rights of Her Majesty and. nation ; and lastly,
the
Lo Na
Portugue so
for all consequences whatsoever that. may result as well from that act as from the unqualified proceedings the Chinese authorities of bantour, with regard to it
I have, so,
(Signed) S. G. Bonhams
Frue
Copy
LAM
Maine
Solonial Secretary.
"
379
His Excellency Mr.
Bonhame to Viscounts
Palmerston, reporting. state of affairs
Macão to date.
the
a
29th November, 1869
nclosure in despaces No 113 of 1849.
1%
380
No. 114.
Executive.
Vicle to Gov : 242. - 14 May 181.
Further aus? Wo hor. Bon.
Aly &
My
Lord,
JAN SO 1850
Victoria, Hongkong,
30th November, 1849.
The expense of conveying
Clunced Convicts from here to the Straits Settlements being considerable, and theso Settlements, from my
knowledge,
oww
being particularly adapted for their - reception, from the number of their
resident there, I am induced;
countrymen
to propose for the consideration of Your Lordship, whether Chineed and other Indian Convicts sentenced to transportation
advantage.
from the Colony might not with adeautip be sent to Labuan, where labour appears
to be in
great demand, and where in
their services
consequence
The Right Honorable
The Earl Grey,
yo,
&o.
might prove
1
Petoria, Rongkong, the November, 1849.
29
Lovernor Bonham
to
The Earl
Grey.
7o. 113.
C
1 Inclosure.
Received
Palmerston reporting
Enclosing copy of his De patch Nv 171 to Viscount
that the
the head and hand of
lute Governer Amaral have
your
by
the Chinese au
yet been delivered up
thorities.
}
useful.
Should Your Lordship be pleand to approod of this proposal, I of courte shall not send any until. I hear frond
Siv
& James
mes
Brooke or the Licutenant-
Governor that he is ready and has
accommodation for their reception . But
as the
(munication)
COMMU
Labuand is very i
cry
from hence to
from
infrequent, it would
#not be desirable that. Labuan should
not be desirable infrequent,
be appointed the sole penal Colony for
Chinese and other Asiatic Convicts
sentenced to transportation from Hongkong.
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
Your Lordship's,
Most Obedient,
Humble Servant,
381
E
T
El
!
Jongkong,
Governor Bonham,
30th November, 1849.
to
The Carl
Received
No 114.
Gydy
be appointed one
Suggesting that Labuan
of
the
Conviats from Hongkong.
for Chinese and Asiatic places of transportation
ader Ellish
Refer to Sir Jass Brooke ? Can thus get le
ng
madation at tabeen preven number of envrits?
Cannot
Z
Kink Ka
andoptant
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to the
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reframe. The com Jubels adraula unplay them? Aft
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Governor
In James Brooke.
MINUTE 20 | MR B2
McElliot
1850 JANY 30
30
Merivale 3/1
30 Nov./ug.
/49.
640.
Sir.
trong trong
No 33.
1850
4. Je450.
382
I have the honor
to hausmit to you
herewith the copy
copy you
despatch from the Governa y Hong Kong
suggesting
that Laluan
be appointed one
the
places of taxsputation
Asiatie
for Chinese and Reinter
Convicts from theat Celery,
; and I have to
request you
to
Communicate to sul
жет
your pission upon
this proposal.
Sir.
I haven
I have recessed
Your despatch 20 114. of
the 30 Nov. suggesting,
the reasons
for the
therein
Mentioned that Labuans
be appointed one
%
the places of tracesportation
Jor
Chinese and
Asiatic Convicts prom
Hong Kong; I have
No 161.
4 Feb 50
Gormur Bonham
i
if
and the pumpary bych
stifs will when
Ital Occisiin ohmer
пал
In is faran the
Experimat.
Kmmunicated this
383
happeotion to Su faces Brooke and hace desired him to make a report
to use upon
it
The
result of that rapeame
Read the Reission off
买
W.
Mh. Got in the subject
with be made Known
as soon as it
to you as
May be pepittle to do
10t
Be
Best won supposing
But boom
the Authorstels ach
Labuan were ready and
had accommodation for the reception of the Conoids they would
not be AgaMy Empowered to receive
& Retains them in
Conforment until the
Eucen had proped an Bider in foronical Constituting Leber an
penal Coloring.
вес
arse a
و
this.
am not sure of
Art
dow not of think
Body appling. There
неты
ho
for any
dulacchin
of the law on the
Ат
suljet ?
لله
306% Labuan "
Governor Bonhave
6 May
Sir,
No
1850.
384
With reference to
In Ellisk 1. May /00 my reply of the 4t
Ir. Merivale
W. Hawes
Parl Grey.
6.
6
Do 14-4 Feby 50.
to your
of February last to
propical that Labuan might be appointed as the places to which
one
of
chinese Convicts might
be sent from Hongtag I enclose for you
your
information the Copy
of a Despatch front Sir J. Brooke in which
he expresses an op:
ision
Javoralle
385
favorable to that project
but
as he does not
furnish his
reasons,
have felt it necessary to call upon him for
further information in the Despatch of
which a capy is herewith enclosed, and
and I have to request that in conformity
with the intimation.
therein contained,
you will apprise me
You
49-6 May 150
of the number of Chines Convicts whom you
think it probable that
a
you
would have
occasion to send to
Labuan annually,
will
and that you meandd add any observations which may
occur to
upon the other
you upon
points adverted to
in my communication to Sir J. Brooke.
I have t
DEC.
D
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No. 115. Legislative
Mil
My Lords
1500 trong trong
R
FER 25
1850
386
Victoria, Hongkong
15th December, 1849
I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of Your Lordship's Deepatch.
$o.
the
941.
プ
128 of the 11th July last, relative to appointment of two unofficial members to seats in the Legislative Council
On considering what persons of
the resident community
were
the most
to a conclusion, and
Proper and filling to recommend to Your Lordships, I found very considerable difficulty in coming therefore judged that it would be more. satisfactory to the public for
me to call
upon the unpaid Justices of the Race to return the names of any two gentlemen
The Right Honorable
The Earl Grey,
Se
&c,
&o.
most.
who might be considered by them eligible for the office . I consequently assembled the Justices and made known
informing
theme at the
my wishes
same time that the
appointurent of the parties nominated would nest with Your Lordshife . After a considerable interval, they, (16 in number),
returned to me
the
NANNES
of David
Jardine, Esquire, and Joseph Frost Edger, Esquire . The former gentleman is the_ principal resident partner of the influential. and wealthy firm of Jardine Matheson
860, and the latter is the representative
of the equally respectable firm of Jamieson ledger & 60 : both of these gentlemen
have been residents in China uhwards
of eight years respectively, are intelligent and highly respectable, and thoroughly
acquainted with the wants
is ive
The nomination
ts of the community.
by
the Justices
every respect satisfactory to myself,
387
and. I therefore respectfully recommend that Mesers : David Jardine and Joseph Frost. Edger be appointed members of
the Legislative Council of this Colony.
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
Your Lordship's
Most Obedient,
Humble Servant,
Bombum
Received
Interst
Victoria, Hongkong, 15th December, 1849. Bonhame
Gov.
conço
The the Earl Grey.
No 115.
Acknowle.
Despatch #: 728 of the 11th
edging receipt of His Lordship's
mending
the
Massi
July appointment of
Lash,
and recom
David Jardine and J. #Edger,
nominated
вир
of the Legislative Council...
of the Peace, as unofficial Members
the unpaid Juctures
W. Meinke
Mr Smit
2
Hm $25
IB.25/2.
To be appointed
388
4. March 1850.
The Lord President
J.
R
Forwardeds Mh Smith
MRVerivale TILaures
1850
2
127
Earl Grey 2/3
My
Land
David Jardine and Joseph Frost Edger,
Earths, having been
recommended to me
ovder to make these appointments,
it with
b.
only
пеперту
to
proceed in the usual comse.
The Governor vays
et
"1
as fil
fit and proper
Page persons to be
that it will be accessary
of 3397
Lo
meshify
A
the Royal
Avy
Instrar:
tions. But that shows that
Le has not read those Instine:
: tions carefully
The Charter
directs that the Conneil shall comist of such public officers
or of such other persons as shall from home to time by appointed by Instructions
20
the Rage
and the
Inclructions provide, that
appointed Members the Legislative Council of Connoil of the Colony
of
of Hong Kong, I have
request
trutil. other provision to make to
in that behalf, the Cernial shall
concist of
three persons to br
that
auntingly see your Lordship will
harmed by thi G
Accordingly
the addr
hover to be made to this
t
¦
ست
submit their names
to the Rucen in
Council, in orde = _ that, if it chall be
Her Majesty's
will mot con
Corneil mice
h
inversiently
effected by Wanent, or
Mandamus.
A 9
question
howww
arises whether the Luoran
the Connial shoes remain constituted of two Membus of that Body. ?
Governor Bonhame, C. B. HyBandanas
W Menizle March 11/50
WHlau
2
Keb
Earl sey
pleasure, they may buchetty but the
be appointed to seats
at that Boand.
houka
You
Just
武
be bilen kann.
р
Q
trove
I don't think
with while ifming
new metineth
Mr Haus
12
п
12: April 1850.
12. April 1850.
The foreno's Statement
that it was
recchary
that his dustuctions
chuld & altered whe
2 unchiic! Commillen hould be exprinted, seems to have been much canosped
in the colony
2
use in
fart a mistake of his, alternat
the Ajectors do not seem to Lave hit the exact point.
Idaggert Kerepen this raft Илгери in woh to für areason
why the appointments, w they anive, will from th
слы
when
by warrant, ins had of y
how Jastuctions.
km. Mt 11
Li
13. April 1850.
No 196.
Ел?
I transmit you
herewith Ho Warrants
for the appointment of
David Jardine and
389
зала этоки бороны,
Edger, & as dumbes
up
of the Legiilchis Commil of this Colony,
in
De my def Mid
punuarm of the Риина
али
mommens bin contained
No 1159
F.
不
In 1849.
In my dah. No
129
of 11 July 1849 J
stated that your Ins hautions
ится
I modified in
non to admit of there
appointments. But as
no alteration t
the
Inhuction is shicks
mmpany forthis purpose
unless the grossen of
quorum
the Conmil in altens,
and
ви
I have not
mennd home for
any suggutions as
был
to fixing a different
murale for this purpose
the adinary mother of appointment by prank Las her filled.
390
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3
1
JF 116.
Financial.
My Lord,
REC
1501 trong trong
FER 25 1850
391
Ward ictoria, Hongkong,
17
the December, 1849.
In obedience to the instructions
conveyed in paragraph 44 of Your Lordship's The Hon. W Despatch Nr. 109 of 15th April, I _ 7. Mercer, Eq : appointed on the 5th October last,
Committee consisting of the gents
Colonial Treasurer.
Chas : St. Geo:
Cleverly, beg in the
Esq.
Surveyor
rargin, to
named
gentlemen nu
to inquire into the question
}
chregn General of the landed tenure of this bolony generally,
I. W. Smith, E.; and into the cases
Afet Commissary Cont:
W. Davidson, Esq. Partner in the
House of Lindsay Mo.
of alleged hardship
complained of by some individual leaseholders.
This Committee have had some
6. J. F. Stuart., Egg: 6. Manager of the as
Oriental Bank.
such
meetings and have called upon e parties .
have appeals relative to questions of land, to reduce them to writing and
as 1.
may
forward the
same to the Committee; but
The Right Honorable The Earl Grey,
&o,
Set
unhappily
both Mr. Mercer, the President,
and M2 bleverly, one of the Members, have.
been and still continue
illness; on their recovery
suffering from
however the
Committee will resume their labours, and
the
result theres
there of with be duly submitted
to Your Lordship with such observations
ses ma
my part as the several cases
ow any
to call for.
Mr. Elect
Putly
may appear
I have the honor to be,
I
With the highest respect,
Your Lordship's,
Most Obedient,
Humble Servant,
27
Wha
No. 117.
Miscellaneous
My Lord,
392
FEB 25
1350
Victoria, Hongkong,
22nd December, 1849.
With reference to my Despatch
No. 10% of the 26th November, I have
the hens to acknowledge the receipt of the following Despatches, on the 20th
instant.
No 144 of 20th September, 1844
No: 145
#
5th October,
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
Your Lordships,
The Right Honorable,
The Earl Grey,
&o,
&o,
So
Most. Obedient,
Humble Servant,
Lan
chil.
....i.
szt vig
No. 118. Financial.
спод 28
My Lord,
1583 rong wong
RECEIVES
FEB 25
1350
393
Victoria, Hongkong,
th
27th December, 1849.
I have the honor to acknowledge
No.
of the
the receipt of Despatch o 144 20th September lact, and to enclose for
the information of Your Lordship the -accompanying copy of a letter from the Attorney General..
There is a balance of $1220-68 in the Featury, belonging to the late Acting Attorney General, Mr Charles Molloy Campbell, for passage money from and to Calcutta, sanctioned by Your Lordship in Despatch Nr. 53 of 5th September, 1848, and as Mr Campbell was the Acting
: Acting Attorney
The Right Honorable
The Earl Greyp
XO., &c.,
&e
General conducting the proceedings against Captain Larkins in the Crown prosecution of the Queen
Y.
Larkins," the
sum
of
$115 might be deducted from the balance above named, provided I am duly authorized by Your Lordship to this effect. When Mr Campbell. makes application to this Government for the
amount of passage money abreazy
I shall cause
referred to, I shall
the sum
of
$115 to be detained in the Treasury pending Your Lordship's final____
instructions.
I have the honor to be,
"With the highest respects,
Your Lordships,
Most. Obedient,
Humble Servant,
Malum
394
:
י
:
of Requin &. Larkins,
his passage
Benham.
former Biskom. (B.
MINUTE 25 MR B
1583.
150.
态
395
hang trong
EN 160.
Sir,
27
McElliot MPMerivale | 27 M&Hawes Earl Gres
20 Feb150.
I have to acknontze
the receipt of your desp!
Nthe 27
Dec. last, No110
in the subject of
received by
fees
the late
deting Attorney General
Larkins
of thing hong in the case of the Aucen versus
Since M. Campleth
Acted as Attorney General
suder a direct appoint=
local
- ment pom the Gerement, and not es Deputy for Ihr Sterling it Mr.
25
Victoria, Hongkong.
I presume that this intention should be expend . See Lone Grey's instruction of the 20 safe (u).
ilearly
We Sterling
quits in the right if the stetig
thy put, did not act in this
malta as
his Schurly, ins
Am 72.5°
diraits for the Crown.
25/2
примпи
will not be proper
to
Carry
the instructions
Contained in ney
despatch
No 144 into effect. But
you will deduct the amount of the fees received by
Mr. Campbell for conducting
in
this
The proceedings Case pom the balance
due to that Gouttemen & uisum kim y the regulation yhord Storley's under which I am Mijed
to give
this instruction,
Sir,
27
th
396
December, 1849.
Hongkong.
I have the honor to acknowledge
to
the receipt of a copy of the Earl Grey's Despatch to the Governor, relating certain fees received by the late. Acting
the case Attorney General in the
of the Queen
against Larkins, and requiring show a good and sufficient.
Me
reason
12. to
why
their amount should not be deducted.
from my salary
I therefore beg to state for the
information of this Ewoollency
His Excellency the Governor,
and as a
good, and
sufficient.
reason
against any deduction being made. from
my salary
on account of Mr Campbells
The Honorable
Major Caine,
Polomai Secretary:
fees in the above case ;
that he received
under the appointment
them when acting
of Government, an appointment over which. I could have no control; and that I and
informed there
:
of Mr. Campbell's
are arrears
pay due him by Government, upon which seemingly, the reimbursement. of money received by him would attack
with
anore
justice than upon the
Attorney General's salary.
I have, &c.
(signed) Paul Sterling
True Copy
Mani
clonal Secréta
7
$119.
Financial.
h
RECEIVED
FEB 25
1850
397
Victoria Wonghongs
28th December, 1849.
My Serd.
Share the heuer le
forward herewith, for theur Serdship's information, Copy
Memorandum the
Colonial Treasurer
by
the
Remarks of the Commisiac. of Audit in his accounts for year 1848, which formed
the
cnclosure in
our Fordship's
Your
Despatch 40 140 of 1! September last.
The Right Wenerable The Carl Grey,)
JO;
YO
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NO!
!
!
I have the hour to be,
With the highest respect.
C
Your Lordships,
Most Obedient
Humble servant,
Shaham
.J
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M. Merimle
To Fr
SZÉ My
(Copy)
398
Memerandum
the Remarks.
the Accounts of the Colonial, Treasurer of Houghing for
184.8 by
Whic
the Audit Board
year
London.
"Deposits
to
not available have
Depositint
wailable not been included in the pumal.
or
Sidger, but only
in the
Account Current of the Treasurer,
a separate set of Books having been kept for
the
same, - arising
from a misconception of § 31
the Instructions.
"This Regulati
"
of
is not to
with the Keeping
interfere with the
of a separate Deposit account, "showing not only the Balance
en Deposits generally but
" likewise the Balance in
3
399
" respect to each Estate;
" Individual or
Body .
In 1850 these deposits shall bes bought into the General .. Accout, and separate accounts
shall also be kept for
thone.
Au thurities for incurring
Expenditure will be found
ore
strictly attended to in 1849 and the General monthly Abstinati
will
from
1850 be prepared by
the Auditor instead. as hitherto
by
the Treasurer.
2. Authorities for incurring Expenditure.
3.
The items of Expenditure M. M.
re
- will be found to be particularized in the approvals for 1849, and in
accordance
with the prescribed items of Expenditure:
The £6, 15.5, was
: described under the head of
"Colonial in the Requisition of
the kolonial Secretary, but it has been brought
be
hit to account
the Treasurer under the
by
proper head.
viz
"Effice
4.
Cintingencies!
M.
In the Estimate and
year
Burial
been
?
5.
Expenses of Passage tom
Mr Mittens
tecount of the previous the salaries of
the Sexton
+
Grund Heepers, have,
united for under the ment of the Colonial
Department
"Surgeon" who has charge of the Burial Ground.
made
...
The front having been
by
the
Governor The purpose of
Commeil, for the pur
enabling Mr Fruithers to proceed to England, was at
the time considered
Charitable Allavance: Carl
Joey's approval of this Gratuity
liis direction le consider it
addition to the Presion
fter the
assived here long after cloving of
the Accounts. Pu
future similar Grants shall
be classed under Pensin II c :
in
The Retu
progress,
of Works
will in future.
comprise all Works whether
excented by Colonial or Military
Officers .
(Signed) W. J. Mercer,
Colonial Treasurer:
Victoria, Honghong,
27th December, 184169.
}
Colonial Secretary.
AN
F
JENU-TUN
woning of 10"
Separate.
And 25 Tib / 50 A 167
Sir,
ECEIVED
FER 25
1350
Victor, Hongkong.
