The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-05-30 00:00:00

Tee left UNFORIIINAT AFFAIR in CHINA. (The following is given. es a real statement of theist. d'rt.r.nres snbsisting between the XeWI Committee and the finvernment. The narrative Is state, to have . ee..!ed tam the highest thinner mast ered with gm Pfl'loa s ions In Chinn. and to he depended upon for its correctness.] Aeoonnts ham been received from Canton. confirm. it,. the Americas statement, that I Chinese bid been killed and wonnded at Lintin, near Macao, in conseqnence of the Top , xr Okras• being you yelled to, open a fire npnn them. to save the lives of her own mete. The Virerov rolled upon the Select Com o.irree for satisfaction. demanding that they should order the Captain of his Majesty's ship to deliver rap two of his men, as two Chinese had heels killed. The Committee of coarse replied, that they hail no co nt r ol,' whatever over his Majesty's ships, and that therefore they timid not pretend U. exercise any such anthority ors the present °erasion. the Captain of the frigate nut being In the slightest decree aceonntable to them. As the Viceroy persisted in his unreaann• shin requisition, snd nut a stop to the trade until it ehould be complied with, the Committee em barked and moved, with all the ships. out of the River. It appears that the Loral Government of Cantor, elated by the success of their injustice and perfidy in the case of the unfortunate Ameri ran (whom they may fairly he said to have mur dered, in violation of the principles even of their -gem laws), act. d with a degree of precipitancy at the commencement of the p &if. which they were afterwards induced to repent of, and an address actually arrived from the. Viceroy to the Committee, inviting them to retorts with the ships to Canton, but making no abatement in his demands. This was the precise situation in which aff..irs stood when the last veasti sailed from China ; and it moat be con fessed to have been sufficiently embarrassing. The Committee ensdri obviously do nothing hot wait on board the ships until the Chinese had settled the affair, either by allowing that the frigate's firing was an act of mere teltdefener, or by having recourse to one of tintse ingenious expedient., to which our firmness has I driven them on farmer occasions of a similar natnre. In the year 1807, a Chinese having been 'inform nately killed by some unknown person, in a g I riot with the stiluer. the local Government, as • ;qua', demanded the person who had slain him ; but as the Committee peisisted in declaring that they were un able to discover the offender, end as the Viceroy foun I that the suspension of the trade would be at tended with the greatest inconvenience to himself. a varnished tale %Sag prepared and transmitted by him to Peking, in which it was stated that the man bad been killed by something falling on his head out of a window. It is sincerely to be hoped that a favourable result will attend us on the present occasion ; and that the frequent recurrence otitis+ embarrassments. preg nant with inconvenience to both parties, will prove to the Chinese Government the necessity of restraining their sulijecta from acts of wanton aggression. TRADR-CORDS' RRPORT. , The temporary interruption of out trade with China natnrally directs attention to that important subject. Affrays between the crews of foreign vessels, not Eng lish vessels alone, and the natives, are by no means of rare occurrence. There was some highly carious and interesting information on this subject laid before the Lords' Committee on Forties Trade last Session : and valuable as was that Committee's Report, as it is very little knows. a brief notice of some of its details on this subject cannot fail to be acceptable at such • me, tent. Their Lordships, amongst other matters, investi gated the question relative to the opening of the trade itli China, as the Americans bad turned that trade to inch good account; so mach so. that the import' from the Coiled States were shown to have doubled, from 1507 to 1817. Then occurred the inquiry, why should not the British merchant participate in such advantages? They examined James Goddard, Esq., foimerly in the Company's service, on this point. tie was asked tt Can you state any opinion respecting the future state or possible increase of demand for Eng lish tnannjact arcs in the Chinese Empire? " I consider the Chinese nation to approximate nearer to European wants than any nation in the F. tst : their clothing, their habits, and their wants altogether are very different from the Indians; the demand for woollen goods is very extensive, as may he seen by a reference to the Company's imports ; and it is probable, front the avidity with which they have bought and purchased European cotton goods, a demand at least equal for wool len goods may be produced, and I should consider that in the course of a few years the demand would be much greater, in consequence of the strong disposition they have shown, from the small knowledge they have had of British manufactured goods, to purchase, and very con siderable