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Recior of Public Occurrences
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25th Hong-merchants, at the requisition of [hp", started for Chekiảng, to aid in conducting negotiations with the foreigners.
21st. The city of Chinkiang, with its defenses, attacked by the British combined forces, who in a few hours, but not without con- siderable losses, became masters, the Chinese officers and soldiers being overcome and disappearing in every quarter. Of the British,
the killed and wounded were 169; of the Chinese the number could not have been less than several hundred killed, including nearly all the officers with the town. The joint commissioner Tsi Shin, just arrived from Canton, and a general just arrived from Hape, com- manded outside the town, but would not stay to fight. Many of the Tartar garrison committed suicide.
among the number.
p. 512.
Their general
Hailing was
22. Messengers came again from the Chinese commissioners, Kiying and lips, and received the same answers as before, that till full power was given to accede to the demands of Great Britain, peace was out of the question.
25th. A party that was on shore, at the residence of the late general, Hailing, found his remains, consumed by fire: his head charred to a coal but stil! entire. His imperial majesty subsequently conferred the following honor upon his servant.
The imperial will has been received aŭ Blows: Kiying has memorialized us saying, “I have learned that at the time Chinking was lost, the It.- general of the garrison, Hading, together with his wife and grand- son, all perished in its defense." Suck loy dry and devotion are worthy of the highest praise! Let rewards beyond the usual sczje be conferred upon him, and let Kiying dispatch messengers to make diligent search for the corpses of the said general, his wife, and his g andson, and have them cofňa- ed in the best manner. Let him urso ascertain where the renzining sons and daughters are, and have them ali conveyed back to the division [to which he belonged]; and having learned how many sons were left, let hin, after they have observed the hundred days of mourning, have them conducted to an imperial audience. And after the war is ended, let the authorities of the place where Hailing felli erect a fine specially to his eu.ory, where, also let the names of his wife and grandson be inscribed. Kiving has also me- morialized us respecting the captain of cavalry, Tsiúngyun, who drowned him- self; wherefore let him examine and then inform the proper Board that re- wards may be conterred, and let his name also be inscribed in the fane [with Hailing]. Respect this.
26th.
Captain Kellet reported the river to be practicable quite up to Nanking, about 30 miles.
One of the bastions of Chinktang was blown up, with 1250 pounds of Chinese powder. When the explosion took place, there was no report: the ground shook, and bricks and rubbish, &c., fell thick amidst the dense smoke (On the 21st, only two bags of pow