The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-06 00:00:00

LATEST FROMCHINA.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.
IMPORTANT TO FOREIGNERS.
Yu, Hoppe, by Imp- rial appointment, &c., hereby issues
this edict to the principal and junior security merchants,
that they may thoroughly know and understand.
On the 20th day of the 12th moon (24th January,lB4o,)
I received a joint communication from their Excellencies
the Commissioner and Viceroy to the following effect.
We have just received a letter from your Excellency
(the Hoppo) of the following tenor.
On the 1801 day of this present moon (22d January,
1840,) I, the Hoppo, having proceeded in my own person
to Whampoa, found that the American ship Ma-
keen (Ann M.Kinn) had on board fourteen cases of
foreign wine and forty-seven boxes of foreign money, that
Amanaze's ship (Lintin?) had on board four cases of foreign
wine and 47 boxes of foreign money, that Amanaze's ship
(Lintin) had on board four casks of foreign wine and
ten boxes of foreign money, that Sopa's ship ( Valparaiso,
Captain Southwood?) had on board 100 cases of foreign ,
wine and four boxes of foreign money; upon which we
caused the linguists to inquire of them why that they had
brought such little, petty, trifling articles of no intrinsic
value, and yielding such a very small duty ; when they an.
swered, saying, " We wished in the first instance to go
to Kalapa, or Batavia, and there buy foreign rice to bring
to Canton, but this commodity having no value or price
here, we have entered the port to buy export cargo," and
other words to that effect. Though I (the Iloppo) again
and a third time refused to admit this, and still continued
to question, vet with an arrow-like tongue they refused to
change, and lo 1 it is very difficult to get proof to believe
what is said I—and other words to that effect.
We, the Commissioner and Viceroy, having received
this communication from Y. E., the Hoppo, find that here-
tofore whenever any foreign merchants of any country
have come to Canton to trade, it has always been on the
principle of quartering cargo against cargo; in this case,
however, M'Kinn's and the other two ships having only
taken on board a 100 and some tens of cases of wine, this
is indeed almost the same thing as coming quite empty !
Out of pure indulgence we won't stop to discuss the
profit they expect upon their wine, which must be small in
the extreme, but as to what they say about haying brought
foreign money wherewith to buy export cargo, why, adding
it all together, it scarcely exceed a 100,000. odd dollars, and
with such a paltry sum,how much export cargo can they buy,
pray ? These said foreign merchants have crossed over an
intervening ocean of several tens of thousands of miles, and
have only come to buy 100.000 odd dollars' worth of mer-
chandise and then go away again I Conjecturing, guessing.
and turning all the circumstances in our mind, truly we are
quite unable to account for it. We, the Commissioner
and. Viceroy, have already sent persons to Whampoa, to
search and examine, and we find that Nl‘Kinn's and
Amanaze's (Lintin?) ships have alike got the name of
their country in foreign characters on their stern, but

Sopa's (Valparaiso ?) ship has got no country's name
whereby to identify her, wherefore it is difficult to secure
that she may not have borrowed a false name, and be
not come into port clandestinely with intention to de-
ceive, and such like. We ought, therefore, in strict jus-
..ec c,immand the Hong merchants that they hold
no comm,re-i.l dealings with her, and that they take
her and forthwith drive her out of the port, but re-
membering that the said foreigners have crossed
over a boundless sea to come hither, we cannot
bear the idea of seeing the labour of no avail, and
sending them empty away. Therefore it is that we, the
Commissioner and Viceroy, having duly consulted toge-
ther, hereby request your Excellency the Hoppo to com-
mand the principal and junior security merchants that they
ake the whole of the boxes of money which these ships

