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20th, captain Elliot gave notice that he had requested the senior naval officer, captain Smith, to prevent the further entrance of British vessels into the Bogue, under present circumstances; and on the 26th the commissioner declared that after December 6th, none should be allowed to enter.
December 6th. The finance committee of the honorable East India Company, and its last official servant, left China.
The stuggle, between the imperial commissioner and the British chief superintendent of trade, continued through the month, with no prospects of an amicable arrangement.
(To be continued.)
ART. II. Summary of information collected from official documents regarding the views and proceedings of the emperor and the officers of his government, since the evacuation of Ningp6.
On the 20th of May, the emperor issued an edict, with reference to the reöccupation of Ningpó by Chinese officers, being in reply to the report which Yiking had transmitted to the capital. The approach of the Chinese army, it appears from this, so alarmed the British troops (already disheartened by the destruction of several of their ships, with the slaughter of several hundreds of their men, at Chusan), that they hastened on board their ships, strewing the way with bag- gage dropped in their flight, and retired immediately to Chinhái. On the 7th of May, Ningpó was reoccupied by the Chinese. The emperor encourages himself, on the receipt of these tidings, with the assurance, that, after such a display of feebleness, the utter destruction of the enemy must be near at hand: and commands that an early opportu nity for retaking Chinhái also, be sought and availed of.
From the heavy loss which the English suffered in the attacks made by fire rafts at Chusan, during May, when they lost, it appears, several vessels, and more than 300 men, the emperor is assured, that they will now feel the insufficiency even of their strongly built vessels, and heavy guns: and highly gratified with this success, his majesty gives promotion to all the leading officers concerned, grants to the most active of the unofficial persons engaged, Ching Tingchin, son of one of the generals killed last year in the taking of Chusan, the in. signia of the 4th rank. with a peacock's feather,—and crowns the
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