Your search
Results 3 resources
-
This archival document comprises a multi-page administrative dossier from the Portuguese colonial administration in Macau, dated between 1823 and 1827, with the principal communication dated 27 April 1827. It consists of official correspondence, memoranda, petitions, and marginalia addressed to senior colonial authorities—including the Most Illustrious and Most Excellent Lord (a high-ranking official in Lisbon), the Bishop of Macau (Miguel d’Arriaga Borba da Silveira), and the Governor and Captain-General of Macau—concerning the contested regulation and fiscal management of the *anfiao* (opium) trade. Key figures include Luís Chacim (arrived in Macau aboard the vessel *Porto*), L.M.P.S.D.H. (Luís Maria Pereira da Silva e D’Oliveira Horta), António Vicente Mendes, Jorge Moura/Sousa Pacheco, and Dom Man-hi, alongside references to Chinese mandarins—including the Boat Mandarin—and Portuguese military and ecclesiastical officials such as Field Marshal António Barrio and Marshal of the Field (brevet rank) Castro Caldeira e Albuquerque. The dossier documents disputes over jurisdiction between Macau’s Municipal Senate (reconstituted in 1822), the Bishop-Governor, royal officials, and Qing imperial authorities, particularly concerning revenue loss following the shift of *anfiao* fairs to Lantau Island after c. 1820, administrative dereliction, and efforts to restore trade under Portuguese oversight. It further records appeals for royal intervention, procedural deliberations by the Secretaria de Estado dos Negócios Ultramarinos and the Overseas Council, and formal submissions to the Infanta Regent at Ajuda Palace. The material originates from the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino (AHU) and related Portuguese national archives, bearing archival references including M2687 and its variants.
-
This abstract describes a bilingual (Chinese and Latin) imperial edict issued on 9 November 1785—the eighth day of the tenth lunar month in the fiftieth year of the Qianlong reign—alongside a contemporaneous ecclesiastical dispatch dated 22 January 1786 from Macau. The document records the Qing Emperor’s conditional release of twelve European missionaries, including Patiliano (Father Joannes a Salsis), who had entered China without official authorisation and were apprehended across multiple provinces including Huguang, Zhili, Guangdong, Gansu, Jiangxi, and Sichuan. It details the Emperor’s rationale for initial sentencing to perpetual imprisonment—citing clandestine movement and proselytisation as disruptive analogues to the legendary venomous serpent *Guiyu*—and his subsequent clemency, permitting the missionaries either residence in Beijing churches (*jiaotang*) or repatriation to Macau under imperial auspices. The dispatch, authored by Martinho de Melo, Apostolic Administrator *ad interim* of Macau, reports ceremonial reception in Beijing—including imperial audience, liturgical celebration at the Cathedral, and solemn processions—as well as the identities and nationalities of twelve missionaries en route to Macau, among them Bishop Francisco Gabriel Turin of Sichuan, Italian, Spanish, French, Macanese, and Colombian clergy. The text reflects Qing administrative procedures, jurisdictional roles of the Board of Rites (*Lifan Yuan*) and Ministry of Justice (*Xingbu*), and missionary interpretations of imperial favour, including the term *Condegiro* as colloquial reference to high-ranking mandarins. This material constitutes a primary source for studying Sino-European religious diplomacy, Qing legal administration, and Catholic missionary activity in late eighteenth-century China.
-
This 1826 administrative document, originating from the Royal College of St Joseph in Macao, China, comprises a formal submission by its Superior, Joaquim José Monteiro Torres, addressed to a high-ranking colonial or ecclesiastical official. The letter transmits an enclosed petition concerning the welfare of missionary activities under the Royal Patronage of the Portuguese Crown, requesting its forwarding to the "Royal Presence" of the August Lord D.º G.º. Signed by both Monteiro Torres and Nuciao Rodrigues Osório de Borja, the document reflects institutional efforts to coordinate ecclesiastical affairs within the Portuguese imperial framework in Asia. Endorsed with marginal annotations indicating administrative routing—specifically instructions to communicate the matter to the Bishop of Macao on 2 April 1827, preceded by earlier notations dating to 23 March and 1 April 1827—the manuscript reveals procedural aspects of colonial governance and church-state relations in the late Portuguese Empire. Originally archived under references linked to the Historical Archive of Portugal (AHU_CU_Índia, Cx. 14, D. 84), the document bears a circular seal associated with Portuguese historical documentation. As a primary source, it provides insight into the bureaucratic mechanisms supporting Catholic missions in Macao during the early 19th century, illustrating the interplay between religious institutions and imperial authority in a colonial Asian context.
Explore
Primary Sources
Subject Headings
Resource type
- Manuscript (3)
Publication year
-
Between 1700 and 1799
(1)
-
Between 1780 and 1789
(1)
- 1786 (1)
-
Between 1780 and 1789
(1)
-
Between 1800 and 1899
(2)
-
Between 1820 and 1829
(2)
- 1826 (2)
-
Between 1820 and 1829
(2)