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Americans at Canton having been imprisoned, he, in Johnston, was sent by the Chief Superintendent (as the only condition on which the Chinese Authorities at Canton would hear of liberating that high English functionary, and the other persons who were imprisoned at Canton) to the mouth of the River, to compel all the English Opium vessels to deliver up all the Opium they had on board to the Chinese Officers;
on which occasion, although Mr. Johnston fortunately included by the measures he adopted in procuring the liberation of the Chief Superintendent and the other persons imprisoned at Canton, was himself placed in the most painful and responsible situation from being obliged in his official capacity, to be taken down through the interior of the Country to Macao under a guard of Chinese Soldiers, and from thence to the mouth of the Canton River, to be kept there for nearly two months in a small cutter in the most boisterous season of...