Account for and full description of the articles purchased by the EIC in 1792 for presentation to the Emperor of China by Lord Macartney, together with those purchased in 1787 for Cathcart and handed over to Macartney (three copies)
Copy letter from Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, President of the Board, to the Viceroy of Canton, about the British investigation into the affair of HMS Topaze, 1822
Diary and consultations of the Council in China for 1722
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Covers 2 Jan 1722-10 Apr 1723; at Canton Jul-Dec 1722. Supercargoes: James Naish, Henry Talbot, ship Eyles (Capt James Winter); Richard Newman, Waldo Dubois, ship Lyell (Capt Charles Small); John Savage, Edward Pratt, ship Sir Robert Walpole (Capt Charles Boddam); Whichcot Turner, ship Emilia (Ca...
Diary and consultations of the Council in China for 1721
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Covers 31 Dec 1720-25 May 1722; at Canton Jul-Dec 1721. Supercargoes: Nathaniel Torriano, Peter Godfrey, Samuel Ward, Arthur Morris, John Tucker, ship Morrice (Capt Eustace Peacock); John Horsmonden, Peter Walker, William Foster, ship Macclesfield (Capt Robert Hudson); Richard Nicholson jun, Samu...
Received notice of 'a Combination or Company the merchants of this place have erected themselves into, in which both the Hoppo & Tituck are concerned.'
Met a 'Tawjen' [Kinch'ai Tach'en, Imperial High Commissioner] accompanying Cardinal Mezzobarba, Papal Legate, on his return journey from Peking to Macao. Informed that 'the Hoppo has published a Chop forbidding all the inferiour class of merchants or such as are not of this Company to deal or tr...
The Chuntuck summoned the heads of the merchants before him & told them in an angry manner the evil consequences that must attend the present method they had put the trade of this place into. Last night the Society of Merchants were summoned together to consider the Chuntuck's remonstrance,...
Informed that 'some of the Bonitta's people had shot a China man about Wampo, in the service of the Hoppo, & that Mr Scattergood [supercargo] had withdrawn himself from his own house to the United English factory to escape, though entirely innocent, from falling into the hands of these barba...
The killing the Hoppo's officer by an Englishman in the Bonitta's boat, though near Wampo, has hindered us several days in our business, for although no person at Canton could by any rules of right, reason or justice be deemed guilty of so accidental a thing, especially at the distance of this pl...