have brought and discharge them, and pass them through
the hands of your Excellency the Hoppo, that your Excel-
lency may duly weigh them, and seal them up, and then
deliver them over to the Hong merchants that they be put
in the Consoo treasury. Thus let the Hong merchants, as
they go on buying export cargo for these ships, distinctly
inform your Excellency by petition of their quality, weight,
price, value, &c., that your Excellency may examine the
same item by item, and permit the ships to receive on
board just as much export cargo and no more as is the
equivalent of their specie, let not the value of the mer-
chandize exceed that of the money, which will lead to
abuses done in the dark ! In reference to Sopa's ship,
oblige the principal security merchants to examine and
scrutinize if she be bone fide an American ship or not :
if an American ship--let her be treated exactly in the same
way as the two ships Ann M'Kinn and Lintin, but if she
be a ship belonging to any other country, and has borrowed
a false name under which to enter the port clandestinely,
then let the same be forthwith immediately driven out of
the port I Let not the said Hong merchants involve
themselves in the smallest degree in this matter, or fool-
ishly undertake to suffer for the faults of others 1 This is
done entirely from our (the Commissioner and Viceroy's)
feeling of compassion for the men from afar, and out of
what is crooked to make the most complete and perfect
laws ! The Hong merchants and the foreign merchants
must alike give conformable obedience and act with pro-
priety ; they may on no account offdr a foolish opposition !
We have to request your Excellency the Hoppo to examine
the matter duly, and command the Hong merchants that
the same be with all sincerity put in force, &c.
" Nov, this having been duly received by me, the hoppo.
I hereby in conformity issue this my edict for the informa-
tion of the concerned. When this edict is received by the
Hong merchants, let them immediately, in conformity with
the tenor of the Commissioner and Viceroy's communica-
tion to me, take the Ann 11P.Kinn and Lintin, and dis-
charging the whole of the boxes of foreign money on
board, announce the same to me, that I may have them
examined and sealed, when they will be stored in the
Consoo treasury ; and as the said Hong merchants go on
buying export cargo for these two ships, let them beware
that they only get the value of the money they brought; the
value of their export cargo must not exceed the amount of
their specie, which would lead to clandestine dealings and
irregularities. At the same time let the said principal
security merchants and others examine .clearly if Sopa's
ship be bone fide an American, ship or not—if an Ameri-
can ship, let her be treated in the same way as the Ann
APlCinn and Lintin, but if the ship of any other nation,
let the same forthwith be clearly reported to us, that she
be immediately driven out of port 1 Do not, oh ye Hong
merchants, involve yourselves on this matter, or by seek-
ing to conceal or grant connivance bring fatal conse-
quences upon yourselves I Hasten ! Hasten ! A special
edict.
" Taoukwang, 19th year, 12th moon, and 21st day.
Canton, 25th January, 1940."

PETITION OF THE 'DUTCH VICE-CONSUL.
Yu, Hoppo of Canton by Imperial appointment, &c.,
&c., &c., issues this edict to Howqua and the other secu-
rity merchants that they may thoroughly know and under-
stand.
Whereas, these said Hong-merchants handed me up a
petition written in the foreign character from the Dutch
foreigner, Teideman, which being translated was found to
contain the following :
" I, the said foreigner, on the oth day of the present
moon, had a ship belonging to my native: country called
Leen-sze-tat (Linstedt), which, coming to Canton to trade,
first, in confirmity with the law, gave a duly prepared
bond outside the Bocca Tigris, and immediately after-
wards proceeded to Whampoa. The said ship bad leder
on board foreign tin, sandal wood, gold and silver thread,
sha-As' maws, and fine blankets, carpets, and such like;
besides she had a quantity of a new kind of foreign money,
which she brought for purposes of trade. But as this was
the first time that Captain Leen-sze-tat had ever come
to Canton, he we not aware that from this new kind of
foreign money must be deducted a mace for every dollar
(about 12 per cent.) before that people were willing to
receive it, and so having no resource, he took this said new
e-r.ien money, and bought with it eight hundred and odd
`• , , • ~., 0.,,, 71 which he bad put on board and brought up
+ \ '21r.'.7,c,, "Lt. f' , same time.
Eitivt,i; v,,tli (Jeep reverence submitted to the new
lasva of th 9 heavenly dynasty, and not having smuggled or
wrought any prohibited articles of any descriptior_ not
daring to oppose or offend, being willing, should any
irregularity be discovered, to be atwiged to death by the
new statute, your petitioner herebz begs teat. Y. E. will
cause the Hong merchants to-secure his said ship forthwith,
that she may speedily open her hatches, and hav'wg dis-
charged her cargo, take advantage of the monsoon to.
spread her sails, and return to her own country, for which
your petitioner will feel deeply grateful," &c. &c.
Now this coming before me, the Hoppo, I find that on
the 13th day of the present moon (18th Dec., 183S1), I
received a joint despatch from their Excellencies, the Com-
missioner and Viceroy, to tee effect, that henceforward the
ships of all and every foreign country shall not be per-
mitted to load on board the goods and merchandise belong-
ing to the English foreigners, and dispose of the same fur
them, and that a duly prepared bond be et the same time
exacted hem these said foreigners to that effect, and that
the Hong merchants be commanded to consult together as
to bow this object may be best obtained, and hand up the
result of their deliberations for the approval or disaproval
of said high offioers, &c., &c., &c. ; which having been duly
received, I, the Hoppe, at that time in my turn im-
pressed the commands on the hong merchants, as is on
record.
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ceeded to Whampoa, this item of cotton, although it was
received on board after that the port was abut (against the
English), yet in the aforesaid petition it is distinctly said
that it was done before he had received any authentic do-
cument to such effect ; thereefonrehelert:ohled, saidthat Hong user-
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PETITION OF THE AMERICAN CONSUL.
;Goo. specially appointed Kwang-ehow.foo, Bic. &c.,
iS$ tl orders to the Hong merchants that they ma ye
thOrciugtlY kriOW hod iitider§tthiet
Whereas, I (the said Kwang chow foo) have just re-
ceived an edict from their Excellencies the High Commit:-
sioner Lin, and Viceroy Tang, to the following effect.
eCemti vith moon of the 19th
1839), the Amer
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