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R. Stracban. do & merchandise 9,736.
Dent and Co., merchandise, stores, &c. ....... . 9,575.65
Fox, Rawson, and Co do do ......... 1,705.50
Macvicar and Co do do 525:
Innes, Fletcher, and Co ...do do 1,500.07
R. Webster ''. do. do 1,607

which was accidentally washed overboard ; and, se-
condly, to the speedy determination made to cut away
the masts when the necessity arose, and • its instant ex-
ecution; for their weight alone buried the vessel each
heavy Bast, with four or five planks of the deck under
water, and soon after they were cut away the vessel
drifced so close to the rocky shore of an island to lee-
ward, that had they been standing her total wreck would
have been inevitable; and, lastly, to the ready support
he received from his brother officers, particularly from
Lieutenant Collinson.
This tyfoon had been expected, from the usual prog-
nostics of the weather for the last fortnight or three
weeks ; although the heavy rain, thunder, and lightning,
on the evening of the 20th, which state of the weather is
not usual on the eve of a tyfoon, calmed the expectations
of many ; but it is remarkable that the cutter and Young
Hebe, with the usual fatality that has attended every mo-
ment of this unfortunate expedition, should have rushed
into its very path.
It is still more singular that her Majesty's Su-
perintendent, who is self-charged with the Go-
vernment of Hong Kong, did not, when he as-
sumed that office, immediately appoint the only
officer who is wanted, or who can be of any
use—namely, a master-attendant or harbour-master. To
prove what an utter job her Majesty's commission has
been made by her Majesty's Ministers, it is only neces-
sary to advert to the following facts:,-7Captain Elliot was
first sent out as an adventurer to-China, as a master-
attendant in Canton River, where he could no more
legally interfere with either British or Foreign ships than
he could in the harbour of Brest ; yet in Hong Kong
Bay no officer has been appointed to properly berth the
merchant vessels, which, if they had all been safely
moored with an open hawse to the N.E., would not have
suffered so severely as is detailed under the head of our
shipping intelligence ; to which we regret to add the fol-
lowing fresh disasters, which occurred in the second
tyfoon on Monday:—
The City of Derry cut away her minnmast and lost
her fore and maintopmast in the Lantao passage, where
she was suddenly overtaken by the tyfoon on her way
from the river to Macao roads.
The Forfarshire, which vessel was missing on Thurs-
day last, has been found with foremast and rudder gone.
Her Majesty's ships Algerine and Thomas Grenville
are reported to be totally dismasted in Hong Kong Bay.
The schooner Sylph was lost on Lintin.
The Nemesis, owing to the precautions of Captain
Hall, rode oat the tyfoon on Thursday in Hong Kong
Bay in perfect safety ; and the second tyfoon on Mon-
day in the Type. She left on Tuesday to tow the Sul-
phur off shore.
After the first tyfoon the Nemesis was actively em-
ployed. On Thursday she towed the schooner Starling,
Lieutenant Kellett, in from Tongkoo Bay, everything
standing.
On the same day Captain Hall found on Kowechow
island Captain Pritchard and ten seamen, who had
saved themselves from the wreck of the James Laing;
Mrs. Pritchard, the Captain's wife, and nine seamen were
drowned ; he took on board the. Nemesis five of the
James Laing's crow, also Mr. Jones, conductor of ord-
nance, and Sipahis, who had escapad to the shore from
the wreck of one of the prize Chinese war-junks.
Captain Pritchard remained on shore with five of his
men, in the hope of finding his wife's body; they were
all afterwards taken on board the Atalanta. The James
Laing and the transport Prince George went all to
pieces; the Prince George's crew were taken on hoard
the Queen; the schooner Black Joke was also wrecked;
Captain Hall took her crew out of a Chinese boat. The
Greyhound anchored off Hong Kong after the first ty-
phoon; all well.
We much fear we shall have to add to the foregoing
catalogue of disasters, when all the effects of the two ty-
phoons to the N.E. and the Chinese sea are known. It
is reported that it is probable the Framjee Cowasjee may
be got off the shore.
It is said 180,0001. were lost in the schooner Rose.

