The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-06 00:00:00

THE SEJN, LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1840.

are the produce of any English possession, originally
-hipped on board for the purpose of coming to Canton,
and duly petition the Keun min foo, who will thereupon give
a chop and a pilot, to the end that the vessel may enter
port, &c.' Now I (the said American Superintendent) find,
that any ships coming afterwards to Canton, it will be
necessary for me first to examine, and then they will be
permitted to enter the port. (By this regulation) I shall
not be able to escape going backwards and forwards in
my own person, which will detain me 10 and more days
(at a time). (I have therefore to beg) that afterwards
.vhenlany ships of my nation come to Canton, the said
Captains may give the duly prepared bond, that they have
brought no opium as exacted by the new law, and that
they may request the Keun min foo to give them
their chops and pilots and first proceed to Whampoa.
Wait till they have arrived at Whampoa, when I (tbe
American Superintendent) will, in accordance with the
terms of Y. E.'s edict, clearly examine if the said ships
have or have not within or without Canton waters been
conveying cargo up fcr the English ships, when I will give
a declaration to that effect under my seal of office to serve
as proof.
It is an established rule among all foreign countries,
that in bringing goods to any market, so soon as these
goods are discharged they pay duty. But our ships go to
any place they please, and seeing goods or produce,
hey buy such goods or produce, and so tong as they are
not prohibited articles, no inquiries whatever are made as
to how they came by them. The goods which my native
country produces arc only suitable to the Canton market
ee a very small extent; therefore it is that our ships go
the ports of all foreign, countries, and there purchase
goods or produce to bring to Canton, hoping thereby
to gain a little profit. Now, however, that we
have received the edict of Y. E. ' not permitting
our ships to go to Singapore, Malacca, and Manilla,
there to load cargo, &C. &c., we merchants from afar can-
tot prufit in the smallest degree 1 We therefore sincerely
sope that Y. E. will graciously consider that we fo-
reigners have crossed over a prodigious ocean of several
tens of thousands of miles, and exposed ourselves to the
danger of wind and waves to come to Canton, and kindly
concede to us that the ships of our country may go to any
market and load cargo for Canton, giving us thus to earn a
little profit for which we shall feel abundantly grateful, &c."
Now this coming before us, the Commissioner and Vice-
roy, it behoves us to give the following reply. According
to the petition it says, " when the merchant vessels of our
said country come to Canton, let them first give the duly
prepared bond and then petition the Keun min foo to grant
the chop and pilot that the vessels may proceed to
Whampoa, waiting till they arrive there, when the said
American Superintendent will examine clearly in accord-
ance with the terms of our Edict, and ifthe said vessel has not
taken on board any goods for English vessels within or with-
out the Ladrone Islands in the Canton seas to transport
them to Canton, then the said American Superintendent
will give a chop under his seal of office as proof of the
same," this proposal of his may indeed be pnt in force.
After this, all the vessels of the said country arriving at
Whampoa, let them be duly searched and examined by the
said Superintendent, that they are not engaged in the
afore-meetioned irregularities,and the sealed chopso granted
them by the said Superintendent, the captain and super-
cargoes must deliver over to the said Hong merchants to
cave and to bold, and by virtue of which these may secure
their ships. If afterwards it be found out that these ships
lave been transporting goods (for the English), then ship
and cargo will be wholly confiscated, and the said American
Superintendent will find himself involved in veryunpleasant
circumstances. Just then at this present moment,the said
nation has got three ships—viz., Palik (?) Kowloo (?)
and Keleetse(?) which arrived at Whampoa, on the 20th
and 21st of this moon, let these then be duly examined and
dealt with in the manner that we have just agreed upon.
As to the products of the said country not being many,
and foreign merchants going to the markets of every coun-
try, and as they see goods buying them and bringing them
on to Canton for resale, this in itself is not what the laws
forbid. Only having reason to fear that you may have
clandestine connections with the English, falsely borrowing
your own name to say that you merely transship them:and
hoist your flag and dispose of them for them, therefore it is
that in our previous edict we did not permit you to touch
at Singapore, Malacca, Manilla, and other places, and take
on board goods en route. What we call taking on board
goods en route, is only pointing,to goods transshipped from
English vessels, and not meant to apply to those goods or
products, which the said ( American) merchants may bona fide
themselves buy there for the purpose of bringing on to Can-
ton. Such goods as these buy themselves must necessarily
have original invoices and marks to serve as proof ; let the said
American Superintendent declare the real circumstances of
the case, saying that the goods which have arrived were
shipped at such or such a place, and let him take the ori-
ginal invoice and deliver it to the Hong merchants, who
will hand it up to the authorities for inspection and exa-
mination. We, the Commissioner and Viceroy, have al.
ways the means of distinguishing between the truth or
falsehood of the case by referring to the goods themselves,
and seeing whether they were old or new—whether they
have been laden on board ship for a long time, or merely
! temporarily. The said American Superintendent must in
his turn show all the foreign merchants that they submis-
sively obey the laws of our heavenly dynasty ? Beware,
do not blindly scheme after profit, thus bringing upon your..
selves unnumbered woes ! Exert yourselves to avoid them !
Expect them if you disobey !
We therefore unite the circumstances and issue this our
edict, and when it reaches the said Kwang chow foo, let
him immediately issue the commands to the Hong mer-
chants, that they in their turn impress them on the said
Superintendent Snow, that he obey and act in conformity.
Do not oppose
I, the Kwang chow foo, having received the above edict,
hereby make it known to the said Hung merchants, that
they in their turn impress it on the said Superintendent
Snow, that he may obey accordingly.
Do not oppose. A Special Edict I
Taouksvang, 19th year, 1 lth moon, and 24th day.
Canton, 29th of December, 1829.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON

