The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-28 00:00:00

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CAREY,— On the 22d inst. at Beggar's Bush, Dublin, the
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DELAMERt—SEYMOUR.—On the 27th inst., at St. James's,
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Friday, December 28,1860.

making anxious inquiries after the British infantry, and
saying that as Sir Hope Grant had appointed the rent
at
dezvous at the Summer Palace, they would make for 41.
place. The brigadier, thinking that the rest of the British
r
army had gone on, gave orders to march for the Surniuea
Palace. When arrived at the villages surrounding Hai-teen
-
further inquiries were made after the army, when the
natives replied that they had seen no one pass in MP_
neighbourhood. Brigadier Pattel then went to meet tee
French, who were first advancing, and offered to co-opera?
with them. The French general said he was going to attack
the palace at once, and begged that the cavalry might keep
the right to cut off the retreat of the Tartars. It was get-
ting „'..
ting dark when the brigade arrived at the walls of the
gardens, and the first thing to be done was to find a pla,co,,
to encamp in, so the horses' heads were turned out of the
village again to the left to seek an open piece of grouptiw.
Meanwhile the French advanced to the chief entranc,et
forced open the gate, and had a small skirmish with the
eunuchs, who defended the place, killing two and wound-
ing several others. Two French officers were wounded.
Next morning the French officers entered the palace with
several of their men, and looted right and left. A few gdf)a
things were placed on one side to be divided between the
sovereigns of Great Britain and France. After the Frenfh
had enjoyed the whole day's looting, many of them thereby_
making their fortune, the general gave permission to the
British officers to bring away as much as they liked du
the Bth, and a commission was nominated to do o°+.
and sell it for the benefit of the army. Many officers
found ;largo pieces of gold worth hundreds of pewit!
and as a great deal of dissatisfaction was so caused, M
general called in all loot, and had everything sold by pup".
auction. Two-thirds of the money so produced was glen
to the soldiet y, one-third to the officers. The general him'
self gave up his share, and in return the officers made him
a present of a handsome gold claret jug of Chinese mend-
facture, intrinsic value £l2B sterling, which constituted
.1,,
portion of the loot. After the French had arraehe I.!s,
a_
they could bring away, they went about with large sticks,
breaking to pieces the remaining curiosities, which were ot.
rather bulky size, and then, as a finale to their work 41
mischief, before leaving, they set the private residence of
the Emperor on fire, and suffered it to burn to ashes.
The imperial paved roadway from Pekin to the Summer
I Palace issues at the Se-che gate on the west side, and con-
tinues with a few windings in the direction of a group 01
villages of different names, conglomeratoly called Hai-teen.
The stone-way carries you through this group of ugly
houses, you emerge on to a broad road with the
each
through its centre ; stone garden walls stand on each side ot,
you to the right and left. They enclose the grounds 9,1
nobles and imperial connexions. You advance suivant
pave, cross a stone bridge, take a sweep to the left, and the
road brings you between two large pieces of water in front
of the grand entrance to the Palace of Yuen-ming-yuen.
'lt was here under the trees the French encamped.
You advance through the portals, and enter upon a largo
paved court-yard ; in front of you stands the Grand Re'
caption Hall, a large Chinese building, well adorned ex'
teriorly with paint and gilding, and netted under the
fretted eaves to keep the birds off; you enter its central
door, and find yourself on a smooth marble floor
in front of the Emperor's ebony throne. The carving
on this throne is quite a work of art. The floor of the
throne was carpeted with a light-red cloth, and three lop
series of steps led up to it, of which the central series was
the widest, being intended for Kow-towing on before the
Emperor. The left sideeof the room was covered with one
extensive picture representing the grounds of the Summer
Palace. Side tables were covered with books and articles
of vertu. On the right of the building were houses after
houses well-furnished with silks, curios and luxuries of all
kinds, most of them having gardens in front. Then were
the houses of the retainers. Behind the grand hall was
Rockery, and in the rear of that again a large pond, so that
a pebbled path, leading over a bridge and taking a semi-
circular sweep of half the water, had to be traversed before
you visited "the next hall. The distance was about 600
yards. This hall was smaller, and not got up with such
care; yellow sedan .chairs and one mountain chair stood
close to the throne. On the right and left there were small
rooms adjoining with images of Bhuddha. Behind stood
another reception-hall, and in rear of that again a third,
and on the left the Emperor's private rooms, beautifully
got up, with tables strewn with all manner of precious
articles, many of which were English or French. The
rearmost room was the Emperor's bedroom, communi-
cating with the room in front by a door covered with a
blind. A large niche in the wall, curtained over and
covered with silk mattresses, served for the bed, and is
sloping platform enabled his Majesty to mount into it.
