had lately silted up so much[1] that the foreigners could not get up to Hangchow with ships; but on the 18th of May they bombarded Cha-p‘u, and landed a force. to attack the east gate. Here they were met by troops from Shen Si and Kan Suh armed with gingalls, receiving such rough treatment that they went round to the south gate. As the Manchu garrison had been in the habit of calling the Chinese "disloyalists," the Fu Kien braves sided with the enemy and set fire to the town. The foreigners then got over the wall and burut the Manchu quarter,[2] the Assistant Tartar-General and the Acting Sub-Prefect losing their lives, and the taotai escaping to Kashing, which place, as also Hangchow, was now threatoned too. When ILIPU arrived at Cha-p‘u, the English demands were so extravagant that nothing definite could be arrived at; and, when the Governor requested the Emperor's sanction to the restoration of the score or two of white and black barbarian prisoners, the foreign ships had left Cha- p‘u. The prisoners were then sent to Chên-hai, and it was suggested that bygones should be bygones; but the English would not listen any more. The Emperor ordered the Tartar-General or one of the Associates to proceed to Kashing; and on this YIK-
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