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Journal of Occurrences.

JULY,

Had a Chinese lost his life under similar circumstances, and by foreign hands, what would have been the conduct of the provincial government? Life for life would have been the demand; and fail- ing to apprehend the guilty, the innocent would have been made to suffer. In the present instance, the high officers promised security, and reparation should any loss be sustained.

loss be sustained. What reparation have they made? What can they make? Can they indemnify Mr. Mil- lar, Mr. Gutierres, and the wounded seamen, for the injury they re- ceived? It would be cruel mockery to talk of reparation to the bereaved parents of the unfortunate Sherry. But will a great nation pass these things by unnoticed, and allow the guilty to go unpunish- ed? Shall no investigation be made? Shall no remonstrance be lodged against the faith-breaking and treacherous officers of the celes- tial court? We have been told that when these innocent men were lying with chains about their necks in prison, the address of the vice-consul, sent up from Whampoa demanding their release, was not only sent back to him, but was returned unopened! Conduct such as this needs no comment. If it may go unrebuked, then farewell to all national honor, to all personal safety. We hear that Mr. Morss intends, on the arrival here of commodore Kearney, to submit to hijn the case of these outrages. We do not indeed know what instruc tions the commodore may bear; but surely if such wrongs are to be passed by unnoticed, it will only induce contempt and lead on to the repetition of these outrages. Whenever he arrives, he will, we trust, do his duty, and honorably maintain the dignity and rights of his country.

ART. VIII. Journal of Occurrences; meteorological observations; nautical surveys: capture of forts above Canton; Yihshan's me· morials; tyfoons and losses thereby; reopening of British trade; transportation of the ex-governors Lin and Tăng; im- perial commissioners; indemnity from the Chinese; British ex pedition; prospects of the war; sickness and deaths; Mrs. No- ble's departure for England.

For the meteorological observations, nautical surveys, account of the capture of the heights above the city of Canton, narrative of the loss of the cutter Louisa, &c., we present our best thanks to those gentlemen who have enriched our present number with their very