The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-06 00:00:00

VENING EDITION

the season, and commence a final adjustmen` next spring
near Pekin."—Singapore Free Press.
(From the Calcutta Courier.)
Si CALCUTTA, Dec. 22, 1840.
and
II: my last comMunication we have received further
portant news from China. The questions be-
tween our Government and that of China are evidently
rat' far from being settled as ever, and there seems every
red"
to suppose that the attainment of any satisfactory
lt
be protracted for a considerable period.
erY probably all negotiations will be abruptly term.
tt.ated, and war recommenced, after the loss of a year's
line, and the total waste of the money already spent.
The fears of the most intelligent English residents
en,Chine speak a plain language, and there cannot he
rauti°tlbt that the temporizing policy and affected mode-
front °4 which prevail- in the councils of the Admiral,
whatever source these may proceed, show an utter
Want Of knowledge of the Chinese character and policy,
cefidd uegrade Great Britain in their eyes.
itutoTrohe people of England cannot too soon be
ghlY convinced that the Chinese are incapable
re 4Ppreeiating either moderation or mag
lit nanimity, and
iard the on of such maxims as sheer imbeel-
eOY: professi
ru!te. abstract of what is stated to be the High
u
_„u? issioner Lin's reply to the Emperor's reprimand
t his Proceedings has been published in a Singapore
frqoad
paPerof the 17th of November, and will reach Eng
by this mail.
There seems to be good reason,
th internal evidence, to conclude the paper to be
Maine. It is, for an Asiatic, rather a clever
Production The hints which Lin gives to his master
lit ttlat
a blockade must eventually lead us into hosti-
vrith neutrals, and the recommendation to
berPl°l ships built 'and armed after the European man-
suos, that he is not without friends and advisers
fa7°4 the Americane, or others in China, who in the
—ter Suggestion,'ll! h ver would appear rather to have
A
everlouk,
the, their own interest as well as that of those
auvise• The sickness at Cbusan is so serious,
ei
t the whole military force there may be regarded as
trganised for offensive purposes, and should a serious
hithltearrtYn
le.ffort be now required, the whole of w hat has
.een do e be looked upon as worse than
tlaeless, for the n aY
expedition will find the Chinese
leech better n"
reial
nu... r prepared. Comme prosp.ects in that
C4rter are of course in the most uncertain condition
eeible. and the only reasonable calculation that can
direntina.eil) that exports from Ch;na to England must be
'shed to the lowest ebb for a considerable time to
lue, if all trade be not entirely stopped.

