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' c utly the destructive answers . from li, e :13 1 -. : ) !Igii subseque bin. after three quarters of an p ( , 41 ,,O ' :: 11114 t it ag st e t . ailenfrtcoeid•ed re in dittms. the ' l lhsiox ~.. „ L i , —Appointed to the Governorship T ai I : o ,gq .14-.1.;;Ii."-Kea-ng, , viz. the three provinces of koe the 23d of Ma . y,1839. „:ti „ in s , n- ,cu and isigan - , , - ; -." i. 2 1 ( T' bearing the summary powers of a Kin-chae, ilt u i ciee ; '' In Verial -Commissioner, was E en t t o d t o h l e vn E b n y gl t i h si e , ° t,,- .1 G , - 7 , rninent io put an instant stop h ‘Atlll at - fi ra. lie, which had grown to an unprincipled. ex -1.,e4tt,.11- " 41 I t o w, although the British Minisbtenrcheaidrso,n his both %, 1 11bZ 11 as the Chinese Government h 11-11 43 "'"' it. The High Commissioner's approach was l ' c'rtill ' lllie'd by the declaration in regard to the abolition 11 "1. :N - i ' I; el ari trade that, "though the axe should -14:1 , 1t i e ll t 'hit ; hand, ortlie boat should sink from beneath % 4,1 p1 t ' i , %,v( , uld he not stay his efforts until the work was il 4t.411 1:i' '' His arrival at Canton was preceded by _ t il l hi -1- , 11 1- 7 • if a native opium smuggler, and lie surassed_ Oti e e x ", ‘: 1 ; the most formidable apprehensions that . had ° , 11 , 1 11 - ,; 1 2 '1 '. He demanded every particle of opium on ti ll i: 4 a t b - n 2 4 , . d . elive d red i to be burned and destroyed, th7' s llti - t ,„"_ I signed that tr . the t . raflic should be altogether ii " oth e l'e , while lie imprisoned Captain Elliot and t t,,, au r 1 lu . r, , pean residents till all his demands were ; (34 liel Y d„" eapl.'ed with. In two subsequent events . o ) 4441 1V - a rid murder, he attempted to behave in an -4 gliii, 4 ,, r b itrary manner, but the steadiness of the iS tl '°l amissimer kept him in check. 1 1 . 4 ea }t rpt i ' 4- JIN.--This Mandarin, the friend of Lord 0 2 , 1 , .4e 3 _ 114:ext ;it ' rose among the . Chinese Ministers to the V a t ions in the empire, but being . accused of k Otl in ' "tr i bored the drought then prevailing to the 141/ tll trelll 9 iish to visit sang-ming, "To utter such Itak age h '',_' o l id the Emperor, " before the thing spoken 1 - "1*(1 " 4. „.„'" and thereby to agitate the minds of all, is 1 1 " It u' e4 1 breach of the duties of Prime Minister th e t be it4 6 - „, 4e l'e! ,ire dgraded and sent into . Mongolia. One tO e C am , ,ire liars declared that Sung was the delight of giB l;_, 4ll t country ; his Majesty, in a rescript, tells ord ers 0. er that he talks nonsense and scandal, and , lie ty ,., lll ' .. to be punished for his presumption. °Nth --.4 5 & w. .—This ministerial star is now in about its tl E L lit letiV ' aid t nay be considered the Melbourne of the a q -6r4 c1,„, t Cabin et :be has risen into favour, after being d u 0 e A for a ivising the Emperor to shave neither head t o ; r0 ititl for the space of a hundred days after the ~t r • of th e Il a. Tress. He see ms a b o ld, i n t rigu ing per 'be bike i., br ike int o th e I mper i a l h arem , an d de r eAI his do ug h ter from it ; at another time abruptly Q 'A forced his way into the presence of the Emperor, to talk about some mourning suits : he is now jiither-in-law to the Monarch, and the most powerful man in the empire. ENGLISH COMMISSIONERS, OFFICERS, AND OTHERS, APPOINTED BY GO VERNMENT TO ACT IN CHINA. LORD NAPIER. The Right Hon. William John Napier, of Merchis toun, ninth Lord Napier, Baronet of Nova Scotia 1627, Captain in the Royal Navy, and principal Superinten dent of the British trade with China, was born at Kin sale, in Ireland, Oct. 13, 1786. In December, 1833, he received from the King a comm:ssion, appointing him principal Superintendent of the trade and interests of the British_ nation in China. Rs Lordship's instructions appear to have been in very general terms, they are to be found in the Canton Register of Aug. 19, 1834 : " We do require ani enjoin you to watch over and protect the interest of our subjects resident