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Order from Hoppo to hong merchants. The Yang-chiang magistrate reports that 30 red-haired...
Catalogue reference: FO 1048/33/50
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This record is about the Order from Hoppo to hong merchants. The Yang-chiang magistrate reports that 30 red-haired... dating from [1833] in the series East India Company: Select Committee of Supercargoes, Chinese Secretary's Office:.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1833]
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Order from Hoppo to hong merchants. The Yang-chiang magistrate reports that 30 red-haired barbarians accompanied by a Chinese ship's carpenter sought help after their ship [the Bee], the captain of which was named Warden and the mate Ashe, had been wrecked, and that according to the carpenter's deposition she had loaded her cargo at Macao. Only Portuguese and Manila ships may trade at Macao, all others trading at Whampoa. The hong merchants are to find out when she entered and left Macao, where she purchased her cargo and why she did not enter Whampoa. (Dated: 8m 9d).
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- FO 682/[278/2]
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Trade and commerce
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2716527/
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East India Company: Select Committee of Supercargoes, Chinese Secretary's Office:...
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