2.8th December, 1849
400
I have the honor herewither
to enclose
letter from Ms
Tarrant formerly
a
Clerk in
the Land Hepartment, whist I have been requested by thats
person to forward to you.
The particulars of
Bun
Tarrant's case have been fully
reported to the bartery State for the Colonies - Hit appointment of Clarke of Registry Keeper of Records was
and
&
4. Merivales, Lege
Under Secretions of State for the Colonies,
fo
fo
He.
・
abolished on the 30th September
1847.
because it was
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އ
longer
exquisite as explained in mus Presuport Seeparah Jigg of the 14th September 1877, as some
others of
have been
as similar nature
since, with-
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а
view
to the reduction of the Expenses
of the Colony. I certainly do not
see that Mr Fariant has
any
of complaint
Cause of
whatever;
buch I think it
right to add that were vacancy to offer suitable to Mc Farrant's
Parrant's qualifications and position in life, I shoul's not of my
accord offer it to him, being of opinion
σιδη
that he is not a
desirable
person for employment in the
Public Servise._
In explanation of the
letter from Mr Gaskell,
an
401
Atorney of the Colony, to my address and my reply threts, I have only to remark that the Prosecution entered against My Tarrant was commencer
by the Aating Attorney
General upon
and
ひれ!!
проп
his
withorawn
own
responsibility
by
that
Officer 3 months before my arrival in the Colony._ Under
these circumstanced, I did not consider it resepary to re-open the question, in which conclusion. Mr Sterling the Attorney General
Coinsided-
as
Mr. Sterling is, as well
myself, entirely unconnectes with the Proceedings instituted
against Mr Ferrant thy
:
were
вор
commenced and withdrawn
Mr Molloy Campbell when acting for Mr Sterling during his absence in England account of his health.
on
I have the honor tobe,
Sir,
Your most obedient
Humble Servant,
402
P. I. I beg to add that Mr Tarrant
was duly informed
o
the 2nd October
1847, that his appointment was
abolished from the 30th September preceding, to which date he has received his pay. See Despatch to Lord
23 June, 1849.-
Grey,
1:64, dated
Ins
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:
:
colby Digarą gorset my Noses Blanken verste waa
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403
on Bouhan does not specify he has for thinking M. Tarrant as
Mr. Mersinle
Althrough Governa
the reasons
undesirable person for
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Gily,
relying
in the Goversions judgment & impartiality, may perhaps think proper to adopt-
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sit in that there is no operez.
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27
Gor 1585. And
Joe
1 Sir.
167.
404
28 Feb750.
I have to actionby
your despatch of the 208e last, marked Separate, tausmitting an application
from Mr. Tarrant for the payment of certain Salary
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which he comeder
to be due to him, and, as he cannot be reemployed in the public Saive, that be conepucesatend he
for
may
abrupt dismissal
from Office.
you will aquant
Mr. Jariant that his
Salary
having
been paid
to him up to the date
y the abstition yhes Office I am unable to
ī
this claim
reca gouge this
nize
to any other payment on that account whether
in the shape of
or compensation.
I have
Salary
405
:
:
;
1580. Honak siz
AL
406
FEB 25
Victoria, Roughing Air 1819
2
7th December
On the 26th ruttime.
rethine, I
honoured with information
was honoure
from the Colonial Office, that,
to the printer of my
Memorial
(for a re-instatement in
'the Majesty, crvice, and for pay for the period that I waited to know the pleasure of Her Majesty's Government his to my suspension from the Office of Registrav of Deeds, office this Colony Carl Grey 4 in
the Right.
Honourable the Farl Grey-
Herman Merivale, penje
Could
Unter Secretary of State
for the Colonies.
:
could not accede.
The arcision
(
This communicated)
to me, is fraught with consequenas of so ruinous a nature, that, ' unless averted, I shall be constrained to appen to Her -Most Gracions Majesty in focuses, m, to
iament.
But, as this course mans- be offensive to this Lordships who through a misunderst
steindung of my code or want of line 6 look into it, has neglected to accord to me the justice which is my due, I deem it my duty to write to
You
8
Si,
you, to beg that you will uitercede with this Lordship to Orders me the pay which I hav
2
solicited; and, as I cannot be again employed, than. Compensation may
be awarded
to
1
payments
2
MA:
Ly
Comp
office.
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che
.Sol. Gaskell & Goo & Bonkaus
28. Gov
407
to me for an abrupt dismissal from the Public Service
Itake this opportunity
to forward alles et copies of
ed
Ese see fully correspondence had during the
present Mouth, having Ulation to the case out of
which my
Suspension arose, and to which it may be necessary- to refer, in the event of
Further
communical is Son this Subject,
in
I have the honor to be
Sie,
Join most obedient
You
humble Servant
W. Jamant
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408
dir.
Case of
Hong Kong. Saturday Evening 8th Deck 1849 becṛ
In claiming your Excellency's attention to the
The Queen v Tarrant tothers, which was dismisted
in consequence of the absence of To keen teen alias Lom quen day. alias Lo = chong. Compradore, lately in the employment of The Honorable Inapon William Caine Colonial Secretary- Colo
chiene
Cheats
I have
now the honor to inform you, that, the said Individual is at present residing with Los a king, otherwise Aqui, in the lower Bazoar in this Town, and as my In Tarrant infouns me,
that Major faine has stated to your Excellency his opinion, that the said person was in the habit of extorting moneys in his name from the Lessee of the Central market. Itrust that as any character is at stake through the aspersions cast upon him by the Colonial Secretary, and which were not cleared up in consequence of the alleged absence of the individual referred to, that your Excelleney will be pleased to cause such proceedings to be adopted against the sand to keen keen, as to your Excellency in your discretion shall seem fil.
To His Excellency
S. G. Bonham Espre
Le. to. to
C.B.
I have the honor to be
Your Excellency's bb! humble serit
(signed)
maskell
P.S. I have to apologise for intruding upon your Excellen
attention at this late hom on the evening of Saturday but must be permitted to plead as any excuse that ye information above referred to has only just come to any knowledge
(13) dres.
13
365 مول
Sir.
я
Colonial Secretarys Office Dictoria, Hong Kong,
18th December 18749.
am directed to acknowledge Your letter of the 8th instant to the address of His Excellency the Governor which reached him on Saturday Evening at half past right o'clock. and to acquaint you that the proscention entered agaiish Sur Tarrant by the late Acting Attorney General, having been withdrawn by that Officer, it is not His Excellency's intention to take any- further steps in this matter.
I am further directed to add that Imajor Caine never stated to the Governon " that in his opinion Lo keen teen was in the habit of extorting moneys in
in his
his name from the Lessee of the Central marked
Dr. Gaskell Esgre
I have the honor to be
Lir.
Your most obedient servant [signed] Jr. Caine
Colonial Secretary
409
Public duly
and.
To all towhow these Presents shall come __ I William Gaskell hotary Public authorised admitted and sworn residing practising at Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong bo hereby certify and Attest That the Coby Letter hereunto annexed Dated the eighth day of december instant addressed to the Governor of the said Colony of Hong Kong and
дене
name
Signed "Im Gaskell is a true Copy of a certain letter written and addressed by me to the Governor of the Colony of Hong Kong at the date aforesaid, and that the động "Joel askell "affixed to the same is of any true name and handwriting. And I further Certify and attest. that the Copy letter hereunto annexed addressed to me dated the tenth day of December instant and purporting to be signed by the Colonial Secretary of the said Colour of Hong Kong, is a true Copy of a certain letter written and tent. to one at the date aforesaid (in reply to such first
first m herein before mentioned letter of the eighth of December) And that the Signature "to. Caine "affixed to the same i of the proper name and handwrit of the Honorable Major William faine the Colonial Secretary of the said Colony of dong hong
NOTAR
PUBLIC
WMGA
COOMINUS
FROVI
DEBIT
ELL
Sifaris and Testimony
and Testimony whereof. I the said Rotary have hereunto subscribed my name and-
affixed my seal of Office at victoria aforesaid the Twenty sixth day of becember in the year of bur Lord bue thousand eight hundred and_ forty mine
hoty Pat Song &ing.
!
チ
Se 190.
MisccMancous.
My Lord,
410
Victoria. Haughing, HongKong,
29th December, 1849.
With reference to my
Despatch N° 113 of the 29
November, I have the houer.
to forward for Your Sendship's
py of a Despatch.
information Copy of a
40787, which I have this
his d
day
addressed to Viscount Talmerston,
cnclosing. Copy of the further_ Correspondence which has passed between the Council Maçãor and the Imperial
Cove
...
aver, as
well as the
Council's Manifeste, detailing,
The Right Henerable,
The Carl Grey,
Jo
YO
Jo.
:
the proceedings of the Chinese
Authorities in relation to the
murder of governer Amarul and the detention of his hand
and hand.
I have the hever to be.
With the highest les poot. Your Sundstrips,
Most Obedient Humble servant,
J. Malam
(Copy) No. 187
Nos. 2 and 3.
No. 4.
W. Merinte
Shereld this
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20/2/50
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411
Victoria, Hongkong,
th
29th December, 1849.
1
My Lord.
In continuation
of my Despatek
No. 171 of the 29th
29th ultime
012
the state
of affairs at Macao, I have the honor to
-enclose three
anore
letters that have
passed
between the bouncil of Maçao and. the Chinese Commissioner, and which will. complete the series of papons ass to date=
I also transmit the quanifesto
up
of the Council. alluded to in their - communication to Sew : it is accompanied by copies of all the conrespondence and, documents connected, with the steps taken by the Portuguese for the accovery of the head and hand, and for the__
The Right Honorable.
The Viscount Palmerston, G. C. 8.
842,
JC,
80
apprehension of the murderers of the late, unfortunate Governor. I beg at the same time to aunce a translation of the Manifesto
There is no intelligenes of any importance to report by this Mail-
regard to Macro, if I may except the arrival, by the Mail. Steamer the 10th
with regards
Mer 018
instant, of One hundred Portuguese
soldiers and six
these have at oncer
officers from Goa:
proceeded to Macáo,
and it is reported that before long
another detachment
of a
"hundred snow
will be sent to that settlements from
the same quarter.
percibts is
that or
Sew, I regret today, still
keeping the remains of the
late Governor, and, it is to be presumed the side of the bouncil all correspondence is at an end. for their
recovery, a
as no answer seems to have
No. 5
412
been
• gives by them to the Commissioner's
catie communication
As
the 23rd November, f regards the
the safety of Macao I have already had the honor of giving
it as my opinion
my opinion that fears need
be entertained by the inhabitants so
as coew ond
ship of
war is ab uncher
long se the Roads, for unless the Portuguese
take the initiative, the Chinccès authorities are not likely to interfere with them, and, the present increases to the garriso of the settlement will prevent any attempts being suader by the ill-disposed on shore to create suischief and confusion, from whome alone, at the present i coment, any apprehension for the tranquillity of the place need in onz
entertained.
Fue Copy
ony judgement be I have, &e.
(Signch ) S. G. Boukaun Maini
Colonial Secretary.
No. 120 of 1849.
Inclosure No. 1 in Desp:
413
5
Feu's Reply to the Council's Letter of the 14th October. Seu, Viceroy of Kwangtung and Kwangel, &c. In reply to the Despatch of the 20th day of the 8th moon, (14th Oc tober,) which I received as an answer, stating that at a proper time attention would be given to its contents, which are empty words without meaning; and requesting at the same time a reply to the Despatch of the 17th of the 8th moon (2d October,) I have now to make the following observations. The Despatch says, that the three individuals are not im- prisoned, but detained for the necessary inquiries. Now, is not the long period of two months sufficient for the conclu- sion of these enquiries? Io these 7th and 8th moons, two depositions have already been taken of the Criminals who had been on two separate occasions apprehended, and copies of these Prepositions have been sent accompanied by Des- patches; and there is no one who does not know, that this case is already settled. Are not those Depositions of the real aggressor and of an accomplice, then, sufficient doen ments and is it still necessary to have recourse to witnesses and enquiries from individuals unconnected with the ques tion? Besides, after the three individuals have been given up, they will have to continue in the exercise of their duties at the Barrier Gate, and consequently will not be concealed. This is all I have to communicate in reply to the Despatch of the Council of the Portuguese Government.
Taoukwang, 29th year, 9th moon, 17th day. (1st Novem- ber, 1849)
The Council of Government of the Province of Macao, Timor, and Solor, to Seu, Viceroy of Canton, Imperial Commis sioner, &c., &c.
MOST EXCELLENT SIR,-If this Council required still more proofs to uphold the truth and justice of the assertion which they put forth in the commencement of their Despatch to your Excellency, of the 3d October, these would be afforded by the two las Despatches from your Excellency, dated the 14th ultimo and let instant, from which it is seen clearly and evidently, that, far from satisfying, as it behoved the dignity of the Government which your Excellency representa, the just demands of this Council, by replying to them upon the principal point of the question, with which we are nOW occupied, and which relates solely to the restitution of the mutilated members of the illustrious deceased Governor, your Excellency does not indeed even allude to it in your Despatches; and in order to avoid speaking upon that matter, has recourse to your customary tergiversationis,--as that of saying that the three individuals bere detained are unconnected with the question, that the case is already settled, &c.; all of which manifest the little weight your Excellency attaches to this case, which from its gravity has amazed all nations who have witnessed it, and which indeed should have deserved the most serious attention of the Chinese Government, if it had wished to escape the stigma of barbarity and treachery, a stigma which the Nations of the West will, with just reason, now attach to it.
This Council cannot therefore fail to condemn again in unequivocal terms the repeated acts of injustice and the violation of the most sacred rights of nations committed by your Excellency since the horrible assassination which took place on the 22d August. And in the presence of these, can there still be auy hesitation in maintaining that the respon- sibility of that outrage rests wholly upon the Chinese autho- rities of Canton?
Your Excellency says that during the period of two moons two trials were concluded. And what is there in this to be wondered at? Do not all those who have read your Excel- lency's Despatches know the mode in which those trials were conducted? Ifave not all seen that scarcely three days in- tervened between the apprehension and execution of Ben- chi-leong? By this way of administering justice, one should rather consider the period of two moons a very long one for the two trials, which your Excellency boasts of having des patched in that space of time, inasmuch as six days would have been sufficient: but it remains to be seen whether a similar proceeding in trials is authorized by the Law. And does your Excellency then wish that such subtleties and artifices, as revolting as they are iniquitous and infamous, should be a sufficient satisfaction for such an enormous and atrocious outrage?
It is certain that at the time the murder was committed, the post at the Barrier Gate was not abandoned, nor does it appear that the one at Mongha had been at that time va- cated; it is also certain, and your Excellency has just con- firmed the fact by the confession of Ko-Ahong, that the murderers passed freely through the Barrier Gate. That the officers entrusted with those posts are the ones answer- able, and through them the Government of Canton, needs no demonstration: however, it does not appear that they were even called to account; indeed, on the contrary, an anxious solicitude is only observable for the delivery of the three individuals belonging to the post at the Barrier Gate, to which release so much importance has been attached, that in order to obtain it, your Excellency has not scrupled to employ nefarious and iniquitous means, such as that of the exchange proposed by you.
It is true, as your Excellency told us, that Ben-chi-leong was apprehended and executed; but what certainty is there that he was the real murderer, and not merely a suppositi- tious criminal? Besides, it is already proved that the assas- sins who attacked the late Governor were seven in number, and although it has been already demonstrated by the nu-
merous wounds which were found in the corpse, that it was impossible for one man alone to put it in the pitiable state in which it was found, all mutilated, as the Tsotang bimself saw, nevertheless your Excellency pertinaciously Insists upon representing that unfortunate man as the only perpe- trator of the crime, and the others who were with him as mere spectators of that infernal deed, in the presence too of facts to the contrary which have been already legally con- firmed! In the confession of Ben-chi-leong, not the slightest allusion is made to his accomplices; this miserable wretch is there represented as the only criminal; and a mouth and a half after his execution, two more accomplices are dis- covered in a most singular way,-one of whom died in the act of being captured, and the other, though severely wounded, still lived to make a confession, different in many essential points from the first, and which those who will reflect a little will easily discover to have been dictated alone by the necessity-which, in the judgment of the person who dic- tated the first, existed of justifying the sentence of Sen-chi- leong, as the only murderer of the most Excellent Governor Amaral; as it is not difficult to discern the anxiety with which the criminal Ko-Ahong was made to say, that Sen- chi-leong alone was he who presented himself to His Excel- lency, spoke to him, attacked him, and, throwing him from bis horse, cut off his head and hand, being hardly assisted, by those who were with him, in the flight which he effected conjointly with them through the Harrier Gate. It escaped however the penetration of the writer of this confession that that the two men Ko-Ahong and Li-Apáo had been chosen it had already been stated in the commencement thereof,
to carry out the design.
The very palpable difference that exists between the two confessions is also worthy of remark, namely, that whilst in that of Sen-chi-leong the most studied silence is maintained about his accomplices, speaking of no one but himself, in that of Ko-Ahong, this man occupies himself almost ex elusively with Ben-chi-leong and his companions. It is also to be observed that the names of sundry others having been mentioned in this last confessiou, that of one Kam-Tong, whom the public voice affirms to have been one of the prin cipals, if not the principal himself in that atrocious and barbarous crime, is not introduced. And is it your Excel- lency's desire that with these and similar fictions and subtle- ties, all deceitful and unworthy even of a man, much more of a public functionary, the Portuguese Government should declare itselt satisfied, regarding the case as already settled, and all the enquiries respecting it as concluded? If this is your Excellency's belief, you will have to acknowledge some time bence that you were greatly deceived.
As to the justice of the demand which this Council made to your Excellency in their Despatch of the 3d ultimo, it was a very simple one. They merely required that your Ex- cellency should tell them, without circumlocutions, whether you would deliver them the head and hand of the deceased Governor, or whether you wished to traffic with these pre- cious remains ; nevertheless, your Excellency has not, up to this date, satisfied so simple a requisition, continuing to keep possession of those mutilated members, as a property of your own, no doubt because you are conscious of having acquired them by means which, in your Excellency's judgment, give you a right of disposing of them as may seem good to you, regardless of constituting yourself by this act a participator in the crime which gave you the possession of them.
This Council have already endeavoured to shew your Excellency the iniquity of the infamous traffic which you pro- posed to them, and the necessity of the head and band being restored to them without any condition or clause whatsoever, which this Council cannot, because they ought not to, admit. They have already, in short, caused your Excellency to see, that such an inbuman and unheard-of act, committed towards the person of the Representative of Her Most Faith- ful Majesty, amounts to an atrocious offence against the Sovereignty of Her Majesty, and an outrage to the Nation, to whom is due entire and condign reparation. In the face, therefore, of the extraordinary proceedings of your Excel- lency, and of your tenacious persistanee in remaining deaf to the voice of reason and justice; and, as this Council have already informed Her Majesty's Government of all that has taken place, nothing more is left them to do on the subject, but to protest again against your Excellency, holding you responsible for the assassination of the Most Excellent Governor Amaral; for the retention of his head and hand; for the violation of the rights of Her Majesty and the Por- tuguese Nation; and lastly, for all consequences whatsoever that may result, as well from that act, as from the unqualified proceedings of the Chinese authorities of Canton with regard to it. And, as it is requisite that full knowledge be had of all the circumstances of this unheard-of case, this Council are going to make them known to the Representatives of all the Foreign Nations resident here, as well as to the Govern. ments of all other friendly Powers allies of Her Majesty, by means of a Manifesto, of which a copy will also be forwarded to your Excellency.