Nobody can look back for a space of six or eight
years but he must remember as a general notion pre-
vailing against the Duke of Welliagton, as a taunt often
urged against us by our political opponents, often si-
lently conceded by ourselves—that, either from habits
of long usage, or from original vice of temperament, he
was too rigid and untractable in his political opinions ;
in his demeanour too peremptory, too uncivic ; that
with the highest virtues of the military character he
combined some of its worst disqualifications for political
life ; that his notions tended to impress too martial a
character of discipline upon the public service ; that
even his virtues of a civic order were alloyed with his
spirit—his directness and plain-dealing being but an-
other aspect of that peremptory spirit which finds its
proper place in a camp ; and that finally, as to the sub-
stantial merits of national wants or grievances, apart fr
the mode and manner of his administration, not less by
temper than by his mceles of experience, the Duke was
incapacitated for estimating the spirit of his age, and
stood aloof from all popular sympathies. Thus stood
public opinion, when a memorable act of retribution was
rendered to the Duke's merits, and a monument raised
to his reputation, such as will co-exist with our language,
in the series of his Despatches, &c., published by Col.
Gurwood. The effect was profound. The Duke of
Wellington had long been raised as far beyond the be-
nefits, as he is beyond the need, of any trivial enthusiasm
derived from momentary sources or vulgar arts ; and
this book was fitted to engage the attention of none but
the highly cultivated. The reverence of the land for
the Duke's character, the gratitude of the land for the
Duke's services, scarcely seemed open to increase. But
undoubtedly a depth of tone and a solemnity approach-
ing to awe, were impressed henceforth upon the feelings
with which all thoughtful men regarded the Duke of
Wellington as an intellectual being. Now, first, it was
understood what quality of intellect had been engaged
in our service, moving amongst what multiplied embar-
rassments, thwarted by what conflicts even in friendly
quarters, winning its way by what flexibility of address,
watching all obstacles by what large compass of talents,
and compensating every disadvantage for the public ser-
vice by what willing sacrifices of selfish feeling.
Were it not for the singleness of purpose, for the per-
fect integrity, for the absolute self-dedication, and the
sublime simplicity, we should say—Here is a Machia-
velian subtlety of understanding ! With an apostolical
grandeur of purpose, there is here combined the address
of a finished intriguer ; and for a service of nations
upon the grandest scale, we see displayed a restless and
a versatile spirit of submission to circumstances and to
characters, which, according to all the experience of
thisiworid, belongs naturally to modes of selfishness the
most intense. The wisdom of long-suffering ; the poli-
cies of allowance in matters of practice ; the spirit of
indulgence to errors that were redeemable ; the tran-
scendent power to draw into unity of effect, elements
the most heterogenous, and tempers the most incom-
patible ; in short, that spirit of civic accommodation to
the times in which we had supposed him to have been
most wanting, and that spirit of regard to the bold na-
tional temperament of the armies he led, which was held
most irreconcilable with martial discipline ; precisely these
were the qualities which the Gurwood correspondence
has exposed as the foremost of the Duke's endowments ;
in any case, the very rarest endowments ; and in this
case, amongst an army so high-spirited, the most ope-
rative for the final success. In short, to sum up the

