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Capture of Amoy.
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There is also a third drawing of the steamer alone, having ap- pended to it part of the same description that is on the other sheet. In this picture, the men, dressed in red jackets and green breeches, are represented half as high as the masts, while one man perched on the foretop, spy-glass in hand, is looking out; his glass is made full as large as the yard near him. A yellow cannon, three times the diameter of the inast, shows conspicuously at either end. The wheels are particolored, and drawn above water; perhaps this is to show that they are round. As a specimen of skill in design it is much
inferior to the others.
ART. V. Progress of H. B. M.'s second expedition, from Canton to Amoy, with particulars of the capture of Amoy on the 26th of August.
THE progress of the expedition we are now able to bring down to the 1st instant; but we have intelligence-to the 23d from Amoy, where provisions were abundant and all was quiet, and to the 11th from Pihkwan, where the Wellesley was at that date. Pihkwan is above latitude 27°, north of the boundary line between Fuhkeën and Chěkeäng.
The arrival in China, on the 10th of August, of H. B. M.'s sole plenipotentiary and minister extraordinary to the court of Peking, was noticed in our last number, and some particulars of his proceed- ings given down to the 14th.
On the 15th, major Malcolm returned from Canton, having de- livered his dispatches, and held a conference with the prefect. This interview, coupled with the arrival of sir Henry Pottinger, had evi- dently some influence on the minds of the provincial officers, induc- ing a desire to maintain a pacific course; but the commissioner Yih- shan, it was said, still continued to indulge his warlike predilections.
On the 18th, the prefect, having come down to Macao from Can- ton, requested an interview with the plenipotentiary, which was denied he paid a farewell visit to captain Elliot, who was about sailing for England, and was afterwards received by major Malcolm, at the office of the superintendents.
By this interview and that at Canton, the Chinese authorities must