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IOR/G/12/28 p.36
- Record Id:
- 041-000175442
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000175241
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000746.0x00030f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/G/12/28 p.36
- Title:
- Diary and consultations of the Council in China
- Scope & Content:
- It is said the Viceroy insists upon the promise of a present of about 13,000 tales to be made to the Chuntuck last year, of which there remains unpaid above 9000, to which is added this year not only a continuance of the same donation but an increase of it proportionable to the number of ships, and for this year is estimated at 17,000 tales. This sum with the nine unpaid before comes to 26,000 tales and is the present demand of the Viceroy upon the merchants, and this we heard for the first reason of our being interrupted in shipping our goods. Upon pressing our merchants more and more, they owned that the Viceroy was satisfyed but that now the Hoppo made his demands upon them, which were not to receive his customs as usual upon the weight of the goods but that he would open all that were shipped, put what value he pleased for the prime cost, and then lay 10 per cent. This they aledged was now the present occasion of our not shipping. We have all along acquainted them that as we had contracted with them for our goods, we thought themselves and us pretty much in the same scituation and at present would act nothing without their advice. They have assured us this affair will soon come to a conclusion. We have undoubted reason to believe their hatred, their greediness of supplanting one another in trade by bribing the Mandarins to support those that gave the largest sums, have brought these expences upon all. And in these countrys voluntary gifts are turned into arbitrary and annual taxations. The conclusion that we must make is this, that these oppressions, whomsoever they come from or by whatsoever occasioned do, and will more and more, fall upon the European trade.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000173250
036-000175241
040-000175440
041-000175442 - Is part of:
- IOR/G : East India Company Factory Records
IOR/G/12 : Factory Records: China and Japan
IOR/G/12/28 : Diary and consultations of the Council in China for 1729
IOR/G/12/28 p.36 : Diary and consultations of the Council in China - Hierarchy:
- 032-000173250[0012]/036-000175241[0024]/040-000175440[0002]/041-000175442
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/G
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1729
- End Date:
- 1729
- Date Range:
- 22 Sep 1729
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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