In conclusion, this Council trust that after this reply of theirs, the meaning of the words of their last Despatch which your Excellency was pleased to call empty ones, will be sufficiently explained.
Macao, 7th November, 1849.
JERONIMO, Bishop of Macao.-JOAQUIM ANTONIO DE MORAES CARNBIRO-LUDGERO JOAQUIM DE FARIA NEVES -MIGUEL PERBIRA ŠIMÕES-JOE BERNARDO GOULARTE. -MANOEL PEREIRA.
to Viscount Palmerston,
"His Excellency Mr. Bonkam
reporting.
state
of affairs
transmitting
at Macas to date, and
the founcil's
Documents.
Manifesto with other
29
th. Dicember, 1849.
i
i 3.
414
+
j
No. 120 of 1849
Inclosure No. 2 in Desp:
(Copy)
*
and of the latter's reply.
communication to francil Printed copy of Sen's
and y. November, 1849.
:
415
(Franslation.)
Sir, Viceroy of Hwangting and Kwangsi,
&c.
I have received the Despatch of the Noble Council of the 25th day of the
the
}
th
9
moon
and having made myself acquainted
of
with its contents about the murder
Governor Amaral, proceed to reply, that
Sen - chi- as the aggressor Tow che leong
apprehended at Shontak, a place not far from the capital
there within
ho
мал
täken.
diately
a day, and immediatel
a day,
tried and sentenced, in order to avoid-
delays
in
the examinations. By thus
proceeding with the execution without :
there still be any
of time, can Besides, this case of beheading
loss
doubt here?
a criminal
is not one to be tre
to be trifled with . Sen-chi-bong
made a deposition and afterwards confirmed the same, and it was in
consequence of his confession that the
i
place where the head and hand had been
buried was discovered. Can it still be said
that this individual was a
was a suppos
supposititions
criminal, and was not the real aggressor ? If in all these circumstances doubts are entertained, the life of
consequence ;.
man id
нан
ma
is of great.
the exccution could not be
a word about
this carried into effect without the family of Sen chiling attering it . As to the depositions of Tenchi long and Ho.. thong, as each of them expressed. himself according to his
own
there
way,
ference in some circumstances;
has been a difference
but there
was no discordance in
the
fact,
in
and all of them have acknowledged.
and the others : their Depositions Ro-thong to be the accomplices, but did not mention the individual Ham - Tong. Are not the Depocitions of the Criminals sufficient
to serve as documents, when rumours are
still believed. ? "With regard to Ro thong
!
:
and others who ran
Barrier gate,
away through the
ran away
as ow
already approaching
that occasion
on night
416
was
the soldiers at that
post could not, in the midst of such a
hurry, recognize them in order to stop them. This is a
very simple reason,
how
an quilt be brought home to these
car
them
soldiers ?
A deputed officer
was sent to
take the head and hand of Governor Amarat,
to be delivered up ; but the noble Council having kept back the three soldiers belunging without setting them free, the
to the gate, without se
the
o
of
said- officer could not take upon himself
Here is the cause responsibility . Here.
and of this confusion All things
the delay,
.
things should be managed_
with reflection, and in propor termes ; obstinacy cannot bring affairs to a conclusion . This then depends
serious consideration on
on a
the part of the
Doble Council.
This is all I have to answer to
the Council of the Portuguese Governments. 10th mom, 9th day. ( 23rd November, 1849).
Translated by
Me..
João Rodrigues Gonsalves.
True Copy
Signed) A.
t. J. de Miranda.
Fruve. Franslation -
S G
Aigned) L. d' Almada e fastra
Tone Copy
Maine
Colonial Secretar
bcretary.
Castro.
*
MANIFESTO
OF
THE COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT OF THE PROVINCE OF MACAO, TIMOR, AND SOLOR.
OR
A Declarative Exposition of the Proceedings of the Chinese Authorities of the Province of Canton, in relation to the disastrous Event which occurred at Macao on the 22d day of August, 1849.
Called by law to assume the Government of the Province of Macao, Tiraor, and Bolor, in consequence of the demise of its Governor, the Most Excellent Councillor Joað MARIA FERREIRA DO AMARAL, barbarously and treache→ rously assassinated on the evening of the 220 August last, this Council have since then found themselves at issue with as extreme bad faith as has ever characterized the proceedings of any Government. To investigate carefully the origin of the atrocious and brutal outrage from which the barbarous assassination of the first authority of the Province resulted; to discover the authors and the principal actors of that diabolical conspiracy; and to detect the per- petrators and accomplices of that abominable crime; in conclusion, to promote, by all means within their reach, the exact and perfect knowledge of all the circumstances of this deplorable event, which placed in their hands the reing of the Government,-were the cares with which the Council forthwith occupied themselves, from the first moment they shared the management of the public affairs of the Province, on the night of the 22d August last.
The crime having been committed by Chinese subjects, who, after perpetrating it, took refuge within the territory belonging to the Dominions of their Government, as was Immediately known by the testimony of the Aide-de-Camp who was in company with the Governor, and who was also attacked, thrown off his horse, and wounded on the same occasion; all the measures to be emplyed by this Council were limited to demands addressed to the Chinese anthori- ties, who, however, far from assisting, as it beloved them. the efforts of the Portuguese Government, appear to have desired nothing more than to interpose difficulties and obstacles, which might completely frustrate and impede the exact knowledge of the trutlı.
The public have already seen that this Council have not ceased to call the attention of those authorities to the fultil- ment of that which outraged Justice, infringed Laws, and violated Rights, demanded of them; but they, obstinately persisting in refusing the satisfaction on every ground due to the just demands of this Council, continue in their stubborn and inexplicable determination of shutting their ears to the voice of Reason and Justice,
If the circumstances which preceded the horrible murder Buthorized the strong presumptions at first entertained, of its having been, if not autlanrized, at least encouraged by the Chinese authorities, those which followed have certainly abundantly justified such presumptions; and the subsequent conduct of these authorities has raised those presumptions to such a height, that they cannot but be accepted as proofs of their complicity in the atrocious crime, the responsibility of which, far from attempting to remove by the efforts they should have employed to throw it off themselves, they have progressively aggravated to such a point that at present the whole of it attaches to them ex clusively,
All the measures, therefore, which it behoved them to take for the purpose of bringing the Chinese authorities to reason, having been frustrated, and all the means which they could avail themselves of laving been exhausted, nothing else was left to the Cormeil but to protest, as they in effect did, against the Viceroy of Canton, and to place to his charge all the responsibility that attaches to him from that event, leaving intuet the right of Her Most Faithful Majesty to demand the satisfaction which is due to Her Sovereignty, atrociously violated and outraged in the person Still, however, it re- of Her Representative at Macao. mained obligatory on this Council to make manifest all the odious proceedings of the Chinese authorities in relation to that deplorable event, for the purpose of establishing clearly and evidently their responsibility, and to make known the bad faith, which, from the commencement, has characterized their conduct; inasmucli ax, although the offence, which results from their acts, is more directly offered to the So- vereignty of Her Most Faithful Majesty, an account of the outrage having been eminitted on the person of fer in- mediate Representative in China, it is nevertheless of such a nature that, being against the Law of Nations, it camot fail to injure the interests not only of those countries which have relations with this empire, and which are represented
therein, but also of all those which enjoy the benefits of civilization. The rights infringed are of immutable reason, and the cause outraged that of all mankind, in which all the civilized nations of the world are directly interested. It is, therefore, in fulfilment of this obligation that the Council of Government of the Province of Macao, Timor, and Solor publish the present Manifesto, in which it is their intention to offer to the consideration of the Representatives of the Foreign Powers in China-of the Governments of all friendly Nations allies of Her Most Faithful Majesty, and to that of the whole civilized world, a plain and faithful ex- position of all that has taken place since the tragical event of the 220 August last, as well as to lay before them all the acts committed by the Chinese Government of Canton, in order that all may know and duly appreciate the conduct of this Government in relation to that act, and the responsi- bility which in consequence attaches to it.
The first news of this melancholy event had hardly reach- ed the city, when, even amidst the general consternation which it spread among its inhabitants, the public voice was already unanimous in accusing the Chinese authorities of And, indeed, all having connived at this horrible outrage. the circumstances which attended it authorized that opinion, which subsequent proceedings have abundantly shewn to be sufficiently well founded.
Beven Chinese in disguise attack the person of the Gover- nor of Macso in full daylight, in the middle of a public road, in sight of and at a short distance from a Barrier guarded by Chinese soldiers, and throwing him from the horse on which he is mounted to the ground, stab him nust cruelly, cut off his head and only band, and, carrying with them these mutilated members still palpitating, pass safe and sound through that saine Barrier, where they do not meet with the least hinderance, and go to take refuge within the territory belonging to the Dominions of their own Govern- ment, in spite of the restrictions of the Chinese laws them- selves regarding the passage of Barriers, according to which it is evident that the assassins must have been furnished with a permit which would secure to them a free passage, not only through the Barrier Gate, but also through all the stations and posts which extend from thence to Shon-tak, through the whole of which they effectively passed unmolest- ed. Such boldness can hardly be supposed in guilty persons, nor does so much audacity characterize the minds of vile assassins. The safety only of impunity, and the certainty of support and protection, can afford a clue to such an event, otherwise inexplicable. Besides this, a few months pre- vious, incendiary placarda had been publicly affixed, under the eyes of the Viceroy Seu, in the capital of his own Pro- vince, offering rewards for the head of the Governor of Macao, without the Chinese authorities taking any measures whatever to check similar excesses, and this at the very time that the Viceroy himself, in defiance of the express stipulations of the last Treaties, obstinately refused to re- cognize the Consul of Her Most Faithful Majesty at Canton, and was opposing serious impediments to the lawful cana- merce of Portuguese subjects at that Port. These facts, therefore, at once made it evident that if the Chinese au- thorities did not authorize, they at least countenanced, the assassination of Governor Ainaral, and this Council so declared in the Protest which they addressed to the Vice- roy of Canton on the 23d of August, (Doc. A, 3 en 84-1 and still more explicitly in their Despatch of the 31st of the same month (Doc. C, 4m-90 ) in reply to that of the Viceroy of the 27th (Doc. B, 3m 90) in which he not only had the indecency to omit, with studied care, the most remote expression of regret on the occasion of this diseaLYONS occurrence, which all generally lamented, but was even so senseless as therein to demonstrate unequivocally his own animosity towards the person of the deceased, scarcely dis- guised by the affected surprise with which he pretended to have received the news.
But these are not the only facts which justify these con- clusions against the Chinese authorities; others still more significant, and which have only latterly manifested them- selves, constitute the most irrefutable proufs of their parti- Such are, the fore- eipation and complicity in the evinde,
Note. The numbers inserted between parentheses refer to the. Inclosures
in suspatches addressed by Governor Bonham to The Earl Grey.
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sight and caution with which the fort at Passallião was carrisoned; the numerous pieces of artillery which were mounted on all the surrounding eminences, from that point as far as beyond the Caza Branca; the large bodies of urined then who were assembled at the several posts near Macao; and other measures taken in anticipation. And can it still, in presence of all this, be doubted that the Chinese authorities bad entered into the plan, perhaps laid down by themselves, and countenanced its excention ? By what
was however upon the strength of this same informal con- fession that the Viceroy Seu signed his sentence, by virtue of which Sen-chi-leong was executed, all justice being thus disregarded, and all laws trampled upon, not excepting even the Chinese. The illegality of this proceeding is sufficiently demonstrated in the Despatch from this Council of the 25th September (Doc. F, 4 in- 981 and although the Viceroy in his letter of the 28th of the same month (Doc. Q. 9 in 98,1 endeavours ineffectively to maintain that all legal
his reasons have nothing better than mere assertions to sup- port them, contradicted as they are by the facts established by himself.
other means can the adoption of chose measures be explain-formalities required in such cases were observed, nevertheless ed, all of them preventive ones, as was better seen on the 25th day of August, if their object had been other than an attack on Macao, for which undoubtedly the murder of the Governor was to have been the signal agreed upon? and, had not the plan been frustrated by the promptitude and energy with which the blow was prevented, God knows how far it night have extended! a circumstance which certainly will not he reputed trivial, if the disposition with which it had been premeditated be considered.
The post at the Harrier, or the Barrier Gate, had been abandoned by the Chinese Guard the same evening of the nurder, three individuals only being found there, who after- wards stated they belonged to the same Guard, and who, as they were eye-witnesses of the act, were detained here to give evidence respecting it, and be adduced as witnesses in the investigation.
Inder these circumstances, and in eontenaplation of the evident danger of an impending invasion with which the settlement was threatened, in the presence of a considerable anned force that at every moment was increasing around it, it was indispensable for the Portuguese Government of Macao to take those precautionary measures which necessity and prudence pointed out as the most urgently demanded for safety and self-defence, by which they were abundantly justified. Of these measures the most provident of all was perhaps the temporary occupation of the Barrier by a Portuguese Force, which the Government ordered to be posted there on the morning of the 25th August, in order that that pass might not be left open to the invasion which threatened the settle- ment; and the efforts that the Chinese immediately made to dislodge us from that point slew well enough the im portance they attached to it, and how anxious they were that their passage through it might not be cut off The eontest which took place on that day, and which terminated successfully for us, was provoked by the aggression on the part of the Chinese, who first opened a fire upon the Por- tuguese, both froin the Fort at Passalhão aud various points which were then seen to be fortified on the neighbouring heights, and which was kept up without flagging from 10 o'clock in the morning until 4 in the afternoon, when it became necessary for the Portuguese Force to silence it. and, in order to be able to maintain their post, as the safety and defence of the settlement urgently required, to proceed to dislodge the Chinese from all their positions, returning immediately to their post at the Barrier, which they con- tinned to occupy whilst it was necessary, It was during this contest that the treacherous intentions of the Chinese were most clearly manifested; in proportion as our small force marched forward, means of aggression were discovered, which with so much precaution they had prepared beforehand.
Hitherto it has been seen with perfect clearness that the assassination of Governor Amaral was but the result of a plan of vast design, previously laid down, for the development of which that outrage was merely the first step taken; it being also evident (from the facts established, that the presumption that the Chinese Authorities, being aware of it, lent the necessary aid for its complete execution, was well founded. It remains now to be seen how far the subsequent conduct of the same Authorities has justified that pre- sumption; and finally, to establish their immediate and direct responsibility for the crime afterwards consumimated.
If the conduct of the Chinese Authorities prior to that set evinces the previous knowledge which they had of it, their participation and concurrence in it are certainly not less evident when their subsequent conduct is considered. The subtleties and contradictions so palpable in all their cor- respondence-which strongly displays an excessive anxiety to disfigure and even to deny public and notorious facts, and to prevent as much as possible the exact knowledge of those which depended upon enquiries-abundantly reveal all their ill-will in an affair so serious and of so much gravity; and their immediate interest that the truth should never appear, doubtless because in this they had pledged themselves to keep it back, manifests also their own criminality.
The simple perusal of the Documents herein referred to is sufficient to shew the little fairness and good faith which have presided over all the acts of the aforesaid Authorities in this affuir, especially from the time of the capture of the pretended criminal Sen-ebi-leong, until the refusal to restore the members robbed from the illustrious deceased. IIow- ever, this Council cannot refrain from pointing out in this place some of the most remarkable circumstances, in order that the justice and truth of their assertions may be the better seen.
On the 12th September,-twenty-one days after the crime had been committed,-one of the Criminals is apprehended at Shon-tok, and the head and hand discovered buried at Sam-Tim (Doc. D, 3 in- 98) and three days have hardly elapsed, when the criminal is executed on the morning of the 15th, a copy of his confession being transmitted to this
Council, (Doc. E, & in 90 which being erroneous and false, as it did not agree with the circumstances of the crime, is deficient in all forms and particulars necessary in order to be accepted as sufficient proof of the criminal's guilt. It
The Viceroy states that the crimina! Sen-chi-leong, ap- prehended on the 12th September, was first examined by the Mandarin of Blon-tak, who took down his depositions-that from thence he was taken to the Tribunal of the Town, and from this to that of the City-that he was afterwards brought before that of the Criminal Judge, and thence to that of the Lieutenant-Governor,-and lastly, that after being tried by the Viceroy himself, conjointly with the last named func tionary, he was by His Excellency sentenced to suffer the extreme penalty of the law, which was carried into effect on the morning of the 15th, he being taken bound to the scaffold. Now, even admitting that all these proceedings are in conformity with the Laws of the Empire to which His Excellency appeals, as if he had conformed to them, how is it possible to believe that in the short space of three days, not all the formalities of a criminal process of so mucli importance, but those only which are above enumerated, could have been complied with? All that is seen of so many interrogatories, examinations, depositions, &c., is, that the mero confession of the criminal himself, upon which his sentence was grounded, constitutes the sole proof of his guilt. Sen-chi-Icong, therefore, was not a convicted criminal, and even supposing that he was the real assassin, he cannot be regarded legally as such. The confession of the criminal himself is not sufficient proof to condemn him, as justice requires that evidence of the crime should be obtained solely from facts and the depositions of witnesses, and not from a confession, which has all the appearance of being apocryphal, and which, if it proves anything in the present case, it is surely, that the end of all this fictitious process was ratlier to draw up a long chapter of accusations against the late Governor, than to take cognizance of the abominable and atrocious crime, of which he was the victim; it being worthy of remark that, by a singular coincidence, these are the same accusations that, having first appeared in the Placards posted at Canton, were repeated in the first Fespatch from the Viceroy-that of the 27th August-and afterwards ar- ranged for the confession of Sen-chi-leong, from which they were further adopted in that of Ko-Aliong (Doc. V, 17 in 98. The precipitate execution of Sen-chi-leong could alone satisfy the reat criminals, and the Authorities who so sum- marily sentenced him, and ordered him to be executed in such an informal manner, evidently promoted and served the interests of the real authors of the crime, hindering the means of these being known and the whole truth of the case discovered, as was the better manifested at the capture of Ko-Ahong. Between this man's e infession, which is another tissue of palpable falsehooda, as was demonstrated by this Council in their Despatch of the 7th instant (Doc. 7,2ım 120. and that of Sen-chi-leong, remarkable contradictions are met with in several essential points, and the confronting of the criminals, which is the means pointed out of arriving in such cases at the truth of the facts, was rendered impos- sible by the execution of Sen-chi-leong beforehand, to the grave prejudice of Justice, and the violation of Law,
Proceeding with the facts in their regular order, we have now to examine the unjust detention of the mutilated members of the deceased Governor; and, indeed, of all the acts of the Chinese authorities on the occasion of this deplorable event, this is the one in which their extreme bad faith is most conspicuous, and which affords the most con- vincing proof of their connivance and participation in the crime.