Commissions have been given for the supply of these goods, being articles till within the last three or four years, of which they have been entirely ignorant. Thetwobservations apply to the Chinese seas, but strong ly as to China itself, as the Chinese require the finer and the more valuable articles of this country." So mach fur the promise; and many extracts might be made of an equally satisfactory character ; next as to the difficulties. The Company possessing a charter which will not expire till 1834, and the British having at times fallen Into unavoidable squabbles that inter roptod the harmony of the trade. On this point their Lordships first observe, in their Report on the volumin ous evidence. " It is stated to afford reasonable ground fur alarm, that the seamen, who would be admitted antler such circumstances to the Port of Canton, might proba bly be of a character so different from that of seamen employed nu board the vessels of the United States, and be subject to a discipline so inferior to that which pre vails on board of the larger description of vessels em ployed in the service of the East India Company, that divides might take place. and excesses be occasioned, which might produce fatal consequences, by awakening the jealousy er exciting the anger of the Chinese Go vernment.' Their Lordships add, " it must be observed that the circumstance which has principally been relied upon as constituting the difference between the charac ter of the American and the British seamen, namely, the fordree haring a share in the profits of the voya i re, ap plies only to that portion (not a large one) of their trade with Canton, which is employed in the export of furs from North America, &c." And. in conclusion, on this point, their Lordships remark, that they " are inclined to the opinion, that Raotmaxions might be established at Canton. either by placing the free trade of Canton under the superintettdence of a Consul, or investing the principal servants of the Company with some authority over the seamen engaged in the free trade, by which any apprehemtion of inconvenience might be removed; anti (even) without interfering with the monopoly of the Bri- Volt market enjoyed by the East India Company, the British merchant might be safely admitted to a partici • A Translation of the Imperial Edict prohibiting the transport of Teas coastways to Canton. OENCRAL ORDER.—Horse Guards, May 28, 1522. The following regiments will assemble in too Brizades in Review Order on Saturday the Ist of Jour, at eleven o'clock, •.MI. on Hounslow Heath, yis. : BRIGADE OF UM:SCHOLL) CATALRT. Ist Life Guards 2d ditto Commanded by Cul. Sir Rt. C. Hill. Royal Horse Hoards LIOHT BRIGADE. 10th, or Geeslin Comman d e d b y M a j or -G en . Lo 14th Light Dragoons Edward Somerset, K.C.B. 15111,orKing'sllussars The whole to be commanded by General the Earl Cathcart, to whom Commanding Officers will report ac• cordingly. The 9th Lancers having arrived from Brighton, that Regiment will take the. Cavalry Duties in London on Thursday morning, upon the details of which Lieute nant-Caonel Mariam' will communicate with the Silver Stick, and continue to perform them until after the Re view. The remainder of the 9th Lancers off duty will assemble at Hounslow on Saturday morning at nine o'clock, and will there furnish a Guard of Honour, and assist in keeping the ground. The Detachment of Cavalry from the Cavalry Depot,' under the command of lieutenant Cockburn, will be at Hounslow Heath at five o'clock on Saturday morning, to keep the ground clear, under the direction of an of ticer of the Quarter-Master-General's Department. The sea to appear in Full Dress. By his Royal Highness The Commander in.Chiers Command, H. TORRENS, Adjutant-General. PORTCGUESR DIPLOMACY. -. Ily a rimier add .al to the Portuguese Ministe resilient at Foreign Courts, it appears that the o:lvern men's of Vienna, Naples end Turin, while they did not hesitate to recognise such Ministers of his Moit Faithful Majesty as had been appointed before 24th August MO, they were determined not to acknow ledge any persons who, in virtne of subsequent appoint ments, might arrive with the view of supplying their places ; because they hail, with one Cllllllllon accord, resolved not to acknowledge the a•verntsient actually existing in Portugal. His Majesty then ordered that the before-mentioned Ministers should not only otith• draw from those Courts. but that the Porttigerse Con sole. resident in the ports of the reovectire countries, should suspend the exercise of their functions until the said Courts desisted from the extraordinary pretension of constituting themselves the jryiges of theinternal government of this kingdom, since he power of the Consuls could not fail to be reyarded as null by those Courts, seeing that they were &lived from a Power thus held to be illegitimate. But in seder that commerce 'night not suffer (rein these pulitigal differ cocci, orders were issued to all the cost .houses of the United Kingdom, not to give trouble to merchant vessels, In consequence of their not hating gropers le gally authenticated by our Consul., but to *rest them as if they came from ports where no Portuguese Con suls reside, in which case the autLenticatioa of the local authorities is sufficient.