at and re sorting to the empire of China, for the purposes of trade ; and to offer them all such advice, information, and as sistance, as it may be in your power to give, with the view to the safe and successful conduct of their commer cial transactions ; and to the utmost of your ability to protect them in..the peaceable prosecution of all lawful enterprises ; and, by the exertion of your utmost in fluence and authority, to adjust by arbitration or per suasion all disputes in which our subjects may there be engaged with one another." His Lordship had under his command two frigates, the Imogene and And romache, but it does not appear that any special service in China had been assigned to these ships of war by the Home Authorities, beyond the safe conveyance of his Lordship, his family, and suite to the scene of his official destination, and it may be presumed the defence of his person, and of those whom he was sent to protect. JULY 16—Lord Napier, according rd p in ro g e t e o ed t e h d e o t r o de c rs hin re a; re ceived by him charged under the Royal Commission to introduce the new and h system the Celestial etw between Empire,n the a subjects rrive c d ) f on Greatthe Britain above day in the Macao-roads. Notice of his Lordship's arrival was immediately sent to the Hong merchants at Canton , whic h was forwarded by them forthwith to Loo, the Governor of Canton, who issued instructions, dated the 21st of July , that his Lord ship should continue at Macao, and if he \ranted to come to Canton, inform the merchants that they might pre viously petition the Governor, who would send the peti tion by post-conveyance to Pekin, adding, " all must re spectively wait till the mandate of the Great Emperor has been received--then orders will be issued to require obedience." His Lordship, however, was impatient at having to wait in conformity with Imperial mandates. The distance of Pekin from Canton makes it a postage of at least 11 days, and the return would have occupied 11 more ; to which must have been added whatever time his Imperial Majesty might have thought fit to require for deliberation respecting the manner in which he should regulate the intercourse his Lordship had been seht to superintend. This delay, to a man of L -'- ~.._—=.- i ez) 7-- " ,---- z - .. - ‘ t--k-a ____.---- -- 4`...0 NI- A - C1;TSS)14:1ASIl .....-, - 1 -- , -.,-...,.- ._ - _ , _ i -~ ~~_ (Llll3 =f A c o =. -A" - _~. S - I r-r;l4, e I 95 ;Iwo oicedat e 4 4 - o Salengore - - r::. -- -= -- l his Lordship's temperament, was insupportable, al id ac cordingly waiving all ceremony, and dispensing wi th the honours of a public entry, his Lordship first app milted his coadjutors, and particularly the late Dr. Morri iOn, to conduct his correspondence with the Chinese ; an d then accompanied by them. betook himself to his boa t, late in the day of the 24th July, and after encounte ring a stormy and rainy night on the Canton river, lam led on the morning of the 25th, at the factory at Canto in, a building which has been allotted by the Chinese for r the temporary residence of the English merchants. Tha s re markable debut acquired for his Lordship the hone ar of being reported to the Chinese local authorities 1:03 • the sell ants of the Custom-house, as a ' Barbarian Eye, who with three other English devils, had clandestinely ss tolen into Canton ; and, according to report, his subsequent appearance, parading the wharf arm-in-arm wit two offensive Europeans, in a rough sailor's jacket, not at all tended to exalt him in tho eyes of the Chinese, wl to are well-known t o a tta c h high importanc e t o appropriate dresses on public functionaries. Corr es p o ndence o a this score then took place between the English and Ch. inese, manifesting pugnacity and defiance and little i nore. " The Chinese nation," said Governor Loo, " has its laws, it is so everywhere. Even England has its laws. How much more the Celestial Empire ! How flaming b right are its great laws and ordinances," &c. His Lori !ship was then, through the Hong merchants