An overland mail from Bombay brings important intelligence. The British
and Chinese are in open hostility. It appears that in a fray at Macao, between a party of seamen belonging to her Ma- jesty's ship Volage and some Chinese, one of the latter was killed. Commissioner LIN applied to Captain ELLtoT to give up the homi- cide ; and upon Captain ELI:Ryes refusal, ordered the Portuguese Governor at Macao to expel all the British inhabitants from that place. The Portuguese Governor inthrmed Mr. AsTm.r., Chairman of the Committee of' Public Safety, that he must obey this com- mand, but would call out his garrison, and protect the British resi- dents from insult on their embarkation. On the 26th of August the departure of the British took place, amidst much confusion. Not a Portuguese soldier appeared, and no Chinese ; but the Governor himself was there in full uniform; and after witnessing the embarkation, informed the Chinese authorities of the fack and. was thanked for having " expelled" the British.
All remained quiet till the 4th of September, the British being on board their vessels with the property which a few hours' notice enabled them to take from Macao, when Captain ELLIOT, who had been at Hong Kong since the 23d of August, appeared in his cutter, accompanied by the schooner Pearl, commanded by Cap- tain REntne. They stood in for the bay of Coalloon, and in- formed the inhabitants that they wanted provisions: and provisions were brought in abundance ; but the Mandarins, on board three junks of war, refused to permit the shipment. Captain ELLIOT threatened to lire upon them unless the provisions were suffered to . pass in half an hour; and at the expiration of that time, firing; commenced. A letter front Hong Kong, dated 9th of September, and published in the Bombay Times of October 28th, describtis what followed- " About three o'clock in the afternoon reports of guns were heard at the alp:. Outrage, which were at first supposed to be merely salutes or the Mandarins; but, the fire continuing, we got under weigh from our vessel at about half-past . four, when I could observe what passed; several other boats also got undef weigh, mid in turning the point of HOIN:T Kong we saw several boats approach- ing, who came for supplies of ammunition, and brought orders for the frigate Vol age to get under weigh. Three war-junks were endeavouring to put to sea, the Pearl and cutter obstructing their passage out, and compelling, them fl a well-maintained tire to seek shelter antler the walls of the Coalloon • Fort; which returned the fire of the cutter and Pearl, shot for shot. About six o'clock, the frigate being in sight, the boat of Captain Douglas, who cum- It fire of musketry, to which the Chinese replied better than I expected. The Before the Queen left Windsor, Mr. Lane had the honour of sub. result of the battle is this-we are left without provisions, and the junks es- caped from us during the night. mining to her Majesty a lithographic print of Prince Albert, taken " Orders havkig been given to the boats to withdraw, and to hold themselves from Mr. Ross's miniature. ready next morning at break of day to attack and destroy both the fort and junks, every one repaired at the appointed time to the scene of action, muster- Vibe Ifletropolfs.
sng altogether about 1,C00 men. To the great surprise of all, the frigate, There is no intention on the part of any Reformer to disturb either
cutter, and Pearl were seen towed away by their boats, having.abandoned all idea Of proceeding further in the matter! Captain Elliot's nand had, it ap- of the present 3fembers for Finsbury : it is only in the event of the re. years, undergone am entire change in the course of the night I Now, whether tirement of either that any candidate on the same side is likely to come it was right in him to begin the fray or not, yet, having himself struck the first forward.-Globe. blow, there seems no doubt he ought to have brought the business to a point, The Queen has given 50/. to the Royal Free Hospital in Greville and captured the junks that were putting a stop to the supply of provisions; Street. vherees the only fruit of all this cannonading, which began at three o'clock in On Wednesday afternoon, a number of Chartist Delegates, who have the afternoon ad lasted till nightfidl, is, that we have managed to compromise been meeting daily for several weeks at the Arundel Coffeehouse, in ourselves still further with the Government of China, while we have at the the Strand, passed the following resolution- same time failed to inspire them with any dread-for after what has passed " Seeing that the exertions of the working classes to form a General Con- will no doubt regard themselves as the victorious party. Their loss in vention, representing the whole country, are for the present marred by the amounts to one Mandarin of rank, an inferior Mandarin, and four contrivances of the open persecutors of our cause, and their allies the felse nese soldiers, besides seven wounded. On our side, four Europeans were friends of the people, together with the enmity of some portion of the people minded, of whom it is supposed that one will die. Captain Douglas received themselves, we feel it our duty to dissolve ; and, returning to our respective St ball in his arm, but the wound is not dangerous." constituencies, exert ourselves to the utmost of our power in counteracting the We have seen a private letter from Singapore, blaming Captain above mischievous influences." ELLIOT for attacking the war-junks unless he had determined to In the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday, Mr. Ballantine aim- drive them off and obtain the provisions. It is said that the injury plied for a warrant to arrest Mr. William Foster Geach, the Monmouth inflicted on British interests is "incalculable," as the Chinese be- solicitor employed in the defence of Frost, The Grand Jury had re- lieve that the frigate, schooner, and cutter, retired in dread of being turned a true bill against Geed' for obtaining upwards of 2,00o/. on captured by their Mandarins. But this is not all. The Blaert false pretences. It was decided that bail should be taken, Oeach to Joke, a small schooner, with one passenger, Mr. Moss, on board, enter into his own recognizance in 2001. and to provide two sureties in and six Lascars anchored in Lantao Passage till the tide should 50/. each. serve. When there, three Mandarin boats attacked her, murdered gentleman residing in Manchester Street, gave security for his appear- five of the Lascztrs, and mutilated Mr. Moss dreadfully : they mince to answer a charge of purloining a diamond pin and a purse eon- nearly cut his arm off, wounded him in the head and other places, tabling forty-two sovereigns, the property of Mr. Warren, surgeon- and having sawed off his ear stuffed it into his mouth. The British dentist, at whose house be had been dining with other gentenen. Mr, schooner Harriet came up before the Chinese had time to set Theed had sent Mr. Warren a haunch of venison, which was on the tire to the Black Joke, but the ruffians escaped. Notwithstanding table. After dinner, Mr. Warren handed round the pin, which he had his wounds, hopes of Mr. Moss's recovery are entertained. It talcen with the gold out of a purse, and then wrapped it up with the ought to be mentioned, that although appearing to be Mandarins, sovereigns in a piece of paper, and put the packet on the table. When the Canton Press thinks the party who boarded the Black Joke he svent to bed he recollected that Ile had left the packet, and going might have been pirates, who often disguise themselves as Man- to the dining-room, could not find it. Ile immediately called on darms two of the gentlemen who had dined with him, and they event toge-
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had " creditable information of the intention of the High Commis- trouser-pocket was perfumed leith the same scent as the purse and the filmier to assail the fleet by fire-vessels and other means of an- paper in which the lost property had been folded up. Mr. Timed said, contrary, Captain ELLIOT'S conduct in firing upon the ilandarin junks was unjustifiable. If, however, we are to make war on the Zbe Vrobinces. Chinese und terrify them with what the Globe calls " a demon- We TOSUIlle our account of the State trials in Monmouthshire.
