Crisis in the Opium Traffic: Being an Account of the Proceedings of the Chinese Government to Suppress that Trade, with the Notices, Edicts, &c., Relating Thereto1839 - 107 pàgines |
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Pàgina 26 - And I, the said chief superintended, do now, in the most full and unreserved manner, hold myself responsible for, and on the behalf of her Britannic majesty's government, to all and each of her majesty's subjects surrendering the said British owned opium into my hands, to be delivered over to the Chinese government.
Pàgina 49 - ... death, benefit and injury. " Our heavenly Court has for its family all that is within the four seas : the Great Emperor's heaven-like benevolence, — there is none whom it does not overshadow. Even regions remote, desert, and disconnected, have a part in the general care of life and of well-being. " In Kwang-tung since the removal of the interdicts upon maritime communication, there has been a constantly flowing stream of commercial intercourse. The people of the land, and those who come from...
Pàgina 26 - Canton, and by other very weighty causes, do hereby, in the name and on the behalf of Her Britannic Majesty's Government, enjoin and require all Her Majesty's subjects now present in Canton, forthwith to make a surrender to me, for the service of Her said Majesty's Government, to be delivered over to the Government of China, of all the opium belonging to them, or British opium under their controul; and to hold the British ships and vessels engaged in the trade of opium subject to my immediate direction...
Pàgina 3 - March 1839, and on the 18th issued an edict to foreigners of all nations. " Lin, high imperial commissioner of the Celestial Court, a director of the Board of War, and governor of Hookwang, issues his commands to the foreigners of every nation, requiring of all full acquaintance with the tenor thereof. It is known that the foreign vessels which come for a reciprocal trade to Kwangtung, have derived from that trade very large profits. This is evidenced by the facts, that, whereas the vessels annually...
Pàgina 3 - Let our ports once be closed against you, and for what profits can your several nations any longer look? Yet more, — our tea and our rhubarb — seeing that, should you foreigners be deprived of them, you therein lose the means of preserving life, — are without stint or grudge granted to you for exportation, year by year, beyond the seas.
Pàgina 68 - And he has once more to warn her majesty's subjects in anxious terms, that such sudden and strong measures as it may be found necessary to adopt on the part of competent authorities, for the honor and interests of the British crown, cannot be prejudiced by their continued residence in Canton, beyond the period of his own stay, upon their own responsibilities, and in spite of the solemn injunctions of her majesty's officer. Given under my hand and seal of office at Canton in China this 22d day of...
Pàgina 35 - I find that from the 18th of March, when the commands were given to all the foreigners to deliver up their opium, everything remained as usual until the 24th, when you came in a boat to Canton, and that night wished to take Dent and abscond with him. It was after this, that cruisers were stationed to examine and observe all that went in and out.
Pàgina 6 - It rests with yourselves alone to choose, whether you will have weal or woe, honour or disgrace. I am now about to command the Hong merchants to proceed to your factories, to instruct and admonish you. A term of three days is prescribed for an address to be sent in reply to me. And, at the same time, let your duly attested and faithful bonds be given, waiting for me, in conjunction...
Pàgina 87 - Terrible indeed will be his imperial majesty's indignation when he learns that the obligations into which the hig&commissioner entered, under his seal, to the officers of a foreign nation were all violated ! The servants were not faithfully restored when one fourth of the opium was delivered ; the boats were not permitted to run when one half was delivered ; the trade was not really opened when...
Pàgina 3 - ... opium were comparatively lax, and it was yet possible to smuggle the drug into the various ports. Of this the great Emperor having now heard, his wrath has been fearfully aroused, nor will it rest till the evil be utterly extirpated ? .Whoever among the people of this inner land deal in opium, or establish houses for the smoking of it, shall be instantly visited with the extreme...