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M. A. M,Leod,-*earing apparel, &c.
W. S. Boyd
Jardines Matheson and Co., merchandise,
stores, &c ................... . .
Holliday,,Wise, and C0....d0 do
Larkins wearing apparel, &c.........
Joseph Henry merchandise do
Superintendents of trade furniture of office,
and hall 56,000
'Do. private property of officers_ and
servants..
Public clock value received on behalf of sub-

66,45'0.88
1,022.56
7 35
2,340.75

scribers

1,404

Drs. 272/t66.79

We the undersigned, claimants for property pillaged
and destroyed in the factories of Canton on the 22d of
May last,. do acknowledge to have received from J. R.
Menison, Ti:sq.., acting secretary and treasurtr to the
superintendents of trade, the sums opposite 'our names
(being the amount of our respective-claims), less cost of_
freight, &c: 1 per cent.
Joseph Coolidge (U. S.) in household furni- •
ture, stores, and other valuable property
and papers, &c
11. J. Reynvattn (Du.) furniture
Bovet, Brother, and Co. (Swiss) do. and stores -3,128
F. A. Rangel, (Port.) do. , 420
J. Ryan (U. S.) . do. 400
G. Nye .(U.S.) do. and stores 874
M. P. Gultierras (Port.), wearing apparel 732.75
E. C. iiiidgnian (U. S.) chapel furniture 653
W. A. Laurence ' (U. S.) furniture 971

Sp. drs. 41,243.69
Below are copies of a correspondence which took
place on the 30th of June between her Majesty's Pleni-
potentiaries and the creditors of the old bankrupt Hongs
relative to the future payment of dividends in respect of
the debts of the Hongs in question.

TO THEIR. EXCELLENCIES COMMODORE SIP. J. GORDON
BREMER, C. 8., AND CAPTAIN CHARLES ELLIOT,
R.N., HER MAJESTY'S PLENIPOTENTIARIES.
Gentlemen—We, the undersigned creditors of various
bankrupt Hongs in Canton, understanding that your Ex-
celle.ncies are about to proceed to the northward, in fur-
therance of the objects of the expedition, take the liberty
of soliciting attention to a subject of deep importance.
Your Excellencies-are, no doubt, aware that accord-
ing to the ancient regulations at the port of Canton, the
Chinese Government (through the Cohong, or body of
Chinese merchants, alone permitted to carry on foreign
trade) is responsible for all debts incurred by any of the
Hong merchants to foreigners.
When Hingtai, and some others of the Hong became
bankrupt, application was made to the Government for set-
tlement according to custom, blit though the Viceroy de-
clared that the debts should be paid to the uttermost
farthing, the powerless position we were then in pre-
vented our obtaining payment of our claims otherwise
than by consenting to receive instalments payable within
a certain number of years, terminating in 1850, and
this arrangement was sanctioned by the Chinese pro-
vincial Government-
These dividends have hitherto been paid as they fell
due, and if events had not lately taken place to render
the continuance of this regularity more than doubtful,
we should not have considered ourselves under the neces-
sity of addressing your Excellencies.
The circumstances we allude to as seriously damaging
the security of the creditors, and their chances of ulti-
mate payment, are
Ist. The heavy sum lately exacted at Canton, a large
portion of which was notoriously extorted from the
Hong merchants by the Chinese authorities ; and
2d. The proposed British settlement at Hong Kong,
the principal object of which we understand to be the
emancipation of the trade from the control of the Co-
hong (whose sole means of meeting their engagements
being the power they have hitherto possessed of taxing,
to an unlimited extent, the foreign trade), the certain
consequences of these changes will be the total inability
of the Cohong to make their regular payments.
We, therefore, with confidence appeal to your Excel-
lencies to make such arrangements with the Imperial
Government as may, in your opinion, appear Most effectual
to secure the prompt payment of our heavy claims.
We have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your Excellencies' most obedient humble servants,
(Signed)
Turner and Co. ; Jardine, Matheson, and Co. ;. Holli-
day, Wise, and Co.; Fox, Rawson, and Co. ; Eglin-
ton, M'Lean, and Co. ; D. and M. Rustoinjee and
Co. ; Gibb, Livingstone and Co. ; Joseph Cragg
Dirom and Co. ; Bell and Co. ; llcerjeebhoyUtis-
tomjee ; Framjee Heerjee ; Shewuxshaw Rustoni-
jee ; Cowasjee Sapoorjee Sugrah ; Hormusjee
Framjee ; Merwanjee 4duljee ; Cowes* Shapoor-,
jee Tabaeh ; A. and D. Furdoonjee ; Cowasjee
Pallonjee ; and Bariorjee Manockjee.
P.S. Since writing the preceding, we have received
notice that the Cohong cannot fulfil their engagement
by paying the dividends on the Ist proximo.
Macao, 30th June, 1841. (Signed) as above.
(Reply.)
To Messrs. Turner and Co., Macao, 3d July, 1841
" Jardine, Matheson and C 0.,•
and others, her Mnjcst'ys subjects—Macao.
Gentlemen—ln reply to your letter of the 29th ult.,
we have the honour to acquaint you that her Majesty's
Government has directed our particular attention to its
important subject, and you may rest assured that it shall
not be lost sight of at the period of any general arrange-
ment with the Chinese Government.
We have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient humble servants,
(Signed) J. .J. GORDON BREMER,
CHARLES ELLIOT,
Her Majesty's Plenipotentiaries,