If these authorities could by any means succeed in re- moving from themselves the responsibility which attaches to thern in consequence of their proceedings prior to this oc- eurrence, this act of theirs would alone be sufficient to condemn them. Could they even prove that the death of Governor Amaral was the work of mere assassins, the re- tention of the severed members by the Viceroy is no longer the work of these, nor do they share the responsibility of the abject and degrading advantage that was intended to be gained thereby.
The Viceroy, if he were sincere, should have forthwith said in his letter of the 16th September, that the delivery of the three Chinese detained here must be a sine quả non condition for the restitution of the head and hand but he did not act an; be informed the Council that he had sent those remains in charge of a deputed officer, merely pointing out the release of the three Chinese abovementioned, not as & condition, but as a consequence of the restitution of the same remains; at the same time that he gave positive orders to the deputed officer not to deliver up his charge as he had written to the Council, but to traffic with it on his behalf, and to purchase in exchange for it the release of the said Chinese.
This stipulation was for the first time introduced in the chop from the Tsotang of the 20th September (Doc. G, bin 98 ) in which lie says that, in order to shew good faith, it was pro- par that the three men should be first given up; but although
in his chops (Doc. I, J, M, 0, 6 98 ) subsequent to
the reply made to him on that occasion by the Procurador of the City, (Doc. II, b in 98 ) he always alluded to the delivery of those individuals, it is nevertheless evident from the terms of the same chops, and from the very explicit and positive declaration contained in the answer from the Procurador, that the tone of that demand was greatly modified, and the Tsotang, no doubt to shew good faith, no longer insisted upon it as an indispensable con- dition to the delivery of the head and hand; and it was only repeated in the above sense in his second chop of the 26th September (Doc. M, 6 in-98 forwarded however at daybreak on the 27th, and a little before the hour that had, at his request, been fixed for him to deliver up the remains at the Barrier Gate
From this moment all the artifice of this infamous in- trigue was known, and no time was lost in pointing out to the Tsotang, in the letter that was written to him on the nurning of the 27th (Doc. N, bin- 98), the irregularity of his proceedings. But this Council, wishing still to afford the Vicorny an opportunity of escaping from the grave position in which he had inconsiderately placed himself, wrote to him the following day (Doc. R. 5 in 98) acquainting him with what had happened, and attributing all the responsibility of that act to the Mandarins, his subordinates; but what was their astonishment when they found, amidst the circum- loentions and contradictions with which the letter that the Viceroy addressed to them in reply on the 30th September (Doc. 8, 10 in 98) abounds, that is Excellency not only confirmed and acknowledged the condition insisted on by the deputed officer, but also expressed for the first time the opinion that the affair was already terminated by the payment of life for life!
The subtlety with which it was sought in this letter to confound the question of the murder of the Governor of the Province, with that of the retention of his mutilated mem- hers, for the obvious purpose of taking advantage of it in support of the argument already adduced in a previous letter, that the three Chinese belonging to the Barrier Gate detained at Macao bave nothing to do with this question, is Indeed astonishing; but from this subtlety nothing resulted but a palpable contradiction; inasmuch as, it being evident that the question alluded to in the letter is that of the reten- tion of the head and hand, and the Viceroy acknowledging that the three Chinese detained have nothing to do with it, it is nevertheless His Excellency himself who pretends that its termination is dependent upon their release. This is arguing reasonably, as His Excelleney says should be done, and not according to one's more inelinations!
The object of the Viceroy being, as is easily seen, to elude the principal point of the question, so as to avoid a precise answer, and this Council being desirous of cutting off all pretext for new cavils, which the want of perfect clearness in the correspondence might afterwards afford, further ad- dressed to the Viceroy their Despatch of the 3d October (Doc. T, // in- 4g) in which they required of him an ex- plicit and categorical declaration, whether he would deliver
up the head and hand retained in his possession, or whether he persisted in keeping possession of those remains, in order to traffic with them, as was his original intention. But His Excelleney having maintained a perfect silence up to the 14th, wrote on that day to the Council, (Doc. U, 77 in 98.) informing them of the capture of Ko-ahong, and transmitted the confession of this man, without however making the slightest allusion to the Despatel from this Council of the 3d, on which account a Duplicate of it was sent to him, with another Despatch of the 22d (Doe. X, not Jent ), to which His Excellency at last replied on the 1st November (Doc. Y, 2 in /20), not with the clearness and precision which had been required of him, but with new evasions entirely foreign to our question, persisting still on this occasion to regard the case as dealt with, that is to say, settled and concluded, and still requiring the release of the three men detained; by which it is easily seen that the Viceroy is excessively interested from motives which must be well known to His Excellency.
The necessity of occupying themselves with the present task has been extremely disagreeable to this Council, but they feel it to be imperative on them not to leave unpro- claimed manifest and irrefutable, although pungent and bitter, truths, which lot been unjustly provoked, in order to establish and fix by unquestionable facts the responsibility of that iniquitous outrage on the head of him to whom it belongs; the expositions and documents brought forward in this Manifesto appearing to them sufficiently to prove,➡
1st, That the treacherous and barbarous assassination of the Councillor Joao Maria Ferreira do Amaral, Governor of this Province, was nothing else than the consequence of a premeditated plan of aggression, for the development of which this act was the first stop agreed upon.
2dly, That if this plan was not concocted with the concur- rence of the Chinese authorities, its execution was counten. anced by them.
3dly, That the same authorities, by refusing to satisfy the just demanda made on them, and with which they were bound to comply, and by committing other acts in violation of the Law of Nations, constituted themselves participators in the crime which by the same law they were bound to punish.
4thly, That, in conelusion, all the responsibility of this atrocious crime, and of all its consequences, attaches to the same authorities, for which responsibility this Council again protest, renewing all their former protests, which they hereby ratify, in the hope that this responsibility will one day be mada effective for the satisfaction and redress of outraged Rights trampled under foot. Justice, of violated Laws, and of so inany and so sacred
Macao, 26th November, 1849.
JERONIMO, Bishop of Macao.-JOAQUIM ANTONIO DE MORAES CARNEIRO.-LUDGERO JOAQUIM DE FARIA NEVES, -MIGUEL PEREIRA SINOES-JOES BERNARDO GOULARTE, -MANOEL PERKIRA,
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MANIFESTO.
Chamado por lei a assumir o Governo da Provin cia de Macao, Timor, e Solor em consequencia da mor- te do Governador d'ella o Exmo. Conselheiro João Maria Ferreira do Amaral, barbara e traiçoeiramente, assassi- nado na tarde de 22 de Agosto ultimo, este Conselho se tem visto desde então a braços com a mais requintada má fé, que tem já mais characterisado a marcha de al- gum governo conhecido. Investigar cuidadosamente a origem do attentado atroz e brutal de que resultou o barbaro assassinio da Primeira Authoridade da Provin- cia; conhecer os authores e os principaes fautores d'- aquella diabolica conspiração,e descubrir os perpetradores e cumplices d'aquelle abominavel crime; promover final- mente por todos os meios ao seu alcance o conhecimento exacto e perfeito de todas as circunstancias do deplora- vel accontecimento, que lle poz nas mãos as redeas d'es- te Governo, eis aqui os cuidados de que logo se occupou o Conselho, desde o primeiro instante em que lhe coube a gerencia dos negocios publicos da Provincia, na noite de 22 de Agosto proximo findo.
Tendo sido o crime commettido por subditos chine- zes, que, depois de o perpetrarem, se refugiaram ao a- brigo do territorio do dominio do seu Governo, como im- mediatamente se soube, pelo testemunho do Ajudante d'Ordens, que ia em companhia do Governador, e foi tambem accommettido; derribado do seu cavallo; e ferido na mesma occasião, as diligencias todas que tinham de ser empregadas por parte deste Conselho, se limitavam a re- clamações dirigidas ás authoridades chinezas; as quaes comtudo, bem longe de coadjuvar, como lhes cumpria, os esforços do Governo portuguez, parecem não ter querido mais que oppôr entraves e embaraços, que completamen- te os inutilizassem, e empecessem o exacto conhecimen- to da verdade.
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Já o publico tem visto, como este Conselho não tem, cessado de chamar a attenção d'aquelias Authoridades ao cumprimento do que d'ellas exigiam a Justiça affron- tada, as Leis offendidas, e os Direitos violados; mas ellas, teimando pertinazmente em negar a satisfação por todos os titulos devida âs justas reclamações deste Conselho,con- tinuam no seu obstinado e inexplicavel proposito de cer- rar os ouvidos ás vozes da razão e da justiça.
Se as circunstancias, que precederam o horroroso as- sassinio, authorisavam as fortes presumpções, que logo no principio se estabeleceram, de haver elle sido, se não au- thorisado, pelo menos apoiado pelas authoridades chi- nezas; as que se lhe seguiram de certo as tem de sobejo justificado; e a conducta posterior das mesmas authori dades tem ellevado aquellas presumpçoës a um grao tal, que não podem menos de serem acceitas como provas da sua cumplicidade no crime atroz, cuja responsabilida- de, longe de attenuarem com os esforços que fizeram para a desviar de si, ellas tem progressivamente aggravado, a ponto de ja hoje lhes pertencer toda ella exclusiva-
mente.
Baldadas por tanto todas as diligencias, que lhe cum- pria empregar à fim de chamar as authoridades chine- zas á razão, e esgotados todos os meios de que para a- quelle fim podia servir-se, nada mais restava ao Conse- lho fazer senão protestar, como effectivamente o fez contra o Vice-Rei de Cantão; e pôr a seu cargo toda a responsabilidade que d'aquelle accontecimento The resul- ta, deixando livre e salvo o Direito a S. Magestade Fi- dellissima para exigir a satisfação que é devida á Sua Soberania attrozmente offendida, e ultrajada, na pessoa do Seu Representante em Macao. Ainda assim ficava a este Conselho a obrigação de fazer patente todo o pro- cedimento odioso das Authoridades Chinezas, em rela- ção a aquelle deploravel accontecimento, a fim de estabe- lecer clara e evidentemente a sua responsabilidade, e fazer ver a má fé, que desde o principio tem characterisado sua conducta; por quanto, posto que a offensa, que dos.
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seus actos resulta, seja mais directamente dirigida à So- berania de S. Magestade Fidellissima, por haver sido o attentado commettido na Pessoa do seu immediato Re- presentante na China; ella é com tudo da natureza d'a- quellas, que,por attentatorias do Direito Publico das Gen- tes, não podem deixar de ferir tambem os interesses não só das Nações que tem relaçoes neste Imperio, e que são nelle representadas, mas os de todas as mais que gosam do beneficio da civilisação. Os principios offendidos são de eterna rasão, e a cauza ultrajada, a da humanidade inteira, na qual em geral são directamente interessadas todas as Nações civilisadas do Mundo inteiro. E pois em desempenho d'aquella obrigação que o Conselho do Go- verno da Provincia de Macao, Timor, e Solor vem hoje publicar o presente Manifesto, com o qual é seu intento offerecer á consideração dos Representantes das Poten- cias estrangeiras na China,-dos Governos de todas as Naçoes Amigas e alliadas de S. Magestade Fidellissima, -e á de todo o Mundo civilisado, uma exposição singela e fiel de tudo quanto se tem passado desde o tragico accontecimento do dia 22 d'Agosto ultimo, e bein assim patentear-lhes os actos todos praticados pelo Governo Chinez da Provincia de Cantão, a fim de que seja de todos conhecida e devidamente avaliada a conduc- ta do mesmo Governo em relação aquelle facto, e a res- ponsabilidade que delle lhe resulta.
Apenas chegára á Cidade a primeira noticia d'aquelle triste accontecimento, e no meio ainda da geral conster- nação, que ella veio espalhar entre os seus habitantes, ja a voz publica era unanime em accuzar as Authoridades Chinas como conniventes naquelle horroroso attentado. E com effeito as circunstancias todas, que o accompa- nharam, authorisavam aquella opinião, que factos poste- riores de sobejo mostraram ser assaz bem fundada.
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Sette Chinas disfarçados accommettem a pessoa Governador de Macao á luz do dia, no meio de uma es- trada publica, á vista, e curta distancia de uma Barreira guarnecida por Soldados Chinezes, e dirribando-o do
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cavallo, em que ia montado, o deitam em terra, ferem- no desapiedadamente, e decepam-lhe a cabeça e a uni- ca mão; e, levando comsigo estes membros mutilados ain- da palpitantes, passam a são e salvo por aquella mesma Barreira, onde não encontram o menor embaraço, e vão refugiar-se ao abrigo do territorio do dominio do seu proprio governo a despeito das restricções das mesmas leis Chinezas sobre a passagem das Barreiras, á vista das quaes é evidente, que os assassinos deviam d'estar munidos de ordem superior, que lhes franqueasse o passo livre não só pela Porta do Cerco, mas por todas as esta- ções, e vigias quantas vão dalli até Shon-Tac, que todas effectivamente passaram incolumes. Tal arrojo mnal se po- de suppôr em homens criminosos, nem cabe tanta audacia ein animo de vis sicarios. Só a segurança d'impunidade, e a certeza d'apoio e protecção podem ministrar a chave de um similhante accontecimento aliaz inexplicavel. Alem disto havia apenas alguns mezes que se tinham affixado publicamente e debaixo das vistas do Vice-Rei Siu, na Capital da sua propria Provincia pasquins incendiarios, offerecendo premios pela Cabeça do Governador de Ma- cao, sem que as authoridades chinezas curassem se quer de cohibir similhantes excessos, e isto ao passo, que o mesmo Vice-Rei, contra as espressas estipulações dos ultimos Tratados, se negava caprichosamente a reco- nhecer o Consul de Sua Magestade Fidellissima no Por- to de Cantão, e oppunha serios embaraços ao commer- cio legal dos subditos portuguezes n'aquelle porto. Estes factos pois fizeram para logo conhecer, que, se as Autho- ridades Chinas não authorisaram, pelos menos apoiaram o assassinio do Governador Amaral, e este Conselho as- sim o declarou no protesto, que dirigio ao Suntó de Can- tão no dia 23 d'Agosto (doc. A),e ainda mais explicitamen- te no seu officio de 31 do mesmo mez (doc.C) em resposta ao do mesmo Sunto de 27 (doc.B) na qual não só teve elle a pouca delicadeza de omittir, com estudado cuidado, a mais leve expressão de sentimento por occasião da desastrosa occurrencia, que todos em geral lamentavam,
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mas ainda o desacordo de deixar ali consignadas de- monstrações nada equivocas da sua propria animosidade contra a pessoa do fallecido, apenas mal disfarçada pela affectada surpresa com que pretendeo ter recebido a no- ticia.
Não são porem estes os unicos factos, que justificam aquellas inducçoes contra as Authoridades Chinas; ou- tros ainda mais significativos, e que só posteriormente se manifestaram, constituem provas as mais irrecuzaveis da sua participação e cumplicidade no crime. Taes são a prevenção e cautella, com que se guarneceo a fortaleza de Passaleão; a numerosa artilheria, que se assestou em toda a extenção dos pontos eminentes, desde esta povoa- ção até alem da Casa Branca; o grande ajuntamento de gente armada que se reunio em os differentes pontos pro- ximos de Macao, e outras medidas tomadas com antici- pação. E poderá ainda á vista disto duvidar-se, que as Authoridades Chinas tivessem entrado no plano, quiçã por ellas mesmas traçado, opoiando a execução delle? Porque outro modo se explicará a adopção d'aquellas me- didas, todas ellas de prevenção, como melhor se vio no dia 25 de Agosto, se outro era o seu objecto, que não a aggressão de Macao, para a qual sem duvida devêra ter sido o assassinio do Governador o signal convencionado? e, a não se haver desconcertado o plano pela promptidão e energia com que foi previnido a tempo o golpe, sabe Deos até que ponto se estenderia o seu alcance, que de certo se não ha de reputar trivial, se for avaliado pelas dis- posições com que fôra premeditado.
O Posto da Barreira, ou a Porta do Cerco, havia sido abandonada pela guarda chineza na mesma noite do as- sassinio, sendo ali encontrados apenas tres individuos, que ao depois disseram pertencer á mesma guarda, os quaes, como fossem testemunhas occulares do facto, fo- ram aqui detidos para dar evidencia d'elle, e dizer como testemunhas no Processo.
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mento, em presença da consideravel força armada, que a cada instante ia avultando em torno d'elle, foi indispen- savel ao Governo Portuguez de Macao tomar as medi- das de precaução, que a necessidade e a prudencia indica- vam como as mais urgentemente reclamadas pela segu. rança e deffesa propria, que de sobejo as justificavam. Destas medidas foi talvez a mais providente de todas, a occupação temporaria da Barreira por uma força por- tugueza, que ali mandou postar o Governo na manhã do dia 25, a fim de não deixar aquelie passo franco á inva- são, que ameaçava o Estabelecimento; e os esforços, que desde logo fizeram os Chinas para nos desalojar d'aquel- le ponto, assaz demonstram o valor que lhe davam, e o quanto empenhados estavam, em que por ali lhe não fosse cortada a passagem. O conflicto que nesse dia teve lugar, e que terminou com fortuna nossa, foi provocado pela aggressão provinda da parte dos Chinas, que rompendo primeiro o fogo sobre a gente portugueza, assim da For- taleza de Passaleão, como de varios pontos, que então ap- pareceran fortificados nas eminencias visinhas, o sus- tentaram com todo o calor desde as 10 boras da manha até as 4 da tarde, quando foi preciso á força portugueza, faze-lo calar, e, para poder conservar a sua posição, como altamente o reclamavam a segurança e deffesa do Esta- belecimento, ir desaloja-los de todas as suas posições voltando logo depois ao seu posto na Barreira, que con- tinou a occupar em quanto foi necessario; sendo durante este conflicto, que mais claramente se manifestaram os in- tentos traiçoeiros dos chinas, á medida que na marcha da nossa piquena força se iain descubrindo os meios de aggressão, com que elles tão anticipadamente se haviam previnido.
Até aqui se tem visto com toda a clareza que o as- sassinio do Governador Amaral não foi se não o resulta- do de um plano previamente traçado, e de mũi vasto al- cance, para cujo desenvolvimento aquelle attentado fô- ra apenas o primeiro passo dado; sendo tambem eviden- te, á vista dos factos estabelecidos, que era bem fundada
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a presumpção de que as Authoridades Chinezas, conscias d'elle, prestaram o auxilio necessario para a sua complé ta execução, Resta agora ver até que ponto a conducta posterior das inesmas authoridades veio justificar aquel- la presumpção, e estabelecer a final a sua inmediata e directa responsabilidade pelo crime depois d'elle consun- mado.
