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Auction: 21042 - The Opium Wars Collection
Lot: 74

First Opium War
The Eastern Expedition
The Treaty of Canton
1841 (2 June) entire letter from Turner & Co in Macao to John Gladstone & Co, Liverpool "via Marseilles", rated "2/8" with a faint strike of "INDIA" in large oval, the flap with London and Liverpool c.d.s. (9.10).


The letter includes, "... Intelligence reached Macao this afternoon that the Chinese have paid over to Captain Elliot 4,500,000 taels of silver on the following conditions. That no further hostilities were to be carried on in this Province. The Chinese troops to have suffered to withdraw without interruption - all the English military and naval forces to leave the river immediately and all the captured forts to be restored to the Chinese in their present condition. The Chinese compromised on their parts pledge themselves not to interfere with the trade and it is rumoured the Capt. Elliot expects that the British merchants will after all past experience place themselves and property under their charge in the power of the Chinese without a shadow of protection from their own government ...". The ink shows through the paper, nevertheless an insight into problems yet to come

Lord Palmerston felt that Elliot had not extracted enough concessions and he was dismissed. His replacement, Sir Henry Pottinger, wanted compensation for the opium confiscated and the costs of the war, the opening of further ports to international trade and the establishment of diplomatic relations


1841年6月2日澳門Turner & Co. 經馬賽寄英國利物浦John Gladstone &Co. 信函 , 遞送費為2s 8d, 函上有模糊的㰐圓 "INDIA" 戳, 封舌上有倫敦及10月9日利物浦日戳. 此信函對1841年5月21日英軍由富爾將軍 (Maj. Gen. Hugh Gough) 率領約6000 英兵攻打廣州城, 中英雙方在該地的戰况及最後簽訂「廣州和約」等有相關重點的描述. 信函有摺痕及墨水書寫透背. 脚注: 帕默斯頓勳爵覺得義律沒有爭取到足夠的賠償, 因而被停職了. 他的繼任者亨利·璞鼎查爵士要求賠償沒收了的鴉片和戰爭費用, 及為國際貿易開放更多港口和建立外交關係

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