A history of China : being the historical chapters from "The Middle kingdom" . to fight; three or four forts to be entered, the wall scaled,a loss of one hundred and ten in killed and wounded to the vic-tors,, perhaps five times as many to the vanquished—this was upon their entry within the hitherto forbiddencity the chiefs were forced to turn their energy upon their owtitroops and prevent them from bullying and looting the helplessChinese. Governor-General Yeh was, after some little search, foundand captured while attempting an escape from his yamun, andwithin twenty-four hour
A history of China : being the historical chapters from "The Middle kingdom" . to fight; three or four forts to be entered, the wall scaled,a loss of one hundred and ten in killed and wounded to the vic-tors,, perhaps five times as many to the vanquished—this was upon their entry within the hitherto forbiddencity the chiefs were forced to turn their energy upon their owtitroops and prevent them from bullying and looting the helplessChinese. Governor-General Yeh was, after some little search, foundand captured while attempting an escape from his yamun, andwithin twenty-four hours the lieutenant-governor, Tartar gen-eral, and all others in high authority came into possession of theinvaders. Teh was carried forthwith on board H. B. M. , a wise step which deprived him of further power of Letters and JourruiXs, p. 313. Some very curious documents were found among his archives illustratingthe character both of the man and his government. See Oliphant, Elgins Mis-sion to China, Vol. I., Chap. VIII. Reeds Correspondence, 1858, pp. THE CITY OF CANTON AND ADJACENT ISLANDS. 294 HISTOEY OF CHINA. resistance and misrepresentation, and left the plenipotentiariesfree to arrange some method of temporary government for thecity. This was a difficult problem, claiefly owing to the lack ofcompetent interpreters, but rendered more so by the natural ir-ritation of the conquered people at the losses they had sustained,the flight of the local officers, and the alarming extent of rob-berj by natives, somewhat countenanced by foreign skill and tact of Lord Elgin were never better shown thanin the construction out of such incongruous materials of a mixedgovernment whose subsequent easy working abundantly provedthe master mind of the builder. The two Manchus, GovernorPihkwei and the commandant of the garrison—called also theTartar general—were now brought forward to assist in savingtlieir capital from destruction and to form with the all
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