The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-06 00:00:00

To A CORIIESPONDENT.---" Yes."

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.
minutes after 5 i Evening 34 minutes after 5.

LONDON:
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1841.

By the Overland Mail from India we have le-
ceived ne from Canton of the 19th of May,
from Macao the 20th of the same month ; from
Calcutta of the sth, from Bombay of the 19th,
of July ; from A:exandria of the 20th, and from
Malta of the 26th of August. Captain ELLIOT
was temporising with the Chinese authorities,
and had succeeded in obtaining the shipment

of eleven millions of pounds of tea. Befbre the
end of the mouth he expected to be able to
export an equal, or even a still greater, quantity.
As British goods were no longer in demand, all

the teas purchased were paid for with hard cash
In the meanwhile the Chinese were making pre.

partitions for war—troops were arriving in great
numbers in Clinton, and as an attack on the Bri•

-ash factory was apprehended, Captain EL-
LIOT had ordered the Algerein and Modeste
to station themselves so close as to cover the
factory with their guns. The EMPEROR was re-
ported to be furious. On the arrival of KESIIEN,
the •late Imperial Commissioner at Pekin, his
Majesty ordered him to be cut in two halves
right through the middle for having allowed the
English to capture the Bocca Tigris forts.
Another of his Councillors having recom-
mended peace with the English had his
flesh literally torn bit by bit off his bones,
wnd thus died in the greatest agony. In an
Imperial decree the EMPEROR, alluding to the
dispute with England, tells his subjects, "Let
the two words make peace find no place in your
hearts, nor ever give them any form by
-writing them." The Minister and Court
litvourite Hoo, and the EMPEROR'S youngest
brother, MEEN FLING, have received or-
tiers "to journey in all haste, travelling day
and night, at the head of 50,000 invincible war-
riors, to Canton, to, execute the vengeance of the
son of heaven upon the English, not allowing a
single ship to escape, but sweeping them clean
from the face of the seas, in order to fill the Im

perial mind with gratification2' His mA_
JzsTy, iu another decree, says that if Hou
and MEEN FuNq are not successful he will take
the field in person, and not only make an end of
English guilt in China, but utterly extirpate the
English name in India and England. Tile British
authorities in India were preparing to save the
Evr.2l3 non the trouble of marching so far as Canton
for an invlrview with the "red-bristled barba-
rians."
Sir HENRY POTTINGER, the new Pleni-
potentiary, and Admiral Sir W. PARKER, Com-
mander of the Forces, embarked frotn Bombay
for China on the lith of July. They were to
commence the wta.r with China with the strict
blockade of the whole western and southern
coast.
They were next -to occupy the is-
land of Amoy,
which is said to be ex-
ceedingly salubrious, and thus cut off all inter-
course between China awl the rice granary,
Formosa. A part of the squadron was to pro-
ceed to the mouth of the Peiho River, and
thence make a dash upon the capital.
The appearance of POTTINGER, PARKER, GOR-
DOND E REMER, and the Blue Jackets at
Pekin, will flutter the celestials more
than the capture of twenty provincial towns like
Canton and Nankin. The expedition is rather
directe d against the Government than the peo-
ple, why), provided they remain quiet, are not
to snarl in any other injury than what the
blockade may inflict. Wherever they manifest
a disposition to encourage commercial inter-
course with the English, orders have been given
to treat them with the greatest kinduss.
The ex-High Commissioner LIN is restored to

the Imperial-tavour,•and it is said to be by his
advice that the EMPEROR has proclaimed an
exterminating war against Evgland. He also it
was that procured the inhuman butchery of the
unfortunate Ic...ESHER. The EMPEROR'S adoption
of LIN'S counsels will yet cost him his Crown ;
for the war once begun in earnes.l: England
,will stop short of nothing less than the de-
thronement of the reigning Sovereign. ti.Ye have
even hcard it stated, in quarters likely to e well
inform;_td, that the British Government has al-
read% contemplated the overthrow of the 'tartar
dynasty in China.
Frown India the news is rather discouragLig.

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