admonished. that he had violated those flaming bright' laws, and wi is re quired by way of atonement to return to Maca o r and there to await a regular permission to go to C an ton. This he refused to do, and said nothing but fixed bayonets should drive him from the factory. The I tong merchants, hereupon, considering that they had. ;some interest in the settlement of all disputes between. :their nation and ours, and in the peaceful management .of a hitherto profitable trade, invited the English at Gan ton to a conferen ce i n th e C ons o o h a ll, b u t i n thi s hi s Lead ship forestalled them, by inviting a public me( :Ling of those merchants at an earlier hour on the same dayi, in the Chamber of Commerce. At that meeting the pro posalthe consequence ronr ‘ o % % ' w a . a s r t .t h h a rA t e a t f h ttee e nr t e r dl a o d nt o e g a w dn a ci s she s ou t r o s s p i p o e n ds before. of the H ong merc h ants w a s read and rejected, and C w i i t h o s rdN a ship pi e s iq ) was th anion the subordinate authorities of C anton, h i s Lordsh at last compelled to re-embark for Macao, on the 21st, in bad health, vexed by th e p osture of affairs, ilahl 1 in sort of custody, the vessel in which he travelled ' being surrounded by Chinese junks, with mandarins and :musi cians on board, who kept up a perpetual clamou r with their gongs, to his great annoyance. Soon after bis ar rival in Macao, on the 27th of September, he f e ll 41 vic tim to fever, dying there on the 21st of Octobai He was buried, at his own request, by the sid e o f h i s late Chinese Secretary, Dr. Morrison. Lord Napier 'a visit to China was not unattended with bloodshed. T he fri gates were called up, and fired on the Chinese for. to ; the Chinese returned the fire not without effect, and : there was slaughter on both sides, but most on the C' nese. Having expelled the Barbarian Eye, the Chin. gig, re opened their trade, but at the same time command in g a ll British ships of war to quit the Chinese seas. COLONEL C4THCABT.—Thia officer was sent "from - 7;7=74 - _ . I NCAP RE. - _ _.1.. ----._ _ -------,.--_____:, 'gam ----i.,-- -----,___--------_-.--=_ -- :::---------- -----:4-.''----=----- - ___,_=„_. a., ~_ 105 England, in 1788, in the Vestal frigate, as Ambassador to China. His death on the passage out, in the Straits of Sunda, put an entire stop to the mission for a time, and the frigate returned to England. This measure was, however, carried out on a larger scale in 1792, when, in conformity with the proposal of Mr. Dundas, Lord Macartney's embassy was constituted and sent out. The tomb of Colonel Cathcart is still marked by a handsome monument, visible from the anchorage of ships at Angier Point. CLAVELL, CAPTAIN JonN.—Commissioned for the East India station in the Orlando, Aug. 17, 1815 . I n October following sailed for Canton with a quantity of specie on board, and the Hon. East India Company's ship Thomas Grenville, under her protection. About the end of 1818, being in want of repair, she returned home wi n th l C L a i r c ain ApT Cl ,t a i v N ell, B i A n s S m e . p — te r m ri b li e s r, 10 gun brig, attached to the Amherst expedition : and, commanded his account of the officer lBl9 son of Sir oJamesn Loo-Choo Islands." B h a o r in t., e, o i f n D lB u l n 7 g , la p s u s b , CAPTAIN MAXWELL.--This officer accompanied the Amherst mission, when he commanded the Alceste fri gate, and maintained the dignity of the British flag, when, on being fired upon b y the junks and the forts at the river's mouth, on their passage to Canton, silencing the junks with a single shot, while one broadside suf ficed to send the garri son of the fort scampering up the side of the hill, down which that defence is somewhat preposterously built. The effect of Captain Maxwell's decisive conduct on this occasion was evinced in the short space of a day, by the arrival of all sorts of provisions to the Alceste, and an acknowledgment that the firing at the entrance of the river was an affair of saluting. CAPTAIN BLACKWOOD , LATE LORD DUFFERIN.