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warded it to his Excellency her Majesty's plenipotentiary,
and requested his instructions in the case.
These instructions of her Majesty's plenipotentiary,
which I have now received, are to this effect.
That as it is clear that the Chinese authorities have vio.
lated the 9th article of the Supplementary Treaty, which
requires that all Chinese malfaisants in British ships shall
be claimed through British authorities, I beg to inform
your Excellency that her Majesty's Plenipotentiary requires
you to furnish me with an apology for what has taken
place, and an assurance that the British flag shall in future
be respected ; and I am to intimate to your Excellency
that if forty-eight hours are allowed to pass without a
compliance on your Excellency's plrt with this demand, I
am then to concert with the navalauthorities the measures
necessary for enforcing redress.

I am also to add that, on any sufficient evidence being
given that British ships or British subjects have been en-
gaged in piratical practices, they will be proceeded &gal:At
without hesitation, and that an application to the proper
authority, Chinese offenders will not be harboured on
board British vessels, but that all proceedings must take
place according to the conditions of the treaty.—l have,
ko.,_

(Signed) HENRY S. PARKES, H. B. M.'s Conant
His Excellency Yeb, Imperial High Commissioner,
Governor-General of the Two Kwang, &c.

Yeh, Imperial High Commissioner, Governor-General,
kc., addresses this declaration to Mr. Parkes. the British
Consul at Canton

At the hoar of Wei (from 1 to 3 p.m.), on the 14th day
of the ninth month (12th October), I received the state-
ment addressed me by the Consul, which I have well con-
sidered. _ .

I find in reference to the twelve men, Le-Mingtae and
others, who were seized on board the lorcha, that by my
direction, the Prefect of Canton examined them clearly
and thoroughly, and duly submitted to me in his report
copies of the truthful depositions be had taken. Where-
upon the three men, Woo-Asin, Le-Mingtae, and Leaug-
Keen-foo, are reserved for further and more strict exaaii-
nation, and the Assistant Magistrate Hen was directed to
take the remaining nine,
.Leang-a-Paon, and others, and
return them to their own vessel. These particulars wire
also distinctly communicated (to the consul) in the decla-
ration which, as the records show, I then addressed him.
But he has new forwarded to me another "statement"
on this subject, on which I have to remark that it is stated
in the deposition of Woo-Asin, "that this lorcha belongs
to Leo-Aching, who began to built' her on the 14th day of
the 7th month of the 4th year of Hein-fang (7th August,
1851), and on the day on which she was completed he
bought her from the foreign firm Polo (Block), a register
for which he paid one thousand dollars, and he also en-
gaged the foreigner Aloo to take care of the vessel, paying
him thirty dollars a month as wages."
Thus it had been ascertained by the previous examina-
tion, that this lorcha is not the property of a foreigner,
and at the same time when the naval officers seized the
twelve men, and brought them to my yamun, I directed
that they also should be examined as to the matter, and
they stated that when they went to the lorcha to seize the
men they saw no.foreigner on board ; that at that time
no flag had yet been hoisted on board the lorcha ; that
they heard that the flag was stowed away below, but they
themselves saw nothing of it. Therefore they seized the
men and brought them away.
Hereafter, Chinese officers will en no account without
reason, seize and take into custody the people belonging to
foreign torches, but when Chinese subjects build for them-
selves vessels, foreigners should not sell registers to them,
for if this be done, it will occasion confusion between
native and foreign ships, and render it difficult to distin-
guish between them. Thee may all parties conform their
proceedings to the conditions of the 9th Article of the
Treaty.

Hien-fung, 6th year, 9th month, 19th day (14th Octo-
ber, 1856). (True tranalatimi.)
(Signed) HARRY S. PARSES.

British Consulate, Canton, Oct. 15, 1850.
Sir,—At about 10 a.m. yesterday I received your Ex-
cellency's declaration, which I regretted to see evinced no
desire on your Excellency's part to grant the satisfaction
demanded in my letters of the Bth and 12th instant. It
compelled me, therefore, as had been previously intimated
to your Excellency, to concert with the naval authorities
the measures necessary for enforcing redress.
Having waited until one o'clock, the Commodore in
command of her Majesty's naval forces in this river passed
the barrier in a powerful steamer, and anchoring her by
the Leihtih forts, came on to Canton in another steamer,
and having selected one of the largest janks from the fleet
of Chinese war-vessels at anchor below the Hacchow Fort
(Dutch Folly), hauled her out from among-them, and took
possession of her.

I have to inform your Excellency thst a naval force is
now before the forts of Whampoa, those of the Lei htih
barrier, and also at this city, and to remind you that the
matter which has compelled this menace remains still un-
settled,

Deeply it is regretted that it should have been occa-
sioned by the disregard on your Excellency's part, of rea-
son, justice, and the obligations of the treaty. —I have,&c.,
(Signed) H. S. PARKES, Cons :I.
His Excellency Yoh, Imperial High Commissioner, &c.

