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TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
ADMIRALTY, DEC. 12.
The following missing diSpatch, from Vice-Admiral
Sir William Parker, addressed to the Secretary of the
n s tant
No f. ayB.l 23,,
Admiralty, has now been received :
letterSir,-My will 1842. have
of
Cornwallis,
telt
itait Chapoo,
apprised the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty of
the evacuation of the city of Ningpo on The 7th, and
that the troops were embarked in the transports off the
island of Just-in-the-Way, with the intention of com-
mencing the prospective operations of the combined
forces by an attack on Chapoo, where it was scertained
that a large Chinese force, and a considerable store of
arms and provisions, had been for some weeks collecting.
The fleet reached an anchorage between. the Sesham
and Fog islands on the evening of the 13th of May ; but
the unfavourable state of the weather, and the velocity of
the tides during the springs within the entrance of Hang-
! chop-foo bay, did not admit of any further movement
until the 16th, when a very satisfactory reconnaissance
was made of the defences of Chapoo in the Phlegethon
and Nemesis steam-vessels ; and on the following :after-
noon the ships of war, named in the margin,* and the
transports were all anchored in Chapoo bay, in con-
venient positions for the disembarkation of the troops,
which commenced at daylight on the 18th, in a sandy
bay, within two miles of the city, and at' the eastern
termination of a range of heights which flanked the field
works and strong positions held by the Chinese outside it.
Commanders Kellett
,and Collinson, who have been
indefatigable in surveying every part we have had to
navigate, succeeded during the night in thoroughly
sounding between the anchorage of the ships and the
shore, which enabled the Cornwallis, Blonde, and Mo-
deste, while the troops were landing; to take up excellent
positions against the sea batteries, consisting of twoworks
mounting seven and five guns, about one-third of the way
up a steep hill at the eastern extremity of the suburbs, and
crowned with a joss house, occupied by a large body of
men, and three other maskedlatteries, mounting thirty
guns, in front of .the suburbs, making a total of forty-
two guns of different calibre ; the whole were thronged
with Chinese soldiers, who also lined their defences on
the heights to a considerable extent with matchlockmen
and numerous•gingalls.
Against these field-works the Sesostris was anchored
for the purpose of dispersing them with shells, as our
troops advanced ; and the inhabitants of the suburbs and
city were duly warned to retire out of the line of our fire.
By the exertions of the Nemesis, Phlegethon, and
Queen steamers, and the boats of the covering vessels,
Starling, Columbine, Bentinck, and Algerine, together
with those of the transports conducted by Lieutenant
Somerville, the troops were all put on shore in admirable
order, under the able direction of Commander Charles
Richards, of the Cornwallis, by nine o'clock, when the
General, with his accustomed energy, immediately
pushed forward at their head ; the ships, by a pre-
concerted signal, opened their fire at the same time
on the batteries. A few shot, however, put the men
stationed in them, and at the joss house on the
summit of the hill opposite to us, to a precipitate flight,
and not a moment was lost in landing the seamen and
marines of the squadron under Captain Bourchier, of the j
Blonde, and the officers named in the accompanying list,
who got possession of the batteries before the mines,
which were. prepared in them, could be sprung ; and,
having succeeded in cutting off' several of the Chinese
troops that were endeavouring to reach the suburbs,
joined our land forces in their approach to the city. By
the General's rapid advance, in two columns, they had
already gallantly carried all the positions on the heights,
and, the retreating parties being intercepted in every
direction, the Chinese suffered very severely ; but a
body of several hundred Tartar troops, having thrown
themselves into a large joss house between the heights and
the city, resisted with such desperation that they were not
subdued until the building fell in ruins over them, and
not more than fifty men were brought out alive ; nor
was this, I regret to add, effected without considerable
loss to the combined forces, who have to lament the
Gallant Lieutenant-Colonel Tomlinson, of the 18th
Royal Irish, and several men killed ; and Lieutenant-
Colonel Mountain (the Deputy-Adjutant General) and
many other brave officers and men severely wounded.
The loss of the Chinese cannot be accurately ascer-
tained, but from various accounts their force was not
less than from eight to ten thousand men, of whom one
fourth are supposed to have been Tartar troops, many
hundreds have been slain or wounded, and several
officers and men made prisoners ; the latter will, how-
ever, be released before our departure.
It is with sincere pleasure that I have again to bring
under their Lordships' notice the spirited and valuable
services of Captains Bourchier and P. Richards, and the
several Commanders, Officers, and men of all ranks of
the navy and royal marines of her Majesty's squadron,
and the Indian navy, under my command on this occa-
sion ; the whole of whom are justly entitled to my hest
thanks and 'commendation.
Commander Watson, of the Modeste, having been sent
forward with his division by Captain Bourchier on-first
landing, was able to reach the advanced party of the
troops in time to assist them, in boats across a canal, to
enter the city ; and Sir Hugh Gough has expressed him-
self much pleased with his exertions on this and all occa-
sions in which his services have been connected with the
army.
Lieut. Wm. H. Maitland, commanding the Algerine,
and Lieut. Bate (additional) attached to the Bentinck,
after assisting in landing the troops, accompanied them
on their advance, during which two officers (or inferior
Mandarins) fell in single conflict by the hands of the former,
who bids fair to rival the gallantry of his lamented uncle,
that bright ornament of our profession, the late Sir Fre-
derick Maitland ; and Lieutenant Bate, by his spirited
exertions, succeeded in making prisoner a Chinese offi-
cer, holding the rank of Colonel.

