Litchfield enquirer., 1857-02-12
CORR ESP ONDENcE.
Lstter from Canton.

T ss@s7e ! hstter from Canton. Z By the kinsintss If gen. .leman of this will ,pe we have the pieasure of presenting to our req Ter. 1.-the Allowing letter if n .n eye ewitness of the tie I b 'm' 1imsnt If canton by the Bsi:i.h squadron It will be fonn graphic anl interesting.
 CANTON, November 4th, 1856.
 am now ill the mdst of the most exc. .tino 'cenes,-nothing less than the bombardmsut of this great city, by the naval forces unde, Bear Aulnnal, Sir Michael Seymour. X large fcrce from our sh.p some seventy O, Ie:ghty men, With abont the same number from the L.vant are here with two twelve poanu howitzers, all under command of Capt. Foot senior officer present. We are here for the ro.eetion of -Amer.cans and their rights aud nterests, and are maintaining a., armed neu- 1 tralty, liable at any moment, however, to be: come involved in the hostilaties. Indeed. as you will perceive, we have bone to ck with the Celestials, iu the matter of the,r unpro- voked and outrageous firing upon the Amer.- can Steamer, Cunard Line. Captain Foot holds himself ready, ill case satisfaction is not promptly aud fully received from the Govern- .nent, to go and take the fort although the Commodore my arrive and hI.ry us off tt oianSiiaia before aLy opportunity occurs tp us to do so. We have already rece.ved orders to go to Shanghai, but as the Com,nolor, was not aware, when he sent them, Of the ex- traordinary circumstances in which we filu ourselves, Capt. Foot has taken the respoas.- bi.ity of rerl lining unt the condition o tl.nys wi l ernit us to leave with sa.ety to t.e | yes am Interests O. Odr citizens For some time past have ben qute uuwell with my convaics:ence 1 went aud spent some days u, chcp or clearinghouse. The whole foreign population of Whampoa, Ly tie Way, I've Fa1oat. At this house 1 enjoyed the christian kindness of family, and the comforts of a "ome olc, more. To-nilh l am much l::l- tigued, as 1 have been for many nights back, .n constqu, nee of the continued excitement oi the siege, winch am so unexpectedly called upon to w.thess All day shell have been whizz;ng through the air and drorp.ns into the devoted city. Ii you can imagine what "a bull in china shop" can do, you can mag.n what so determined and energetic a bul as Sir NJ c.lael Seymour eau do with" the vast force at h.s d.>F al, ill this city of China shops. "
 I My last letter left me on the eve of start .ng for Whampoa. We had del ghtiul sal ap the Canton r.ver The country as we a,- vanced inland, became more and more richly beautiful continually, and when we came to anchor, compelled by adverse wind and tide, at the Boicu T.gris on the first night after leaving Hong Kong, thought tn. place de- iightIul, and that Cnina must be, alter all, d very beautiful country, sfp more and nfore conv Aiced of continually The r.cb, green livlus of sugar ca.lc, and the rec W |, Cd Was r.pen.ng rap.uly for harvest, showed that the pc pic Ill st be agr.cu tarally il ,ust;.ol>, as ao 0ouoI tuey dIe, "udttFCf OlueF Ddu q ialA- ties they may have. The next moru.,ls we got up anchor and beat up, past the exteus.ve iort.ticat.ons winch have long guarded the lar- row passage in the river, and ill an hour O. two, saw my first pagoda It is just Ike she pictures on the China p!ates,--p cturcsque n the extreme, me,-stauding oA the top of som, eminence, whence it can be seen for a losy distance, and wsth the same series oi ov, r nang Ing roofs or caves at short intervals Ia every valley and on almost every level plain was crowd of CL villages, the houses frequently hal.' h.d in trees a,ll almost always substantially built Of brick. I had no con- ception of what crowded population there must | c in this vast empire and one really needs to travel here to realize it. We beat up beautifully wth the tide to Whampoa, which is the nearest anchorage to Cautoh ac- ccssbIe to large ships. w. thr a led cur way through the shipping. flags being lowered to us by way of salute ss we passed, and as'- chofed away beyond all the rest i, all exceed ,ngly qu:et and beautiful anchorage. Op- pos.te, on ou. Side, the walled c.ty ol WaaMl- I 'frff;a With its pa.soaas, and on the other s.de .le hills terraceu uvwu .v ...r u. '''- valleys. and bearing rch crops uaIer tne sk.i H. Iul cui.'vation of the lndus.rlous inhabitants. l went oh shore here and found Ill Ole or the nlli sIdes Gall of which are rous le.,ed W {, crowded Chinese graves,) was tue bury.us grodid .f the foseigl population. The niast coilsp.cuous of the mo.iil,euts here is the one to Alexander II. Everett, our first m.nister to ChInu, who died, the inscrpt.on states, at Dr. Parkef's house in Canton, and who Is bur,cd here. There are other and more humble gave stones winch mark the resting placo ., NJ s. s.oaar e cut ol in the m dst oi tae.r W ulk,