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Review of Public Occurrences, &c.
Oct.
16th. Capt. Anstruther was seized by the Chinese near Tinghái. 17th. Kishen was appointed high imperial commissioner, and ordered to proceed immediately to Canton to examine and arrange all difficulties.
27th. Lin, governor, &c., of Canton, published an edict, admo- nishing the people of the near approach of the period-the com- mencement of the new year-when condign punishment would be visited on all unreformed opium-smokers. Vol. IX., p. 404.
On the same day (the 27th of September,) an edict was received, by the appropriate Board in Peking, depriving Lin of his office, censuring him severely for inefficiency, and dissembling conduct, and summoning him to repair speedily to Peking, to answer there for his conduct. Another edict, of similar tenor, appeared on the next day. Vol. IX., p. 412.
October 1st. The governor of Canton received a dispatch from the General Council of state.
4th. A party connected with the British expedition, anchored off the Pei ho, sailed northward and visited the Great Wall.
November 6th. Admiral Elliot, at Chusan, announced a truce, agreed on between himself and the high imperial commissioner, "pending the negotiations between the two countries.'
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15th. H. B. M.'s plenipotentiaries sailed from Chusan, to return to Canton to meet Kíshen, leaving land and naval forces at Tinghái.
20th. Their excellencies the plenipotentiaries arrived off Macao, direct from Chusan.
21st. The Queen steamer, bearing a flag of truce, and having captain Elliot on board was fired at from one of the forts at Chuenpí. An apology was immediately made for this act by the Chinese.
29th. Kishen made his entry into Canton, having been preceded some days by "captain White."
The resignation of the honorable George Elliot, rear-admiral and commander-in-chief of the British expedition, was announced by captain Elliot.
December 12th. Mr. Stanton, on application of the plenipoten- fiary to Kishen, was released, and returned to Macao.
The remainder of the month was occupied with negotiations, which remained unfinished at the close of the year. Kishen's con- duct, in this business, is best seen in his own memorials. Vol. IX., P 645
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