—This officer was actively engaged at the time of Lord Napier's commission with his ship in the Chinese sea, and con veyed his Lordship safely under the fire of the batteries of the Boeca Tigris and Tiger istand fort in the ship Imogene, to the anchorage at Whampoa. Mu. JonN ROBERT MonursoN.---Son of the cele brated Dr. Morrison, the present secretary to the super intendents at Canton. He was born at Canton, by the Doctor's first wife, Miss Mary . Morton, in April, 1814. A sister of his, Rebecca Morrison, had been born the year before, and a son in 1811, who died an infant. REV. Ma. m iLNE ..—.This gentleman long co-operated with Dr. Morrison. He had been sent out by the London Missionary Society, and with his friend the late lamented Doctor, he maintained a constant and cordial friendship. Part of Dr. Morrison's version of the Books of the 01 , 1 1 Testament was translated by him when he had beco me Dr. Milne. Leang-a-fa, a native Chinese, who had 'peen converted to the Christian faith by Dr. Milne, Insisted in passing the work through the press. August, 1834, Da. MoanisoN.—The Rev. R. Morrison, DD., so known to the British a nd C hin ese hemispheres for his works, ks, fi l t ab h O i ll s labours, lodging g talents,the Danishdied on Fongtl i the Ist at of Canton, his 53d year. Dr. Morrison's father was Mr. James Morrison, of Perthshire, at first a husbandman, and „ ea - 7;4P _ ~~ . -~' v ~-4 ~~`- : - * r`Cl ~d =.__ _ - _ -~ - -- _ == - S - _s;>=— -_~_ - 1 ' ~_ _, - - - 125 r4 , -- 10 manual, to superintend the English trade with China in 1834, on the breaking up of the East India trade, and on the 23d July embarked on board his Majesty's ship An dromache, and proceeded to Canton, where the Com mission arrived on the 25th. In the troublesome delays which afterwards took place, on the Chinese refusing to acknowledge Lord Na pier's commission , Mr. Dania strenuously objected to any communication with the inferior authorities at Canton, demanding immediate communication with the Emperor himself. This advice of referring at once to the Court at Pekin was recom mended by Mr. Davis on no r easons, and when, on the death of Lord Napier, Mr. Davis succeeded him, he, i n wr iti n g to the Secretary of State, administrate a t t h e a r t cua 4 : I n s : , , fact was better authenticated than the general ignorance in which the local government kept the Court in regard t o Canton transactions and its tr p e ti a (n) t iu m net e (ei n d t tou of nade E te u ri r nt o hteh Mr. Davis afterwards continued to ad an undisturbed period, till he at length resigned his st.:- -- C e )f eA t o h Pn e chief superintende Ca n to t, em i a n : ca pacity teynttiilrletlyheoenmebnalrbak arltiiionig; theiniSs Com mission IGI January of G o : 1: 4: 1 1 83 i I : S: GN I s e : f o t Ni him George to succeed to the vacancy. For the spate of t w o years from I date, during 1835 and 1836, public affairs proceeded in uninterrupted quiet under his eharg.), with the exception of one case on the part of a British trader, who, th on the seizure of his goods i b: t t u h l e la C te l l i y in g e u se ie c t u ed st . to make reprisals succeeded on by Captain on the C r l e t a in te e n se ed tra a t i l l e d ;ebetnit proceeded this was C 2 a 4 p th tai i\ n ia E re lliott. Mn. DENT.— This Sir George's retirement he was g e %le t m ioi a t s n a, , one of the most respect able of . the English merchants, the individual sum pwaasrbefore the tribunal of Commissioner Lin, when th p e c great rupture the opium traffic occurred, and who suffered imprisonment and peril of life along with Captain Elliot and the other Chinese residents. SIR FREDERICK MAITLAND.—AdmiraI Maitland sailed . in her 3,lajesty's ship Wellesley to China in July, 1838, accompanied by her Majesty's brig Algerino. He was refused entrance by the Canton Viceroy at the mouth of the Bocca Tigris, and on one of his boats being fired on, sailed up that river to demand satisfaction ; this, how ever, was rendered him immediately in writing, and be. soon after sailed away. _ _ _ -- --- CAPTAIN Ssirrn.