The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-25 00:00:00

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' TO HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS IN CHINA

" Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c. in China, has high
satisfaction in promulgating for the information of her Ma-
jesty's subjects, in China, the important progress and success
of the expedition since the date of his last circular of the 24th
of June.

" The expedition was detained by bad weather and other
circumstances at Woosung until the 6th of July, on which
day it advanced up the river Yang-tze-kiang, and on the
14th reached a military position, built on a range of hills
commanding the stream, where two small recently erected
batteries, mounting 13 guns, opened the first fire since leaving
Woosung on the leading ships, but were instantly silenced,
and military buildings, connected

and the guns, batterie

" At this point the main body of the fleet was retarded by
adverse winds for nearly a week, during which period some
of the ships of war, assisted by the steamers, got up to
Kishan' or Golden Island,' where the whole armament,
amounting to 70 sail of vessels, assembled on the 20th inst.,
and anchored abreast of the city of Chin-kiang-foo.
" A reconnoisance having been obtained the same evening,
the troops were disembarked as early as possible the next
morning. It was at this time believed that the majority of
the Chinese troops, which had been variously reported at
from 1,500 to 3,000 men, were in a camp, which was visible
from hills overhanging the river, at a distance of about three
miles.
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" Against to
General Lord
General Bartley, was dir
rate with
of the fugitives from the
and the left brigade, headed t _ _
lauded on the river face of the city, opposite the fleet, wher
it was instructed to escalade the northern wall, which tht
centre brigade was likewise appointed to do o❑ the southern
side, after it had performed the other duty assigned to it.

under Major
,d by Major

to co-ope-
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of the city,

Major-Gene!

1 Schoedde,

" The Chinese troops in the camp did not venture to stand
the near approach of our men, but after firing three or four
distant vollies from their jinjalls or matchlocks, broke and
dispersed all over the country, which was hilly, and covered
with the jungle. By this time the left brigade had got on
shore, when it became of
tended to defend the city,

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hich they

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opened a heavy and incesEant fire of cannon. jinjalls, wall-
pieces, rockets, and matchlocks.

" As the left brigade moved up from the landing-place, the
Auckland steam-frigate, which had been placed in position
for the purpose, threw some shells among the enemy on the
works with admirable precision, but was obliged to cease
firing, owing to the rapid advance of the brigade to the bot-
tom of the wall, which was most gallantly escaladed under
a heavy fire from the Tartar troops, who behaved with great
spirit, and disputed every inch of the ramparts, availing
themselves with great tact of their knowledge of the localities
to gall our troops and screen their own.

"The centre brigade got into the city (after some delay in
finding a bridge to cross the Grand Canal, which runs along
the western side of Chin-kiang-foo, and separates the walled
city from very extensive suburbs) by blowing open one of the
gates ; but, even after the left brigade had received this
large reinforcement, besides parties of marines and seamen
who were lauded the moment the opposition promised to be
so stubborn, the Tartars manfully prolonged the contest for
some hours, and it was late in the afternoon before they en-
tirely disappeared, which it is surmised the survivors did by
throwing away their arms and uniform, and either hiding
themselves till night enabled them to escape, or else mingling
with the other inhabitants.

" The city of Chin-kiang-foo is rather more than four
miles in circumference, the works are in excellent repair,
and the parapet, which is so thick and solid that nothing but

cannon-shot could have made any impression on it, is pie-reed
with narrow embrasures and loopholes, and flanked at a
variety of spots with transverse walls.

" It has 'hitherto been impossible to obtain anything like
a precise; return of the strength of the garrison ; but from
calculations made with reference to the extent of the works,
and the Tartar troops seen on them at the same moment, it
is thought there could not have been less than 3,000 men.
Of these, it is said that 40 mandarins (officers) and 1,000
men were killed and wounded. The Tartar General Com-
manding-in-Chief retired to his house when he saw that all
was lost, made his servants set it on fire, and sat on his
chair till he was burned to death. His private secretary wa,
found, the day after the assault, bidden in a garden; and on
being carried to the spot, recognized the half-consumed body
of his master, who was worthy of such a death.
It will be readily understood that a brilliant service, of
which the preceding detail gives but a very feeble outline,
could not be performed without loss on our side; and her
Majesty's Plenipotentiary is sure that all her Majesty's sub-
jects in China will participate in his feelings of sincere regret
at the annexed returns of casualties of killed and wounded
in her Majesty's combined forces.
" Arrangements are in progress for placing a strong Bri-
tish garrison at Cbin-kiang-foo (which commands the en-
trances to the Grand Canal, and is therefore of vast impor-
tance), and the remainder of the expedition will shortly move
up this majestic river, headed by the Admiral's flag-ship
Cornwallis, to the neighbourhood of Nanking (which ancient
capital of the empire is about 40 miles distant, and situate
about three miles from the Yang.tse-kiang, with which it is
connected by a variety of canals), it having already been
ascerrained by actual survey that there is ample depth of
water and no natural impediments.

" GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
" Dated on board the steam frigate Queen, Yang-tse-ki
river, at Chin-kiang-foo, this 24th day of July, 1842.

" HENRY POthi•ZER,
" Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary."

LAND FORCE

KILLED

Colonel Driver, 6th M.N. I. ; Captain Collinson, 18th
R. I. ; Lieut. Gibbons, 49th Regt.

WOUNDED
Lieut. Bernard, 18th R. 1., slight
do. Baddely, 49th Regt., dangerously
do. Grant, 49th Regt., slight
Major Warren, 55th Regt
Lieut. Cuddy, do.
Capt. Simpson, Rifles do
Ensign Trovers, 2d. M. N. I. slight_
Lieut. Waddle, Madras Artillery, severel
Zemidar Number, 2d. M. N. 1., severely

, severely
do.

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