CHINESE INTELLIGENCE. OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS OF THE LATE NAVAL AND MILITARY OPERATIONS IN CHINA. (Concluded from p. 776.) H.M.S. Hyacinth, off Canton, May 26th, 10 p.m. GENTLEMEN. I have the honour to acquaint you, that I am in communication with the officers of the Chinese Government, concerning the settlement of difficulties in this province upon the following conditions: 1. The Imperial Commissioners and all the troops, other than those of the province, to quit the city within six days, and remove to a distance exceeding sixty miles. 2. 6,000,000 dollars to be paid in one week, for the use of the Crown of England, 1,000,000 payable before to-morrow at sunset. 3. British troops to remain in their actual positions till the whole sum be paid. No additional preparations on either side; but all British troops and ships-of-war to return without the Bocca Tigris as soon as the whole be paid. Quangtong also to be evacuated, but not to be re-armed by the Chinese Government, till all the difficulties are adjusted between the two Governments. 4. The loss occasioned by the burning of the Spanish brig Bilbaino, and all losses occasioned by the destruction of the factories, to be paid within one week. For the purpose of completing this arrangement, I have to request that you will be pleased to suspend hostilities till noon. I have, &c., To Major-Gen. Sir II. Gough, K.C.B., and CHARLES ELLIOT, H.M.S. Hyacinth, off Canton, May 27th, 3 p.m. GENTLEMEN.-Herewith I have the honour to transmit you an English version of the arrangement this day concluded with the officers of the Chinese Government, and also of the full authority given to the Kwang-chow-Foo to act for their Excellencies. I shall take an early opportunity of communicating with you again upon this subject. To Major-Gen. Sir H. Gough, &c. I have, &c., CHARLES ELLIOT, Terms of agreement granted to the Officers of the Chinese Government, resident within the city of Canton, on the 27th May, 1841. 1. It is required that the three Imperial Commissioners, and all the troops, other than those of the province, quit the city within six days, and proceed to a distance of upwards of sixty miles. 2. 6,000,000 dollars to be paid in one week, for the use of the Crown of England, counting from the 27th of May; 1,000,000 dollars payable before sunset of the said 27th day of May. 3. For the present, the British troops to remain in their actual positions; no additional preparations for hostilities to be made on either side. If the whole sum agreed upon be not paid within seven days, it shall be increased to 7,000,000 dollars; if not within fourteen days, to 8,000,000 dollars; if not within twenty days, to 9,000,000 dollars. When the whole shall be paid, all the ENLARGED SERIES.-NO. 12.-VOL. FOR 1841. 5 Q British forces to return without the Bocca Tigris; and Quangtong and all fortified places within the river to be restored, but not to be re-armed till all affairs are settled between the two nations. 4. Losses occasioned by the plunder of the factories, and by the destruction of the Spanish brig Bilbaino, in 1839, to be paid within one week. 5. It is required that the Kwang-chow-Foo shall produce full powers to conclude this arrangement on the part of the three Commissioners, the General of the Tartar garrison, the Governor-General, and the Fooyuen of Kwang-tung. (Seal of the Kwang-chow-Foo.) Written the 26th, agreed to the 27th of May, 1841. (True copy.) J. R. MORRISON, Yishan, Generalissimo; Lungwan and Yang Fang, joint-Commissioners; Atsinga, General of the Garrison; Kekung, Governor of the two Kwangs; and Eliang, Lieut.-Governor of Quangtong, hereby issue instructions to the Kwangchow-Foo. The Plenipotentiary of the English nation being now willing to observe a truce, and make arrangements for peace, the said Kwang-chow-Foo will conduct the details of the pacific arrangement and settlement. He is not, upon any plea, to excuse himself. These are his instructions. The foregoing to the Kwang-chow-Foo, thus be it. (May 27th 1811.) [Signed and scaled by the Generalissimo, the Governor of the two Kwangs, the Joint Commissioners, and the Fooyuen of Kwangtung.] RETURN of killed and wounded in her Majesty's forces at the attack on Canton, from the 23rd to the 30th of May, 1841. May 25th.-Killed 9 5 Total 14 Wounded 68 Officers killed and wounded. Killed.-Major Becher, Deputy Quarter-Master-General, died from over fatigue. Lieut. Fox, of the Nimrod. Wounded.—Mr. Walter Kendall, mate of the Nimrod, lost his leg, dangerously. Mr. W. T. Bate, mate of the Blenheim, slightly. Lieut. Morshead, of the Hyacinth, slightly. Mr. Peter Barclay, mate of the Hyacinth, slightly. Mr. E. Fitzgerald, mate of the Modeste, dangerously. Mr. William Pearce, ditto, slightly. Mr. Hall, commanding the Nemesis, severely burnt. Mr. Vaughan, assistant-surgeon of the Algerine, slightly. Lieut. Rundell, of the Madras Sappers and Miners, dangerously. Capt. Sargeant, 18th Royal Irish, severely. Lieut. Hilliard, ditto, slightly. Licut. Edwards, ditto, severely. Lieut. Pearson, 49th, severely. Lieut. Johnstone, 26th, slightly. Ensign Berkeley, 27th Madras Native Infantry, severely. RETURN of the ordnance mounted in the fort on the heights above Canton, when stormed and captured on the 25th of May, 1841, by the forces under the command of Major-Gen. Sir H. Gough, K.C.B., Commanding Expeditionary Force serving in China. Remarks. In each fort a number of gingals and a considerable quantity of powder found. J. KNOWLES, Capt. Com. Artillery Brigade. H. Gouan, Major-Gen. Com. Expeditionary