China: An Outline of Its Government, Laws, and Policy: and of the British and Foreign Embassies To, and Intercourse With, that EmpireParbury, Allen and Company, 1834 - 419 pàgines The introduction of those laws was occasioned by the growing power of the Dutch Republic, who supplied freight to the merchants of this country at a rate so much lower than that at which English ships could be procured, that foreign bot toms were used for bringing home the products of our colonies, while our own vessels were rotting in our harbours, and our mariners driven into foreign service. The increasing independence of Holland had led her to treat with indifference, if not with disdain, the appeal of the British Par liament for arrears of tribute due for fishing on the British coasts; for the restoration of the Spice Islands; reparation on account of the cruelties committed in those islands on the English, and for the indignities offered to their ambassador at the Hague. |
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Pàgina 414 - Granville, one of Her Majesty's principal secretaries of state, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.
Pàgina 410 - ... the said dominions ; and to make and issue directions and regulations touching the said trade and commerce, and for the government of his majesty's subjects within the said dominions ; and to impose penalties, forfeitures, or imprisonments for the breach of any such...
Pàgina 412 - ... a Court of Justice with Criminal and Admiralty jurisdiction for the trial of offences committed by His Majesty's subjects within the said dominions, and the ports and havens thereof, and on the High Seas within one hundred miles of the Coast of China...
Pàgina 200 - AD 1793. cannot acquiesce in them. I again admonish you, O king, to act conformably to my intentions, that we may preserve peace and amity on each side, and thereby contribute to our reciprocal happiness.
Pàgina 415 - India," -it is, amongst other things, enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty, by any such order or orders...
Pàgina 125 - Whampoa, where they usually arrive on the evening of the second or morning of the third day.
Pàgina 119 - Mexicans, all sprung from the same immediate stem, appear to start nearly at one time, and occupy at length those countries, to which they have given, or from which they have derived their names. In twelve or thirteen hundred years more, the Greeks overrun the land of their forefathers, invade India, conquer Egypt, and aim at universal dominion ; but the Romans appropriate to themselves the whole empire of Greece, and carry their arms into Britain, of which they speak with haughty contempt. The Goths,...
Pàgina 208 - The foregoing are Articles of the Laws of the Empire of China according to which Judgement is passed on persons offending against them, without allowing of any Compromise or Extenuation.
Pàgina 359 - It is a notion too commonly entertained and acted on by you, and encouraged by foreign merchants residing at Canton, that nothing is to be gained from the Chinese by obedience to their laws and edicts, but that much may be obtained by intimidation. You may have succeeded for the moment in setting the government at defiance ; but that government has not only taken the first opportunity to assert its dominion, but also, with the view of making you feel the consequences of disobedience, it has almost...