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Auction: 21042 - The Opium Wars Collection
Lot: 101

First Opium War
The Eastern Expedition
After The Treaty of Nanking
1844 (4 June) a printed circular from Nye, Parkin & Co., Canton, headed "Postscript to Circular of May 10th; 15th 1844". The contents include,"... we have first to advise the arrival of H.E. Keying, appointed Imperial Commissioner and Governor-General ... proceeds to Macao at an early day to hold a parting interview with H.E. Sir Henry Pottinger, and to confer with him a treaty of friendship...". Other parts of this circular note the appointment of Francis Coleman MacGregor as H.M. Consul General at Canton; Capt. Balfour as H.M. Consul at Shanghae; Robert Thom as H.M. Consul at Ningpo. The circular carries on with details of trade including a paragraph on the opium trade, with details of the ships coming in with cargoes; the trade continued unrelentingly. A very significant document


1844年6月4日來自廣州 Nye, Parkin & Co. 的印刷通告，標題為“5 月 10 日; 1844 年 15 日通告的後記”. 內容包括: “……我們首先通知被任命為帝國特派員兼總督的耆英先生的到來……早日前往澳門, 與亨利·波廷格爵士閣下進行離別會面……”。本通函的其他部分提到任命弗朗西斯·科爾曼·麥格雷戈 (Francis Coleman MacGregor)為 駐廣州總領事; 鮑爾弗上尉為駐上海領事; 羅伯特·湯姆為駐寧波領事. 通函繼續介紹貿易細節，包括一段關於鴉片貿易的內容, 以及裝運貨物的船隻的細節; 貿易繼續無阻. 一件非常重要的文件.

Estimate
HK$10,000 to HK$15,000

Starting price
HK$7000