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Tapography of Kiangst

Jeny,

general conduct, I am fully warranted in saying by the sacrifice of their lives, The forced and separate surrender of all this immense valuable property hy individual merchants, without security of indemnity and protection, must have led to some desperate commercial convulsion in India and England, which might have embarrassed the queen's government in an incalculable degree. In a few words then, my lord, I may say, that I plainly perceived the moment had arrived for placing the whole weight of the iminense difficulties to be encountered, on the only foundation where it could safely rest: namely, upon the wisdom, justice, and power of her majesty's government.

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"This is the first time, in our intercourse with this empire, that its government has taken the unprovoked initiative in aggressive measures against British life, liberty, and property, and against the dignity of the British crown. I say unpro. voked, advisedly, because your lordship will observe, in my address to the keunmin fú, dated at Macao, on the 22d ultimo, that I offered to adjust all things peace. fully, by the fulfillment of the emperor's will, as soon as it was made known to Her majesty's government may be assured that there shall be no pretext of unscemly violence or intemperance of tone on my part, to help the vindication of the actual policy. They have deprived us of our liberty, and our lives in their hands; but our reason, and above all, our dutiful confidence in the queen's gra. cious protection, will remain with us. I have, &c., -Corresp. pp. 355-358.

ine.

(Signed) (To be continued.)

› Charles Elliot.”

ART. II.

Topography of Kiángsi: situation, extent, and boun- daries of the province; its departments and districts enumerated

and described; its rivers and lakes; with notices of its popu- lation, productions, and trade.

PROCEEDING up the Great river (the JL Yángtsz' kiáng),

洋子江 first in a northwesterly and westerly, and then in a southwesterly direction, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, through the two provinces of Kiángsú and A ́nhwui, you reach the northeastern bor- ders of Kiángsí, where the river leaves the province, after a course of about eighty miles along its northern frontier, a part of which distance it forms the boundary line. In latitude 29° 56′ N., lon- gitude 6′ W. of Peking, this Great river, "the Child of the Ocean," receives the Poyang with all its waters accumulated by the flowing into it of a great number of rivers; with but few exceptions, all these rivers have their sources within the boundaries of the province, while You few rising within the same boundaries flow outward Hence