—ln consequence of the determination of the above-mentioned Cairo, the King Ipatios its *trade which has proved we,' Incrative, Bed el Ponied sersolood. tilt the' Sardinia Charge spaPle of great improvement Ir the bands of the ihs• ari TIADICIL" be considered as a diplomatic agent, but that he might The character of the Chinese presents great diffi- srdiPiretts resident at this Court. should nit is future ll IP M remain as long as he pleased as a prints ladividaal-' entities; but it is submitted by many that. If there in ion, however, occurred in which the Chartri dr 4 jitiris heaved in a maser deemed highly intle• were more sympathy, in the consequences of good o r ill conduct thin may be supposed to exist, where there combs, and the result was. that be was furnished with is suinnopnle— whereKtiere are no competitors, the Co- passports. in order that he might leave Lisbon within 24 hours. and Portugal within 8 days. •' These salt night not be nnfavourable. lint whatever may he the 'elution of this inquiry. and it is adverted to in the fact ,, , i, me the circular, •' prove that the Govern evidence as well as irt the Repor—then ate some re- meat, while always ready to pay to other tiovernmehts make on the evidence of C. Grant, Esq.. " a Director of that tribute of respect which is their dim, will, at the ti.e East India Company from 179-1, saving the peed- same time, submit to no insult from them or their official years of education," which may be umfally „ mac " qmoe.l at this time, after what has happened with re spect to the Topase frigate, Alr. Grant, as part.of his evidence, produced an able paper, " prepared. in 1820 by sn officer of the India lease;" anal Its beginning is as follows :—its great length prevents complete quo tation :-- " To prevent as mach as possible all intercourse with foreigners, the people of Chins were forbidden. in the year 1817. by an Imperial Edict's, to carry teas from the province of its growth to Canton by sea. The Edict was not issued fair the purpose of preventing the illicit trade, and thereby preserving the Imperial ditties; hist to pre elude all interconse between the Chinese and foreigners during the voyage. And to restrain the intercourse while on shore. the foreigners are only permitted to re side within a small *pare outside of the city of Canton, great care being Ott aye taken to prevent their entrance into the city, on any pretence whatever. " The Chinese are habituated to consider all other ternaries as sabordimate to China, end WI the inhabit ant* of those countries as greatly inferior to thesis seines; whence •rist s, on the part of their principals, officers, and mandarins, a hattehty and overbearing de , meanour in all their official communications with the foreigners who engage in the trade of Canton, and on the part of the merchants, and the other classes, of Chi nese redences and insolence, accompanied with the strongest marks of contempt. " Although the English experience a full share of the haughtiness and insolence with which foreigners are ge nerally treated while in China, yet the Chinese them selves can no more conceal their dread of the military character and power of the British nation, than they can deny their ct ~,,, tiereial preponderance among the various nations who visit the port of Canton for trade; and whatever advantages the servants of the East India Company may have derived, in their various discussions with the Chinese Authorities, from the opinion which they entertain of the power anal commercial superiority of the British nation—advantages to which the present state of the whole foreign intercourse with China may be justly emitted, it is theless the fact, that the English, in Chins, are considired as the objects of more peculiar jeal onsy, and hence their wholeconduct is watch ed with the most scrupulous rare. That the restrictive guard on the intercourse between the natives and fo reigner may be rendered as complete as possible, no foreigners can make his appearance within the Chinese limits, till one or other of the members of the Hong bas become formally bound, in a legal instrument to the Government of Canton. for the general good conduct of such foreigner, and for his quiet submission and Ora Pace to the lan s and regulations -egarding the boteign commerce of the Empire. " Smuggling is a trillingapir, but having a com munication with foreigners, is a thing which involves vast interest. It ix indispensably necessary to strain entry nerve to eradicate the first risings of baseness (or mischief). •• The penalty far transgression is condonation of the articles carrieJ by sea, punishment of the Merchasts engaged in the trade, together with that of the Vice roys sod other officers of the places whence the articles were shipped." MAILS. DUB. *lllt. !Wt. I DAN 0 0 Holland - - I Wsterford - 0 0 Ilambro' - - 0 O 0. & Jersey - 0 I Francs - - 0 I Lisbon - - I U Flanders - - 0 U Gottenbarri - 0 PRICE OR STOCKS. AT ONE O'CLOCK. THIS D 4Y. Rink Stook... .440 304 (mile Stock .1 pr Cl. Red Mil l Ditto Bonds s. o. pm. I per Ct. Cons MI Hi Month Res Stnek.t....gli ISO pot C0nt........ Mil I Rooth Sea Old Ass . 6 per C0nt5....... 4 per Cts. 192.2..934 wow. Is. dis. Is. pm. I preset —SON. s. s. bqpm. "agAzin, 13-18 s. s pm. J.opirks .. . lop. 11pr Ct. WA 6 ea* Cent Lott. Tickets 161. 16s. LONDON: THUREIDILT SVIININO. LAY 30, 1922. STOCK RNCH.4XGR, TWELVE O'CLoCK. A great Jeal of business is doing this morning.— Consols are $01? for the Account, and 7911 for Money. The topic of conversation to-day en the Royal Es• change is concerning the new Loans contracted for. The first one is that of Russia by Messrs. Roth-child and Co. for 31 millions. The new Russia Bonds are now selling at SI, bearing an interest of 5 per Cent., and are much in demand. Ten per Cent, deposit is to be immediately paid, and the remainder, is to be paid in September. on delivery of the Bonds. It is g lly thought that the shove Contrac tors mast have good information that there will he no war.—The second Loan is that of the Republic of Chili, by Messrs. Gullet. Brothers and Co., fur one million sterling, for the service of the Republic of Chili, to be raised by the sale of 10,000 Bonds, pay able to bearer, and bearing interest of 6 per Cent. per annum, payable half-yearly upon Dividend War rants, 60 of which are attached to each Bond. The interest commences from the 31st March last, and is payable s on the 30th September and the 31st March each year. A Sinking Pund is to be established it London, for which purpose 20,0001. sterling will he laid oat on the 6:st year, and 10,0001. in every succeed ing year in the purchase of Bonds. The securities are a Mortgage in all the Revenues of the State, estimated upon tke,roduee of former years, to amount to about 4 millions of dollars, or SOO,OOO/. sterling per cent. per inners. These revenues, specially pledged, are to he collected and kept separate and distinct by the Treasurer General of Chili. by. virtue of a decree of the Sepreme Director and the Senate ; and no part to be applied to the expenditure of the State. The Oa vernment of Chili to pay all the expences for raising and managing the loan. In oar paper ofyestetday, we gave a letter, us ge 'J II TR aosimeor, Oa the oadieet edam InsoLvsne DMOT- Oa COURT, is which there le a great deal of truth and good sense. A Bill, which is rope.' is the Bow of Corn: noes, for amending the INSOLVSNT DEBTORS' ACT, stands for eenesaitmeot this very night; and we cannot de better. we think, than take up this subject, in aid of on r honest friend, a Tatittss• Man. The Bill before the House assonws se lima Bill to amend the present Act. The tins -it wiser thing if, instead of passing this, they weaditl once to repeal the INSOLVSNT Deo - roes Ace '- together. It in a piece of legislatios, wholly inraps. ble of amendment. It is wrong io principle; nor eaa its evils be corrected by any pruning, or lopping, or 'wafting, ichaterer. No one can look into the b. SOLTENT DEBTOR'S COVIT, and sot be shocked at its proceedings. We do not impute any wrong to the Commissioners. They simply *bey the Act. There is net even the thinnest veil woren,tocover the trawl' that are committed by Insolvent Ihilitoes passing through that Court. The Debtors do not con de wend to earelope themselves in any veil. Any Iraq who had a respect for the property of others, and soy pity for defrauded anal sufering tradesmen, would feel his blood chid within him, if be were to list's to what is pier on in the INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COVRT; stir do we think, any Ira !micas oho should attend its sittings for a month, would ever give credit again for a single shilling. But, if you want a subject of dis. gust, it is only to go to the Pintos, where the lx• sol,voss prepares himself to march steadily through the INSOLVINT'S COURT. You will long. if you Aare a heart within you, to be able to remove, from the INsotscxa's table. the luxuries that feed hint, and to convey them to the die ed creditor. and his famished children. If you dedre to see wear, you most visit the Colniron's and mot the Dsurnn's Patro.r. For one MC: suffering. removed by the lIISOLTENT DEBTOR . , Act, it inflicts sufferings spread over thousamis of habits tions. It is astonishing that the country sits down with the many and beery calamities ensuing from this Act. But the extent of the evil is procuring itself a remedy. CREDIT is almost annihilated ; and the la. lIOLVRXT DIRTOR'S COURT will Want bnaitleSS, not tut want of flonurs, but for the want of Durr.a, through out the country. It will be seen in another part of our paper, that a motion made at Lio'n's for a donation of POI. ti - wards the relief of the Distressed Irish, was negatived by a spew of bands. A ballot is to take place us the question; but if that should carry the `rant. the affer.thorght will do little to retrieve the shame,' of the Goose. We cannot imagioe what could more the parties who opposed the measure in question.