The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-31 00:00:00

STOPPAGE OF THE CHINA TRADE. CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY)

We copy the following from the Second Edition of
Lc Times:—

" By the Mangles, Captain Carr, which arrived at Cowes,
Isle of Wight, on the 29th, a file of Canton papers to the
19th inclusive has been received, by which it appears that the
Tea Trade had been suspended in consequence of Lord Napier
having gone immediately to Canton instead of remaining at
Macao, and asking permission to proceed further. The Hong
merchants had consequently sent a notification to the English
merchants, of which the following is an extract :

" ' Now the refusal to receive the Government orders is
disobediecce to the laws of the celestial empire. We are offi-
cial merchants, and in all public affairs must entirely and im-
plicitly obey and act up to the established laws. Since now
your honourable officer will not act in obedience to the estab-
lished laws, we dare not hold commercial intercourse with the
gentlemen of your honourable nation, and can only detail the
circumstances in a full report to the great officers, that they
may put a stop to buying and selling.

" For this special purpose we write, we pray you to return
an answer. This is what we have to impose on you. With
compliments, £m" '

(The names of eleven Hong Merchants are subscribed.)
The following was the answer :

" 'TO THE HONG MERCHANTS.

" ' Gentlemen,--We have received your letter of the 15th
instant, and as it contains official matter over which we have
no controul, the communication cannot be noticed beyond a
mere acknowledgment thereof.
" ' Canton, August. 16."
" A meeting of the merchants had been summoned by Lord
Napier, at which he laid before them the particulars of the
transaction, and declared his intention not to comply with the
order of the Governor to return to Macao, and expressed his
full conviction that the matters would soon be amicably ar-
ranged. The Andromache and Imogene which I had ordered
to sail on a short cruise,' continued Lord Napier, with a view
of feeling the pulse of the Chinese, and that object has been
attained, for they have since become more absolute, will soon
return, and will operate, no doubt, on the Viceroy ; and when
the merchants form themselves into, a Committee of Com-
merce, they will exhibit a more imposing attitude, and show
the Chinese the advantages were not altogether on their side.
If, however, it was thought necessary, his Majesty's ships
should come up to Whampoa ; and, if their presence there
was not sufficient protection, they should anchor under the
walls of the town.' The Meeting then adopted resolutions for
the formation of a Committee of Commerce

" The private accounts do not refer to the above circum-
stance as of serious import, but, on the contrary, state that the
conduct of the Governor had proceeded more from a desire to
vindicate the honour of the country from so great an infringe-
ment of the laws,' than any hostility to the new arrangement,
or the object of Lord Napier's mission."

WAR WITH CHINA!
From Nicholson's Commercial Gazette and China Register
of this day.)

Two o'clock.

We have received letters this morning from China, dated the 23d
of August last, stating that Lord Napier, the New Governor, had
arrived, and that a rumpus had taken place between him and the
Governor of Canton ; an embargo was immediately put on our
ships, so that we shall be in a pretty state of confusion in the Tea
Trade the next few months.

Everybody now holds fast, and no price can be stated for any of
the Company's Teas.
We refer our readers to the accompanying extract from a private
letter we have seen.

(Extract of a letter from St. Helena, dated Dac. 17, 1834.)
" A stop has been put to the trade on the part of the Chinese,
in consequence of some misunderstanding between Lord Napier and
the Viceroy of Canton, the former having persisted in remaining
at that place instead of returning to Macao, and to await the usual
permission, and also in having refused to make the Hong merchants
the channel of communication between himself and the Chinese
authori ties.

