New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-06


oppositon that any one Of their number might ek'
ner;ence. Hence they are led to suomt, almost
without a struggle, to all sorts OF outragea
Mar i, II merely foreign adventures from whom the
tiuid and ignorant thus suffer. Not only are Cit
,s., boats ard lorchas transformed into European
and American yeesels, but Chinese scoundrels them
seves with the national aptitude for imitation, as
.ume the p.rb of foreigners means OF robbing
and plurdering with inpunity. The same inge-
NOUS rascals net uDfrequenty make even wei
meaning foreigners their unconscious accomphce''
A European is invited, perhaps to feast perhaps
a. a physician, or even to give religious ins1iuc
tion-the host patient, or pretended religious IN
ouirer artfuDy giving out that the red-bilstied
mandarin hiss come on purpose to take his s'ce 10
come litigation or feud in which he IL involved WIN
his neisLb ors, who are thus frightened into SUP
mi..ion. Dr. Mcgowan mentions case winch
lad occurred only few days before, 10 which
European resident of Ningpo was inside uacon'
sciously to ASSET in the abduction OF young
woman by party of villsins Terrified BY the pre-
senee ofthe English mandarin" no resistance was
offered. ard the scheme was perfectly successful.
tt Doctor thinks that there is no foreisa resdent
in China, whatever his calling, on whom some such
srtfce has not been played.
The greatest abuses have sprung up under pre-
tense of aordipg convoy against the native pirates
This tusins ss was frs. undertaken by foreign veg
sell. including even national ships, in bona hde
way, and for reasonable compensation. But the
proximity of the Macao Portuguese with their or-
cbss or sleeps, manDed to great extent by Manila
II en- or Cantonese, enabled them TO underbid those
who sailed square rugged vessels, and gave them
monopoly of the business. Being in possession OF
this field of operations they no longer left 1t op-
tiona to the Chinese coasters to accept convoy or
not. They were obliged to accept it, and to p'y
for il too at the dictatiOn of their self constitute1
guardians. The transition from this to piracy was
easy; and robbery and murder at sea were followed
BY like crimes on land Whole vilsges were re-
duced to asher, the men butchered, the women
violated, or carried off as plumber or for ransom
Chinese officers who attempted to thwart these
buccaneers were killed On the spo. or made prison.
ers and obliged to purchase their liberty. Inc
number of unoffeuding natives who have thus been
put to DEATH and some of them tortured 10 dia-
bolical maLner, has been very great. others
have escaped with wounds and mutations. The
Doctor states that much of his surgical prac-
tee has been due to these piraces and foray'
The loss of property has been proportonaby great
The store Of yar,s, dried fish and fuel LAID up Tor
Winters use by the poor peasants, the only goa'
the last fowl have been and still are-for the evil
still exists-carried of by the foreign msrauder.
Adventures who cannot command lOrchs TIT up
native boats and carry their depredation' into the
estuaries and rivers Others open Offices in the small
towns for the sale of passes which boats crossing
from headland to headand are obliged to purchase
in order to escape greater exactions. About nine
tenths of these ssnguDary harpes are stated to be
Portuguese, the remainder vagabonds from every
maritime State under heaven, representing every
class of society. ~ have kso IN, says DIR. Mac
gowsD, "a Cossack from the Lena rob Chinese
fisherman of the lesviDgs Of one of my plratlcal
towDsmeD, former member of the New-York
:" bar, at that time in the Portuguese service"
In pursuance of our treaty with China, Con-
gress enacted stringent regulations for the control
of Americans in China, comforting ample authority
on the Commissioner and COnsuls for enforcing
Justice against American offenders. These pro-
visions have, however, been to q great extent
imperative, especially in criminal cases where
natives are concerned for want of any provision to
enable the Consuls to examine and enforce their
authority 1t seems to be assumed that the culprit
will voluntarily deliver himsefup. The Consul, in
addition to his duties as dipoEatist and Judge
must also act as constable and jailor. The facility
with which Americans evade justice leads to an
assumption of American citizenship on the part of
many who have no claim to it. Every vagabond
pursued by justice forthwith prOclaims himself an
American citizen. In cases where Englishmen
ard persons claiming to be Americans have been
spprehended while Jointly perpetratiDg injuries on
the natives, DIR. Macgowsn has seen the English
man sent to the Hong Kong JAIL ard the American
or pretended American set free. Nor is even this
the worst Of it. An American who has COM
psint against sn Englshmin is sure of being heard
in the English Consular Courts; but if the COM
plant be against American, ten TO one if he can
frd the machinery of justice in working order
This is but q sad picture of the state of things
on the coast Of China, and may perhaps help to
convince our friends Of The N. Y. Times that the
ChiLe.e, after all, aIa IS much siDned against as
SHINING.
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