the I asa ha CIIUSAN, OCT 3, 1840.
able to add that our anxiety about
lievecifut,e ppy to be
of the Conway and Algerine has been re-
nsji bY their arrival in the harbour yesterday, all
,Qhtleftxer. a cruise of nearly. three months, during
and explorations and observations of exceeding value
tethnterest have been made. It appears that Captain
len
,Une ascended the Bang-tzesKeang,
has far a.
tsleitnadie 120 deg. 26 m•n. cast, being t en in
• "'
deg. 4') min., and forty miles from its mouth,
tistsing the whole way excellent anchoring ground and
tel water, never less than six fathoms. The chan-
t! Ls described as far too broad to admit of being
queeersted, being from one and a quartar to one and three-
,er miles in width at almost all parts, the tide
tp-alaß freely throughout, and from the general ap••
iae,"r,anee at the extreme point reached, which (accord-
ss',`° Burrow's observation of the longitude in 1805)
!st,itioilfetrLtY to sixoty-' miles distant
. from the line on
the grand canal crosses it. Captain Bethune
of Opinion that the same facility for the passage
tl t:lles of moderately large size will be pre-
river,'Much further up the course of this fine
At the spot where he turned the river was
chancel
seven Nut • miles broad, the sounding in the mid-
' kin is having eight fathoms. The town of Nan-
mile.. situated at the distance of about fen or twelve
cheat from the south bank of the Yang-.tze-Keang and
tiler fifty miles west of the junction of the canal, so
a t can be little doubt that in the course of two tides
Ite4artogee, force, fully equipped, . could
. be towed up by
te,n steamer and disembarked within one march of this
an
i "' whiela, from the impossibility of defending such
1, Mmelite extent of wall as that which surrounds it, must
-0 ex
the P'eted to tall by escalade, or assault a la. Ghu_zn.a,
riit night • while' at the same time, the line of the
"al, the f the empire, would be effec-
ta,ol great artery o
css•Y severed, all traffic and communication with the
suspended, and a gripe laid on the vitals of the
cspeabie_rY..nation," which scarcely any struggle they are
toots e of would throve off, and which nothing but the
ttaiPie concession on the part of their arrogant Go-
frer-44(n could relax. It has become evident, indeed,
al the • • various quarters, that
the r, reports received from
areak'jlinese Government, fully aware of the extreme
testing "uS of its position, and of the impossibility of pro-
tses the passages of the Yang-tze-Keang, have been,
3,190 e the rumour reached Pekin that a fleet was
cliee`r,neit their coasts, in a state of the greatest alarm
fore;e'ning Nankin, in which, lying at the mercy of a
tlid-tevLeu so small as ours (properly handled) there is
tioa •°, Pe Property of immense value. From the posi-
litoi"telt things have assumed now it does not appear
be t3'that during this war (of words) advantage will
of 04ol'en of the information and data for the guidance
kreacter4tiens obtained, but the value is nevertheless
Chi," au when the real war, which people versed in
the a Politics and history predict, will blaze up,
,b,efore
eettembers of the present " demonstration have
in
this ellY.eeased to glow, again collects an armament
taher,tude, an easy road will thus be pointed out,
barei,e2l.te axe. can be laid at the root of the tree, fully
C° receive receive the blow.
the ri rarY to expectation, along the whole course
only
on v"
Passed over Captain Bethune perceived
e ,
one
ed town of any considerable size ; this was in
Rises batik, and in both it and the ' writ, although
Agar number the villaes and small towns ap-
Letts; jasignifier:nt. Severagl encounters took place
these, t', boat crews and parties of Chines
on
tleeesser'eere a landing to procure supplies w.r.s found
as
t, Y' in one of which some loss on our side
wouos-IPerienced and a midshipman of the Conway
(tuts:bed' it is fearedi mortally, though living at this
tied Ytia Matchlock ball. The Chinese soldiers ear-
theY Wi."l
them a large sort of shield or screen, which
P.l4"ted upright on the ground, and fired from he-
billed arias flora a breastwork ; several. of them were
tlsysounded. No fleet of war junks was seen
ehiPseoriver, but a -flotilla of row boats accompanied the
/tutchi„P the river and down again on their retu.rn,
:thee -t-sg their movements with attention, and anchoring
sho'rue). anchored ; they kept, however, always well
stii th,e' and were suffered to take their own course
ore,: veEtels had returned nearly to the mouth of the
ass thwhen having tried the range with a shot, a shell
4,4'
en 4 from the Conway into the midst of them,
()titi ebtoke up and made off in all directions.
Akige germ ;7
4Y up towards the river, the Conway and
their had occasion to pass the town of Sha-poo on
te4')aut, about thirty miles south of the Yang-
%stilt 'aog, and the Algerine was sent in to make a
stasd,Y examination of the harbour. As this.
etlt Itad well-sailing little brig was sailing
nes, sveveral shots were fired at her by a fort
tau.e tewu, on which she immediately anchored,
PlNls-,?,'-inC on her cable, and in a short time corn-
sses t"enced the batterthe gunners in which, how-
le'ts! ueb°ed fora time, very well, and one principal
wallit;',! 'Mandarin was observed from the brig's deck
uP and down between the guns during the
seltrailvtith„suu much saw* froid as if well used to war's
'sta th• vvitla regard the Kite but little light has
l'etetyr°wn on her fate, which, as the Ningpo people
ecl'ieciiteresilenee on the object, remains yet a matter.. of
a %%so "L. In proceeding up the river to join the
s'Atirrstae got amongst shallows, and grounded upon
,`lrearn "unk, when a boat was sent off to report the
rotrieVtance, overtaking Captain Bethune, be
euats"withtelY Proceeded to her assistance, with all the
tit!itit 'dich could be sent, and succeeded in getting her
de Rater ; but, as it was impossible to got
s as tuefie"lre'ld channel from the intervention of a bank, she
%had s t° So back by the passage through which
"arse lu.tered, and to ascend the river by the proper
diatadto hielle,i•Ying on the bank preparations were °b-
rio:l.4, on theriver side, which was not far
eslaands_" k her ; some junks having
.bcen brought
shorn
oftents having made their appearance
Pl 111•44111,. the supposition now entertained is that a party,
ies %,,Yee'risisting of the Europeans'
Benton shore for sup-
'ett,'s-as eut ess
sursou , and the brig thus left almost defence-
°le w cled by boats and taken. If this should
)t.eedlt,jt funnded, the occurrence must be considered ex-
ittle Y Untowardand vos craft -e
ao'ssge, and 11 found in all stores and necessaries for a
to Moreover carried a man of war's pennant,
ititireetwhz
Itscae.ir,vvii,leleea, hie 32-pounder carronades belonging
fltted with longest scales,
.ele rating
of I two
es (sun mounted on good truck carriages, be-
oh Doseder: three lighter ship guns, and a good supply
4:l••eartie
ef
bet shot, muskets, sc 5 cutlasses, &c. &c. The
ssitht, had bet been been given, in the fighting depart-
oy whom n given to Lieutenant Dou'las, R.N.,
ts, t tiara ts,_w!r_e sent six marines and six first-class
;
tes`ted the PI:, Ao.lelville's crew ; these, in fact, coost—
att ara 44_0,4 to fighting force of the vessel, as the
A_'elt, and,
t be depended upon in the ev.mt of an
p_l,l,loy, as be
been proved by the Braemar at
ill not take the ship into action unless corn-
Nit • .Y fore
Lt 1, bard e, representing, and with some justice,
hposed esedto to unfair, in point of fact illegal, to
„, of life and limb, for which they
preeu 110 cool "ed, and for the pains and penalties hf
CapPensation, either of pension or gratuity, is
4Ptaist A ed
ern. The intelligence of the cap arc of
d
traPath 'l4ltruth
ssal:l44 wholes er appears to have had a strong
.an
tuin c. EiPme effect upon the Plenipotentiary,
other4lore t'et, but certainly not of that nature which
tia re hope inti.e,d for than expected. Ile went over the
1„._41 about "lot Atalanta steamer to Ningpo, to nego-
eriladreo the restoration of the prisoner, and as the
le in ri Y'ng off the mouth of the river was respect-
Unahers and forces—Blenheim, 74, Modesto,
rit„ rsor,
•'"een, Atalanta, Mohamed Shaw—
n`can;_. Was anta, and
'ut h "'Pea from the demonstration. Captain
11 has
howev •
saxot consnieteiv
pel,, since returned, and it is unil,r.
NI 414 Aautr animist,ll,t,
41Ptoril uther having been, it is said, bu"'"""
Y reNsed.
His person is detained, and

