China And Lower Bengal: Being "the Times" Correspondence From China in the ...
China And Lower Bengal: Being "the Times" Correspondence From China in the ...
George Wingrove Cooke
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Consul Parkes was on the spot at the time, and warned them to retir^ but ineffectually. The guard of royal marines, in charge of Captain Penrose, then drove them back, with a loss, as we understand, of fourteen killed and wounded. " 12. The 26th, being Sunday, was observed as a day oi rest. " 13. Early on the rooming of the 27th I caused another letter to he written to the High Commissioner, to the effect that as satisfaction had not been offered for the affair of the Arrow, I should resume off...ensive operations; and his Excellency having, by his illegal measures and Sm MICHAEL S£7XOt7B's DESPATCH. 291 determination to refiue reparation, produced this display of force, I concurred in opinion, with Sir John Bowring that this was a fitting opportunity for requiring the fulfilment of long-evaded treaty obliga- tions ; and I therefore, in addition to the original demands, instructed Mr. Parkes to make the following communication : — '''That, to prevent the recurrence of evils like the present, which have been occasioned by the disregard paid by the Imperial Com- missionBrto the repeated applications for redress and satisfaction made to him by letter in the matter of the Arrow by her Majesty's plenipo- tentiary and the consul — writing, in consequence of the closing of the city to foreigners, being the only means of communication — I demanded for all foreign representatives the same free access to the authorities and city of Canton (where all the Chinese high officials reside) as is enjoyed under trea^ at the other four ports, and denied to us at Canton alone.' "No reply having been made, I determined to open fire on the High Commissioner's compound (the Yamun) a large space of ground within the old city^ surrounded by a high wall, which contaios his Excellency's residence, and is consequently Government property.
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