The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-08-13 00:00:00

TRADE WITH CHINA.

PUBLIC NOTICE TO BRITISH SUBJECTS.
I, Charles Elliott, chief superintendent of the trade of
British subjects in China, presently forcibly detained by the
provincial government, together with all the merchants of
my own and other foreign nations settled here, without sup-
plies of food, deprived of our society, and cut off from all in-
tercourse with our respective countries (notwithstanding my
official demand to be set at liberty, so that I might act with-
out restraint), have how received the commands of the high
commissioner issued directly to me under the seals of the
hon. officers to deliver over unto his hands all the opium
held by the people of my country.
Now I, the said chief superintendent, thus constrained by
paramount motives affecting the safety of the lives and liber-
ties of all the foreigners here present in. Canton, and by other
very weighty causes, do hereby, in the name and on behalf of
her Britannic Majesty's government, enjoin and require that
all her Britannic Majesty's subjects now present in Canton
do forthwith make a surrender to me, for the service of her
Majesty's government, to be delivered over to the govern-
ment of China, of all the opium under their respective con-
trol, and to hold the British ships and vessels engaged in a
trade of opium subject to my immediate direction, and to
forward to me without delay a sealed list of all the British-
owned opium in their respective possessions ; and I, the said
chief superintendent, do now, in the most full and unreserved
manner, hold myself responsible for, and on the behalf of,
her Britannic Majesty's government, to all and such of her
Majesty's subjects surrendering the said British bond opium
into my hands, to be delivered over to the Chinese govern-
ment. And I, the said chief superintendent, do now, further
especially caution all her Majesty's subjects here present in
Canton, owners of or charged with the management of opium,
the property of British subjects, that failing the surrender of
the said opium into my hands at or before six o'clock this
day, I, the said chief superintendent, hereby declare her Ma-
jesty's government wholly free of all manner of responsibility
or liability in respect of the said British-owned opium ; and
it is especially to be understood that the proof of British
property and value of all British opium surrendered to me
agreeably to this notice shall be determined upon principles,
and in a manner hereafter to be defined by her Majesty's
government.
GiVeil under my hand and seal of office at Canton, in China,
the 27th day of March,. 1839, at six o'clock in the morning.
CHARLES ELLIOTT &C.
The above, brought to Singapore by the Good Success,
sailed from China the 10th of April.

SUICIDE OF MR. CHADBORN, OF GLOUCESTER.—
GLOUCESTER., AUG. 6.—A very sad event has taken place
here. Mr. Chadborn; the solicitor, one of the executors
named in the testamentary papers of the late James Wood,
the wealthy and eccentric banker of this city, against the
validity of which judgment was given by Sir Herbert Jenner,
a short time back, has committed suicide. The unfortunate
man was found hanging in his coach-house, quite dead. The
clerks of the deceased stated, that he had been in a very low
and desponding way for some months ? and the jury ulti-
mately found a verdict of temporary insanity. The connec-
tion of Mr. Chadborn with the extraordinary case of Mr.
Wood's will, has naturally given a degree of interest to this
event, and created sensation, whicli has seldom been Wit-
nessed,-