— The case of the Irish sufferings is the moat plain and unequivocal one that ever existed on earth. No feat+ of giving offence to any quarter, by the donation, could possibly exist; for all ranks and all parties have joined hand and heart, in the blessed work of carrying' relief to Deland. The OtRAIAN SVITERgRS were real objects of pity ; and the House, we believe, were forward in relieving them. What then has Ireland done, to suppress the pity which her greater suffer ings might naturally excite ? Are the Gentlemen at I.Loya's of so delicate and pure a mind as to be shocked at the atrocities recently committed in Ire. land ; and so stubborn as not to miss this opportnnityof 'hewing their virtuous resentment? Well! that will excuse thesis a little. A virtro:ts mistake is virtue, although it be a mistake. But if they had reflected they might hare found, without going far frets LLOTD'S COiree House, the ram's of Cie atrociti, s committed in Ireland; and if 14,re did not excuse the offences of the Irish, they sou.t tend greatly to palliate them. There is a perverseness sometimes in men's minds, which casco: be accounted for; and we must think, that the Gentlemen at LLOYD'S were, on this occasion, smitten with this &Mimic, malady.— The ballot, we hap', will be in the nature of a ball.- tin. to aosounce symptoms of recovery. Heath Ilall,l'hursley, Surrey, May 29, 1922. The erops of all kinds promise to be good. All very early and very fine. From Putney to Ripley. thrones Kingston. is, except in particular small spot.. es poor a tract 'Aland as is to he found in all Rnglane. The whole of it, except Ditton Marsh, is a hung::; grarel; and that Marsh is a bed of sour clay; yet, along' th, whole of this tract, all the corn looks well, not only the wheat. but the barley and oats, and the peas and beans. The host-peas are just coming into hloom, and the beans are, in general, in fall bloom. The grass is a great deal fit.er and forwarder than I recollect ever to have seen it. 1 left my man naoriq at Kensington, and I saw them ea: tin" /cry, in a fins a•ate, between thildford and t7si'llerine Itill. From Ripley to tiodaluting the i..nd is good ; sera, there fore, one is not so much surprised to fiod the crops promising there. But, the y are e0.4411y promising cn the light laud: hereabouts, where the soil is between sand ands loam : and, they are equathy prumisiogin the Werrids (the clays)of Surrey and Sn>src, through; which I went only last week. Frosts ;In .1 hli. II to tnaycometo the aid of the or. r.protlaclio , l turn, to be ;um; but at pre sent, there is appearance o:*tr •;no‘duirs produce: of a most areft:l visitation of atom.: tare. What are to he the rossegrences. tio.l only knows' Ile', amongst them will be, in all likelihood, good wheat atfour shil lings a lorruird; and that n iil pretty nearly do all that lam very anxious to see done. I think there cats be no positive danger its prayirg fur a good crop Will a fine h that. At any rate, pray fur them I do. and pray for them I will; and, as the prayers of the righteous dell much, I call on all the Radica l l ol. s jo in me. t.OIIIIETT. WAN. • - THE. STA' VORY:I6V rvND%. The above market is improving this morning, and the Spanish bonds are rattler more in demand. Spasish Old. --Al Buyerf. Neapolitan —7l New Pei Columbia 100, Prussian New Danish S 3 Scrip.-- C3l •• Boston Papers have arrived this morning to the lith, and New York to the 9th of May, from which we extract the following : CONGRESS. New Tone, MAT 7.—The Bill in addition to the I acts concerning Navigation, was taken up in the Committee, and a section being added by Mr. King, of New York, authorising the President to suspend, un tit the end of the next Session of Congress, the ope ration of the Act respecting French vessels, in the event of the signato'e of any Treaty or Covvention concerning the navigation or commerce between the United - States and France, it was then otdercd to be engrossed. On Thursday a message was received from the Pre sident. stating that Norway admitted American vessel►, and their cargoes into her ports, on paying no higher duties than were ex.tcred from Norwegian vessels and cargoes, and recommending to Congress the adoption of a measure reciprocating the same equal privileges to the trade of that kingdom. COMMERCIALLY IMPORT AM C. MAY 9.—Several gentlemen hare arrived in town, front Washington. and state, there is now a fgir pi os pect that a commercial treaty will soon be concluded between this Court and France. An express has been received from Paris, which left that capital on Monday evening, but it has not brought any news of intportance. None of the jour. eels were published on that day, on account of its being the Feast of the Pentecost, which is kept with great solemnity at Paris. It ii somewhat curio's►, that the French, who publish their joitrerls on Sundays, without the least scruple, days or Saints days. The following was the state of the French Funds on Monday :—Five per Cent. Consols opened at 89f. 60r. ; closed at 89f. 60e.--Exchange on London, one month, 25f. 30c.; three month•, 251. Isc. - Vie sDtattoinan. " STATISMAN IR INC9)11.0 AAAAA WITH " trr.trissviN."