" A General Meeting of British residents had take:-., place, at
Which the measures adopted by Lord Napier had be.,,n approved of..
" His Majesty's ships ' Andromache' and Imogene' were lying
in the river, and Lord Napier had deell.red that he would not quit
Canton except at the point of the I:;,tyonet.
"6 This news will, of course; 'nave a material influence upon the
Tea Market, as all the VeF.els are detained.
" The Mangles was the last ship'eleared out."
Thus a total stop is put to our trade with China.
We shall now have to open negotiations with the Emperor
of China at Pekin, and a precious job it will be for our Ambassa-
dors, and the affair may last for years.
We shall make a humble tender of our service to the Duke of
Wellington in this critical affair.
Three o'clock, p.m.
We have been favoured by the sight of numerous letters from
Canton, the latest date the 25th of August.
Lord Napier, a sailor, has assumed a high tone with the Chinese
Authorities, and, from the letters we have read, he appears to
think he can do as he pleases with the Celestial Empire.
Lord Napier his treated the Hong Merchants, and the distin-
guished officers at Canton, just in the same style as the Chinese
Emperor treated Lord Amherst, the last Ambassador sent by the
King of England ; and we guess his fate will be just the same as
that of Lord Amherst.

The English merchants at Canton are curious to know what his
instructions are. Lord Palmerston is the man to tell us this ; but
this we know, if the conduct of Lord Napier is regulated and autho-
rised by his instructions, we shall be in a state of war with China
without the shadow of a doubt.
We call upon the Duke of Wellington to look to this, for a sin-
gle day ought not to pass without the most effectual measures being
adopted to rescue this country from its present critical position.
We say, send out a few fast-sailing Frigates ; one may be most
usefully employedin bringing home young Alacauley from India, and
sending a man of talent and experience in his place, if wanted.
We have not time to write a hundredth part of the information
we have received.

The next letters we receive will be from our own Correspondent,
who would arrive at China on the 6th or 9th of September.

PORTUGAL WINE TRADE.

1. The exportation of all wines of either margin of the
Douro is allowed per the Foz, no matter what its quality
may be.
2. The Douro wine is of two qualities—superior wine and
second quality wine.
3. The superior wine exported per the Foz of the Douro
will pay a duty of 8,000 milreis per pipe of 21 all-nudes, no
matter the place where it may be destined.
4. The second quality wines will pay the same duties as
are charged to the other Portuguese wines exported through
other ports.
5. The qualification of the wine shall be effected at Oporto
in the following manner :—The proprietor 0{ the wine shall
name a person to taste the same, and the collector of the
customs is to appoint another ; their opinion will determine
whether the wine is to be charged for the duty as first or
second quatity, and the Custom-house despatch will be made
out accordingly.

This being the last day of Hilary Term, the Loan CHAN
CELLOR took motions to-day. His Lordship was occupied;
whole morning with a pm-heard motion of " Fielding v. Smith,
the object of which was to obtain the dissolution of an injunction.
The facts of the case have already been before the public.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE BISHOP OF LLANDAFF.

This case came before his HONO lin upon the petition of the
relators on the second and third informations, which were filed for
the purpose of • carrying into effect the charitable trusts of the will
of the late Lord Craven. That Nobleman, after disposing of the
greater portion of his property, gave the residue of his estates in
the first place for the purpose of raising annually out of the
rents and profits the sum of one hundred pounds, for the
maintenance of four scholars at the Universities, two at Oxford,
and two at Cambridge ; and the rest of the property was to go to
the redemption of English Christian captives in Turkey and Bar-
bary. The latter part of the gift had become inoperative, in
consequence of there now being no English Christian captives
either in Turkey or Barbary. Such being the case, the informa-
tion was filed for the purpose of having the opinion of the Court as
to the best manner to apply the fund. On the information coming
on to be heard, a reference was made to the Master to approve of a
scheme for the future regulation of the Charity, and he reported that
there should be six scholars sent to the Universities instead of four,
and that they should be allowed annually 501. in the place of 251. ;
this course wus adopted, the expenses that had been incurred in
consequence of the death of the trustees and relators had been paid
out of the Charity Fund, and the object of the present petition was
that the costs that had been subsequently incurred might be taxed
and paid also out of the Charity Fund.
his IloNou a, all parties consenting, made the order as prayed.