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Journal of Occurrences
The emperor has been pleased to confer high honors on Hailing. the hero of Chinkiảng; and has been pleased to remit the taxes in those districts where the war has cut off the harvests.
Those who fell and those who fled, at Chápú, have been reported to the emperor, and rewarded or punished according to their respec-
tive actions.
On the 13th an edict was issued by the magistrates of Canton :
Liang and Chang, district inagistrates of Núnhái and Pwányű respectively, hereby issue a proclamation for the troops to disband and thus invigorate the oc. cupations of the people. We have received from their excellencies, the governor and lieut..governor, an order which had been before transmitted by the General Coun. cil, to wit:
"Whereas the affairs of the English having compelled us to station soldiers, and to collect volunteer companics of militia for the defense of every place. this is to declare that peace having been reestablished, on a certain day, every body of troops wherever placed for the defense of the country, and all the companies of militia, inust immediately disband and return home, thus affording quiet alike to the soldiers and people, and not retarding their usual occupations. When the day arrives, as will be stated, and the mandate reaches every district, it must be res. pectfully opened, and its injunctions acted upon.”"
Wherefore this proclamation is issued to the gentry and the leaders of the mu- litia, that they are straightway to learn and publish its contents, and one and all to return hoïne, n. order that every one may soon resume his occupation, no delay ensue or doubt arise as to how to act, nor any one be able to deceive the people. We also send you all instructions, that whatever occupation any of you previously had, after you are now disbanded, you must not assemble together m tumultuous parties, rambling about idly, ruining your property, and not attending to your calling, thus committing a grevious offense. It was with a burning indiguation and righteous patriotism that you once assembled to revenge your wrongs, but now with joyful hearts you can enjoy the pleasures of peace, and cach pursue his own ocempation. Your parents need no longer anxiously await your return, nor need the populace restrain their songs, but the deep sounding drun can again resound, and sorrow and grief be quite extinguished, and the halcyon days of Yáu and Shum agam be seen in these our times.
We, the district magistrates, having respectfully received the orders of their
• xcellencies, in our turn communicate them to all you people that you may fully understand them, and that all the gentry and leaders of the militia, as they are m duty bound, may accordingly follow them with implicit obedience. Oct. 15th, 1842.
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Since the date of the preceding proclamation for disbanding the militia, the high provincial officers have received an imperial rescript containmg orders relating to the treaty. In consequence, and with the tacit consent of the authorities, ladies from the shipping Whampoa have publicly visited the foreign factories, and we may expect erelong to see families settled there. The authorities through the hong-merchants have recently purchased two foreign vessels, one of which, the Ramiro has been carried up nearly to the French Folly, through a new channel cut away by the current around the obstructions near Howqua's Folly,
The U. S. ship Constellation lately went to Chuenpí, where she now lies.
Commodore Kearney recently visited the provincial city, and had communication with his excellency the governor by letter through the Kwánghie. The corvette Boston, J. C. Long, esq., com- mander, left these waters for the Sandwich Islands and America on the 25th ultimo
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