The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-23 00:00:00

CHINA.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
(From the China Mail of April 8.)
His Excellency her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c.,
&c., has the satisfaction to publish, for the information
of British subjects in China, the annexed letter from
the Hon. the Major-General commanding her
Majesty's forces, just received, on the arrival of the
expedition- at Canton. The rapid and successful
course of operations begun and concluded within a
period of thirty-six hours by the small military and
naval force under the direction of Major-General
D'Aguilar and Captain Macdougall, the senior naval
officer, is calculated to teach a lesson to the people
of Canton which they will not soon forget ; and it
is his Excellency's intention not to quit this place
until he has placed matters on a footing consistent
with treaty engagements and worthy of the British
nation. He feels that the moderation and justice of
all his former dealings with the Government of China
lends a pert sanction to measures which he has been
reluctantly compelled to adopt after a long course of
misinterpreted forbearance.
•
" His Excellency Sir John Francis
Davis, Bart., &c., &c., &c.

" Head Quarters, Canton, April 3, 1847,
Four o'Clock, P.M.

" Sir,—l have the honour to acquaint your Ex-
cellency that, in pursuance of the arrangements
agreed upon between us on the Ist instant, I am
arrived, with the assistance of Captain Macdougall,
of the Royal Navy, and her Majesty's ships under his
command, at the British Factories, and have esta-
blished myself here with the troops under my orders,
having, in the course of the last thirty-six hours as-
saulted and taken all the principal forts at the Bogue
and in the Canton River, and after destroying the
gateways and blowing up the magazines, spiked 827
pieces of heavy cannon.
" As your Excellency did me the honour of ac-
company me in these operations, and have yourself
witnessed the details, I shall not enter upon them in
this place, but shall reserve them for the information
of her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies,
taking care to supply your Excellency with a copy
of my communication.
" I congratulate your Excellency on this result
of our naval and military operations, and the more
especially because, notwithstanding the fire of seve-
ral of the Chinese batteries while the troops were
engaged in the assault, we have had the good for-
tune to take possession of them all without the loss
of a man.

" I have the honour, &c., &c.
" GEORGE D'AGUILAR,
" Major-General Commanding the troops
in China.
By Order,
A. R JOHNSTON.
British Consulate, Canton, April 3, 1847.

In the course of a few days the Bogue Forts, and
all the principal works and batteries on the Canton
river have been taken possession of—some of them by
assault, and 827 pieces of cannon spiked or rendered
otherwise unserviceable.
The Chinese have received a lesson in return for
their frequent acts of aggression on the persons of
British subjects that will not be lost upon them.
They have submitted to all the demands of her
Majesty's Plenipotentiary without reserve, and
have yielded, happily for themselves, just in time
to arrest the course of an assault that would have
been attended with fearful loss of life to them, and
the inevitable destruction of their provincial capital.
When such advantages have been obtained, let it
be one more source of congratulation to British sol-
diers to reflect, that they have been purchased, under
Providence, without bloodshed, and that the honour
of the British arms has been proudly maintained, with-
out one act of violence, or one departure from the
principles of humanity.
In recording these acts, so honourable in themselves,
and so deserving of approbation, the Major-General
desires to impress on the handful of men by whom
they have been achieved, this great and most impor-
tant of all lessons—" It was discipline alone that
could effect them," and while this first duty of a sol-
dier continues to be practised, that the troops can
never fail in fulfilling their duty to their Sovereign
and maintaining the honour of their country.
By order of the Major-General Commanding,
J. BRUCE, Assistant Adjutant-General.

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