AN ACCOUNT OF ORDNANCE TAKEN AT CHAPOO,
MAY 18, 1842.
11 brass guns, varying from 6 to 24-pounders.
31 iron guns, varying; from 6 to 24-pounders.
13 gingalls destroyed.
50 guns of different calibres, and a vast number of
gingalls, matchlocks, Scc., found in the arsenals, and
destroyed by the artillery.
A Return of Killed and Wounded belonging to her Ma-
jesty's Ships and Vessels, and those of the Indian
Nary, in Action with the Enemy on Shure, at he
Capture of Chapoo, on the 18th day of May, 1842.
CORN WALLIS.
Wounded-1 private, Royal Marines, dangerously ;
1 seaman, severely.

---
Jn. Simmons, and Jn. Pine,Amanufacturers of prussiate
of potash, Battersea, Jan. 3—D. Shirrefs, innkeeper,
Bishop Wearmouth, Jan. 3—F. W. Bushell, innkeeper,
Evesham, Worcestershire, Jan. 5—J. Pidcock and 'l'.
Burt in, corn factors, Nottingham, Jun. 16—J. Fisher,
boatwright, Sneinton, Nottinghamshire, Jan. 11—C.
Timmis, flint grinder, Stone, Staffordshire Jan. 7—J.

Smith, miller, Haselor, Warwashire, Jan. 9—G. Bod
dington, coach builder, Warwick, Jan. 10—S. Sedgle.
grocer, Dudley, Worcestershire, Jan. 11—J. Pickering
wine merchant, Loughborough, Leicestershire, Jan. 11
—II. Medley and W. Backhouse, oil merchants, Leeds,
Jan. 6—J. Evans, ironfounder, Darwen, Lancashire, Jan
12-11. and J. G. Irwin, drapers, Manchester, Jan. 4
J.' Howarth, flannel manufacturer, Rochdale, Lanca-
shire, Jan. 10—H. Wood, stuff merchant, Manchester,
Jan. 7—J. Wyatt, upholsterer, Plymouth, Jan. 10.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED

MODESTE.
Wounded-1 acting corporal, Royal Marines, slight

QUEEN. -
Wounded-1 seaman, slightly.

NEMESIS.
Hilled-1 corporal, Bombay Artillery ; 1 gunner,
Bombay Artillery.