Se a conducta das Authoridades Chinezas anterior áquelle facto evidencéa o conhecimento previo que d'elle tinham, não é de certo menos evidente a sua participação e concurrencia n'elle á vista da sua conducta posterior. As argucias e contradicções, que tão palpaveis são em toda sua correspondencia, a qual se resente fortemente de um excessivo. empenho de desfigurar, e até mesmo ne- gar, factos publicos, e notorios, e empecer quanto era possivel o exacto conhecimento d'aquelles que depen- diam de averiguações, revelam sobejamente todo o seu despeito em um assumpto ¡ão serio, e de tanta gravida- de, e o seu immediato interesse em que nunca appareces- se a verdade, sem duvida por que nisso es tinha empe- nhadas a conciencia de ficar, com ella, manifesta tam- bem a sua propria criminalidade.
A simples leitura dos documentos aqui appensos basta para mostrar a pouca lealdade, e boa fé que tem presidido a todos os actos das refferidas authoridades neste negocio, mũi especialmente desde a prisão do pretendido réo Sen-Chi-Leong, até a recusa da restituição dos mem- bros roubados ao Illustre Finado; comtudo este Conse- lho se não dispensará de apontar neste lugar algumas das circunstancias mais notaveis, para que melhor se ve- ja a justiça, e a verdade das suas asserções.
No dia 12 de Septembro, isto é, vinte e um dias, depois de perpetrado o crime, é preso um dos réos em Shon-Tac, e descubertas a cabeça e a mão ( doc. D ) enterradas em Sam-Tim, e passados apenas tres dias, é o réo justiçado na manhã do dia 15., sendo remettida a este Conselho uma copia de sua confissão ( doc E ), que sobre ser erronea e falsa, por não combinar com as cir-
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cunstancias do crime, carece de todas as formas e requi- sitos necessarios para poder ser acceita como prova bas- tante da criminalidade do réo. Foi com tudo nesta mes- ma confissão informe, que o Sunto Siu firmou a sua sen- tença, em virtude da qual foi executado Sen-Chi-Leong, desacatando-se assim toda a Justiça, e atropellando-se todas as Leis, sem exceptuar mesmo as chinezas. A ille- galidade deste procedimento fica assaz demonstrada no Officio deste Conselho de 25 de Septembro (doc. F); e posto que o Sunto na sua chapa de 28 do mesmo mez doc. Q) se esforce inefficazmente por sustentar, que foram guardadas todas as formalidades legaes em tal caso exigidas, comtudo as suas rasões não tem melhor cunho que o de meras asserções, desmentidas pelos fac- tos por elle mesmo estabelecidos.
Diz o Suntó que o réo Sen-Chi-Leong, preso no dia 12 de Septembro foi primeiro interrogado pelo Manda- rim de Shon-Tac, quem lhe tomou declarações que d' ali foi elle condusido ao Tribunal da Villa, e d'esta ao da Cidade depois passou ao do Regedor do crime, e d'- ali ao do Soto Vice-Rei-e a final, depois de ser julga- do
por elle mesmo Sunto conjunctamente com este ulti- mo funccionario, foi por S Exa, sentenciado á pena ul- tima, que soffreo na manhã do dia 15, sendo condusido amarrado ao patibulo. Ora, ainda mesmo dado
que todo este procedimento é conforme com as leis do Imperio, para as quaes S.Exa. appela, como se com ellas se tivesse conformado, como é possivel accreditar-se, que no curto espaço de tres dias mal completos se prebenchessem, não todas as formalidades de um processo crime de tanta. importancia, mas ainda mesmo as que vão acima enu- meradas? O que se vê é que de tantos interrogatorios, exames, declarações ect: apenas a propria confissão do réo, sobre que se firmou a sua sentença, constitue a unica prova da sua criminalidade. Sen-Chi-Leong, por tanto não era um reo convicto; e, embora fosse elle o ver- dadeiro assassino, não pode legalmente ser reputado co- mo tal. A confissão propria do réo não pode ser prova.
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bastante para o condemnar, pois a Justiça exige que a evidencia do crime dimane somente de factos e depoi- mentos de testemunhas, e não de uma confissão com to- dos os visos de apocrypha, a qual, se alguma cousa pro- va no presente caso, é seguramente, que o fim de todo aquelle figurado processo foi antes o formular um longo capitulo de accusações contra o finado Governador, do que conhecer do crine abominavel e atroz, de que elle foi victima; sendo muito de notar que, por uma singular coincidencia, são estas as mesmas accusações, que, tendo apparecido a primeira vez nos pasquins afixados em Cantão, foram repetidas na primeira chapa do Suntō-- a de 27. de Agosto-e depois accomodadas á confissão de Sen-Chi-Leong, da qual ainda foram aproveitadas pa- ra figurarem ultimamente na de Ko-Ahong ( doc. V ) A precipitada execução de Sen-Chi-Leong so aos verdadei- ros criminosos podia convir, e as authoridades que o sen- tenciaram tão summariamente, e o mandaram justiçar de um modo tão informe, proinoveram e serviram evi- dentemente os interesses dos verdadeiros authores do eri- me, tolhendo os meios de poderem ser estes conhecidos, e de descubrir-se toda a verdade do caso; como depois melhor se manifestou com a prisão de Ko-Ahong. Entre a confissão deste, que é outro tecido de falsidades nuas e cruas, como fica demonstrado no Officio deste Conselho de 7 do corrente ( doc. Z) e a de Sen-Chi-Leong, se encontram notaveis contradicções em varios pontos es- senciaes, e sendo a confrontação dos reos o meio indicado de em taes casos se colher a verdade dos factos, foi elle completamente innutilisado d'ante mão com a morte de Sen-Chi-Leong em grave prejuiso da Justiça e Leis offendidas.
Proseguindo na ordem chronologica dos factos reca- he agora a analyse sobre a injusta retenção dos mem- bros mutilados do finado Governador; e na verdade de todos os actos das Authoridades Chinezas, por occasião deste deploravel accontecimento, é este o em que resum- bra todo o requinte da sua má fé, e 'o que ministra á ma-
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is convincente prova da sua connivencia e participação
no crime.
Se por algum acaso pudesse ainda aquellas authori- dades achar meios de arredar de si a responsabilidade, que lhe provêm de todo o seu procedimento anterior a este facto, bastava este unico acto seu para as condem- nar plenamente. Quando mesmo pudessem ellas provar, que a morte do Governador Amaral foi simples obra de assassinos, a retenção dos membros decepados em poder do Suntó de Cantão ja não é obra delles, nem lhe cabe a responsabilidade do abjecto, e degradante partido, que com a sua posse se pertendeo tirar.
O Sunto, se fosse sincero, teria dito logo na sua cha- pa de 16 de Septembro, que a entrega dos tres chinas aqui detidos devia ser a condição sine qua non da restitui- ção da cabeça e mão; mas não o fez assim; participou ao Conselho, que lhe remettia aquelles restos a cargo de un Commissario, indicando apenas a soltura dos inen- cionados tres chinas, não como condição, mas como con- sequencia da restituição dos mesmos restos; ao mesmo passo que ao Commissario deo ordens positivas, não para entregar o seu deposito, como escrevêra a este Consello, mas sim para negociar com elle por sua conta, e com- prar a troco delle a soltura dos ditos chinas.
Esta especie foi a primeira vez introdusida na cha- pa do Csotang de 20 de Septembro (doc. G) na qual diz elle, que, para mostar boa fé, convinha que os tres fossem primeiramente entregues; mas, posto que nas suas chapas posteriores, (doc. IJ MO) á resposta, que por aquella occasião lhe deo o Procurador da Cidade (doc. H) alludisse sempre a entrega d'aquelles individuos, é com tudo evidente dos termos das mesmas chapas, e á vista da mui explicita e terminante declaração consigna- da na resposta do Procurador, que foi muito modificado. o tom d'aquella exigencia, na qual o Csotang, sem duvi- da gara mostrar boa fé, não insistio mais como clausula indispensavel para se poder verificar a entrega da cabe- ça e não, e somente foi repetida n'este sentido na sua
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segunda chapa do dia 26 de Septembro (doc. M) expe- dida porem na madrugada de 27, e pouco antes da hora. que a seu pedido the fôra designada para aquella entre- ga ter lugar na Porta do Cerco.
Desde logo se conheceo toda a cavilação deste infa- me enredo, e não se perdeo tempo em fazer ver ao Cso- tang, na chapa que na manhã do mesmo dia 27 se ilie es- creveo ( doc. N ) toda a irregularidade do seu proceder. Mas, querendo ainda este Conselho ministrar ao Sunto uma occasião de poder emmendar o grave erro em que tão inconsideradamente se deixou cahir, escreveo-lhe no dia seguinte ( doc. R ) communicando-lhe o accontecido,
( e attribuindo toda a responsabilidade d'aquelle facto aos Mandarins seus subordinados; mas qual não foi o seu es- panto, quando vio, no meio dos rodeios e contradicções de que abunda a chapa, que em resposta lhe dirigio o Suntó em 30 de Septembro (doc S) não somente confirmada. e reconhecida por S. Exa. a clausula exigida pelo Com- missario, mas tambem inculcada pela primeira vez a idea de dar o negocio já por terminado com pagar vida. por vida!!
E espantosa na verdade a subtileza com que nesta chapa se procurou confundir a questão do assassinio do Governador da Provincia, com a da retenção dos seus mutilados membros, com o fim assaz obvio de tirar d'alli partido em apoio do argumento já addusido em uma ou- tra chapa anterior, de que os tres chinas da Porta do Cerco detidos em Macao nada tem com esta questão; mas desta subtileza não resultou, senão uma palpavel con- tradicção; por quauto sendo evidente que a questão a que allude a chapa é a da retenção da cabeça e mão, e con- fessando o Sunto que com ella nada tem os tres homens detidos, é com tudo S. Exa. mesmo que pertende que da soltura destes seja dependente o termo d'aquella. Eis aqui como se argumenta com razões, como S. Exa. diz, que se deve, e não com desejos de cada um!
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resposta precisa, e querendo este Conselho cortar todo o pretexto para novos enredos, que a falta da precisa cla- reza na correspondencia pudesse vir a ministrar no futu- ro, ainda derigio ao Sunto o seu Officio de 3 de Outubro ( doc. T) no qual requer d'elle uma declaração explici- ta e cathegorica, se entregava a cabeça e a mão retidas em seu poder, ou se presistia em conservar a posse d'a- quelles restos para negociar com elles, como era seu in- tento, Mas S. Exa., tendo guardado perfeito silencio até o dia 14, escreve neste dia ao Conselho ( doc. U ) com- municando-lhe a prisão de Ko-Along, e remette a confis- são deste sem com tudo fazer a mais leve allusão ao off- cio deste Conselho de 3, pelo que lhe foi remettida uma segunda via delle com o outro Officio de 22 ( doc. X) å
( qual a final S. Exa. responde em 1 do corrente ( doc. Y) não com a clareza e precisão que lhe campria, como the havia sido requerido,mas com novas evasivas, inteiramen- te alheias da nossa questão, insistindo ainda desta vez em dar o caso por tratado, isto é, terminado e concluido, e na soltura dos tres detidos, na qual, é facil de ver, que o Sunto está demasiadamente interessado, por motivos que devem ser de Sua. Exa. melhor sabidos.
Bem desagradavel foi decerto para este Consello a necessidade de se occupar do presente trabalho, mas era força não deixar em silencio verdades manifestas e irre- cusaveis, se pungentes e amargas, injustamente provoca- das; para estabelecer e firmar com rasões es factos in- contestaveis, a responsabilidade d'aquelle attentado ini- quo a cargo de quem ella pertencer; parecendo-lhe suf- ficiente o que fica expendido, e vai provado neste seu Manifesto, com os documentos que lhe vão appensos, pa- ra se ver com toda a evidencia-1.o que o traiçoeiro e barbaro assassinio do Conselheiro João Maria Ferreira do Amaral, Governador desta Provincia, não foi senão consequencia de um plano premeditado de aggressão, para cujo desenvolvimento fora aquelle o primeiro passo con- vencionado-2.° que esse plano, senão concertado com a concurrencia das Authoridades Chinezas, foi por ellas
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apoiado na sua execução-3.o que as mesmas Authorida- des negando-se ultimamente a satisfazer as justas recla- mações que se lhes fizeram, e a que eram obrigadas, e practicando outros actos attentatorios do Direito publico, se constituiram participantes do crime, que pelo mesmo Direito eram chamadas a punir-4° que finalmente as mesmas Authoridades cabe portanto toda a responsabi- lidade d'aquelle crime atroz, e de todas as suas conse- quencias, pela qual este Conselho de novo protesta, re- novando todos os seus anteriores protestos, que agora ra- tifica, sendo de esperar que aquella responsabilidade ha- de um dia fazer-se effectiva para satisfação, e desaggra- vo da Justiça affrontada, das Leis violadas, e de tan- tos, e tão sagrados Direitos offendidos. Macao 26 de Novembro de 1849.
Jeronimo Bispo de Macao, Joaquim Antonio de Moraes Carneiro. Ludgero Joaquim de Faria Neves, Miguel Pereira, Simões, Jozé Bernardo Goularte, Manoel Pereira.
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--(A)-Illmo. e Exmo. Sr.-O Conselho do Governo, tendo assumi- do em virtude da lei, o Governo da Provincia, em consequencia da morte do Exmo. Governador, o Conselheiro João Maria Ferreira do Amaral, occorrida hontem ás seis da tarde, tem de cumprir com o penoso dever de levar ao conhecimento de V. Exa., as cricuns. tancias que acompanharam aquelle atroz assassinio commettido por Chinas. Voltava o Exmo. Governador do seo costumado passeio a cavallo accompanhado do seu Ajudante d'Ordens quando a meio ca- minho do Isthmo foi accommettido por um numero de Chinas disfarçados, os quaes derribando-o do cavallo lhe deceparam a cabe- ça e a mão, que levaram, deixando o seo corpo estendido, e cuber- to de um cem numero de feridas, e o Ajudante d'Ordens ferido,
Este attentado é de sua natureza tão atroz, e revestido de cir- cunstancias tão extraordinarias, que não pode ser reputado simples obra de assassinos, mas ao contrario é revestido de todos os characte- ritiscos de um acto premeditado e de caso pensado, como é evidente, pois V. Exa. não pode deixar de ter conhecimento dos avisos e an- nuncios, que ha tempo se propalaram em Cantão, os quaes, ha bons fundamentos para crer que, se não originaram das authoridades chi- nas, pelo menos tiveram o seu apoio e sancção; e por tanto este Con- selho protesta a V.Exa. pelo insulto e assassinio commettido pelos sub- ditos chinezes, na pessoa do Representante de Sua Magestade Fidel- lissima, como um attentado nunca visto, e que pede uin desaggravo igual ao delicto; e em quanto S. M. F. não Der as suas ordens a este respeito, este Conselho exige e demanda de V. Exa. a immediata cap- tura dos criminosos, e entrega da cabeça, e mão do assassinado Go- vernador para serem sepultados com o seu corpo, como o povo Ma- caense deseja, e em caso contrario este Conselho não responde pelas consequencias. Entretanto, previne este Conselho a V. Exa., que a exigencia que agora faz pela necessidade de dar a sepultura honrosa- mente o corpo de la. Authoridade e Representante de S. M. F. em Macao, não prejudiea de forma alguma o Direito de S. M. F. Offen- dida, pelo qual Direito, este Conselho protesta de novo a V. Exa. porquanto similhante acto de traição, e barbaridade tendo offendido. o direito das gentes, e particularmente a Soberania de S. M. F., já mais este Conselho pode delle precindir-se.
Este Conselho finalmente previne tambem a V. Exa. de que elle vai dar conhecimento deste lamentavel sucesso aos Ministros de Hes- panha, França, e dos Estados Unidos de America, e bem assim ao Go- vernador de Hong-kong todos aliados de S. M. F., a cada um dos quaes vai ser remettida uma copia deste protesto. Macao 23 de Agos- to de 1849.-Jeronimo Jozé da Matta, Joaquim Antonio de Moraes Carneiro, Ludiero Joaquim de Faria Neves, Miguel Pereira Simões, Jozé Bernardo Goularte, Manoel Pereira.
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Siù Vice-Rei de Cantão ect: --(B)--Respondendo ao Officio do Conselho do Governo de Ma- cao dattado de 6 da presente Lua (23 d'Agosto) sou a dizer que li com grande surpreza a desgraça que aconteceu ao Nobre Governa dor. Tive tambem participação deste sucesso, da estação de Hian- Xan, e do Mandarim de Macao, acompanhada da copia do Edital do Conselho do Governo. Neste Edital, pois vejo que os aggressores não podiam ser gente pacifica e negociante de Macao. Logo não ha- viam de ser os indigenas que commettessem esta aggressão, mas sim os de fóra. Sendo pois assim como é que com tanta pressa se pode
saber?
O Nobre Governador como em vida foi de genio assás cruel, quem sabe se os da propria nação, que lhe tinha aversão aliciassem gente para lhe fazer este mal, a fin de satisfazer o seu odio! O dizer que em Cantão ter havido pasquins e proclamações, e que as Authorida- des Chinas deviam sabe-lo; segue-se então que este assassinio fosse obra das Authoridades ?-De mais é preciso que prandam os assassi nos para se saber onde estão a cabeça, e a mão; sem isso donde é que lhas poderei entregar? E' por tanto fóra de toda a razão o que n'Officio vem exposto.
A Lei sobre o assassinio está clara; é necessario que as indagações se façani, tanto por um como por outro lado, para se vir no verda- deiro conhecimento do facto. a fim de poder julgar e sentenciar. A vida do homem é devida aos Ceos, não se deve por tanto lançar confusamente juiso neste ou naquelle.-É quanto tenho a responder ao Conselho do Governo de Macao 10 da 7a. Lua do anno 29 de Tau- kuang, 27 de Agosto de 1849.-Traduzido por mim abaixo assignado
João Rodrigues Gonsalnes.
Ao Siu Vice-Rei de Cantão.
C)-O Conselho do Governo de Macao, respondendo ao Offi- cio de V. Exa, de 27 do corrente em resposta ao que este Conselho The dirigio em 23 deste mez, tem de dizer a V. Exa., que em resul- tado do exame e averiguação a que este Governo mandou proceder, sobre o attentado atroz e cruel commettido na tarde do dia 22 des- te mez ficou evidentemente provado.
1. Que aquelle barbaro e brutal acto foi perpetrado por Chinas á luz do dia, á vista e á pequena distancia do posto da Porta do Cer- co, que estava guarnecido por Soldados Chinas, sendo isto attestado por testemunhas de vista.
2. Que os assassinos, depois de consummado o crime, se dirigi- ram, levando a cabeça e a unica mão do Exmo. Governador, para a Porta do Cerco, por onde passaram incolumes, como attesta a decla- ração por escripto do Cabo China de guarda daquelle posto; cons- tando tambem, que os assassinos ali se demoraram algum tempo e fi- zeram sacrificios e libações ao Pagode, o que é comprovado por uma cabaia ensanguentada que ali se achou, e pelos vestigios de sangue, que se encontraram ainda de fresco em varias partes do edificio.
