The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-09 00:00:00

TRADE WITH CHINA..

PUBLIC NOTICE TO BRITISH SUBJECTS.
I, Charles Elliott: Chief Superintendent of the trade of
British subjects in China, presently forcibly detained by the
provincial Government, together with ail the merchants of
my own and other foreign nations Fettied here, without
supplies of food, deprived of our society, and cut off tram
all intercourse with our respective ec,untries (notwithstand-
ing my official demand to be set at libery, so that I might
act without restraint), have now received the comtno.nds of
the WO Commissioner issued directly to me under the
seals of the hon. cheers to deliver over into his hands all
the opium held by the peorde of my country.
Now I, the said Chi.'f Superintendent, thus constrained by
•
paramount motites affecting the safety of the lives and li.
b(irties of all the foreigneta here present in Canton, and by
other very weighty causes, do hereby, in the Marne and on
behalf of her 131U:italic Majesty's Cove' nment, enjoin and
require that all her Britannic Majesty's subjects now pre-
sent in Canton do forthwith make a surreeuer to me, for
the service of her Majesty's Government, to be delivered
over to the .Government of China,
their its ; ective control, and to hold the British ships and
yeast Is engad,ed in a trade of opium subject to my imme-
diate direciio•t, of all the opium under
ireeiken and o forwaid to me t out delay a sealed
sessions ; and I, the said Chiet, Superintendent, do now, in
list of all the B itish.o, ned opium in t
the most fol. aild unreserved mariner, hold myself responsible
f air respective pos
for_ and on the I ehalf of, her Britannic Majesty's Govern-
ment, to all and e,cli of her Majeoy's subjects surrender-
ing the said Bthish bond opium into my bands, to be
delivered over to the Chinese Government. And I, the
said Chief Superintendent, do further especially caution all
her ill-ijesty'a subjects here present in Canton. owners of
or charged with the management of, opium, the property
of British subjects, that failing the surrender of the said
opium into my hands at or before Fix o'clock this day, I
theyaid Chief Superintendent, hereby declare her Majesty's
Government w..011y free of all manner of all responsibility
or liability in tesp,!et of the said British-owned cilium ;-
and it is especially to be unders ood that the proof of Bri.
tish proerty and value of al opium surrendered to ire
agreeably to Cris notice, shall be determined upon princi-
plea, and in a manner hereafter to be defined by her Ma-
jestv's Governmen%
Given urder my hand and seal of office at Canton, in
Cohrinna,
g he,
1839, at six o'clock in the
in CHARLES ELLIOTT, &c.
morning,
0 7th day of March,
sailed from China the 10th of April.
The above. brought to Singapore by the Good Success

DEATH OF TIIE FATTIER OF TIME ARMY.--
Wt. regret to announce the decease of Gcn. Sir James
Stewart, 13,a. G. C. H., which took pace on Monday
la,t, at his resid,lice in Oils town. Sir JIITICS wns the old-
eat officer in the anny, having entered it as a Cornet on
the 17th March, 1761 ; he was promoted to a Captaincy
on the 7th July, 1766,* and eventually attained a Coloneley
in the 2d Dragoon Gua.dA on the 12th January, 1815.
;47rdite"ffii:Tear'rqualii: ofw.. ig
e-;
He was a brave and diitings.l
proc,cded this inT)rning for
widely lamented in the profeisiom—Chthenham Examiner
FALMOUTH, AUG.
dbemoliir'sa,Ciwtyal:liaitZ'gh'e t on board.
danha, L:dy, and suite, with a large number distingu"shed
persons; were pasengers to-day on board the Itoyal Tar
and gibraltar,
sjvt.eipaorniaelori,
pwCoarasipotth,aei
Admiralty
Lieutenant

ACCIDENT
when the stern
by
the
FATAL A ON THE RIVER.—Between
force against
six and seven o'elr ck on Wednesday mrviipditetirgae,dw.Tayintinit4 F t
a youth, was stantling on the' gunwale of a baige, ;.s IL
brciodyigseilue
one of the timbers of the pier, shook him off into the
thews vesselPassn swinging through
round with res 1 at
h
On Monday Sir Hesketh Fleetwood gave a
stream, and
beforeand th the
nuyn fort u
assistancenat e bcooyu
lwascould
b c.
splendid dinner at the Thatched House Tavern, to his re-
lative Sir Charles Metcalfe, the new Nvernor of Jamaica.
The company was limited to the most esteemed friends and
companions of the Gallant Baronet, .1 ho has recently un-
dertaken so important a duty as that of administering the
affairs of one of our wealthiest colottit!s, at a moment when
the utmost firmness, combined with the highest skill, are
demanded of him who represents in that island the sove.
reignty of Great Britain. Though the guests were numer-
ous the party was in all resptFts conducted ns a private
entertainment, with the exception of two or three toasts,
and the. presence of a few professiono singers. Th,, first
toast was, the health of her Majesty, wl.ieh the company re-
ceived with the warmest expression of loyalty and devotion, '
The health of the new Governor met with the highest
manifestations of esteem and regard ; the most confident
expectations being expressed that the fame which he had
acquired in. he East would be equalled, and prohably sur-
pissed by the success likely to attend his geive,nment in
Vie West. His nephew, Sir Ilesketh Fleetwood, who then
entertained at a last farewell dinner this distinguished in
dividual and his friends, suggested that they should during
Sir Charles's absence, meet annually and dine togethe,, to
manifest the high esteem in which they held his charoc:er
—a proposition received with the warmest concurrence.
The company, who did not separate till a late hour, re-
tired highly gratified by the splEqidour and hospitality with
I !WO they had been cut, rtained.