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1841.

Battle at Chuenpe.

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Yes, our friend has gone to his rest; but we have often indulged a sacred pleasure in visiting "the spot consecrated by his honored remains," and, while we have mused on him, we have silently used- the panegyric which he passed on his lamented coadjutor Dr. Milne, "in the usual course of things there is reason to fear; that it will be long ere we shall see his like again."

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ART. V. Battle at Chwenpe: the position and number of the respre- tive forces engaged in the action, with details of its progress and effects. PROCEEDING up the river towards Canton, about twenty miles from Lintin and about twice that distance from Macao, you reach the first two forts at the Bogue, one on Tycocktow (or Taikok) on the west side of the channel, and the other on Chuenpe (or Shakok) on the east side. Both Tycocktow and Chuenpe are islands: the battery on the first is built upon the south eastern point; that on Chuenpe stands near the northwestern point; and above it, on the top of the hill, a small battery, called the hill fort, has recently been built round the fold watch-tower;' further eastward are other' fortifi- cations. Three miles above Chuenpe, and on the same side of the river, are the batteries of Anunghøy, separated from Chuehpe by Anson's Bay. In the middle of the river, opposite to Anunghoy, is Wangtong; and three miles farther up is Tiger Island. · There is also a small fortification on the west side of the river opposite to Wangtong. On all these sites the batteries are strongly built, well furnished with men and guns, and are looked upon by many of the Chinese as impregnable and so they would be, were they in the hands of those who are trained in modern warfare.

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'These notices of the positions occupied by the Chinese being kept in mind, the reader, though never having been at the Bogue, wiß be able to understand the moverpents of the British forces on the forenoon of the 7th instant.

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At 8 o'clock, or sodn" after, the squadron, 'under' command of Sin I. J. Gardon. Bremer, having waited out the time that had been allowed for the concession of certain demands made on the Chinese government—was in readiness to move up the river, from its anchor, age off Sampanchow, three miles below the first forts.