East India Company: Select Committee of Supercargoes, Chinese Secretary's Office: Chinese-language Correspondence and Papers FO 1048/31/5

East India Company: Select Committee of Supercargoes, Chinese Secretary's Office: Chinese-language Correspondence and Papers. 1831: TAO KUANG X. Order from Canton prefect to senior hong merchant. In view of the imperial edict, communicated through the viceroy, there must be not the slightest deparure from the old rules. Unless Thornhill and Whiteman send their women back to Macao at once they will be expelled, and it will be the worse for the hong merchants. (Dated: 11m 29d).