his case distinguished from that of the Kite's crew,
upon the plea that he was carried off during a period
of amnesty or amnesties, a fact rather difficult to
support. Captain Elliot, it appears, had an inter-
view on shore with E and the authorities, China-
hae, and then departed in peace, having, it is under-
stood, received for answer, that even the female would
be retained with all the rest as prisoners of war and
hostages until the island of Chusan should be evacuated
by our troops. A curious trick was tried by taking
all the commanders of the sugar junks now lying here
marked and numbered over to Ningpo, and sending one
of their number on shore to propose an exchange of
prisoners ; the junks, it is said, to ba given to com-
plete the bargain. The project, of course, failed, as
the rinandarias, doubtless, value the possession of one
red-bristled barbarian officer just now, far more than
the lives of a hundred junkmasters with the same
number of sugar cargoes, and it only furnishes addi-
tional matter for regret that these attempts should
hare been made to gain an end by peaceful and
circumbeadibus sorts of means, which we are not
ready and resolved to follow up by proceedings more
worthy of the nation's name. In the meantime there
is a feeling decidedly less hostile apparent among
the people. From the mainland or large islands to the
south several double-decked boats are beginning to find
their way into the harbour, and ply a trade in ducks,
geese, &c., among the ships, and the Governor of Ning-
po has also, I believe, expressed his willingness to make
arrangements to send stock over. The Blundell, with
Lieutenant Davidson, of the Bengal Commissariat, on
board, left for Manilla early in August, since which
nothing has been heard of her, ncr has anything been
received from that part. It is, indeed, the opinion of
most seafaring men, that at this season of the year, as
the Blundell is rather a dull sailer, she would Not be
able to reach Chusan, in consequence of the violence
with whiah the north-east monsoon blows down the
China teas, and the strength of the current which it
causes. For native craft it must of course he utterly
impossible ; so that we may safely assume that no single
necessary article of commissariat supply can be looked
for from that well-stocked settlement of Manilla and its
dependencies until May or June next year.
'The f-illowing statistics of the British troops at Chu-
san will be read with painful interest. We extract them
from tl:e Canton Register of Nov. 3. Landed 3,650