J. Bain and R. Rankine, drapers, Haslingden, Lanca
shire—G. Gilbert and T. Tayspill, land agents, Colches-
ter—G. IL and L. 11. Haslewood, Foreign Stock Agents,
Angel-court, Throgroorton-street—M. Patterson and
W. E. G. Wilson, surgeons, Wardour-street, Soho—J.
Bateman and J. Ryder, woollen printers, Leeds-----J.
Adamson, jun., J. West, H. Pearson, and B. Sugden,
common carriers, Bradford. Yorkshire (six far as regards
J. Adamson and B. Sugden)—J. West, 11. Pearson, and
J. Adamson, jun., wharfingers, Selby, Yorkshire (so far
as regards J. Adamson)—T. Smith and M. Leeson,
coachmakers, Liverpool —E. and T. Woolley, ship
brokers, Rood-lane, City—T. Hogg and R. Todd,
nurserymen, Loughborough, Leicestershire—G. Reece
and J. Embleton, painters, Manchester--11. and F. Hey-
cock, wool merchants, Leeds—E. S. and W. C. Herring,
tea dealers, New-road, St. Pancras—G. A. Kidd and J.
Dawson, Sierra Leone—P. and T. J. Coupland, mer-
chants, Manchester—W. Allen and W. Wilson, coal
merchants, New Malton, Yorkshire—J. Taylor, B. Law 4
and T. M'Entegart, brokers, Liverpool—L. Pearson, R.
Barnes, and J. Pearson, tanners, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
(so far as regards. R. Barnes)..
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.
ROBERT RENTOUL, potato merchant, Newport,
Fifeshire, Dec. 22 and Jan. 12, at one, at Mac Nab's Inn,
Cupar-Fife.

WHITEHALL. DEC. 6.
An Address, upon the occasion of her Majesty's
visit -to Walmer Castle, from.. the Mayor, Alder-
men, and Burgesses of the borough of Gravesend,
in the county of lient, having been transmitted for
presentation to the Right Honourable Sir James
Graham, Baronet, one of her Majesty's Principal,
Secretaries of State, was by him presented to her Ma-
jesty, who was pleased to receive the same very gra
tiously.

STEYNJNG AGRICULTURAL
DINNER.

On Monday the members of the Steyning Agri-
cultural Association held their annual fat stock show,
and afterwards dined together at the White Horse
Inn in that town. About 120 persons were present.
The Dude of Norfolk presided. The Earl of Arundel,
M.P., C. Goring, Esq., M.P., and John Abel Smith,
Esq., M.P., were also present. The vice-chair was
filled by Harry Dent Goring, Esq.
The usual routine business having been disposed of,
The CHAIRMAN, proposed " The Members for the
Rape of Bramber.'

The toast having been drunk,
C. GORING, Esq., M.P., said, in the name of Sir
Charles Burrell and himself, he thanked them for the
kind manner in which they had drunk his health.
He regretted that Sir Charles Burrell was not here,
but he was obliged to go to London on particular
business, and had desired him to make an apology.
He thanked them, more particularly on the present
occasion, for himself, as he was afraid it might be
supposed by some that he was not worthy of the
kind manner in which they had drunk his health,
for he knew that several of his friends, who had
pursued the same course that he had, had met
with severe animadversions in the newspapers
and other quarters. Avowing himself a friend
of agriculture, he might, at first sight, be
charged with inconsistency in supporting the mea-
sures lately passed, and which certainly very much
affected present prices of stock, but in answer to that
he begged to remind them that it was highly neces-
sary, for the benefit of the producer, that the health
of the consumer should be vigorous and strong, and
considering the high price of bread, and the high
price and the gradually increasing price of stock; it
was highly necessary that some measure should be
passed to relieve the country; and though in this, as
in all other cases, individual interests must suffer