truth by the sharpest antithesis, instead of ruling in his
civic administration by means of military maxims, the
Duke of Wellington applied to military measures and
to the conduct of armies that spirit of civic policy
which, in times less critical by far, had not been at-
tempted by generals of nations the most democratic.
Such is the retributory service, late but perfect, ren-
dered to the Duke's character. The shades of even-
ing are now stealing over his life : and for him, also,
that night is coming in which no man .can work. But
as yet no abatement is visible in his energies of public
duty. Tenderness, as towards a ward of the nation, is
now beginning to mingle with our veneration. And,
in the course of nature, the anxieties of a mighty people
will soon be suspended on his health, as they have long
been suspended on his majestic wisdom.—Blackwood's
Magazine.

THE LATE MURDER and SUICIDE.

The neighbourhood of Compton-street has within the
last few days been visited by hundreds of persons
anxious to obtain a view of the place where the unfortu-
nate man, Gingell, perpetrated the two-fold crime of
murder and suicide. It appears from inquiry that the
quarrel which led to this result was as follows :
Mrs. Gingell worked at the boot and shoe-binding
business for a large firm on Snow-bill, the rule of which
establishment was, that the work should be brought home
on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. On last Tues-
day three weeks Mrs. Gingell took home her work,
and returned as soon as able. When Gingell came
home in the evening, he learned that she had been out,
and demanded to know where she had been. She re-
fused to tell him, and words ensued, when Gingell seized
her by the throat, and forced her to tell him by nearly
strangling her, which he declared he would do if
she did not. On the following morning she showed her
neck to the lodgers, and it was much blackened, by
the pressure of his fingers. She left the house on the
following Saturday afternoon, leaving on the table a slip
of paper containing the following :—" Gingell—This
makes the fourth time that we have separated. This,
however, is the final. You have conquered me—what
no man should have done, and what no man shall ever
do again. Adieu for ever." Gingell came home at nine
o'clock on that evening, and finding her gone, and dis-
covering the paper,. became almost frantic. He cried
bitterly, and praised his wife above all women, but took
no notice whatever of the children. He went out
shortly after, an it has been ascertained proceeded di-
rect to her father's house, where he created great dis-
turbance, and demanded his wife to be given up to him.
The father resisted, but Gingell was ultimately permit-
ted to set her. He urged her to return with him, but
she positively refused, and it was subsequently arranged
that they should all go to Hatton Garden Police-office
on the following Monday, and agree to sepa-
rate in the presence of the Magistrate. They
went there, and met Gingell, but he refused to go in,
and upon his promising not again to molest his wife,
they separated. Notwithstanding this promise, Gingell
was continually seen in the neighbourhood of her father's
residence, and when she went out dogged her about
from place to place. Mrs. Gingell left her father's
house shortly after nine o'clock on the morning of 'rues-
dai, last, to take home some work to Snow-hill, and on
leaving, said to her mother that she should call on her
way back, and see John, meaning her brother, residing
at 57, Compton-street. The father states his belief to
be, that Gingell again followed his wife, and on Ler
return towards he: brother's accosted her with a view to
induce her to return home with him, when the sad
catastrophe took place.
Gingell was exceedingly jealous of his wife—so much
so, that he would not take her out himself for fear the
men should look at her. Gingell worked on the rail-
way, and appeared a very steady and hard-working
man ; his wages were 18s. a-week. He occupied a
back parlour furnished, and paid up his rent regularly
until the last month. The unfortunate children have
been received into the St. Pancras workhouse.