The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-12 00:00:00

2hdef military sta-
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Chinese Empire Tl:ibet.. Their
tions on that frontier L,•re at Yarkar. and Ca s bgar,
and those cities carry on extensive t raffle with the
natives of Turkistan and cent iguous State
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supposed that China views with incline:.
army in motion from our posse ‘ssions? The,.memory of
our Nepaul war, in 1817-18, an, d the fears then ex cited at
Pekin, would set aside such a !;.;upposition. For
many
years she has known England i• 3 the East as an aggres-
sive power. She has seen us increase in India from a
mere mercantile factory to become the conquerors of
all Hindostan. She has seen tie spread our settlements
to Singapore—attempt the capture of Macao and Ma-
nilla—forcing our trade with every port known to the
Chinese, or visited by that peopise, and apparently will-
ing to ncic‘avour similarly to enel'oach in China. She
therefore, ag w,e advanced, closed th 0 ports formerly fre-
quented by our vessels, restricted us to the trade at
Canton alone, and
now, urged by he.- fears, and pro-
bably by Russian inflo.ence, takes the bold measure of
seizing and confiscating British property,. millions in
value, and imprisoning our country men under the na-
tional flag, which should have prot.cted them, every
insult having been previously offered to it and them
by making the site of their dwellings a cam mon execu-
tion-ground.
Is it too much to anticipate, that the next accounts
from Canton may inform us of the secure and execution
of the Consul, or our leading merchants, as has been
already threatened, if all the demands of the imperial
commissioner are not complied with punct wally ?
It remains to be seen what step flat British Govern-
ment will adopt on the present occasin n. She has been
passive hitherto under every insult offered to her by
China, but now to endure patiently wh at has occurred,
without demanding redress of all injo.ries, and relief
from the existing oppressive system of the Chinese au-
tharitieg, would be most unwise. Our former threats-
and petty attempts against them, whether by the
chiefs of the Hon. Company's factory, or the lamented
Lord Napier, lowered us greatly in the consideration of
both Chinese and Europeans ; but the time has now
arrived when we most not bluster but act—when we
must insist on full inderunification for all losses sustained
and complete redress of the many grievances to which
we, as well as other nations, are subjected in
China. We must be content to forego all the existing
advantages of our extensive trade with that empire—all
the opening prospects of its indefinite extension to the
many nations contiguous to its border, if we tamely assent
to the justice of her late aggresoions—or, on the other
hand, we may command and insure; all those benefits by a
proper exhibition of our national power and the enforce-
ment of international rights. We have now justice. on
our side. And surely it would not be unreasonable
for Great Britain, through her Foreign Secretary, to
declare to the Government of China that the ordinary
rules adopted by enlightened States for the conduct of
commerce between their respective nations being totally
disregarded by China, refusing all treaties, all courte-
sies, and all official communications with foreign
Powers, it cannot longer be expected that those
Powers, especially Great Britain, now so deeply ag-
grieved, should be bound by their ordinary- conduct to
reciprocating nations in regulating their intercourse
with China ; we must not be content with ever-
varying commercial laws, enacted by provin-
cial authorities, but demand, in the highest towe, defined
treaties, both political and commercial, or the alterna-
tive to China of an aggression on her territory, or the
occupation of an island, to secure the due protection of
our subjects and their property. If, as is to be hoped, the
British Government can be roused to insist on redress
from the Chinese, let them equip a force promptly, to be
sent under secret orders to the Canton rives; and run-
ning directly (and without any communicatioi whatso-
ever with the shore) up to the Bocca (or Bogue, as it is
called), take possession of the forts, the men-of-war de-
fending and blockading that entrance. No one who has
seen that position but must assent to the facility .of the
enterprise, well conducted. Those forts are, by the Go-
vernment, deemed the portals of Canton city and pro-
vince. The consternation in Canton was extreme when •
the two frigates, in Lord Napier's time, passed them,
and many natives asserted that if they bad been taken
possession of, the English might have commanded anY
terms ; in short, that the city and province would be at
their mercy.
Since Russia is admitted to trade with the land fron-
tier of China, and to have represeitatives at the CoaTt
of Pekin, and Portugal has been allowed to colonize and
fortify Macao and islands adjacent belonging to the
Chinese empire, why may not Great Britain demand
similar privileges ? To us the settlements of Macs°. I
would prove most valuable—far more so than anY
the numerous islands lying off the coast. It has !
superior advantages as a port ; its harbour might
easily be much improved, it lies at the entrance
of the river leading to Canton, by the inner
as well as the outer passage, and arms of the
sea form channels to various towns and cities on the
mainland. It would not be a difficult matter, I
presume, previous to the expedition proposed, to treat
with Portugal for the relinquishment to us of all her
rights at Macao, which, in truth, are to her of no value
but rather a burden on her resources. Holding the
forts at the Bogue, we might compel the Chinese to
grant us, with the sanction of Portugal, the posses'
sion of Macao. Thither our ships an the Chinese
vessels would resort to trade, each local government
would be free to adopt such fiscal regulations to
secure its revenues as might seem requisite, and inde-
pendently of each other ; and I have little doubt, that
in a few years that possession would become an iro•
mense entrepot of trade, situate, as it is, on the high
road to so many populous nations.
In conclusion, I would ask whether the western world
can any longer submit to the illiberal maxims of non-
intercourse maintained by China, Japan, and their)zlepen-
dencies ? If those nations deny to the other portions of
the globe the national rights belonging to all men, of
peaceful intercommunion, let them reap the conse-
quences of such a policy. But, on the ether hand,
how greatly beneficial would be to all parties the fair
system of trade, as conducted with all other nations,
under defined treaties, which insure peace and prosperity
in lieu of aggression and plunder?

