British Relations with the Chinese Empire in 1832: Comparative Statement of the English and American Trade with India and CantonParbury, Allen & Company, 1832 - 148 Seiten |
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Seite 135 - Port charges and again last year having secretly taken foreign women to live in the Factories, and by stealth conveyed them to Canton, which things were reported to the Emperor at the time, although the said foreigners repented and did not end as they had begun with perverted opposition ; still the disposition of Barbarians being deceitful and crafty, it is absolutely necessary to carry into effect with severity the inhibitory orders and to strengthen the guards against them. But as to the old regulations...
Seite 138 - At the same time, let it be made the duty of custom-house cruisers, officers, and soldiers, in the event of meeting foreigners carrying females to Canton, to intercept them, and send them back. " As to foreigners using chairs in Canton, it all arose from traitorous vagabonds giving them, and chair-bearers coveting gain. Besides ordering foreigners of every nation to yield obedience, and that hereafter they must not, at Canton, city, ascend the shore in sedan-chairs, let it be strictly interdicted...
Seite 129 - The foreign Merchants have, on former occasions, repeatedly opposed interdicts and orders, but since they came of themselves to repentance, . let through clemency their punishment be waived. But it is absolutely necessary to order them to obey and hold fast the old regulations. How can it be that they will again oppose and transgress ? Still if they be allowed daily to increase in arrogance and insolence, in a trifling with, and contempt of, the Laws, in indulging their irregular disposition to perverse...
Seite 136 - Nations when their goods arc sold and business finished — whatever the time may be go home with their Ships or go down to Macao and reside there : they must not intentionally delay their departure. By this modification, foreigners will all be prevented from lingering long in Canton, and traitorous Natives will rarely have...
Seite 6 - In 1773, the British East India Company made a small adventure of opium from Bengal to China.
Seite 2 - Manufactures have been established, in which the funds of the capitalist find a profitable investment, and which give employment and subsistence to a numerous and increasing body of industrious and dexterous mechanics.
Seite 12 - ... instances of fraud may have happened or been attempted ; scarcely any by the latter. The probity, punctuality, and credit of the English East India Company in particular, and their agents, are known among the Chinese merchants to be such, that their goods are taken always, as to quantity and quality, for what they are declared in the invoice; and the bales with their mark pass in trade, without examination, throughout the empire. Those agents are divided generally into supercargoes and writers....
Seite 83 - If unattainable by the course suggested, your petitioners indulge a hope that the government of Great Britain, with the sanction of the legislature, will adopt a resolution worthy of the nation, and by the acquisition of an insular possession near the coast of China, place British commerce in this remote quarter of the globe beyond the reach of future despotism and oppression.