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Que o attentado não foi simples obra de assassinos e salteado- res é evidenciado pelo facto de se terem sido levadas a cabeça e mão
do Illustre Finado, o que mesmo V. Exa. talvez sem o querer, reco- nhece no seu Officio, e uma vez que é certo que os assassinos leva ram consigo as provas do seu crime sem receio algum, não é natu- ral a presumpção de estarem elles protegidos pela segurança e cer- teza da sua impunidade quando commetteram crime? e esta pre- sumpção não somente é bem fundada, mas cada dia está sendo con- firmada pela morosidade e mesmo negligencia com que as Authori dades China se tem havido neste negocio, não obstante ser elle tão grave, e de tão serias consequencias: e quem não vê, dos que tem conhecimento da actividade e recursos da Policia Chineza, que o pouco que ella tem adiantado no presente caso, é a consequencia de algum calcullo a cujos fins talvez não seja muito difficil attingir?
A vist do exposto verá V. Exa. quão mal cabida é a asserção de ser fóra da razão quanto este Conselho expoz no Officio que escre- veo a V. Exa. en 22 do corrente; e com quanta justiça poderia ago- ra este Conselho fazer boa applicação do termo ao Officio a que es- tá respondendo; do qual se vê claramente qual é o designio das Au- thonidades da Frovincia a que V. Exa. preside; e o Conselho vem de novo declarar a V. Exa. que similhantes evasivas e tergiversações não somente são indignas e aviltantes ao character de funccionarios da cathegoria de V. Exa. e de quem alardea principios de Justiça e boa razão, mas ja mais poderão servir ao fim, que talvez se tenha em vista de evadir a responsabilidade no presente caso; porquanto o Conselho reiterando agora o protesto que enviou a V. Exa. em 23 do corrente, renova a reclamação que então fez da prizão dos criminosos, e da restituição da cabeça e mão do Illustre e sempre chorado Go- vernador, pondo a cargo e responsabilidade de V. Exa, todas as con- sequencias que puderem resultar de não ser prompta, e cabalmente satisfeita esta reclamação, ficando livre e salvo o Direito de Sua Ma- gestade Fidellissima A Rainha de Portugal, Offendida na Pessoa do seu Representante.
O Officio de V. Exa. é concebido em termos de tanta indeferença quanto ao facto accontecido, e tão offensivo ao character do Illustre. Finado, e ao credito de todo este bom povo portuguez, que este Con- selho o não pôde ver seuão com espanto e indignação; e ao mesmo tempo que repelle a maligna insinuação, que V. Exa. se não pejou de lançar em um papel official assignado do seu proprio punho, o Con- selho protesta a V. Exa. contra este novo insulto e ultraje por V. Exa. feito á memoria do Illustre Represente de S. Magestade Fi- dellissima o fallecido Governador, e á dignidade e bom nome da Na- ção Portugueza, representada pelos Habitantes desta Cidade. Macao 31 de Agosto de 1849.
Jeronimo Bispo de Macao, Joaquim Antonio de Moraes Carneiro, Ludgero Joaquim de Faria Neves, Miguel Pereira Simões, José Bernardo Goularte, Manoel Pereira.
SIU VICE-REI DE CANTÃO E QUAN-SY etc. -(D)-Respondendo a requisição do Nobre Conselho passo a communicar-lhe, que o Mandarim de Shon-Tac em 26 da 7a. Lua prendeo um aggressor por nome Sen-Chi-Leong, que commetteo o
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Eu inquiri pessoalmente ao dito aggressor e elle declarou ser o proprio assassino. Em 29 foi o dito Sen-Chi-Leong amarrado para o patibulo onde foi justiçado, e um Cominissario leva a cabeça para ser exposta ao publico no lugar onde se commetteo o crime para escar. mento dos outros. Remetto tantent, para ser entregue ao Nobre Conselho, a cabeça e mão do Governa:ior Amaral, e o Nobre Conse- lho mande immediatamente devolver para o seu Posto os tres Solda- dos Chinas, que ainda estão detidos. Inclusa remetto a copia da con- fissão do assassino Sen-Chi-Leong-30 da 7a. Lua do anno 29 de Tau-Kuang 16 de Setembro de 1849.-Tradusido por mim abaixo assignado João Rodrigues Gonsalves.
Confissão de Sen-Chi-Leong,
-( E )-Sen-Chi-Leong natural de Hian-Xan de idade 45 annos sem pais, nem irmãos os quaes falleceram todos; casado, a mulher por nome Liu-si ; e teve della um filho que negociava em Macao, de- clarou que o Governador Portuguez Amaral foi um cruel em suas acções. Amaral abrio estradus fóra das portas do campo de Santo Antonio, revolveo, e arrazou as sepulturas, que junto ao caminho estavam. Amaral em vida mandou affixar numeros europeos em to- das as lojas em Macao, e exigio taxas.
Tambem exigio dinheiro de cada embarcação, e o gastou ; e aquel- les que lhe não annuiarn á exigencia, mandava-os logo prender, e depois de accoitados, mandava-os conduzir para cadea. Elle tambem, sob o pretesto de quebrantarem a ordem de andar denoite (com lar- terna) tem mandado prender os Chinas, e extorquido dinheiro. On- tro sim, que elle declarante ouvio dizer que o povo de Macao está bastante alterado, que os Portuguezes naturaes de Macao, por o A- maral lhes impor taxas, e faltar com o pagamento da Tropa etc: The conceberam tambem odio. Que elle declarante vendo que seis sepul- turas dos seus antepassados foram todas destruidas e arrazadas por Amaral, para fazer a estrada, tomou a resolução de, em occasião op- portuna, assassinar o Amaral para desarraigar o mal. Que aos 5 da 7a. Lua, então, ouvindo elle dizer aos mesmos portuguezes de Ma- cao, que Amaral havia de sahir de tarde ao passeio a cavallo, sem le- var muita gente, elle declarante fez espera no caminho, e pela volta das 6 horas, quando Amaral passou a cavallo, vendo que a occasião era favoravel, deitou-o do cavallo a baixo, e com a espada curta ( taif- fó) que trazia escondida, lhe cortou a cabeça e mão, e levou-as a sa- crificar aos manes dos seus antepassados, e depois fugio immediata- mente; e como depois ouvisse dizer, que se estavam fazendo diligen- cias para prender o assassino, elle se foi occultar; mas a final pôde ficar preso pelos meirinhos e soldados. Que a cabeça do Amaral en- terrou elle n'um lugar chamado Sam-Tim. Que se elle assassinou o Amaral foi por este ter destruido as suas sepulturas, e por nenhum
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motivo mais; e por tanto pedia se lhe fizesse a graça ; asseverando que tudo o que disse era verdade.-Tradusida por mim abaixo assig nado. João Rodrigues Gonsalves.
A SIU VICE-REI DE CANTÃO.
( F )-O Conselho do Governo da Provincia de Macao, Timor, e Solor recebeo em 18 do corrente o Officio que V. Exa. lhe escreveo em data de 16, participando-lhe que tinha sido preso, pelo Mandarim de Shon-Tac, um assassino do Exmo. Governador João Maria Fer- reira do Amaral, e descobertas em Sam-Tin, aldea do mesino lugar, a cabeça e a mão do lustre Finado, que V. Exa. remettia nessa mesma occasião por um Commissario, encarregado de as entregar a este Conselho; e bem assim que, tendo V. Exa. inquirido pessoal- mente a esse criminoso, cuja confissão veio remettida, por copia não authentica, com o dito Officio, V. Exa. o mandara justiçar, e ordena- ra, que a sua cabeça fosse entregue ao mesmo Commissario para ser trasida a Macao, e exposta no mesmo lugar em que foi commettido o crime, para escarmento dos outros.
Este Conselho havia reservado responder ao sobredito Officio de V. Exa. para depois que tivesse recebido a cabeça e a mão do Illus- tre Governador, mas não se tendo até esta data verificada a sua en. trega, o que é summamente estranhavel depois de V. Exa. haver dito positivamente que havia feito a remessa no dia 16, o Conselho julga não dever deffirir por mais tempo esta resposta, muito principal- biente por que lhe incumbe nesta mesma occasião repellir o niedo insolito por que V. Exa. achou conveniente tratar este negocio, e protestar contra o novo insulto, que no referido Officio foi dirigido ao Governo Portuguez, como melhor se verá no desenvolvimento. desta resposta.
Em primeiro lugar cumpre a este Conselho insistir de modo o ma- is positivo na prompta entrega da cabeça e mão do Finado Governa- dor; cuja retenção não pole já mais justificar-se depois da declara- ção official por V. Exa. feita no seu supradito Officio, á vista da qual é de certo muito para estranhar, por extraordinaria e inconsequente, a demora que ten havido.
Quanto ao procedimento havido para com esse infeliz denomina- do Sen-Chi-Leong, que se diz, declarara ser o proprio assasino, nin- guem o deve lamentar mais do que V Exa. mesmo; por quanto, não havendo elle sido legal, antes em opposição a todas as leis e praticas observadas em todos os paizes civilisados, sem exceptuar o mesmo Imperio da China, onde o processo em casos taes seguem mui differentes tramites, e que neste foram evidentemente atropela- dos, o desvio que no presente caso bouve tende muito a aggravar a posição das Authoridades Chinezas em relação a eile.
Por qualquer lado que se olhe o procedimento havido para com aquelle desgraçado, se ha de forçosamente notar uma precipitação,que revela um demasiado empenho, da parte de quem tão summariamen- te o condemnou, em o fazer desapparecer da scena, onde ele tinha
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mettido por sette Chinas e, ainda admittida a hypothese de haver um capaz de accommetter a dois homens montados, já mais era pos-> sivel à um só, naquella occasião ao menos, e no curto espaço do tempo que durou aquelle acto atroz, o consumma-lo tão completa- mente, e com tanta barbaridade, como o podem attestar todos quan- tos viram o cadaver dilacerado do sempre chorado Governador. Sen- do portanto evidente, que Sen-Chi-Leong, se elle realmente foi um dos assassinos, teve cumplices; e sendo o criminoso um reo confes- so, cumpria que antes de o mandar justiçar fossem descubertos, e identificados não só os cumplices, mas ainda os que fossem conscios do crime, e se procedessem ás necessarias averiguações, e outras for- malidades indispensaveis por serem exigidas por lei, não só para se conseguir o exacto conhecimento da verdade e satisfação da parte offendida, mas, no presente caso, até por interesse e dignidade das Authoridades Chinezas, para quem era este o meio unico de desvia- rem de si a responsabilidade, que sobre ellas ainda peza. E finalmen- te se não foi aleivosa a allusão que V. Exa. fez em um dos seus Of- ficios anteriores, e que vem agora repetida na presente confissão do réo, á possibilidade de haverem sido aliciados os assassinos por por- tuguezes, era esta a occasião de V. Exa. a justificar, e se ella se não approveitou não é culpa deste Conselho, a quem só incumbe protes- tar, como protesta, contra todas estas violações de Direitos offendi- dos, e mais especialmente do de Sua Magestade a RAINHA de Portu- gal, a Quem é de vida inteira e cabal satisfação.
Ao papel que veio incluso no Officio de V. Exa., e que V. Exa. pertende seja tido como confissão do réo, este Conselho ha de ape- nas alludir neste lugar para declarar a V. Exa, que alem de elle não ter character algum de authenticidade, carece de todas as formas le- gaes para poder ser valido, não obstante ter V. Exa. pessoalmente interrogado ao réo; e de mais entre este papel e o primeiro Officio de V. Éxa. nota-se tal identidade de ideas, de lingoagem, e mesmo de characteres, que induz a supposição de que ou ambas aquellas produções procederam de uma mesma penna, ou que se quiz appro- veitar a occasião para reiterar na confissão os insultos, e as affron- tas do Officio; e nesta supposição o Conselho os repelle, renovando o seu protesto anterior; e elle tem de exigir de V. Exa. a revogação da ordem que diz, dera para ser exposta a cabeça do justiçado em Macao, na certeza que o Governo Portuguez ja mais ha de consentir, que em territorio seu se faça similhante exposição.
Em conclusão dirá este Conselho a V. Exa., que o acto por V. Exa. praticado longe de atennuar, aggrava a sua responsabilidade no caso do assassinio do Illustre Governador desta Provincia, e que em vez de ser elle uma reparação das leis, e dos Direitos offendidos, ou satisfação á Justiça ultrajada, elle parece offender todas as leis, e to- dos os Direitos, e ultrajar a mesina Justiça, que já mais se dará por satisfeita com similhantes subterfugios, tão indignos de si, como der- rogatorios de quem os pratica.
Em ultimo lugar, este Conselho tem de declarar novamente a V, Exa, que competindo a Sua Magestade a Rainha o desaggravo da
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offensa a Ella feita, este Conselho reserva o direito livre e salvo Mesma Senhora para haver a satisfação que lhe é devida, como me- Thor Lhe aprouver na sua alta sabedoria, limitando-se este Conselho, como lhe incumbe o seu rigoroso dever, a protestar a V. Exa. 1. contra a injustificavel retenção da cabeça e mão do Illustre Gover- nador, que cumpre sejam entregues quanto antes-2. pela prisão dos authores, e cumplices do seu assassinio, pela qual V· Exa. se constitue dobradamente responsavel depois da apprehensão do men- cionado Sen-Chi-Leong, a qual devia de ter habilitado as authorida- des competentes a descubri-los-e 3. contra a projectada exposição da cabeça daquelle desgraçado em Macao; fazendo a V. Exa. respon- savel pelas consequencias, que do contrario possam resultar. Macao 25 de Septembro de 1849.-Jeronimo Bispo de Macao, Joaquim An- tonio de Moraes Carneiro, Ludgero Joaquim de Faria Neves, Mi- guel Pereira Simões, José Bernardo Goularte, Manoel Pereira.
O MANDARIM CSOTANG-VANG.
(G)-Faço saber ao Conselho do Governo que recebi um Offi- cio do Mandarim da Casa-Branca em que dizia, que recebeu do Gan- cha-su um outro Officio mandando-lhe dizer em como o Mandarim de Shon-Tac prendera um aggressor, e descubrira a cabeça e mão do Nobre Governador, os quaes tinha condusido a Cantão para se- rem julgados. Que O Sote Vice-Rei depois de julgar, e sentenciar mandara a um Commissario conduzir a cabeça do assassino para Ma- cao para ser expostas ao publico, e ao mesmo tempo entregar a ca- beça e mão do Nobre Governador.
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Que os tres Shen-Tong-Leang, Si-Lin-Pin, e Tang-To-Shen con- vem que sejam primeiramente entregues para se mostrar assim a boa Á vista disto officío ao Nobre Conselho para que mande entregar immediatamente os tres Shen-Tong-Leang, Si-Ling-Pin, Tang-To- Shen para eu poder transmittir ao conhecimento superior, e logo que venha o Commissario officiarci de novo.-6 da 8a. Lua do anno 29 de Taukuang. 20 de Septembro de 1849.-Tradusido por mim João Rodrignes Gonsalves.
RESPOSTA AO CSOTANG.
--( H )-Eu o Procurador etc. faço saber ao Sr. Mandarim que tendo eu apresentado ao Conselho do Governo o seu Officio d'hoje, o mesmo Conselho manda dizer ao Sr. Mandarim que ja sobre isto recebeo Officio do Vice Rei de Cantão mandando dizer, que porum Commissario vinham a ser a cabeça e a mão entregues; cumpre por- tanto que quanto antes se faça a entrega sem mais clausula nem con- dição alguma, para se receber depois de reconhecida ser a propria ; e que do contrario não responderá pelas consequencias. Outro sim manda tambem dizer que já mais consentirá que a cabeça desse mi- seravel, que foi executado, seja exposta em Macao. Finalmente man- da o mesino Conselho advertir ao Sr. Mandarin, que a sua authori- dade não é para corresponder com o Conselho; que o Sr. Mandarim não ignora a marcha que neste caso deve seguir, e que nenhuma cor-
respondencia mais recebará directamente dos Mandarins do Districto. Macao 20 de Septen:bro de 1819.-Manoel Pereira.
O MANDARIM CSOTANG-VANG.
-( I )-Respondendo ao ultimo Officio do Sr. Procurador acerca do assassinio do Nobre Governador Amaral, passo a communicar-lhe que um caso deste não pôde S. Exa, o Vice-Rei de Cantão deixar de deligenciar pela aprehensão do aggressor, e descuberta da cabeça e mão; o que de facto pôde conseguir, e, como ja se mandou dizer, que um Commissario conduziria a cabeça para entregar ao Governo Por- tuguez. O Commissario, pois está a chegar por todo o dia d'hoje a Casa Branca; o que communico ao Sr. Procurador para me mandar dizer a hora do dia d'amanhã em que ha de fazer o recebimento; pa- ra quando chegar o Commissario poder este fazer a entrega na hora determinada. Quanto aos tres da Porta do Cerco quando é que me serão entregues? Convem tambem que me diga d'antemão, para eu poder dar parte aos teus superiores. Quanto a cabeça do executado, como o Governo Portuguez não a quer ter exposta em Macau segun- do as Leis, terei de escolher outro qualquer lugar para a expor ao publico. Logo que chegue o Commissario lhe officiarei de novo. 9 da 8a. Lua do anno 29 de Taukuang, 25 de Septembro de 1849.-Tra- dusido por mim João Rodrigues Gousalves.
CSOTANG VANG.
(J)-Faço saber ao Sr. Procurador que em consequencia da sua resposta em que me dizia que o recebimento da cabeça e mão do Nobre Governador se fará na Porta do Cerco, e que logo que chegue o Commissario lhe mandasse dizer para determinar o dia do recebi- mento, passo pois a participar-lhe, que ja é chegado o Commissario com a cabeça e mão do Nobre Governador, e espero que o Sr. Pro- curador me mande dizer quando sará o recebimento para o dito Com- missario ir fazer a intrega.
Espero tambem que me mande dizer quando é que entregará os trez individuos da Porta do Cerco; que assim é necessario. 10 da 8a. Lua do anno 29 de Tau-Kuang 26 de Septembro de 1949.--Tradusi-
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-( L )-Eu o Procurador ect: Faço saber ao Sr. Mandarim que levando o seu Officio d'hoje ao conhecimento do Conselho do Gover no; este manda-me communicar ao Sr. Mandarim, que 5 horas da manhã do dia seguinte 27 do corrente é a hora indicada para o rece- bimento da cabeça e mão do Exmo. Finado, na Porta do Limite,aonde deverão fazer a entrega á hora indicada. Macao 26 de Septembro de 1849.-Manoel Pereira.
O MANDARIM CSOTANO-VANG.
