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本文译自英国国家档案馆收藏的东印度公司商船货物监管人特别委员会档案(编号:F01048)的介绍(撰于1994年)。东印度公司商船货物监管人特别委员会设在广州和澳门,在该委员会撤消(1834年)前,实际行使东印度公司所拥有的英国在华贸易的垄断权。当时该委员会呈送中方的信函和文件均由英国在华贸易总监管人下属的负责口译和笔译工作的中文秘书处译为中文,由此形成了一批中文档案。这些档案主要反映了鸦片战争前英国东印度公司对华贸易特别是广州十三行贸易的情况。
This article has been translated from the archives of the Special Section for Merchant Shipping Controllers of the East India Company (Ref. F01048), collected by the British National Archives (authored in 1994). The East India Company Merchant Shipping Supervisors Special Commission was based in Guangzhou and Macau and actually exercised the monopoly power of the British-owned trade in China owned by East India companies until it was abolished (1834). At that time, the letters and documents presented by the commission to China were translated into Chinese by the Chinese secretariat responsible for interpretation and translation under the trade supervisor of Britain. As a result, a number of Chinese documents were formed. These archives mainly reflect the trade of British East India Company with China before the Opium War and the 13th line of Guangzhou in particular.