Force. EXTRACTS from a despatch from Capt. Le Fleming Senhouse, KC., to Commodore Sir J. J. Gordon Bremer, CB. and кCH., commander-in-chief, &c., dated "Heights above Canton, May 29th, 1841,” continued on board Her Majesty's Ship Blenheim, French River, June 2, 1841. I closed my former letter with the details of our proceedings up to the moment the expedition was about to leave Hongkong for Canton. I have now the gratification to enter upon the details of a succession of operations, highly honourable, I trust, to Her Majesty's arms; and by which the large and populous city of Canton has been laid in complete submission at the feet of the Queen's forces. No overt act of hostility had taken place up to the 21st of May, except remounting the guns in the Shamien battery, but the Chinese appear to have been perfectly ready for attack. All remained quiet in the river until about 11 o'clock P.M., when an attempt was made with fire-rafts to burn the advanced vessels. This attack not only totally failed, but was followed up by a gallant attack on the Shamien battery, and the silencing of it by the vessels of the squadron, under the immediate superintendance of Capt. Herbert of the Calliope, and the destruction of a large flotilla of fire vessels, which the Chinese had been preparing, and had brought out of the branch of the river which leads north of the town. About the same time, though later in the night, the Alligator was attacked off Howqua's fort, and to show how necessary it was to have been always on our guard, the fire-junks came up with the flood-tide in a direction with the merchant-vessels at Whampoa, where all seemed to sleep in security. No. 1. Capt. Kuper's account of his prompt and decisive conduct in repelling the attack I have also the honour to forward. Opinions were uncertain as to the feasibility of entering the northward branch of the river, and at floating at low water. To determine this I availed myself once more of the zeal and great ability of Commander Belcher, who most handsomely volunteered to explore it with his own boats, assisted with three others from the Pylades, and Modeste, and Algerine, all placed under the command of that gallant and judicious officer Lieut. Goldsmith of the Druid, who was attached to the Blenheim, in that ship's launch, and who had orders to protect Commander Belcher in his surveying operations. The Major-General and myself went to Canton to make a reconnoissance and a personal inspection on the same day, the 23d. In our progress we observed a firing and explosions in the direction of Capt. Belcher's party; and Commander Belcher's letter, a copy of which I enclose (No. 2), gives the detail of a gallant and spirited affair which took place in the creek. At 11 o'clock, Commander Belcher returned with the gratifying intelligence that he had discovered an excellent landing-place on a pier, with water enough for the Sulphur close to it at low water. The ground directly around it rose in low hills, and a line of hills appeared to continue to the height near the city, although there might be swampy ground in the small valleys dividing them. Our united force consisted of the following ships and vessels :— Forming the Macao fort division-Blenheim, Blonde, Sulphur, Hyacinth, Nimrod, Modeste, Pylades, Cruizer, Columbine, Algerine, Starling, Atalanta, steamer, and Nemesis, steamer. Forming the Whampoa division-Calliope, Conway, Herald, and Alligator. At Quang-tong, in the Bocca Tigris-Wellesley, sent up her marines and 100 seamen. The above ships and vessels comprised in their crews, officers, seamen, and marines inclusive, about 3,200 men, out of which about 1,000 officers, seamen, and marines were landed to serve with the army. The military force under that gallant, distinguished, and experienced officer, Major-Gen. Sir Hugh Gough, comprised Her Majesty's 49th regt., 311 in number; 37th Madras Native Infantry, 240; Bengal Volunteers, 79; the Royal Artillery, 38; Madras Artillery, 232; Sappers and Miners, 171; Her Majesty's 18th Royal Irish, 535; and Her Majesty's 26th Cameronians, 317-making about 2,223. Capt. Herbert was stationed at Whampoa with the Calliope, Conway, Herald, and Alligator, and was directed on the 24th to take the command of the force afforded by the four vessels under his orders, and pushing up with the floodtide with such vessels as could proceed, or with the boats of the ships, endeavour to take possession of and secure the arsenal. I informed him that the ships near the factory would drop down and secure the Dutch fort, and to keep up an enfilading fire on the face of the works thrown up in front of the city, where I understood many guns were mounted. I left it to his own judgment to act according to circumstances, in endeavouring to drive the enemy from the French fort, and to endeavour to open the communications with the ships-of-war to the westward, and with the commanding officer of the left column stationed at the factories. I beg to enclose a letter (No. 3) I have received from Capt. Herbert, detailing the part he took in the affair that followed, where the usual gallantry and zeal were displayed by Her Majesty's seamen and Royal Marines. Commander Warren, with his gig's crew, placing his colours first on the walls of the French fort. Commander Warren, was also ordered with the ships under his command, to take up his anchorage in line along the town from the Western fort as far as the factory, and to cannonade the exterior to prevent the enemy from firing on the right column as it passed. After the enemy's fire had been silenced he was to leave the Nimrod, and another vessel to keep the enemy in check at that quarter, and to detach the rest of his force to secure the Dutch fort, and to place them with the Atalanta so as to enfilade the line of batteries in front of the city, but he was not to expose his ships to the front fire of the heavy guns said to be placed there until the enemy were shaken in their position. The landing of the left column was placed under his particular charge, and it was not to land until he had made the signal. So effectually and vigorously did Commander Warren execute these instructions, that when the right column passed his station everything had been completed and all was still. The detail of this gallant affair is annexed in a copy of his letter (No. 4), where I regret to observe the loss of men was more than had been ordinary. No. 5.