Believe me, your's faithfully,
ONE LONG RESIDENT IN CHINA.
London, August 10.

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ENGLISH AND
IRISH CONTRASTED.—I grant without difficulty that the
Irishman and Englishman have very opposite characters,
not only in their actions, but in their opinions and habits of
thought. Let us take, for example, the most prominent
trait in the English character--that firmness of soul which
presides over all its enterprises, that unalterable persever-
ance in overcoming obstacles, that steadiness which never
abandons the task till it is completed. Assuredly we find
nothing like this in the Irishman. He seems, on the con-
trary, naturally fickle and inconstant, ready to pass from
despair to hope, from exertion to despondency. Full of
ardour, imagination, and spirit, he wants entirely, that
consistency which predominates with the Englishman, and
supplies the place of these qualities in which he is defi-
cient. All that can be done at once, and by sudden effort,
the Irishman will execute better than anybody else, be-
cause no one is more enthusiastic than he is ; he rushes to'
encounter an obstacle without measuring the difficulties ;
but if he fails in the first attempt, he turns back and re-
nounces the enterprise. It is assuredly difficult to find
two nations subject to more opposite dispositions ; and r
am tempted to believe that there is something in the
hereditary character of the one race which leads to bold
ness of enterprise, whilst the disposition of the other is,
from its very origin, more cold and less expansive.—l)
de Beaumont's Ireland, Social, Political, and Religious.
JAIPLICIT BELIEF OF CHILDREN.—Children
dispute not ; they believe as they are taught ; the whole
soul of a child is pure simplicity.—Martin Luther.

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BIRTHS.
On the 9th inst., at Brighton, the lady of Sir Thomas Biome"
field, of a dauhter.
On the Ist inst., the lady of Major J. S. Winfield, Bengal
Army, of a daughter.
On the 3d inst., at Hurst-house, the lady of FrederiCk
Willis, Esq., of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 11th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Jamest
Bonar, Esq., of Kimmerghame, Berwickshire, to Mary, lde
of
daughter of the late the Hon. Sir Patrick Murray, Baronet,
Ochterfyre' Perthshire, one of the Barons of the Court of Ex-
chequer in Scotland.
On the 11th inst., at Clapham Church, Holdsworth Hunt,
Esq., of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law, youngest o gent
of
Dr. Hunt, of the Wilderness, Dartmouth, to Ellen, you
daughter of Joseph Barber, Esq., of Clapham Rise Surrey.

DIED.
On the Bth inst., at.Coopersale, near Epping, Essex,!Munde-
ford Allen, Esq., aged 70.
On the Bth inst., in Manchester-street, Manchester-square,
Anne, the wife of C. F. Sorensen, Esq., aged 73.
On the 10th inst., in Portland-place, Ann Casebournit
aged 73.
On the 11th inst., at Camden-hill, Kensington, Lady Fraser,
wife of General Sir John Fraser, G. C. H.

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