Ofício do assistente do magistrado do distrito de Xiangshan, Xing, ao procurador de Macau, sobre a participação minuciosa às autoridades sínicas das quantidades de mercadorias, canhão e passageiros dos navios que partem do porto de Macau
This is an official Qing dynasty administrative notice, dated 1 November 1767 (eighth day of the tenth lunar month, Qianlong 32nd year), issued by Xing ○, Deputy Magistrate of Xiangshan County, Guangzhou Prefecture, to the Foreign Superintendents Lāiluōduō and others stationed in Macau. The document...
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1767-10-31
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| Online Access: | https://macau-legacy.usj.edu.mo/docs/US64TZZI/viewer_US64TZZI.html |
| Summary: | This is an official Qing dynasty administrative notice, dated 1 November 1767 (eighth day of the tenth lunar month, Qianlong 32nd year), issued by Xing ○, Deputy Magistrate of Xiangshan County, Guangzhou Prefecture, to the Foreign Superintendents Lāiluōduō and others stationed in Macau. The document concerns the departure on 25 October 1767 (first day of the tenth lunar month) of vessel no. 11, commanded by Pedro Luís de Góis e Sousa, from Macau for commercial trade in the Lesser Western Ocean (a Qing-era geographical term encompassing the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, and western Indian littoral). It records the magistrate’s formal censure of the Foreign Superintendents for failing to submit, as previously instructed, a verified and itemised report detailing the actual number of merchants and crew, cannons and firearms, and cargo aboard foreign vessels departing Macau. The notice explicitly identifies procedural delay (*wán yán*) and administrative negligence, reiterates the requirement for full, accurate, and timely disclosure, and warns against falsification under penalty of serious consequences. Marginalia and red seals—including *Xíng* (‘to be implemented’), *Chūbā rì* (‘Eighth day’), and *Sù* (‘Urgent’)—underscore its binding, time-sensitive nature. The archival reference T27 F94Y and marginalia T27 35+ indicate its provenance within a larger Qing bureaucratic archive. This document is a primary source for studying Qing maritime regulation, Sino-foreign commercial oversight, and administrative practice in the Canton System during the mid-eighteenth century. |
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