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ADMIRALTY, OCT. 8, 1841.
Duplicates of Despatches, addressed to GO6modore
Sir J. J. Gordon Bremer from the late Captain Sir H.
Fleming Senhouse, were this day received at this office,
of which the following are copies or extracts :
Heights above Canton, May 29, 1841, continued on
River.irtr.
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and by which the large and populous city of Canton has
As soon as it was decided that the
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Queen's forces. .
force should move up to the attack of Canton, the Majer-
General and myself were decidedly of opinion that no
minor attempts should be made until all was ready for a
combined operation, when the whole force should be
brought into play, and, having once commenced our
measures, to follow them up
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ti 1 Canton was our own. with. vigour and energy .un-
I, therefore, instructed Captain Herbert, who had
charge of the advanced squadron, that he was to abstain
from all hostile movements, until the arrival of the force
under the command of the Major-General and myself,
excepting such as might be merely defensive.
The surveying vessels,• under the command of that
able and intelligent officer, Commander Belcher, were
sent on, on the 18th, to take up a position about the
Sankut flats, to aid in getting the large vessels over the
shoals once more, where Blenheim had already four times
passed with great good fortupe without
.hkiury.
It 'wts-rtry- intention to- take DiWti,i.m „within sight,
and in as close neighbourhood of ,the very walls of
Canton as possible, to form- a good depot fur stores,
quarters for the sick or wounded, and to form the
basis of our offensive operations; I pushed forward,
there, with every exertion 'to prevent any delay of the
Conway from the difficulties we might experience.
At twenty minutes past three in the afternoon, the
Blenheim anchored off Ligen Island, near the Sulphur,
and the Atalanta was sent back to tow up the Major-
General's head-quarter ship. All.the Chinese pilots had
fled, and we failed in getting one ; but on the morning of
the 21st the light breeze being fair, and the tide an-
swering, Captain Belcher felt no hesitation in taking
charge of the Blenheim ; and although it had been
agreed to collect our force at Wangtong, as another
stage on our route, I thought it best to proceed with my
own ship, and weighed at half-past seven, some of the
transports collecting round me.
At half-past ten we were up to the second bar, where
I expected to have found the Chinese bar boats to have
buoyed off the channel, but they had all gone. The tide
was not more than half expended; Captain Belcher felt
confident he could take the ship over the bar after sound-
ing and placing boats, which he did in the most rapid
manner, against a tide of veat velocity. It was done
in a masterly manner, and the Blenheim passed the
second bar at noon. At two we were up to the first bar.
Leaving.it on the right, we entered the passage between
Danes Island and the main land, continuing our route
past French Island until the fortified heights and walls
of Canton were in sight, about eight miles distant ; and
the ships of the advanced.squadron at the Macao Fort
were in a direct line about five miles from us. At this
position the Blenheim was anchored and moored in five
fathoms at low water spring tides. where no line of battle
ship of any nation had ever been before, and ready to be
the rallying point to our coming force.
By the indefatigable attention of Commander Rogers,
of the Honourable East India Company's steam vessel
Atalanta, who for three. days was in almost constant
motion, under the superintendence of Commander Bel-
cher, on whom no fatigue or trouble seemed to have any
other effect than to increase his zeal; all the 'transports
and ships of war were assembled, excepting two of the
former ; and these having grounded, without hope of
getting off immediately; th troops were taken out and
distributed in other vessels.

No overt act of hostility had taken place to this mo-
ment, except remounting the guns in the Shamien bat-
tery ; but the Chinese appear to have been perfectly
ready for attack.
All remained quiet in the river until about ten o'clock,
p.m., when an attempt was made with fire-rafts to burn
the advanced vessels.

This attack not only totely failed, but was followed
up by a gallant attack on the Sharnien battery, and the
silencing of it by the vessels of the sqnadron under the.
immediate superintendence of Captain 'Herbert,. of the
Calliope; and the destruction of a large flotilla of fire-
vessels, which the Chinese had been preparing and
brought out of the branch of the river which leads
north of the town. For the details of this gallant de-
fence and attack, I beg to refer to cqrtain Her-
bert's own letter, of which' I have thollonour to
annex a copy. About the same time, though later in
the night, the Alligator was attacked off-IJowqua's fort;
and to show how necessary it was to have been always on
our guard, the fire junks came up with the flood tide in a
direction with the merchant vessels at Wbampoa, where
all seemed to sleep in security.
Captain Kuper's account of his prompt and decisive
conduct in repelling the attack, I have also the honour
to forward.