temporary loss, still he hoped that in this case the
farmers would not be materially injured, but that they
would find from the gradual improvement, which he
trusted was even now taking place, and the state of
the market to-day led him to suppose it was raised to
that point even here, that the farmer would find that
the stability and regularity of the price would com-
pensate him for the loss which he sustained. But
should ho be disappointed in the firm hope and ex-
pectation he had on this point, he felt that it would
be the landlords who would suffer, and who ought to
suffer.—(Load cheers.) He would be the last man
to exact from his tenantry more than he was confi-
dent the price of the produce of their land allowed
them to pay easily, and to prosper. There was another
subject which, perhaps, some agricultural friends of
his might deem, him to have been wrong in, but it
was a subject of such a delicate nature, and on which
there was such:a diversity of opinion, that he would
not here touch upon it; but if any agricultural friend
of his should wish to know his reasons for having
acted as he had done, it would give him the greatest
pleasure to call upon him ; or if such person would
do him the favour to call upon him at his house, he
doubted not but he should be able to give sufficient
reasons for the conduct he had pursued—he meant
with regard to the Corn-law.—(Hear, hear.) He
considered—hem—hem—that hem—(a long pause)—
in present circumstances, it would ill become him to
suggest to landlords what they ought to do, but still
he might be allowed to say, although he did not con-
sider that landlords should reduce their rents for this
temporary panic, which he took it to be, still he
did think they might do a great deal to relieve the
distress which the farmers certainly were labouring
under at this present time ; and perhaps he might
be allowed to suggest that the present distress should
not be suffered to fall upon the agricultural labourer,
but that the landlord should assist his tenants
in finding work for them—(Hear, hear)—and he was
sure that in this part of the country, where there was
so much need of draining, that there could not be a
better season for such an undertaking. He was sure
he need not suggest to landlords that although he con-
sidered rents should not be lowered in a temporary
panic of this sort a bit more than he should raise
them if prices were high for a short time, still he did
think that landlords should allow their kinder feelings
to prevail, and that they should not be hard upon their
tenants, if they could not pay them up to the day.
He had endeavoured to avoid every thing which might
lead to a political discussion ; and if he had said any
thing which could offend the feelings of any one pre-
sent in that room, he was very sorry for it. It gave
him great pleasure to be present at that meeting. He
cared not whether such meeting was on the occasion
of a lean stock or a fat stock show ; he thought that
they were calculated to be beneficial to the labourer,
to agriculture, and to the country at large.
The Earl of ARUNDEL proposed the health of their
Vice-President of the day.
The toast having been drunk with cheers.
IL D. GORING, Esq., rose and said there was no
meeting which he had attended with greater pleasure
than this, which brought him into connection with
those to whom he was so greatly indebted, and to
whom he owed so much. Anything that he could do
during the remainder of his life, which might serve
them, he was sure he should ever be ready to do as
far as was in his power, whenever they might call
upon him. Allusions had been made to the circum-
stances in which they were placed, and as a landlord
he felt it right also to address them ; and, from the
position which he held, he could tell them all as
farmers that they must no longer depend upon legis-
lative protection. Let them all, as landlords and
farmers, stand shoulder to shoulder, and manfully
meet the crisis before them. He would tell them that,
no matter when, come it would, and come it must—
corn would he admitted free, and on legislative protec-
tion they could not depend.—(Hear, hear.) But if
their landlords met them—if they themselves stood
firm in their own position—if they would cultivate
their land, and exert themselves, he could assure them
solemnly, from what he knew himself, therem'as no
-land upon the Continent—no farmer upon the co n e t-
nent—no capital upon the Continent, that ever could
compete with them.—(Cheers.) He told them this. He
knew it; he had been through the country, he had seen
what stock the foreigners had, he knew how their
cultivation got on, and he could assure them (the
farmers of England) that such must and would be the
case. It was a struggle that was coming; but let it
be a struggle that they might meet altogether; and
when they did that, let not the landlords forget that
it was to those who cultivated the land under
them, that was mainly due all they had. They must
recollect that it was with the knowledge of the far-
mers that the land was. cultivated; and it was the
sweat and the toil of the labourers that brought
--
[The remainder of the sentence was lost in the elle( rs
of the meeting.] It had been said that this was a try-
ing time ; he knew it was a trying time for them all,
because theyhardly knew how to meet the demands
of their labourers, many of them, on a Saturday
night; but if the landlord would aid—if the landlord,
as they had been told, would stand back with his rent.-
day—when they knew that, he thought they might
take heart. And. let him ask them, when the poor
man out of employ, after the dry summer that they

The city—was escaladed, and occupied with very little
resistance ; and a large quantity of arms, of every de-
scription, gunpowder, and provisions, have been found
and destroyed, together with the guns in the batteries
and arsenals, with the exception of eleven of brass, which
have been embarked.

A list is enclosed of the ordnance which has been
found.

The steadiness and good conduct of the combined
forces has been most satisfactory, but the plunder and
devastation committed by the natives from the moment
of our entering the city, has, perhaps, exceeded that
of any place we have yet visited ; nor can the Tartar
portion of the population divest themselves of the appre-
hension of being massacred, under which unfortunate
impression, many, after destroying their infant children,
have committed suicide.

