. The life of Sir Harry Parkes, sometime Her Majesty's minister to China & Japan. 9- o* PLAN OF DEFENCES AT CANTON FACTORIES, DECEMBER 1856 Page 254, Vol. I. xii THE CITY QUESTION 255 though we do not wish to be compelled to do that) 1856unless we have a land force both for the attack and JEt- 28subsequent occupation which the former renders neces-sary. Better not to attack at all than to take andthen retreat from it. I trust the Government willtake the thing up spiritedly, and send us on sometroops. We may not have to use them, but their pres-ence will be necessary for a satisfactory adjustme
. The life of Sir Harry Parkes, sometime Her Majesty's minister to China & Japan. 9- o* PLAN OF DEFENCES AT CANTON FACTORIES, DECEMBER 1856 Page 254, Vol. I. xii THE CITY QUESTION 255 though we do not wish to be compelled to do that) 1856unless we have a land force both for the attack and JEt- 28subsequent occupation which the former renders neces-sary. Better not to attack at all than to take andthen retreat from it. I trust the Government willtake the thing up spiritedly, and send us on sometroops. We may not have to use them, but their pres-ence will be necessary for a satisfactory adjustment ofall difficulties ; and I trust now that they will see thenecessity of no longer making Canton and the Im-perial Commissioner Yeh the channels of communica-tion, but establish themselves at Peking at once. . .As yet it is no war with China, but simply at Canton,and that because the Commissioner chose to declare the moment this letter was being written, theassumed safety of the factories at Canton was rudelydisproved. Parkes had left them safe on the 14th ofDecember
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