. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. Camoens Grotto. Soon after the British merchants had removed from Canton to Macao, ithappened that some English and Chinese sailors quarrelled in the street,. Ci3CD oo C/2 THE MANTCHOW DYNASTY—TAOU-KVVANG : 1820-50. 143 when one of the latter was accidentally killed by a random blow. Thelaws of China make no distinction between murder and homicide; there-fore, when the governor of Canton was informed of this unfortunate cir-cumstance, he demanded as was the duty of his office, that the cu
. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. Camoens Grotto. Soon after the British merchants had removed from Canton to Macao, ithappened that some English and Chinese sailors quarrelled in the street,. Ci3CD oo C/2 THE MANTCHOW DYNASTY—TAOU-KVVANG : 1820-50. 143 when one of the latter was accidentally killed by a random blow. Thelaws of China make no distinction between murder and homicide; there-fore, when the governor of Canton was informed of this unfortunate cir-cumstance, he demanded as was the duty of his office, that the culpritshould be given up to justice; but as the English are not amenable to Chi-nese law, they of course refused to comply. The governor, therefore, gaveorders that provisions should no longer be supplied to the English at Macao,on which Captain Elliott removed the whole fleet to Hong-kong, a rockyisland, about thirty-five miles to the east of that settlement, inhabited at thattime chiefly by fishermen, but which has now become an English settlement,with a good town, built by Us new occupiers. In the meantime, the Britishsuperintendent had written to Lord Auckland, the governor-general of India,requesting that he would send, without delay, as many vessels
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