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IOR/G/12/25 f.7
- Record Id:
- 041-000175407
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000175241
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000746.0x0002ef
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/G/12/25 f.7
- Title:
- Diary and consultations of the Council in China
- Scope & Content:
- We hear that the weavers at Fossan have stopt working of silks in order to oblidge the merchants to raise the price of their labour. Arrived the Boone at Wampo. Mr Wake informs us that by mistaking the land they fell to leeward & were obliged to put into Amoy, where he was received in an extraordinary manner by the Tytuck who offered, if he would stay and do his business there, he would excuse him half the port charges & grant him any liberty he could desire; but no ships trading there for so many years, the merchants are removed to other places, therefore could not propose a dispatch in time. But is of opinion with proper manadgement that port may be resettled. It is not a little unfortunate that he was oblidged to come to Canton since it confirms the Mandarins in the opinion that the Europeans are not able to carry on their trade at any other place in China but this. Response to instruction 11: We did not find any combination of the merchants, but an affair of rather worse consequence, which is Benqua, who goes by the name of Phuen's Merchant, offered to his master for the English trade alone this year 24,000 ta. and had it not been prevented this port had been reduced to exactly the same circumstances as Amoy. Our threatenings or representations were of no signification, nor dared any of the merchants resist this violence, excepting Suqua, whose management was so successful in the conclusion as to get not only Benqua but likewise the principal Poi de Casa (who was an adviser in this scheme) disgraced.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000173250
036-000175241
040-000175402
041-000175407 - Is part of:
- IOR/G : East India Company Factory Records
IOR/G/12 : Factory Records: China and Japan
IOR/G/12/25 : Diary and consultations of the Council in China for 1724
IOR/G/12/25 f.7 : Diary and consultations of the Council in China - Hierarchy:
- 032-000173250[0012]/036-000175241[0021]/040-000175402[0005]/041-000175407
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/G
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1724
- End Date:
- 1724
- Date Range:
- 1 Oct 1724-14 Oct 1724
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Administrative Context:
- Three East India Company ships traded at Canton between July and December 1725. The Princess Amelia (Capt John Misenor) carried a cargo for Mokha, and the Caesar (Capt William Mabbott) and Houghton (Capt Edward Gibson) carried cargoes for London. In 1726 a single ship, the Townshend (Capt Philip Worth), was at Canton between August and December and carried a cargo for London.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)