--This officer distinguished himself in the affair between the Chinese junks and the Volage and Hyacinth. The former vessel arrived at a fortunate junc ture on the Chinese coast for assuring the security of Bri tish subjects from the threatened attacks of the Chinese. In the engagement_ whisk took place on the 3d of Noveziber, 1840, with the Chinese junks, he ran down the Chinese line, pouring in a destructive fire. The Chinese answered spiritedly, and one war-junk blew up at pistol-shot dis tance from the Volage, three were sunk, and several others water-logged. 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N,,_ .. - 1 - i--- , ,---141 -- --i ==fti÷-_,\ -'-- ,--- 7 - 74, 11 - --- . _ - -- , ‘,7• =-.Sc-_-=-.___- ___.---=---_____•-__.---- ---- ___ __._._.----_------_ . _ --- .11 • _ • 1 —A chi ----- 4 , ------ - - -=---..._- TiTDAN AO 7_-_---- . g A, - V • —....--,. ___ t)i r_..,_ -_:.----=_--.---=====-___ --- -.- --• --_-_=-▪ ----.1------==a--_____-171 . 5...7r.... „,..c ---a i 'N? -- - - • - -r Sedang 0 =) 110 aft( awards a boot . ..maker. lle was a pious man, and an eld, 3r of the Sets Church. Robert, the subject of t th a is not ice, and the eminent C hinese scholar, was born Me rpeth, January 5, 1782. He was taught reading and wri sing at Newcastle by a respectable schoolmaster, and aft Twards became apprentice to his father. Under the tr yt ion of the Rev. W. Lawler, minister of a Presbyterian in e eting-house, he afterwards acquired an elementary %. juairitance with the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, some ss r ttematic theology, and the art of writing short-hand. ( in the death of his mother he was received as a student if ito the dissenting academy at Hoxton, near London, and o ath e 28th of May, 1805, placed himself under the pa ti Oi (age of the London Missionary Society, who senthim to tl to it seminary at Gosport, to be educated for that ser if ci He returned to Londoa in the summer of 1806, an d having chosen China as the field of his missionary labo urs, he, the better to qualify himself for them, ob tain, the assistance, as a preceptor, of a young Chinese, mum ed Yong-Sam-Tae, by whose assistance, and with the I 'make he acquired in forming the Chinese charac ter It , y transcribing a Chinese M.S. of the four Gospels .e British Museum, and by copying part of an old Chu tese and Latin dictionary, the property of the Royal Sot ety, he made considerable progress in qualifying hin is ?If for his undertaking, and in addition to his know ledge of the Chinese language, he gained some acquaint , ane e w ith surgery and medicine. th us qualified, on the B th of Januar y , 1807, he was for naliy set apart, or ordained according to Scottish prr to the work of a Christian missionary among the ,Chines. - ?, and on the 31st he embarked for China, via America, and landed at Canton in September 1807. On : Mr. Ilorrison's L vrival at that place, he was (mom mud ate Mess lodging, in the factory of the American ages ts, Messrs. Milner and Bull, where he assumed the Chi t .ese habiliment s, bu:, relinquished them on finding then not liked. The first sixteen months of difficu his reses: i de= a were attended by many privations and lti he si 'ent the day. with his Chinese teacher, studying, atjs( g, and sleeping in a room under ground. At the do ! a of 1808, he informed the Secretary of the Mis sit), ry Society that he had completed his grammar of th e Chinese language, and daily was filling up his M.S. of i ;he .New Testament. .1 )n 20th of February, 1809, lie married Mrs. ME r y Morton, a young lady of 18, the daughter of Mr. Jol in Morton, of Dublin, surgeon in chief to the Irish Ar tillery. On the day . after Mr. Morrison's marriage wit h this lady, he received information that the East lad is Company's supercargoes, to whom he had ren j'aet ed some assistance in translating their Chinese cor , re s t oondence, had resolved to give him an appointment I heir secretary and inter p reter. He appears to have as b eef , a considered, at that early period, as the most expert chi a iese scholar in the factories. The correspondence of the superc argoes with the Chinese had been previously co d acted in a very circuitous mannet, and often with „ ins ), difficulty, by the intervention of Portuguese padres, groat college of St. Joseph, who first rendered the seve rs of which Chinese versions wore required int o ral pal% d t h en , with the aid of their native assistants, Lafiu 2 aa., e. i i nto Chine, e Ulan, Printed in Canton, the Chinese manner, - •= O . , 0 ° Borneo . - =-_-_ i 1 9 _:_ -- =----'- '- .