-(M)-Faço saber ao Sr. Procurador, que tendo-me o Sr. Pro- curador por vezes officiado, que quando viesse o Commissario lhe fi- zesse saber para receber a cabeça e mão do Nobre Governador Ama-
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ral, nunca porem tem mencionado nos tres individuos da Porta do Cerco; e hontem mandando dizer o dia e hora do recebimento, havi- am de ser as 5 da manhã, tambem não mencionou nos taes individuos. Como são ordens, pois, que traz o Commissario de S. Exa. para en- tregar a cabeça depois que se lhe forem entregues os tres individuos, por conseguinte, não lhe entregando não poderá responder a S. Exa. ; e como Commissario do Commissario Imperial, como se attreverá elle a entrega-las do seu motu proprio? Officío por isso ao Sr. Pro- curador para que entregue quanto antes os tres individuos, que imme- diatamente lhe será entregue a cabeça do Nobre Governador, e quan- do não os entregar excuze de determinar a hora do seu recebimento. O que me pareceo conveniente communicar ao Sr. Procurador. 10 da 8a. Lua do anno 29 de Taukuang 26 de Septembro de 1849. Tradusido por mim abaixo assignado João Rodrigues Gonsalves.
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- ( N )-Faço saber ao Sr. Mandarim Csotang de ordem do Exmo Conselho do Governo, que tendo passado já muito tempo depois da hora marcada a nedido do Sr. Mandarim, para a entrega da cabeça e mão do Exmo. Finado Governador desta Provincia o Conselheiro Amaral, sem se haver podido verificar a dita entrega por falta do comp recimento no local para aquelle fim designado, do encarregado d a fazer, com quebra da consideração devida ao Governo Portu- guez, e dá boa fé com que elle tem direito de querer ser tratado; o mesmo Conselho w auda declarar ao Sr. Mandarin, que um simi- ihante procedimento da sua parte, o qual seria muito extranhavel em quaesquer circunstancias, é intoleravel nas presentes, sendo elle em opposição ao que ao Conselho communicou o Vice-Rei de Cantão. Já o Sr. Mandarim sabia, porque se lhe disse, que a entrega devia ser incondicional, e portanto o Conselho me incumbe repetir-lhe de novo, que não admitte nenhum outro termo ou condição alem de que, que ella se verifique impreterivelmente até ás 4 horas da tarde de ho- je, que é o ultimo praso que o Conselho pode marcar, e que se áquel- la hora não forem effectivamente entregues a cabeça e a mão ás pes- soas incumbidas pelo Conselho de as receber, o Conselho não res- ponderá pelas consequencias que poderão seguir-se, á vista da exal- tação eni que está todo o povo Portuguez justamente irritado por um tal procedimento.
Ein quanto escrevia este ( são 10 horas da manhã ) recebi a sua chapa de hontem, na qual me diz, que tendo o Commissario ordens do Suntó para não fazer a entrega, senão depois de ter recebido os chi- nas, que aqui estão detidos, até poderem ser postos em liberdade de pois de concluidas as necessarias averiguações visto não serem cri- minosos, elle não pode deixar de as cumprir. O Conselho a quem fiz logo presente esta sua communicação me incumbe dizer ao Sr. Man- darim, que na sua chapa ao Conselho, o Suntó clara e explicita. mente diz, que remettia a cabeça e mão do deffuncto Governador, pa- ra serem entregues ao Conselho, sem marcar condição alguma ; e nem o Conselho as podia jamais acceitar com condições, quaes quer que
ellas fossem, nem o Suntó as podia tão pouco impór, sem se com- prometter gravemente; e se na sua acima mencionada chapa alludiu, á soltura (e não á entrega) dos ditos tres individuos, foi evidente- mente para a fazer dependente da restituição da cabeça e mão do Illustre Governador, a qual he devida ao Governo de Macao, pela inais sagrado de todos os direitos, ao qual o Conselho não pode re- nunciar, antes é seu dever sustentar, como está decidido a faze-lo a todo o custo; sendo muito para extranhar, que o Sr. Mandarim tendo fallado nas suas anteriores chapas na entrega dos referidos tres chinas como para saber quando ella se effeituaría, só agora se lembrou de in- vocar o nome do Suntó, para insistirnella como condição indispensavel para se verificar a restituição da cabeça e mão do Governador, no que se vê evidentemente que, ou ha falsidade da parte do Suntó, ou da do Sr. Mandarim.
O Conselho portanto quer que ainda se repita neste lugar o que aci- ma vai declarado, isto é que a entrega da cabeça e mão do Illustre Governador ha de ser sem condição algurna, a qual o Conselho não admitte de modo algum, muito menos proviudo ella do Sr. Mandarin devendo a dita entrega verificar-se até as 4 horas da tarde de hoje nos termos acima declarados. Macao 27 de Septembro de 1849.
Manuel Pereira.
O MANDARIM CSOTANG VANG ect: -(0)-Respondendo ao Officio do Sr. Procurador, passo a di- zer-lhe, que nelle vejo, que insiste a não declarar o tempo certo da entrega dos tres soldados da Porta do Cerco Shem-Fum-Leong e os outros. Se pois se diz, que elles não são criminosos, devem logo ser entregues; muito mais que isto foi ordem do Vice-Rei e o Commis- sario, que é obrigado a cumpri-la, e eu nisto não posso interfirir, nem o mesino Commissario poderá fazer a entrega. Quantas vezes se tem fallado destes individuos nos meus Officios,e delles nunca ouvi men- cionar nas suas respostas ; e agora então diz que hão de ser soltos, não tendo nunca dito isto antes. Ora supponha-se que nós tivessemos deti- dos por muito tempo um qualquer portuguez, poderão deixar de perguntar por elle?
O dia e a hora dada pelos Portuguezes para o recebimento houtem, eu respondi hontem mesino que não annuia; o Officio foi mas o In- terprete Gonsalves recusou recebe-lo. (a) O povo aqui vendo isto tem-se alvoraçado; e muito custou aos Mandarins Civis e Militares para o conter, e socega-lo. Pode se dizer, que a comoção é em am- bas as partes. Officío portando de novo ao Sr. Procurador em resposta ao seu Officio, para que antes declare o dia certo da entrega dos tres soldados, officiando-me para se poder entregar logo a cabeça e mão do nobre Governador. E quanto tenho a officiar-lhe.-11 da Sa. Lua do anno 29 de Taukuang, 27 de Septembro de 1849.--Tradusido por mim abaixo assignado João Rodrigues Gonsalves.
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fiz presente ao Exmo. Conselho do Governo a sua Chapa de hoje em resposta á minha desta mesma data, e o mesmo Conselho me encar- rega dizer-lhe, que pelo que respeita aos tres individuos Sem-Fum- Leong e outros, já o Conselho tem dito quanto acerca delles tinha a dizer, não teudo mais nada que accrescentar; e quanto a entrega da cabeça e mão do Illustre Governador, como o Sr. Mandarim à não quiz fazer em tempo competente, nada mais lhe dirá o Conselho a- cerca della-É
quanto tenho a communicar ao Sr. Mandarim em res. posta á sua Chapa--Macao 27 de Septembro de 1819-0 Procura- dur-Manoel Pereira.
SIU VICE-REI DE CANTÃO.
(Q)-Acuzo a recepção do Officio do Nobre Conselho, e res pondendo á parte que dizia, que na julgação e sentença de Sen-Chi- Leong, que tinha sido preso, não se seguiram os tramites competen- tes ect. passo pois a declarar-lhe que depois que o Mandarin de Shon-Tac, quein tinha aprehendido o réo, fez as interrogações e to- mon as declarações foi o reo condusido ao Tribunal da Villa, e deste ao da Cidade, e depois ao do Gun-Cha-Si (Regedor do Crime) e d'ahi ao de Fuien (Soto Vice-Rei) Eu conjunctamen- te com o Fuien o julguei e sentenciei. Isto pois foi de todos visto e ouvido, como é que se pode dizer então, que não se seguiram os tra- mites? Os criminosos Chinas são julgados pelas Leis Chin zas, assin como o são os Estrangeiros pelas dos seus reinos, isto está consigna- do no Tratado igualmente para todas as Nações. Como é pois que es Portuguezes, não conformando-se com o Tratado, querem que seja o réo enviado a Macao? A cabeça do Sen-Chi-Leong, se foi mandada expor ao Publico em Macao, era porque o réo na realidade andava fzendo seus traficos em Macao, e era ali conhecido de muitos, e por isso obrando-se assim, se mostra que foi elle o verdadeiro assassino, segundo o que se tem julgado, e com isto se infunde respeito, e se déstroe qualquer duvida. É esta a Lei terminante na China. Em quan- to aos outros criminosos, ainda se deo ordem aos Mandarins das Vil- las e Cidades, para que todos conjunctamente procedam com rigor na aprehensão delles. Porem em quanto não forem os réos aprehendi- dos, inuteis são tantas palavras aerias. Depois de aprehendidos, e do modo como for julgado e tratado o caso, se mandará responder; isto pois não é tratar a questão com indiferença.-Ora havendo prejuiso ha de haver o principal cauzador, e um que represente contra elle. Aqui o verdadeiro aggressor, que cauzou o mal ao Nobre Governa- dor, ja foi aprehendido pelo Governo China, e executado. Mas sobre us tres Chinas que estão dentro de Macao, e que nada importam com a presente questão, o Nobre Conselho tem deixado de responder. Diga-me pois para que lado pende a razão.-Sen-Chi-Leong reco- nhecido como verdadeiro aggressor devia segundo as veridicas cir- cunstancias do crime ser estrangulado. E é então que se diz que a execução se procedeo inconsideradamente? Onde está aqui a consci. encia? Com razões pois se argumenta, e não com desejos de cada um, e sem razão motivando questões. E quanto tenho a respon ler. 12
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(R)--O Conselho do Governo da Provincia de Macao, Timor, e Solor a Siu Vice-Rei de Cantão.
Exmo. Sr.-0 Commissario por V. Exa. enviado para fazer a en- trega da cabeça e mão do Exmo. finado Governador Amaral, negou- se hontem a cumprir a sua missão, depois de, a pedido seu, lhe ter eido para aquelle fim marcado por este Governo o local e hora, as- severando pelo orgão do Csotang'ter ordens de V. Exa.para não fa- zer aquella entrega sem primeiro receber os tres chinas, que aqui se acham conservados para as necessarias averiguações que ainda não estão concluidas-sobre o barbaro assassinio do Illustre Governador; cauzando assim um grande transtorno nos arranjos já ordenados pa- ra o recebimento,e grave encommodo tanto aos Ministros, e mais es- trangeiros aqui residentes, como a outras muitas pessoas convidadas para assistirem áquelle acto.
Este Conselho não sabe ainda se deve accreditar, que a conducta tão offensiva como injustificavel do Commissario houvesse sido au- thorisada por V. Exa. em vista do Officio de V. Eza, de 16 do cor- rente, e por isso elle se appressa em o levar ao conhecimento de V. Exa., esperando que se não retardará a justa reparação daquelle in- qualiscavel insulto, ou do contrario ficará este Conselho entendendo que o tem tambem de pôr a cargo de V Exa., protestando desde já Contra elle, para deixar a Sua Magestade A Rainha de Portugal, a cujo conhecimento já elle levou este facto, o direito salvo de pedir em tempo competente a devida satisfação; fazendo-o tambem cons. tar aos Representantes das Potencias estrangeiras na China. Macao 28 de Septembro de 1849.- Jeronimo Bispo de Macao, Joaquim Antonio de Moraes Carneiro, Ludgero Joaquim de Faria Neves, Miguel Pereira Simoes, José Bernardo Goularte, Manoel Pereira. SIU VICE-REI DE CANTÃO E QUAN-SY etc. -(S)-Respondendo au Officio do nobre Conselho de 12 da 8a. Lua (28 de Septembro) em que dizia, que depois de ter indicado o dia 11 da Lua as 5 horas da manhã para o recebimento da cabeça e mão na Porta do Cerco quizeram depois (os Mandarins ) que fosseni primeiramente entregues os tres homens, para depois se entregar a cabeça, isto cauzou transtorno ect; sou por tanto a dizer que sendo a cabeça e mão objecto de grande apreço para os Portuguezes, coino o é para elles de grande aversão o aggressor; por isso mesmo que a China deo todos os passos, e tratou este caso com toda a indivi- duação, e ainda continua a da-los, mandando proseguir na estricta indagação e aprehenção dos outros cumplices, o que se pode dizer, que houve aqui humanidade e muita justiça. Ve-se porem que os tres Chinas que estão em Macao, e que nada tem com esta questão, não foram ainda entregues. Qual é pois o motivo? Se se diz, que no Offi- cio de 30 da 7a. Lua não se tem anticipado sobre a sua entrega, elle bem claro dizia que se entregara a cabeça e mão, e que os tres sol- dados, que ainda estão ein Macao, fossem tambem devolvidos
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o seu posto.--Porque è que se tem deixado de responder sobre isto? Porquanto agora o transtorno por quem foi cauzado? Houve assassi no houve tambem satisfação, que é pagar a vida com vida. Querer-se ainda mais satisfação é muito fóra de rasão. É quanto tenho a respon- der. 14 da 8a.. Lua do anno 29 de Taukuang, 30 de Septembro de 1849. -Tradusido por mim. João Rodrigues Gonsalves.
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Foram presentes a este Conselho as respostas de V. Exa, de 28 e 30 de Septembro aos Officios deste Conselho de 25 e 27 do mesmo mez, das quaes se vê evidenteinente, que V. Exa, simulando não en- tender as solidas e convincentes rasões en que são baseadas as jus- tas exigencias deste Conselho, se empenha por fugir da questão prin- cipal, evitando uma resposta explicita e cathegorica. Este Consello muito positivamente declara a V. Exa. que se V. Exa pensa fazer da cabeça e mão do assassinado Governador objecto de escambo ou troca, para com elle comprar o livramento dos tres chinas detidos, e não presos, para indagaçõ s, e que depois de findas estas serão pos- tos em liberdade; os Portuguezes e todas as mais nações civilisadas do mundo olham isto como um trafico iniquo e nefando, que denun- cía, quando menos, a complacencia de V. Exa. no assassinio du Go- vernador de Macao, Representante de Sua Magestade Fidellissima; e por tanto, como um novo insulto á Mesma Magestade, este Conse- The protesta contra V. Exa, pelo Direito de Sua Magestade por V. Exa. ultraj do, e pelo direito da familia do morto; porquanto, sendo aquella cabeça e não pertencentes ao corpo do fallecido, e este á sua familia. V. Exa. retendo-as para negociar com ellas commette um roubo,articipando assim do crime do assassino, que mattando o Governador Amaral, the roubou a cabeça e mão. As Leis do Impe- rio Celestial em casos de assassinio de Authoridades marcam outro procedimento. que não é simplesmente pagar vida com vida, e V. Exa invocando o nome das niesmas Leis, que não cumprio, não f 'z mais do que mostrar que as tinha violado.
Finalmente a resposta de V. Exa. quanto ao ponto principal da presente quistão não satisfaz a este Conselho, e portanto elle requer de V. Exa. que diga muito explicitamente, se entrega ou não a cabe- ça e mão do assassinado como pertencentes ao seu corpo; ou se quer cam effeito negociar com aquelles preciosos restos. A sua res- posta affirmativa ou negativa espera este Conselho com brevidade. Quanto aos tres chinas detidos, os quaes não são tão estranhos á presente questão, como V. Exa, pertende, logo que cessem os moti- vos da sua detenção, e se não se achar nelles crime, serão, como já se disse, postos em liberdade, ou do contrario serão entregues as suas Authoridades, para serem julgados e punidos conforme a Lei. Macao 3 de Outubro de 1849.-Jeronimo Bispo de Macao, Joaquim Anto- nio de Moraes Carneiro, Ludgero Joaquim de Faria Neves, Miguel Pereia Simões, José Bernardo Goularte, Manoel Pereira.
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-( U )-Em resposta passo a communicar, que recebi uma parti- cipação do Mandarim Y de Kuang-Chou, dizendo, que um guia lhe dera parte em segredo em como alguns dos cumplices no assassinio do Governador Portuguez Amaral fugiram para Hu-Nan: que elle se offerecia a ir com gente prende-los. Em consequencia escolheram-se logo, ás escondidas, soldados habeis e com elles foi persegui-los até a villa de Lo-Chang na Cidade de Xan Chou; (a) onde o guia in dicou uma embarcação pequena dizendo ser dos cumplices en ques- lão, e que estavam realmente nella um chamado Ko- Ahon, e outro Li- Apao. A vista disto cahiram os soldados sobre a dita embarcação, e como della mostrassem resistencia fazendo fogo, os soldados o fize rain tambem sobre elles ; de que resultou cahir ferido no mar o Li Apao e morreu affogado. E tendo andado os soldados em busca do corpo não o puderam encontrar. O Ko-Ahon foi apanhado e levado para Cantão para ser examinado; e como se achava gravemente ferido com arma cortante, foi mandado curar-se. A copia junta é a confis. são do Co- Ahon.
Eis o que tenho a com municar em resposta ao Conselho do Gover- no Portuguez. 29 da 8a. Lua do anno 29 de Taukuang, 14 de Outu- bro de 1949-Tradusido por mim-João Rodrigues Gonsalves.
Confissão de Ko-Ahon.
-( V )---Ko-Ahon, disse, que era natural da villa de Hian-Xan, de idade 36 annos, não tem mulher nem filhos, nem irmãos, seus pais falleceram ; que morava em Macao, onde tinha um pequeno tra- fico. Que o Governador Portoguez Amaral, em vida tinha obrado. crueldades; que fóra das portas do campo tinha aberto estradas, destruindo e arrasando sepulturas; pelo que tanto os de dentro, co- mo os de fóra lhe conceberam odio. Que Amaral destruio não só as sepulturas pertencentes ao declarante; mas tambem as de Sen-Chi- Leong e Li-Apao. Por essa rasão intentaram elles assassinar o A- maral, para satisfazerem o seu odio. Em consequencia fizeram a con- sulta, e elle declarante, e Li-Apao foram apontados para executores do plano; Sen-Chi-Leong, os dois por appellido Chou, e um por ap- pellido Cheu, que elles puderain aggregar, para os coadjuvarem emn fazer barreira ( aos que quizessem accudir. ) Que aos 5a. da 7a. Lua tendo elles ouvido dizer fisicamente, que Ainaral sahiria ao passeio á Porta do Cerco, furam la fazer espera. Pela tarde tendo o Amaral passado por ali a cavallo, Sen-Chi-Leong trazendo na mão um cha- peo de chuva fechado on le tinha escondida no cabo uma espaila afia- da, appresentando-se disfarçadamente enino quem queria fazer quei- xa, dizendo em alta voz, que representava contra injustiças ; e no momento que o Amaral estendia a mão para receber o requerimento, Sen-Chi Leong puxou logo pela espada, e lhe foi dando eutiladas no braço, até que com dores veio do cavallo abaixo, e o odito Sen-Chi- Leong the cortou logo a cabeça e mão, e conjuntamente com o de-
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clarante e outros, safou-se pela Porta do Cerco, e depois de ter feito libações aos manes dos seus antepassados, se dispersaram, seguindo cada qual o seu caminho. Que ouvindo depois, que andavam em di- ligencias para prender os assassinos, elle declarante e Li Apao con- sultaram em tomar uma embarcação, e fugir para Hu-Nan. Ali en- tão foram inesperadamente perseguidos pelo guia e soldados, até a villa de Lochang, onde Li-Apao na occasião que elles estavam fa- zendo resistencia aos soldados, que iam sobre a embarcação, ficou ferido de um tiro, e cahio ao mar, onde morreo "fogado; e elle de- clarante, que estava tambem deffendendo-se com espada contra os sol. dados, que iam saltar na embarcação, foi gravemente ferido, e foi preso e condusido. Que é verdade tudo quanto declarou.-Tradusido por mim abaixo assignado.--Joa Rodrigues Gonsalves.
