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THE

CHINESE REPOSITORY.

VOL. XI.-OCTOBER, 1842.-No. 10.

ART. I. Retrospection, or a review of public occurrences in China, during the last ten years, from January 1st 1832, to December 31st, 1841. (Continued from page 470.)

T▲ cháng pu pá, reiterated a high officer, as we endeavored to dissuade him from his purpose to expel the British from every nook and corner of the imperial doininions, in 1839—tá cháng pu pá, said he, "to join battle (with the English) we are not afraid." Expulsion and extermination were then the order of the day. Correspond or communicate with foreign officers, on terms of equality, the Chinese would not. No reparation would they make, either for the opium confiscated, or for the losses, by no means inconsiderable, occasioned by the removal of the merchants from Canton. No apology would they offer for the forcible detention of the subjects and representatives of foreign governments; nor would they yield the right of apprehend- ing and executing foreigners, charged with murder or homicide, or allow any cognizance of a foreign authority in such proceedings. By the statutes of the realm, the ingress and residence of Europeans, except at Canton and Macao, were prohibited. A large bounty was placed on the heads of Englishmen, who were to be hunted down like savage beasts on the mountains.

January 1st, 1840 A few British subjects were in Canton; two ships, the Thomas Coutts and Royal Saxon, were at Whampoa; some of the English merchants were with their families in Macao; while the majority of II. B. M.'s subjects and ships, in China, were at the anchorage of Tungkú, not far from Lintin The high imperial com-

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