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Six Months with the China Expedition.

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with the magistrate's permission; the sketch pleased his honor much, so that he became civil and friendly, and gave both the captain and the comprador a dinner. After this he got some hot water and washed off the blood and dirt which had accumulated during the struggle: "I found my head handsomely laid open to the bone, my legs and arms covered with bruises, but no wounds of any conse- quence."

On the 22d of September, he met lieutenant Douglas, R. N., who was also in a small cage-a picture of which, given on the preceding page, has been executed by a Chinese artist in a style so exceedingly barbarous as to render it quite comparable with the savage treatment endured by its occupant. Mrs. Noble was brought to the prison the next day; and several others, who were wrecked in the Kite, had also arrived these were all, not excepting Mrs. N., chained and confined in cages. Captain Anstruther, at this time, by his skill in drawing, had so far gained the good-will of the magistrate, that he was furnished with a new cage, 3 feet 6 inches, by 2 feet 1 inch.

"This was comparative comfort." A narrative of the captivity of Mrs. N., and of the liberation of the whole party in February, was published in our number for April. Referring the reader to that narrative, we here conclude this brief notice, only remarking that the treatment of captain Anstruther, It. Douglas, and the other gentleman and sai- lors, was much more cruel than that, savage as it was, endured by Mrs. Noble.

ART. III. Six Months with the China Expedition; or leaves from a soldier's note-book. By lord Jocelyn, late military secretary to the China mission. London: John Murray, 1841. Doude- cimo, pp. 155. FROM this little book, we are able to glean a few incidents, which will be new and interesting to most of our readers. Six Months with the English Expedition to China,' would have been a better phrase. than Chinese expedition, for a Chinese expedition it was not. The leaves of the soldier's note-book, which we expected to find fresh and untouched, appear in several instances mutilated with long erasures. Many things, which must have occurred under his lordship's own eye, and which a military secretary would be very apt to put in his