.roops

18th, or Royal Irish.—Embarked from England and
Cey!on, strong, 560 ; died on the passage, 30 ; died in
Chusan. 37. 67-493 ; sick in the hospital, 169: total
on duty, 324.
-26111, or Cameronians.—Embarked from Calcutta,
strong, 904 ; died on the passage, 10 ; died in Chusan,
103, 113 (of whom 50 died in October)-798 ; sick
in the hospital, 551 ; total on duty, 240.
49th, or Hertfordshire.—Embarked from Calcutta,
659 strong ; died on the passage, 9 ; died in Chusan,
41-50, 609; sick in the hospital, 148 ; 461 on duty
total 1,023.

Artillery, Europeans.—Embarked from Madras, 210
strong ; died in Chusan, 6-6, 204 ; sick in the hos-
pital, 78 ; 120 on duty : total of British troops on
duty, 1,151.
Artillery. Natives embarked from Madras, 79
strong ; sick in hospital (no deaths), 14 strong : total,
65 on duty.
Sappers.—Natives embarked from Madras, 288
strong ; died of coup de soled, 1-287 ; sick in the hos-
pital, 56 : total, 231 on duty.
Bengal Volunteers.—Embarked from Calcutta, 888
strong ; died on the passage, 12 ; died in Chusan, 51 ;
63-825 ; sick in the hospital, 231-594 on duty to-
tal native troops on duty, 885 ; total British troops on
duty, 1,151: grand total, 2,036.
Chusan, Oct. 22, 1840.

Private letters from Macao, by ;the 111 or, mention
that the Admiral has submitted to the Emperor of
China a treaty composed of twenty-six articles, sixteen
of which the Emperor has accepted, and ten rejected,
but what the accepted or what the rejected articles are
we knew not. We are also informed that the Admi-
ral has expressed himself as being fully conscious that
the Chinese were only temporising with him, but that
the nature of his orders from home prevented his acting
a more decisive part.—Overland Courier.
(From the Canton Press, September 19.)
The following extracts from a letter from Chinchew
have been kindly sent us :
" The Amoy Mandarins have at last met their match
in the Alligator, assisted by the Braemar. A lieute-
nant of the Alligator was on board the Lyra, and de-
scribed the effect of their shot on the junks as splendid,
passing clean through them and then going on shore.
They sunk sixteen or seventeen junks, and there could
not have been such destruction among the vessels with-
out a very great loss of life ; the had nobody hurt o❑
board the ships. When the Chinese found that their
juriks could not stand the fire from the snips, they
threw up a breastwork in one night on the low sandy
beach, fronting the channel into the junks harbour, and
there they have now mounted 204 guns, some of them
very heavy. The ships not having force sufficient to
force a landing, retired out of the reach of the shot,
many of which had struck them ; some they have get
of 18lbs. The sloop-of-war's main yardarm was shot
away and a shot lodged in her hull. They have also
built a fort on the island on the south of the channel,
leading into the harbour, and several other forts on
projecting points of land in the harbour, and are tnak-
ing active preparations for defence. I rather think the
ships have again gone north, as we have seen nothing
of than for some clays. From what they told Wood-
row, th Blenheim is to be stationed at Amoy to
blockade, and they seem to think from the resistance
they had that troops would also be sent down to as- 1
sist."