The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-06 00:00:00

"NOTIFICATION.

" The annexed is an extract of a letter addressed on
„he 15th of May last, by her Majesty's Principal Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs, to Sir Henry Pottinger,
Bart., and is published for the general information and
guidance of her Majesty's subjects in China.—By order,
"G. A. MALCOLM,
" Secretary to her Majesty's special mission to China.'
" Macao, Aug. 10."

" Foreign-office, May 15.
" The Queen having been graCiously pleased to select
you to be her Majesty's Plenipotentiary on a special
mission to the Government of China, and also to act as
Chief Superintendent of the trade of her Majesty's sub- •
jects s ith that country, I herewith transmit. to you,-in
your former character, a full power, authorising and
empowering you to negotiate and conclude with the
Minister vested with smiliar power and authority on the
part of the Emperor of China any treaty or agreement
for the arrangement of the differences now subsisting
between Great Britain and Chinx ; and also a commis•
sion, under the royal signet and sign manual, constitut-
ing and appointing you her Majesty's Chief Superin-
tendent of trade in China. These two instruments
invest you with all the power and authority requisite for
enabling you to discharge the duties which are confided
to you. (Signed) -" PALMERSTON.
"True extract. G. A. MALCOLM."

TYFOONS IN TIIE CHINA SEAS.
(From the Bombay Gazette.)
About eight a.m. on Wednesday, the 21st of August,
a severe gale commenced ; and the inhabitants of Macao
were speedily convinced that they had to witness and
suffer one of those dreadful visitations of Providence and
conflict of the elements, called tyfoons.
From various sources we are enabled to give our
readers the following intelligence of the calamitous ef-
fects of the 21st ult.:—
Her Majesty's cutter Louisa, Lord A. W. Beauclerk
in command, Mr. Swan, master, with thoir Excellencies
Sir G. Bremer and Captain Charles Elliot, her Maje Sty's
joint Plenipotentiaries in China ; Flag-Lieutenant
Fowler, and Mr. Morgan, Sir G. Bremer's secretary, on
board, -and the schooner Young llebe, Mr. C. V. Temple
in command, left Macao roads for Hongkong on the 20th.
Giving, tlie.first place to her Majesty's cutter, and slier
important and distinguished passengers (besides Those
aboVe named, :dr. Lino, master's-assistant, thirteen men
and boys composing the crew, and four servants—in.all,
crew and passengers, twenty-five were on board),
,the 4
Young Hebe was seen on the 20th well under Lantao,
and the cutter a few miles ahead of her. , On Friday
afternoon Sir G. Bremer and Captain Elliot Were brought,
back to Macao in a small Chinese boat.: The cutter had
been blown to the'westward. • About noon on the 21st,
Mr. Owen, the, second master, was. knocked overboard
whilst employed about the lowered gaff and drowned; the
cutter was eventually wrecked on the island of Kowlan,
to the north,of 'l'ylow, and near to the village of Feisha.
This island is in the division of Wongleongtow, district
of Heangslian.
Her Majesty's joint Plenipotentiaries. were at first ra,
ther roughly treated ; the ComModOre was, we have
heard, knocked down and stripped, and had not the man
who brought their Excellencies back to Macao in his
boat interfered in their behalf and protection, the Eng-
lish expedition in China would probably have been de-
prived of both its civil and military heads. The man
called himself a comprador, took the shipwrecked people
into his house, and gave them food. Sir G. Bremer
landed on the Praya Grande in ared Guernsey 6ock and
drawers, the price of their resue was 3,000 dollars.
Lieutenant Fowler, Lord A. W. Beauclerk, and the rest
of the crew were brought back to Macao on Sunday by
The schooner Young Ilebe returned to Macao under
jury-masts on Thursday. The following passengers were
on board :—Captain Pritchard, her Majesty's ship Alli-
gator ; Lieutenants Colliuson, Pitman, and Wood,
Royal Navy ; Messrs. Sheddon and Swinburner, Navy ;
Captains Ellis and Whitcombe, Royal Marines ; Messrs.
Baker and Molesworth, Madras Artillery ; and Mr. J.
Robert Morrison ; 11 passengers, 16 crew, and two
native servants, in all 19 souls.
precautionso
nhge sfi arfsettl yyoof tof theTi ithr.elTic young llebe was, humanly speaking,
Temple,
watchfulness and careful
before
the extreme severity
of the typhon came on, by which everything was safely
housed, and nothing but the two lower masts were left
exposed to the wind, and so, after having cut them
away, all the other spars were saved, excepting one