...Southern capita). The British in Hongkong state that, "according to the Treaty of Nanking, it provides that British subjects, with their families and establishments,...mercantile pursuits, without molestation or restraint, at Canton, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, and Shanghai; that Article IV of the Treaty of Nanking by which British...

...subject it to detailed examination, this is what its clauses reveal. First, that British subjects were allowed to reside, for the purpose of carrying on their mercantile pursuits, at five ports along the coast, superintendents or consular officers to be the medium of communication...