Europe in China: The History of Hongkong from the Beginning to the Year 1882Luzac & Company, 1895 - 575 頁 |
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acted administration appointed April arrival August blockade Bogue Bonham Bowring British community British merchants British subjects British trade Canton city Canton River Cantonese Cantonese Authorities Captain Elliot cession Chief Justice China Chinese Authorities Chinese Government Chinese officials Chuenpi Colonial Office Colonial Secretary commercial Commission Commissioner Committee Consul December dispatch dollars East India Company emigration Emperor Emperor of China England English established European February foreign merchants forthwith free trade gambling gaol Governor harbour Hong Merchants Hongkong Imperial increase January July June Kowloon Kowloon Peninsula land Legislative Council Lintin Lord Elgin Lord Napier Lord Palmerston Macao Magistrate Majesty's Majesty's Government Mandarins March Matheson Matheson & Co measure Nanking native November October Ordinance Peking period pirates port Pottinger Praya Registrar residents revenue Robinson scheme September Sir G Sir George Sir H Sir John Davis Sir Richard steamers Superintendent Taiping Treaty Treaty ports troops unofficial Members vessels Viceroy Whampoa whilst
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第 27 頁 - 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...
第 60 頁 - If the lion's paw is to be put down on any part of the south side of China, let it be Hongkong; let the lion declare it to be under his guarantee a free port, and in ten years it will be the most considerable mart east of the Cape.
第 29 頁 - England ; and whether, as the Roman in days of old held himself free from indignity when he could say ' Civis Romanus sum,' so also a British subject, in whatever land he may be, shall feel confident that the watchful eye and the strong arm of England will protect him against injustice and wrong.
第 172 頁 - It is hereby declared to the merchants and traders of Canton and all parts of the empire, that they and their ships have free permission to resort to and trade at the port of Hongkong, where they will receive full protection from the high officers of the British nation: and, Hongkong being on the shores of the Chinese empire, neither will there be any charges on imports and exports payable to the British government.
第 79 頁 - I might justly say, that no man entertains a deeper detestation of the disgrace and sin of this forced traffic on the coast of China, than the humble individual who signs this despatch. I see little to choose between it and piracy...
第 123 頁 - The Plenipotentiary seizes the earliest occasion to declare that her Majesty's government has sought for no privilege in China exclusively for the advantage of British ships and merchants, and he is only performing his duty in offering the protection of the British flag to the subjects, citizens, and ships of foreign powers that may resort to her Majesty's possession. Pending her Majesty's further pleasure, there will be no port or other charges to the British government.
第 165 頁 - The inhabitants are hereby promised protection in her majesty's gracious name, against all enemies whatever; and they are further secured in the free exercise of their religious rites, ceremonies, and social customs, and in the enjoyment of their lawful private property and interests.
第 65 頁 - ... whence such propositions may come. It might be very suitable for the servants of the East India Company, themselves an association of merchants, to communicate with the authorities of China through the merchants of the Hong, but the Superintendents are officers of the King, and as such can properly communicate with none but officers of the Chinese government.
第 58 頁 - The privilege of trading with Amoy, with Ningpo, and a third port nearer Peking to the northward. 7th, The obtaining, by negotiation or purchase, an island on the eastern coast of China, where a British factory may reside subject to its own laws, and exposed to no collision with the Chinese.
第 215 頁 - You' (Lord Palmerston was addressing Sir John Davis, at that time HM VOL. II. B Plenipotentiary in China) 'will inform the Chinese authorities, in plain and distinct terms, that the British Government will not tolerate that a Chinese mob shall with impunity maltreat British subjects in China, whenever they get them into their power ; and that if the Chinese authorities will not punish and prevent such outrages, the British Government will be obliged to take the matter into their own hands...