A small silk handkerchief was under the royal pillow,
and pipes and other Chinese luxuries were standing on
tables hard by. The Empress's two rooms were on the
extreme left, and, these past, you came again on pebbled
paths carrying you past lakes, into grottoes, through sum-
mer-houses, under magnificent trees, until you quite lost
yourself in bewilderment. The Round and Brilliant Gar-
den is the signification of the Chinese name applied to these
grounds, but they are more like an extensive park walled
round and abounding in all that is most lovely of the Chi-
nese picturesque. Its construction and the accumulation
of the precious property it contained must have been the
work of centuries.
The Wan-show-yuen or Birthday Garden is situated
about a mile west of the Summer Palace. The Emperor's
paved road passes close under its wall, and traversing
through the village of Tsing-lung-cheaon, winds to the
left and leads to another garden called the Chin -ming-yuen
(golden and brilliant garden), the walls of which enclose
two hills, the one surmounted by a six-storied monument,
the Ya-tsing t'a, and the other by a steepled lamasery in
ruins. Some two miles further on, on the side of the west
hills, beyond the various villages of the eight banners
which speckle the plain, you see the fourth and not the least •
beautiful of the Emperor's gardens, the Heaug-shan or
Fragrant Hills.
It was these gardens and lovely spots that the let divi-
sion started to destroy on the 18th October. The barbarous
treatment shown by the Mandarins to the unfortunate vie.
tims that they had trapped at Tung-chow demanded some
retaliation on our part, and as a portent of what they might
expect unless they succumbed, it was determined to burn
and destroy the Emperor's pleasure grounds. The party
started at half-past eight, and not many hours had elapsed
before the rising columns of smoke betokened the com-
mencement of the work of destruction.
The view of the country below from the hill-top in the
Wan-show-yuen was most perfect ; you looked down on a
series of handsome temples, a large lake with a temple
standing in its bosom with a marble bridge of arches stretch-
ing from it to the shore; the open country south with its
groups of villages and trees, a tier of hills on the right, and
Pekin away in the distance.
The 19th October was the great day of destruction, black
masses of smoke rose continually from the g anions, giving
the appearance of a fearful thunderstorm impending. Un-
fortunately the houses of the surrounding villages were not
spared in the general destruction, and thousands of unhappy
subjects had to suffer for the sins of their rulers The gene-
al gave orders to spare the monument as a work of art ; all
other public buildings in the neighbourhood were destroyed.
The Tartars in the different banner villages appeared
greatly alarmed, thinking their turn might come next.
They turned out in groat numbers with warm tea and cake
to regale the soldiers on their return from the hill gardens.
Before sunset of the second day every place had been fired,
and the soldiers were marched back to camp at the Sih-
shing gate. We passed the summer palace on our way
back; flames and smouldering ruins debarred our passage
every way. We passed the entrance gate, and watched
with pleasure the daring flame curling into grotesque fes-
toons and wreaths, as it twined in its last embrace the grand
portal of the palace, while the black column of smoke that
moved straightwards to heaven from the already roof-fallen
reception-hall, formed a fine deep background to the living
picture of active red flame that hissed and crackled as if
glorying in the destruction it spread around. "Revenge
is sweet," We muttered to ourselves, " Sic transit gloria
mundi,"