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forces the highly gratifying approval of the right honorable the governor-ge- neral in India conveyed in a letter, which his excellency has had the honor to receive from his lordship, and of which the following is an extract:
"I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, through captain Grattan, of H. M.'s 18th Royal Irish, of your dispatch dated 3d of June last, reporting in detail the successful series of operations in the neighborhood of Canton during the last week in May, which ended in the brilliant triumph of the British arms, over an infinitely superior Chinese force, and the signal humi- liation and submission of the enemy.
"The great successes of the troops under your command, acquired, as they were, by a marked combination of skill, decision, courage and good conduct, and evincing throughout a zealous and cordial co-operation with H. M.'s naval forces, while they so highly redound to your own honor, demand also my sincerest congratulations and my warmest thanks and approbation.
I have not failed publicly to record the testimony of the feelings with which the government of India has learnt these remarkable achievements, and have the pleasure to refer you to the enclosed copy of the extraordinary Gazette of the 7th of August, for a knowledge of the terins in which it has been expressed.
"I would add, that while it has occurred to me that the possible contin- gencies of the military service may require the presence of every available officer with his regiment in China, (and the public utility of captain Grattan's return to head-quarters has been pointed out to me by that officer,) I have at the same time strongly urged on H. M.'s government, that any honors or benefit that might have resulted to captain Grattan had he proceeded to Eng- land with dispatches, may not be withheld from him on account of his speedy return, under the opinion I have expressed to him, to a field of service, where he has been so gallantly employed."
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14. British forces in China are being augmented by frequent ar- rivals from England and India of transports and ships of war. Cornwallis, 74, having come in during the month, has proceeded north- ward with other vessels carrying troops, &c. In the course of a few mouths, the Chinese may expect to have some ten or twelve thousand barbarian troops, with an increased number of ships of war and steamers. Having destroyed all opposition in Chěkeäng and Keäng- nan, and advanced well up upou the Yangtsze keäng, so as to hinder communication between the north and the south, her majesty's high officers must then see Peking.
15. The prospects of the war are now seem to indicate that great revolutions must soon take place. The emperor is determined to "Filled with inexpressible indigna- resist unto the very uttermost. tion and wrath," he has sent down his decree to exterminate the rebellious tribe," and has ordered his ablest ministers and generals to take the field with their bravest, troops.,
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› 16. Colonel A, de Jancigny, in charge of a commercial mission from the French government to Eastern Asia, arrived in Macao on the 8th instant, in the Erigone, French ship of war.
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17. The death of an envoy from Lewchew is reported in a late Gazette: it occurred on the 14th of July in Keangsoo, as the embas- sadors (a principal and a secondary) were returning from Peking to one of the ports in Fuhkeen, where they were to reembark: their boat was caught in a storm and upset: the principal embassador was saved, the other was drowned.