To form some idea of the difficulties attending.
the contemplated attack, I must state that tho ex-
tensive city of Canton, with a population said to be
1,200,000, defended by a strong inclosing wall of
great thickness, extending sometimes to the height
of thirty feet, with a body of troops assembled
within and without it, amounting, at a medium cal-
culation, to 30 or 40,000 men, rests on low ground, ex-
cept on the north side, where high conical hills extend
up to, and rise also within, the walls commanding the
whole city, Its front towards the river has extensive
suburbs with narrow irregular streets, rendering it
easily defensible and difficult to attack. Being also sur-
rounded by rice cultivation, which is at this time
flooded, and only passable by footpaths about one to two
feet broad, it is exceedingly difficult of approach, and
the use of guns, except of the lightest calibre, is im-
possible. The great object was to gain possession of the
heights to the northward of the town wall ; and a
branch of the river, which ran along the west side of
the town to the northward, seemed to offer the means of
approaching sufficiently near the line of connecting, heights
to make them accessible.

Opinions were uncertain as to the feasibility of enter-
ing this river and of floating at low water. To deter-
mine this I evaded myself once more of the zeal and
great ability of Commander Belcher, who most hand-
somely volunteered to explore it with his own Loats,
assisted with three others from the Pylades and Mo•
deste, and Algerine, all placed under the command of
that gallant and judicious officer, Lieutenant Goldsmith,
of the Druid, who was attached to the Blenheim, in that
ship's launch, and who had orders to protect Commander
Belcher in his surveying operations.
The Major-General and myself went to Canton to
make a reconnoisance and personal inspection on
the same day, the 23d. In our progress, we observed
a firing and explosion in the direction of Commander
Belcher's party ; and Commander Belcher's letter, a
copy of which I enclose, gives the detail of a gallant
and spirited affair which took place in the creek. At
eleven at night Commander Belcher returned with the
gratifying intelligence that he had discorered an excel-
lent landing-place on a pier, with water enough for the
Sulphur, close to it at low water. The ground di-
rectly around it rose in low hills, and 'a line of hills ap-
peared to continue to the heights near the city, al-
though there might be swampy grounds in the small
wallies dividieg them.
About the same time other boats returned, with a
collection of Chinese craft, sufficient to transport the
whole force. I, therefore, at midnight-wrote a note
to Sir Hugh, informing him of these favourable cir-
ctnitances, and asking his opinion as to an imine—
diate :anding. The Gallant General entered into the
sugg,..3'ion instantly, "to land as soon as possible,"
for tLe purpose of preventing any opposition by new
defer cs.

O:r united force consisted of the a
ships and
and marines
mvessels
s bo
name 1 in the margin,* comprising, in their crews, offi-
cers seamen, and marines inclusive, a u 3,200 men ;
out of which -about 1,000 officers, seamen, n
were landed, to serve with the army. The military force-
uenrd, el\ritalloart.
Gal
Sir ugi Gough, gallant,ener distinguished,i
cer, consisting of about
2,223, camp-fol-.
lowers besides;a ndhteh
Ise
h staffol of
efo
retel:e army and the
taken collectively, except-
cg transports' crews, including every individual in the
cot, could not have been more than 6,000 persons, of
a 'loges and of all classes.
On the morning of the 24th, orders were given to
be ready to land about noon, in two columns, with two
days' dressed provisions.
The Major-General commanded the right column.
I had intended to have taken the command of my naval_
brigade in this column but the Major-General begged I'
would remain at his side, and feeling it to be only a
sacrifice of my own gratification and desire once more
to lead my brave fellows, and sensible that nothing could
be lost to the public service by transferring the com-
mand on this occasion, I resigned it to my gallant and
intelligent friend, Captain Bourchier, and joined the Ge-
n.!ral's sluff with my own immediate assistants, Corn-
maTler, &Idler, Lieutenant Pitman, and Mr. Norman,
mate of the Royal Navy.
I left to the judgment of Captain Herbert, of the
Ca;.iope, to act according to circumstances, in endeavour-
ing to drive the enemy from the French fort, and to en-
danvour to open the communication evith the ships of
uar to the westward, and with the commanding officer
of the left column, stationed at the factories. 1 beg to
inclose a letter I have received from Captain Herbert,
detailing the part he took in the affair that followed,
when the usual gallantry and zeal were displayed by her
Majesty's seamen and Royal Marines.
So effectually and vigorously did Commander Warren
execute his instructions, that when the right column