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London, England, 1857-01-07 00:00:00

John Baskyfield, marine, Calcutta, slag wound, left hip,
severely. . _

Roland Bradstock, marine, Encounter, contused wound,
right shoulder, from a spent ball, slightly.
14th November—All the wounded are doing well.
M. SEYMOUR,
Rear-Admiral and Commander-in• Chief.

Little opposition was offered by the Chinese troops be-
yond a scattered fire from the streets and houses, from
which we sustained a loss of two marines killed and twelve*
wounde

The High Commissioner having made no concession, I
have re-opened fire this morning, with a view to maintain
the breach, and pree3rve the facilities it offers for re-enter-
ing the city if necessary.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) M. SEYMOUR.
His Excellency Sir John Bowring, LL.D., her
Majesty's Plenipotentiary, Hong Kdtig.

Superintendency of Trade, Hong Kong, Oct. 31, 1856.
Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge your Excellen-
cy's despatch of yesterday, advising me that a breach was
made in the new city wall, on the 29th, through which our
brave fellows entered the city, and visited the public
offices of the Governor-General, and that (having accom-
plished this) they returned to their quarters, and your
Excellency announces that the breach will be maintained,
with a view to further proceedings.
I am indeed sorry to find that all these demonstrations
do not move the 'lmperial Commissioner to enter upon
becoming negotiations.—l have,
(Signed) JOHN BOWRING.
His Excellency Sir Micha©l Seymour, K.C.8.,
Naval Commander-in-Chief, Canton.

British Consulate, C inton, Oct. 30, 1856.
Sir,—When the Prefect of Luy-chow foo was sent yes-
terday to the British Consulate by your Excellency, for
the purpose of ascertaining what demands I had to make,
I instructed the British Consul to state to him for the in-
formation of your Excellency, that convinced as I am
that, were the right of access to the authorities within the
city, that has been invariably conceded at the other ports,
similarly in force at Canton, no such contingency coull
arise as the present, in which the impossibility of other-
wise effecting any satisfactory arrangement 'had rendered
necessary the proceedings of the last few days ; what I
had now to insist upon was simply this, that the foreign
representatives should have here the same access to the
authorities as at the other ports.
Your Excellency sent no reply to my message, and ac-
cerding to the intention of which I had given notice to
your deputy, I breached the wall of the city, and thus
obtained access to your Excellency's official residence,
whieh I visited yesterday afternoon. This object accom-
plished, I withdrew my troops.
I may observe that it has been wholly with a view to
the preservation of life that my operations have been
/hitherto so deliberately conducted. Even yesterday, whin
entering the city, no blood was shed, save where my men
were assailed, and the property of the people was, in
every case, respected. The fires which have broken out
during the last two days were not either designedly
caused by us ' • they were but a lamentable consequence of
the measures to which your Excellency's conduct has com-
pelled me, reluctantly, to resort.
I have now one remark to make, to which I request
your Excellency's particular attention. The lives sad
property of the entire population are at my mercy, and
coal I be destroyed by me at any moment that any event
might impose upon me so sad a necessity. The preven-
tion of any such necessity is entirely in the hands of your
Excellency.
I have been constrained to move onward, proceeding
from one step to a farther, by the pertinacity and dis-
courtesy with which your Excellency has persisted in evad-
ing the just and simple claims advanced by us in the first
instance.

It is now for your Excellency, by immediate consulta-
tion with me, to terminate a condition of things of which
the present evil isnot sligat, bat which, if not amended,
can scarcely fail to be productive of the most serious cala-
mities.—l have, dm., (Signed) M. SEYMOUR.
His Excellency Yeh, Imperial High Commissioner, dcc.

Yeh, Imperial Commissioner, Governor-General of the Two
Kwang Provinces, &C., makes communication.
I have this day received your Excellency's letter of the
30th October, and have acquainted myself with its con-
tents.
The relations between your Excellency's country and the
Chinese, ever since the commencement of commercial in-
tercourse between them, have been none other than those
of politeness ; and when on the Bth instant twelve prisoners
were seized on board the lorcha, having ascertained from
the officer deputed to conduct the investigation, that nine
of their number were innocent, I directed an officer, on
the 10th instant, to put them on board their vessel again.
Mr. Consul Parkes refused to receive them.
Early on the morning of the 22d ultimo, I wrote to
Mr. Consul Parkes, and at the same time forwarded to him
twelve men, namely Leang-Mingtae, and Leang-keen-foo,
convicted on the inquiry I had instituted, and the witness
Woo Ajin, together with the nine men previously tendered.
But Mr. Consul Parkes would neither receive the twelve
prisoners nor my letter.
The lorcha, it appears, was built by Loo-a-Ching, a Chi-
nese. She was not a foreign vessel at all, and her British
flag had been purchased through the merchant Block, as
was clearly established by the admission of the prisoner
Woo-Ajin, when under examination.
It was not known at the time that my executive went
to seize persons on board her that the lorcha was a foreign
vessel. She was anchored in the neighbourhood of the
Dutch' Folly. She was built by the Chinese Loo-a-Ching.
As to the question of the flag, it has been the invariable
rule with lorchas of your Excellency's nation to haul down
their ensign when they drop anchor, and to hoist it again
when they get under weigh.
When this lorcha was boarded, in order that the priso-
ners might be seized, it has been satisfactorily proved that
no flag was flying. How, then, could a flag have been
hauled down ? Yet Consul Parkes, in one despatch after
another, pretends that satisfaction is required for this in-
sult offered to the lag,
There has been, in truth, no breach of treaty committed ;
and, after so many years of peaceful understanding between
our two nations, why, without cause, a military operation
should be undertaken, I am utterly unable to explain.
In reference to the admission into the city, I must observe
that in April 1849, his Excellency Plenipotentiary Bonham
issued a public notice, at the factories here, to the effect
that he thereby prohibited foreigners from entering the city.
The notice was inserted in the newspapers of the time,
and will, I presume, have been read by your Excellency ;
a.ld to this that the exclusion of foreigners from the city
is by the unanimous vote of the whole population of
Kwang•tung.
It may be supposed how little to their liking has been
this storming of the forts and this destruction of their
dwellings; and apprehensive, as I am, that evil may hence
befall the officials and citizens of your Excellency's nation,
I can suggest nothing better than a continued adherence
to the policy of the Plenipotentiary Bonham, as the correct
course to be pursued.
As to the consultation (proposed by your Excellency), I
have already some days ago deputed Tcheang, Prefect of
Lny-chow-fow.
I accordingly reply, availing myself of the occasion to
wish your Excellency prosperity, Sic.
A necessary communication, addressed to his Excellency
Sir Michael Seymour, Naval Commander-in-Chief, &c.
Hien-fang, 6th year, 10th moon, 3d day, 31st Oct., 1836,
Translated by
(Signed) THOMAS WADE, Chinese Secretary.
Tne copy.
(Signed) CHAS. A. WINCHESTER, Vice-Consu