___- 7-:. Cli 115 f ; ~- z=- =L±= 11 20 from wooden blocks, his invaluable edition of the Acts of the Apostles in Chinese. In 1812, his father died, to whose ease and comfort he had most affectionately and liberally contributed. In 1813, he completed an edi tion in Chinese of the whole of the New Testament, of which he forwarded several copies to his friends in this country. Large impressions of this work have since been printed ; they bear date 1815, 1819, 1821, and 1827, and were extensively circulated in China. lie at the same time wrote and printed a Catechism in Chinese, with a tract on the doctrines of Christianity, of which 15,000 copies were printed and circulated. In 1817, his extensive acquaintance with the language and literature of China, recommended him as a fit person to accompany Lord Amherst, on his embasty to Pekin. Mr. Morrison accordingly accompanied his Lordship, as his Chinese interpreter, and among the incidents of that eventful enterprise, it may be worthy of record, that it was to him that his Lordship was indebted for the know ledge of the fact, that the presents for his Celestial Ma jesty were forwarded on the Great Canal, in barges, under flags, which imported that they were tribute from the King of England to the Emperor of China. Mr. Morrison's memoir of the embassy has been published in this country. The services of Dr. Morrison to the East India Com pany are admitted to have been, on some occasions of im inense value. He was more than once called into coun cil at Canton on very trying occasions, and whenever his advice was followed, it proved beneficial to the Com pany's interests. In the Lin-tin affair, in 1821, he was the only person at the factory' capable of opposing argu ment to the claims of the Chinese, and he did so with success. There are now but few among the Company's servants, formerly on the Canton establishment, who were nut indebted to him for their acquaintance with the language of China. On the part of the Company he con ducted a very extensive correspondence with the Chinese in the written character, and was the first European who prepared documents in that language, which the native authorities would consent to receive. On the arrival of Lord Napier at. Macao, with his Ma jesty's commission, he engaged Dr. Morrison as his secretary and interpreter. To the 'zealous discharge of his duties he fell a sacrifice. In his ill state, aggravated by the hot weather, he had to accompany Lord Napier on the 24th of July, 1834, from Macao to Canton, where he did not arrive till the morning of the 25th, having been exposed during the night in an open boat on the i n t y r ends weather. were lsi sno t Canton riverrteoavt-leyryinbcoriesatseerdo,u s a bu i t i d rainy illness was alarmed for his life till within an hour of the time when he became extinct. He expired in the arms of his eldest son. On the following day, the 2d of August, his re mains were carried by water to Macao ; they were fol lowed from his residence to the river side by Lord Na pier,. and all the Europeans, Americans, and Asiatic British subjects then in Canton. On the sth of the same month, they were deposited with those of his first wife and one of his children, in the. private Protestant burial ground at Macao. Mu. DAVIS.—This gentleman was appoin ted the se "o of the three Commissioners under the Royal sigu- THE CHINA SUN, LONDON, 1842. 110 10.5 OMALACCA =~~ 120 125 130 40 35 30 2.5 20 15 c - - __ • , \ ~ ~, ~,, 20 40 80 85 90 95 100 115