I inclose, with concern, a list of two killed and four
wounded in the squadron, the latter, I am happy to say,
are doing well ; but I fear the casualties in the army
amount to nine killed, and fifty-two wounded, many of
them severely.—l have, &C.,
W. PARKER, Rear-Admiral.
To the Secretary of the Admiralty.
P.S...Fourteen war junks have also fallen into our
hands.

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BLONDE.
A list of Officers belonging to her Majesty's ships and
13,111.1d,isea4rv2yt:h e command
-employed on
of her Majesty's
vessels,slio re t t and
the capturethose
ship Captain
B Blonde,
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susTrac: h,
Soi efsrix,m ,
Captain Thomas Bourchier, C.B. ; Lieutenants Charles
Starmer and Edward Crouch ; Messrs. Alexander
Anderson and J. F. C. Hamilton, Mates ; Mr. John
Simpson, Assistant-Surgeon ; Hon. O. W. M. Lam-
hart and Mr. Henri- T. Lyon, Midshipmen ; Mr. Cor-
nelius Fox, Master s Assistant.
Royal Marines—First Lieutenant C. C. Hewitt,
Second Lieuter.ant F. C. Polkinghorne.
HER MAJESTY'S SHIP CORNWALLIS.
Captain Peter Richards; Commander Charles Richards;
Lieutenants Grey Skipwith, James Pitzjames, and
Charles R. Carter ; Messrs. Samuel Fowell, Augustus
P. Greene, George H. Hodgson, Nicholas Vansittart,
and Henry A. Hollinworth, Mates ; Mr. O'Neil Fer-
guson, Senior Assistant-Surgeon, attached to Brigade;
Mr. Hugh H. Monk, Additional Assistant-Surgeon ;
Mr. William Bowden, Volunteer Ist class.
Royal Marines—Brevet Major J. Uniacke, commanding;
Capt. Francis S. Hamilton ; First Lieutenants George
Elliot, W. S. L. Atchurly, Henry funPson, and F. T.
White.

HER MAJESTY'S SCHOONER STARLING.
Commander Henry Kellett ; Mr. Henry S.
Mate.

TIER MAJESTY'S SLOOP MODESTE.

Commander R. B. Watson ; Lieutenant T. F. Birch ;
Messrs. P. A. Halkett and H. R. Crofton, Mates ; Mr.
H. S. Wilmott, Assistant-Surgeon.

HER MAJESTY'S SLOOP counsimNr.

Commander W. H. A. 'Morshead ; Lieutenant P. A. Help-
man ; Mr. J. S. Veitch, M.D.: Assistant-Surgeon ; mr.
Robert Shedden, Midshipman.
HER MAJESTY'S BRIG BENTINCR.

Commander Richard Collinson, Lieutenant William T.
Bate, supernumerary additional ; Mr. J. J. Crawford,
Assistant-surgeon.

HERMAJESTY'S BRIG ALGERINE.

Lieutenant Commanding VWilliam 11. Maitland, Mr.
Augustus Butler, Midshipman.
HONOURABLE COMPANY'S STEAM VESSEL SESOSTRIS.
Commander H. A. Ormsby ; Lieutenant J. Rennie ; Mr.
A. J. Smith, Mate : Mr. Henry Broughton, Midship-
man ; Mr. Patrick Cruickshank, Assistant-Surgeon.
FLAG LIEUTENANT.

Lieutenant Charles—E. Tennant, Senior Lieutenant on
the station.

* Cornwallis, 72 guns, Captain P. Richards ;Blonde,
44 guns, Captain S. Bourchier, C. 8.; Modeste, 18 guns,
Commander R. B. Watson ; Columbine, 16 guns, Com-
mander W. H. A. Morshead ; Bentinck, 10 guns, Com-
mander Richard Collinson ; Starling, 4 guns, Commander
Henry Kellett ; Algerine, 10 guns, Lieutenant W. 11.
Maitland; Jupiter, troop ship, G. B. Hoffmeister, Master.
Steam Vessels—Sesostris, 4 guns, Commander 11. A.
Ormsby, Indian Navy ; Queen, 4 guns, Mr. W. Warden,
Acting Master, R.N. ; Phlegethon, 2 guns, Lieut. J. J.
M'Clevtrty, R N • • Nemesis, 2 guns, Lieutenant w. H,
Hall, R.N.