Sybille, at Whampoa, Oct. 15, L 53.
Sir,—l have the honour to acquaint you, that yesterday
after Mr. Parkes, her Majesty's Consul, had received the
letter from the Imperial'Commissioner (an extract of which
I have already forwarded to you), I returned to Whampoa,
when I found the Barracouta had arrived the previous
evening. The tide suiting, I desired Commander Fortes-
cue to proceed immediately up Junk Passage as near Can-
ton as he could go with safety to the steamer. He loot no
time in doing so, and anchored towards evening some way
above the barrier, at Whampoa ; the Coromandel at the
same time embarked the Sybille's marines, and took in tow
her boats, and proceeded up the river to carry out the de-
termination to seize one'of the Government junks.
The lorcha, Arrow, when the outrage upon her was com-
mitted, was lying below the Dutch Folly (where she still
remains) surrounded by Imperial junks, and as the act was
done in a very public manner in that conspicuous position,
it appeared to me bait that a reprisal should be made in an
equally public way, by taking one of the mandarin junks
lying at the same place. Those most conveniently situated
had sailed during that and the previous day, and, with the
strong tide running, it was difficult to select a suitable
vessel. After cutting one adrift from her moorings the
tide carried her into a position from which she could not
have been extricated without much difficulty and loss of
time ; another one was therefore seized, and the Coroman-
del brought her down to Whampoa during the night, where
she now lies under the guns of the Sybille.
This junk, which, with others about her, as we passed
in the morning, carried the imperial flag, appears to be one
of many vessels in the hire of Government lying at that
anchorage, and used for war purposee or as transports, as
occasion requires ; and I am assured she is of the class,
and very similar to the junk that boarded the Arrow.
I understand she has on board a valuable cargo.
I am happy to say that this service has been performed
without any casualty, though considerable disposition to
resist was shown by the surrounding mandarin junks, the
tampions being removed from many of their guns and
other preparations made.
The Coromandel returns to Canton this morning ; I
shall keep the Sybille's marines on board her as a guard.—
I have, &c. (Signed) CHS. G. J. B. ELLIOT,
Commodore and Senior Officer in the
Canton River.
His Excellency Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour,
8.C.8., Commander-in-Chief.

Yeb, Imperial High Commissioner Governor-General of
the two Kwang Province., Svc.' addresses this declara-
tion to Mr. Parkes, the British Consul at Canton.
On the 17th day of the 9th month (15th October), I re-
ceived your statement representing that your demands had
not been complied with.
I, the minister, have therefore considered the matter,
and find that the party who was plundered by the pirates
went and seized subjects of China on board a lorcha, built
by a Chinese in China. It is a matter, therefore, in
which, from the first, foreigners have no concern. The
lorcha, too, had the flag of no foregner hoisted at the
time, nor was there any foreigner on board the lorcha
therefore the men were apprehended and taken before the
tribunals.
Hereafter, if any lawless characters conceal themselves
on board foreign lorchis, you, the said Consul, shall of
course he informed of the same by declaration (from the
Imperial Commissioner), in order that yon may act in con-
junction (with the Chinese authorities) in the management
of such affairs.
You further inform me in the statement under acknow-
ledgment, that a naval force has seized and retains posses-
sion of a large junk, forming one of the fleet of vessels at
anchor, below the Hacchow Fort (Dutch Folly).
I find that the junk in question is a trading junk, and
the property of Chinese merchants, who, although fault-
' less, have thus been suddenly involved in trouble by the
acts of the said Consul. Where in the treaty will he find
authority'for such proceedings as these? I, the minister,
in any course of action, must not exceed the roles of strict
propriety, nor go beyond the bounds of the laws in any
punishment that I impose.
Nine of the twelve men who were seized on the 10th day
(Bth October) were returned on the 12th day (10th Oct.)
to you the said Consul, but you refused to receive them.
At the present moment the examinations of ten of *these
men have been taken and completed, and these men shall
be immediately given over to you, the said Consul, if you
are content to receive them. In the event, however, of
Your again declining to do so, then I, the Minister, shall
myself set them at liberty.
This declaration is sent in reply to your statement.
Hien-fung, 6th yenr, 9th month, 23.1 day (21st October,
1856.)
(True translation)
(Signed) HARRY S. PARKES.

British Consulate, Canton, Oct. 21, 1856.
Sir,—On the morning of the Bth inst., the British lorcha
Arrow, when lying among the shipping anchored before
this city, was boarded, without any previous reference
boing made to the British consul, by a large force of Chinese
officers and soldiers in uniform, who, in the face of the
remonstrances of her master, an Englishman, seized and
carried away twelve Chinese, out of her crew of fourteen,
and hauled down her colours.

I reported all the particulars of this public insult to the
British flag, and grave violation of the 9th Article of the
Supplementary Treaty, to your Excellency the same tiny,
and appealed to you to afford satisfaction to the insult,
and to cause the provisions of the treaty to be, in this c
faithfully observed.

But yOur Excellency, with a strange disregard both of
justice and treaty engagements, has offered no reparation
or apology for the injury, and, by retaining the men y,,u
have seized in your custody, signify your approval of this
violation of the treaty, and leave her Majesty's Gose,n.
ment without any assurance that similar aggressions sh,ll
not again (weer.
Yonr Excellency wag warned, by what took place on the
evening of the 14th itst., of the dangerous consequences
to which a refusal of justice might lead ; but your Excel-
lenci treats with indifference that warning, and also the
several protests made to you, not only by me, but by it:2a.
Majesty's plenipotentiary.
I am therefore instructed by her Majesty's plenipoten-
tiary to inform ynnr Excellency that twenty-four hauls,
to count from the delivery of this representation, ore
allowed your Excellency to accede to the demands made to
you in my letters of the Bth and 12th inst., and in the
event of these demands n‘ -t being complied with within
•the time named, her Majesty's naval officers will have
recourse to force to compel complete ratisfaction.
I have, &c,,
(Signed) FrARAY S. PARKES, H B.M.'s Consul.
His Excellency Yeh, Imperial High Commissioner,
Governor-General, &e., dze.

British Consulate, Canton, Oct. 22, 1856.
Sir,--I bad the honour to receive at half-past 8 ais
morning your Excellency's declaration of yesterday's date,
in which you state that " the lorcha Arrow had the fia', of
no foreigner hoistc,,l (at the time that she was boarded),
nor waa there any foreignei. on board the lurcha, therefore
be men were apprehended and taken before th 3 tribunals.