-(X)-0 Conselho do Governo da Piovincia de Macao. Timor, e Solor, à Sua Exa. Siu Vice-Rei de Cantão ect: ect: Recebeo este Con-selho em tempo competente o Officio de V. Exa. de 14 do corrente, de cujo contheudo fica inteirado para delle se oc- cupar em tempo opportuno; e como V. Exa, se não tem ainda diguado responder o Officio deste Conselho de 3 do corrente, elle aproveita esta occasião para enviar a V. Exa. aqui junta uma 2a. via daquelle Officio, instaudo de novo pela sua resposta nos termos nelle consig nados. Macao 22 d' Outubro de 1849. Joaquim Antonio de Moraes Carneiro, Ludgero Joaquim de Faria Jeronimo Bispo de Macao, Neves, Miguel Pereira Simões, José Bernardo Goularte, Manoel Pereira.
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-( Y )-Respondendo ao Officio de 29 da 8a. Lua ( de Outu- bro) que recebi em resposta ; o qual dizia, que em tempo opportuno se occuparia do seu contheudo, palavras estas aerias, que não se en- tendem ; e ao mesmo tempo pedía a resposta d'Officio de 17 da Sa. Lua (2 de Outubro) passo, pois, a fazer as seguintes observações. Diz o Officio, que os tres individuos não estão presos mas sim detidos para as necessarias averiguações. lungo Ora, okdecurso de dois me- zes não é ainda tempo sufficiente para concluir essas averiguações? Quando n'estas 7a. e Sa. Luas ja se tem tomado dois depoimentos dos reos, que por duas vezes tinham sido aprehendidos, e destes de poimentos se remetteram copias acompanhadas de Officis; e nin- guem ha que não saiba, que este caso ja está tratado. Estes depoi- mentos do verdadeiro aggressor, e d'outro cumplice não são pois, suf- ficientes documentos, e ainda é preciso recorrer á testemunhas e ave- riguações de individuos alheios da questão? Quanto mais que, depois de serem entregues os tres individuos, terão elles de continuar no exercicio lo seu emprego na Porta do Cerco, e não hão de, por con- seguinte, estar escondidos. Eis o que tenho a communicar em respos- ta ao Officio do Conselho do Governo Portuguez. 17 da 9a. Lua do anno 29 de Tukuang, 1 de Novembro de 1849. Tradusido por mim
João Rodrigues Gonsalves.
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e Solor, a Siu Vice-Rei de Cantão, Commissario Imperial ect ect: Exmo. Sr.--Se este Conselho precisasse ainda de provas para sus- tentar a verdade e justiça da asserção que elle deixou consignada no principio do seu Officio a V.Exa. de 3 de Outubro, ahi as tinha ago- ra nos dois ultimos officios de V. Exa. datados de 14 do mez passa- do, e 1. * do corrente, dos quaes se vê clara e evidentemente, que lange de satisfazer, como cumpria á dignidade do Governo que V. Exa. representa, as justas requisições deste Conselho, respondendo- The sobre o ponto principal da questão, que ora nos occupa, e que versa unicamente sobre a restituição dos miembros mutilados do Il- Justre Finado Governador, V. Exa. nem se quer a elle allude nos seus Officios; e, para se esquivar de fallar sobre essa materia, recorre ás suas costumadas tergiversações, como é o dizer que os tres indivi- duos aqui detidos são alheios á questão, que o caso já está tratado ect: o que tudo evidencea o menos preço em que V. Exa. tein este caso, que pela sua gravidade tem assombrado a todas as nações que o presencearam, e que decerto devia ter merecido mais seria atten- ção ao Governo Chinez, se elle quizesse acaso fugir á nóta de bar- baro e traidor, nota que as nações do Oeste com justo rasão lhe hão. de impôr hoje.
Este Conselho não pode por tanto deixar de condemnar novamen- te em termos nada equivocos os repetidos actos de injustiça e violação dos mais sagrados direitos das gentes, practicados por V. Exa, desde o assassinato horroroso commetido no dia 22 de Agosto. E á vista. delles poderá ainda haver alguma duvida em se asseverar que a ris- ponsabilidade daquelle attentado péza toda sobre as Authoridades Chinezas de Cantão?
Diz V. Exa., que no periodo de duas Luas concluio dois julgamen- tos. E o que é que ha nisso para admirar? Porventura não sabem já todos, quantos tem lido os Officios de V. Exa., o modo porque se con- duziram aquelles julgamentos? Não viram todos, que entre apprehen- são e execução de Shen-Chi Leong apenas medearam tres dias? Port esta forma de administrar justiça, deve-se antes considerar muito longo o periodo de duas Las para os dois julgamentos, que V. Exa. se jacta de ter aviado naquelle espaço de tempo, pois era sufficiente. o de seis dias ; mas resta ver se similhante andamento nos processos é o authorisado pela lei..
E quer então V. Exa, que similhantes subtilezas, e argucias, tão revoltantes, como ellas são iniquas e infames,sejam satisfação bastan- te de um tão enorme como atroz attentado!
É certo que ao tempo de ser perpetrado o assassinio não estava a vigia da Porta do Cerco abandonada, nem consta que a do Monghá estivesse aquelle tempo desatoparada: sendo tambem certo, e V, Exa. o acaba de confirmar coin a confissão de Ko-Ahong, que us as- sassinos passaram livremente pela Porta do Cerco. Que os cabeças ou encarregados daquellas vigias são os responsaveis, e por elles o Governo de Cantão, não carece demostração; comtudo ainda não consta que elles fossem ao menos chamados a responder : antes ao contrario só se nóta um afanoso empenho pela entrega dos tres indi-
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viduos pertencentes á vigia da Porta do Cerco, a que se deu tauia im- portancia, que mesmo se não, escrupulisou, para a obter, de tentar um meio nefando e iniquo, como é o da troca por V. Exa. proposta. Sen-Chi-Leong foi preso, e justiçado, V. Exa. o disse, é verdade; mas que certesa ha de que fosse elle o verdadeiro assassino, e não um rén supposto? Alem disto está ja provado que sette foram os as- sassinus que accommetteram ao finado Governador, e posto esteja ja demonstrado, pelas innumeraveis feridas que se encontraram no ca- daver, que era impossivel a um homem só po-lo no lastimoso estado em que elle fui achado, todo mutilado, como bem o vio o mesmo Csotang, comtudo se insiste pertinazmente em apresentar aquelle in- feliz como o unico executor, e aus outros que com elle estavam, co- mo.meros expectadores daquella infernal obra, á face mesmo de fac- tos en contrario, e ja legalmente comprovados! Na confissão de Sen-Chi-Leung nem a mais leve aluzão se faz aos seus cumplices; este infeliz é ali representado como o unico réo; e passado mez e meio depois da sua execução são descubertos, de um modo muito singular,mais duis cumplices, dos quaes um morre no acto da prisão. e outro, posto que gravemente ferido, ainda viveo para fazer uma no- va confissão, divergente em muitos pontos essenciaes da primeira, e que os que pensarem um pouco facilmente conhecerão não haver sido dictada se não pela necessidade,-no juiso de quem dictou a primei- Ia,-de cohonestar a sentença de Shen-Chi-Leong, como o unico assassino do Exmo. Governador Amaral; pois sem muito trabalho se pode ver o empenho com que se fez dizer ao réo Ko-Abong, que só Sen-Chi-Leong foi que se apresentara a S. Exa, lhe fallars, o accommettera,e, dirribando-o do cavallo abaixo, lhe cortara a cabe- ça e a mão, sendo apenas coadjuvado, pelos que com elle estavam, na fuga que effeituou conjunctamente com estes pela Porta do Cerco posto que á prespicacia de quem escreveo a confissão tivesse escapa- do a declaração consignalla no principio della de haverem sido escolhi- dos os dois Ko Ahong, e Li-Apao para executores do plano.
Tambem é digno de notar-se a mai palpavel differença que ha en tre aquellas duas confis-ões, e vem a ser, que en quanto na de Sen- Chi- Leong se guardon mũi estudado silencio acerea dos seus cum- plices, não fallando elle em mais que na sua propria pessoa, na de Ko-Ahong, este se occupa quasi exclusivamente de Sen-Chi-Leong, e seus companheiros; sendo tambem muito de reparar, que menció- nando-se nesta ultima confissão os nomes de tantos outros, se calas- se o de um Kam-Tong, que a voz publica affirma ter sido um dos principaes. senão o principal naquelle atroz e bardaro crime. E per- tendia V. Exa, que com estas e outras ficções, e subtilezas todas do - losas, e indignas até do homem, quanto mais do funccionario, se dés se o Governo Portuguez por satisfeito, tendo por ja tratado o case. e por comcluidas todas as averiguações acerca delle? Se V. Exa, ein tal acreditou, ha de ter de reconhecer com o tempo que acreditou em um engano.
Sobre ser justa, bem simples era a requisição que este Conselho fez a V. Exa. no seu Officio de 3 do mez passado. Elle requeira só.
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Este Conselho ja se fez cargo de mostrar a V. Exa. a iniquidade do trafico infame, que V. Exa. The propoz; e a necessi·la·le de lhe se- rem restituidas a cabeça e mão sem con 'ição ou clausula alguma, que este Conselho não pode, porque não deve, a hittir; elle tem ja em summa feito ver a V. Exa., que um acto tão inhum ana practicado ua pessu do Represent onte de S. Magestade Fidelissima, e inaudito, importa em uma offensa atriz á Soberaní, de S. Magest de, e um ul- traje á Nação a Quem é devida inteira e condigna repar ção. Á vista por tantu do price fimento insolito de V. Exa. e, da sua tenaz insistencia em não escutar as vozes da razão e da justiça; e como de tudo ja este Conselho tem dado conhecimento ao Governo de Sua Magestade, nada mais lhe resta fazer a este respeito senão protestar de novo contra V. Exa. fazendo- resp nsavel pelo assassinio do Exmo. Governador Amaral; pela retență › da sua cabeça e mão; pelos damnos e prejuisos causados aos direitos de Sua Magestade o da Nação Portugueza, e finalmente por todas eu esquer consequen cias que possam decorrer tanto da nelle facto como do procedimen- to inqualificavel das Authoridades Chinezas de Cantão em relação a elle. E como cumpre que de todas as eireuustancias deste inaudito caso haja o devido cor herimento, este Conselho as vai fazer patentes aos Representantes de todas as Nações a qui residentes, assim como sos Governos de las as mais Potencias amigas e alliadas de Sua Magestade, por meio de um Manifesto, de que enviará tambem uma copia a V. Exa.
Finalmente espera este Conselho, que com esta sua resposta fique sufficientemente illucidada a inteligencia das palavras do seu ultimo Officio,a que approuve a V.Exa.chamar aerias. Macao 7 de Novembro de 1849. Jeronimo Bispo de Macao, Joaquim Antonio de Moraes Car- neiro, Ludgero Joaquim de Faria Neves, Miguel Pereira Simões, José Bernardo Goularte, Manoel Pereira.
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be
advanced to him in England until the daim is finally settled.
Reduction & Expenditure. Repers Whis
Despatch N86 Syrt,
My
7.
The reductions of expenditure
he considony
now as completed,
be considers the Office
Colonial Treasurer to be essential
ought not miday any wren
在
arcumstances
to be dispensed witt
Oct 8 MID Muit
Note
Ime 25 Encloses
Ackr. Despatch
a report
on
Chinese Labourers from MFID Muir stating the terms on which they be engaged for the West Indies and explaining some pecularities regarding them.
Out 11 Chinese Labourers.
Refers & the
preceding Respatch.
Reports that Mr ID Meir
is prepared to contract for 5000 "Chinese Labourers, for the
West Indies at $155 dollar per Read
landed at their destimation
Encloses a return gall.
Ou 18 92 Appointments.
appointments &e for quarter ending Sept 30
Y
t
1849 Governor Bonham
Oct 22 93 Hong Kong Club.
7
6
Roy Letter from the Shareholdery
a
reference to
of the Hong Kong Club","
litigation which has taken place Land (416) on which the Chub House
respecting the title to the Not of
is erected
of
Encloses the opinion of the Attorney General on the points in dispute.
O423 94. Despatches.
of
Od29 98
1849
continue Governor Bonkam
442
Despatch Ngo Sept 28.
Encloses a correspondence
with the Chinese Authorities and the
Portugese provisional Government
Macao respecting the refusal of the Chinese to give up unconditionally, the mutilated remains of the murdered Governor.
Oct29 99 Admiral Cottier.
the
Reports
on death of Admiral Sir The Costier
Acker. receipt
07-1
Despatches.
Nov 3 100 Pirates.
Actor, Despatch
7.
Oct 24 95. Quarantine.
24951
Circular Angurt / Quarantine
They have no
Establishment.
Oct 25 96 Capital Punishments. Artur Degrath
Liveular Duty 20.
The Crimes hable to capital Anishment are the some as in England.
O.1427 97 Treasury Accounts.
Encloses
The Treasurers Accounts for the quarter ending Sept 30 and the repait
a board of Survey on the Chest.
of a
Oct 29 98 Governor & Macao.
of
Refers to his Degratch
October
Reports the
destruction of 99 Pratical Vessels
and
a great mimber
Pirates
8 through the energy of Captaines Id. Hay of HMS" Columbme and R
8 HMS " Ferry".
Wilcox
as
Calls attention to hi valuable assistance of M. DR. Catomele Cadowell, Chinese, Interpretes,
without his services the above would not have been accomplished
They
and as
were inconnectio with
his ordinary duties recommen
him
jor remunerations.
Encloses copies & his Despatcher
to the foreign office detaiting These
circumstances
as also the
ces as
The Naval Officers
to the operations
report
Officers in reference
1
1849 Governor Bonham
Nov 10 101 Convicts.
&
Reports having Transported to Penang, one Indian and 16 Chinese Convects, by the Ship" Alexander the Freight to be $30
per man, total £106.5.0.
per
Nov 14 102 Oriental Bank.
Refers to his Despatel 832 June 15, 1948
Encloses & Letter from Mr & Stuart, Manager of the Oriental Bank, respecting their Bank Notes being received for
Nov 16 103 Fire Arms.
Rents
дет Emloses a
correspondence relative to the
Importation of fire Arms of Munitions
J
as
War, involving the question to the groting of enderrouting to prohibit
the same
Nov 19 104 Crown Lands.
return
Emcoses"
д
22 lots of Crown Lonid which were put up by Anction.
The amount realised by the sale was £197. 8. I there being bidders for 12 of the lots.
Nov 21 105 Treaty with China.
110
Reports the
substance of his correspondence with the Cimese Authorities in regard to the mutual rights of England
Nov 21 105
1849
Governor Bonkam
Continue
443
9
England and China; established by the Treaty of 1842 particularly, respecting the inviolabiting of Territory. and the surrender of Criminals. The Lease
Nov 23 106 The Western Market.
of
the Western Market for 5 years has been let by public Auction: to Mr G Duddell for $255 for Month
G
Nov 26 207 Despatches.
of Despatches.
Nov 28 108 Mr A Lena.
Actin, receipt
Refers to his
Despatches Separate 27 December 1848 and N86 September 7. 1849.
Reports having granted 12,
incloses
Medical
Months leave of absence to Mr A Sena Certificate.
Nov 28 109 Crown Lands.
a
Land sold
CL
Emloser
return of 9 Lots of frown by public Auctions, produced £2916.10.
Nov 28 40 European Convicts.
110
Я
N7 July 31. 1846.
Acken. Despatch
78
Report the case of James John Burke, Convict sentenced Transportation for 15 years, recommends
commulation, the sentence.
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کر
444
1849 Governor Bonkam
Nov 28 111 Military Convicts.
10
Reports
the cases your Military Convicts, I Whitton, WVance, A Hunter and 10 Githiopie, all of them under sentences for years
Transportation
h
recommends commutation of their sentences.
Alekn . Despatch
Noo 28 1/12 Treasury 7 142 September 11.
If
Encloses a Litter
from
the Treasurer explaining "the
circumstances under which the
£32,8,2 had
surplus 8 accumulated in the Treasury.
Nro 29 113 Governor g Macao.
Contine
Dec 15 115
1849
Governor Bonham
Recommends Mess
D Jardine and If Edger for seats in the Legislative Council.
Artis Despatch
Dec 17 116 Tenure & Land.
Дес
if
8 109 April 15.
a
Reports having appointed
Committee for inquiring into the tenure of Land in the Colony
в
8 Mess
of Morier,
6 Cleverly, TW Smith, W Daviden
and & Smart.
в
Du 2 117 Despatches.
Dee
of Despatches.
gradically
Refers to the
Du 27 118 Mr C Campbell.
027
the
Despatiz & 98 Arteg.
Reports further
refusal of the Chinese Authorities
give up mutila inconditionally the
to
remams
Governor &
of
or of Macho.
Nov 30 114 Chinese Convicts.
the late
Recommends
Labuan, as a suitable place to which Chinese and Chidian Convict might be sent.
De 15 15 Legislative Council.
N128 July 11,
Astro. Degradi Recommends
Auton receipt
Acker. Despatcher
88 5.3 & 144 Sept 5. 1848 & Sept 20. 1849
Encloses a Letter
MP Starting in reference to the
Tees received by Mr C Campbe
as acting Attorney General.
Dec 28 19 Treasury Accounts,
Arkn Despatch
reply to the
"I 140 September 1.
Emloses a my Anditor's queries Account.
Du 28 MW Tarrant
on "The Treasury
In reference to
his Despatch N64 Some 23.
Envions
-F
Dec 28
1849
Acanthon Governor Bonkame
12
Encloses a Litter from 22 Tarrant respecting com- ensation for abrupt dus massal. Does not consider Mr
pen
کرتے گئے
&.
10 Tarrant as entitled & compensation.
Due 29 120 Governor of Macao .
any
Refers to dis Dispatch 12113 Nov 29.
Encloses some further correspondence relative to the surrender of the mutilatio remanes of the late Governor of Macao.
445
EXEN.
EM