British Consulate, Nov. 1, 1856.
31st ,—I am in receipt of your Excellency's reply of the
Sir
ult.
I must positively decline any further argument on the
merits of the case of the lorcha Arrow. lam perfectly
satisfied of the facts as represented to your Excellency by
Mr. Consul Parkes, and that the just demands of the Con-
sul were not acceded to by your Excellency. The men who
had been publicly seized on board the Arrow were not pub-
licly restored to their vessel, as he bad requested, nor was
the required apology made for the violation of hisjuris-
diction by your executive.
The whole course and issue of the lengthy correspondence
arising out of a matte- which might in the first instance
have been easily adjusted have determined me, as I have
already told you,
to insist on behalf of the foreign repre-
sentatives of the same right of access to the authorities
within Canton as has been invariably conceded at the
other ports ; the exercise of this right being, in my belief,
our sole security against recurrence of misunderstandings
like the present, involving proceedings so distasteful to my-
self and so disastrous to you.
Your Excellency's reply refers me to the notification of
the British Plenipotentiary Bonham in 1849, prohibiting
foreigners from entering Canton.
Now I must remind you that, although we have re-
ceived serious matter of complaint against the Chinese
Government, for breach of the promise given in 1847, to
admit foreigners into Canton at the end of the two years,
my demand now made is in no way connected with the
former negotiations on the same subject, neither are I de-
manding the admission .f any but the foreign officials,
and this only for the simple and sufficient reason above
assigned.
On my proposal to treat personally with your Excel-
lency, you do me the honour to remark that you sent a
prefect some days ago. lam compelled, therefore, to re-
gard your Excellency's whole letter as unsatisfactory in
the extreme, and have only to add, that unless I imme-
diately receive an explicit assurance of your assent to
what I have proposed,
operations. I shall at once resume offensive
The deliberateness with which I have so far proceeded,
should have convinced you of my reluctance to visit the
shortcomings of their authorities upon the inhabitants of
Canton. The responsibility of what may now befall them
rests on your Excellency. Should you persist in your
present line of policy, you leave me but one course to
pursue, and you will learn, when too it is late, that we
have power to execute what we undertake.—Accept, &c.,
His Excellency Yoh, I(Sign riaed) M. SEYMOUR.
mpel High Commissioner, &c.

Yeh, Imperial Cnrimissioner, Governor-General of the Two
Kwang Provinces, (tc., makes a communication in reply. ,
I am in receipt of your Excellency's letter of the 2d inst.,
and have acquainted myself with its contents.
In the case of the lorcha you say that, on the representa-
tion of Consul Parkes, I should have caused the men publicly
seized on board that vessel to have been publicly returned
to her, and that it was incumbent on me to admit that their
capture by my executive was a mistake. No foreign flag was.
seen by my executive at the time of the capture, and as in
addition to this it was ascertained on the examination of the

* One since dead.

Richard Hore, marine, Calcutta, contused wound, left
shoulder, from a spent ball, slightly.
George Atkins, marine, Calcutta, slug wound, left arm
and left breast, severely.
William Straw, marine, Cellcutta, slug wound, left
breast, severely.
Simon Jessop, marine, Calcutta, slug wound, right
cheek, slightly.
James Nicolson, marine, Winchester, slug wound, left
leg and both gluteal regions, dangerously.
Patrick Byrnes, marine, Winchester, contused wound of
sternum from a spent ball, slightly.
James Love, marine, Comus, penetrating slug wound of
abdomen, mortally (since dead).
Reuben Bargery, fifer, R.M., Comus, wound of face,
slightly. _ _ _

Encounter, at Canton, Oct. 30, 1856.
Sir,—Referring to my letter of the 29th, I have tke
honour to inform your Excellency that a practicable breach
having been made yesterday, about 2 p.m., in the new city
wall, from the guns in the Dutch Folly, a strong detach-
ment of seamen and Royal Marines took possession of the
city wall, destroyed, by blowing up, one of the gates,
entered the city, and, having visited and inspected the
house and premises of the governor, the forces were re-
embarked at sunset, and retired to their respective quar-
ters.