-A return of the killed and wounded is here added, and, although it may appear strange to see the wounded of the army in a naval report, yet the two corps had been so entirely mingled together, their services so blended, and such intimate harmony has existed, that it would be difficult to make any separation between the acts of either or the circumstances that concerned them. The two officers who had fallen, Major Becher of the Indian army, DeputyQuarter-Master-General, a very old officer who had served ably in the Burmese war, and Lieut. Fox, first of the Nimrod, have united the regret of all by their characters and services. The same shot took off the legs of Lieut. Fox and of Mr. Kendal, his shipmate, the gunnery mate of the Nimrod. The former fell a victim to his wound; the latter has survived amputation. I thought it would gratify Mr. Kendal to give him an acting commission as lieutenant of the Nimrod in Lieut. Fox's vacancy, on the field of battle, until your pleasure is known, though his wound will disable him from doing his duty perhaps for some time, and may oblige him to go home. I have the honour to enclose lists of the officers who have been personally engaged in the operations on shore and afloat in boats, but it must be remem bered that the duties and fatigues of Commander Pritchard, of the Blenheim, and of those who remained on board their respective ships, were increased in the same ratio as their numbers were diminished, and that the ultimate success is the attainment of the whole body, each working in his particular sphere. The names of many will be seen who have already, distinguished themselves at Chuenpee, Anunghoy, Quang-tong, and the many affairs in the Canton river, and no doubt have already, like their brother officers at Acre, been so fortunate as to secure their country's notice. Never was there a finer set of zealous, able commanders. Commanders Belcher and Warren have only continued in that path of able and judicious service on which they have so long travelled-their own services will always attract attention. Of the lieutenants, Lieutenants J. Pearce, Goldsmith, Watson, Sir F. Nicholson, and Morshead, first of their respective vessels, may perhaps be named without injury to all others, who well played their parts; to Lieut. Kellett, of the Starling, I am much obliged; and Lieut. Mason, of the Algerine, has won his promotion by a long series of gallant and brave services. I beg to acknowledge the zeal and assistance I have had from every captain and officer of the squadron whom I have had the happiness to command. (No. 1.) H.M.S. Alligator, off Howqua's Folly, May 22d. SIR.-I have the honour to acquaint you that last night, shortly after 12 o'clock, an attack was made by the Chinese upon her Majesty's ship Alligator, under my command, by fire-rafts. They were chained in pairs, and brought down in a direct line for the ships on a flood tide; owing to the confined position I was in, and the sunken junks and line of stakes astern, I could not ship; but by steering the ship, and the activity of Lieut. Stewart, first of this ship, and Messrs. Woolcombe and Baker, mates, in command of the boats, they were towed clear, although they passed within ten yards of the bows: as I had reason to believe that a considerable force was assembled in the vicinity, to take advantage of any accident that might occur, I fired several shots on both sides to clear the banks. No damage has been sustained. To Capt. T. Herbert, Commanding the advanced Squadron. I have, &c., AUGUSTUS L. KUPER, Act.-Capt. (No. 2.) Off Canton, May 23rd. SIR.-In pursuance of your directions, I proceeded up the creek on the western side of the Canton, in order to examine the nature of the country, our force consisting of the Druid's launch, Lieut. Goldsmith, (1st lieut. of the ship,) Sulphur's pinnace, and two cutters, Modeste, Pylades, and Algerine's cutters, Starling's cutter, and my gig, the two first-named boats carrying guns. On approaching Neishang, where the boats of the squadron were yesterday engaged, I observed the "fast boats "of the enemy collected in great numbers; part retreated by a creek to the left, but shortly after returned and manifested a disposition to impede our progress, by firing guns and drawing up across the creek. Our advance, and notice of our determination by a round from each of the boats carrying guns, put them to flight, and in a very short period thirteen fast boats, five war-junks, and small craft collected, amounting to twenty-eight in all, were in flames. Fire-rafts were in readiness on the banks of the creek, but too well secured by chains, and therefore beyond our ability to destroy during our short stay. The whole force behaved with their usual gallantry, and the commander of |