Narrative of the War with China in 1860: To which is Added the Account of a Short Residence with the Tai-ping Rebels at Nankin and a Voyage from Thence to HankowLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 - 415 Seiten |
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Seite 223 - Officers and men seemed to have been seized with a temporary insanity ; in body and soul they were absorbed in one pursuit, which was plunder, plunder. I stood by whilst one of the regiments was supposed to be parading ; but although their fall in was sounded over and over again, I do not believe there was an average of ten men a company present.
Seite 9 - Government, none of whose officers, the militia repeatedly affirmed, were near the spot ; also that it was closed not against foreigners, but against a native enemy. These false representations were supported by false appearances, the batteries of the forts were masked, no banners were displayed, no soldier discovered himself. Still further to prevent verification of the statements of the militia, no communication was allowed with the shore. After promising to remove the obstacles at the river mouth,...
Seite 222 - Venus is at once adorned with a moustache, and then used as an "Aunt Sally!" Cock-shots are taken at all remarkable objects, which, whilst occupying their intended positions, seem somehow or other to offend the veteran's eye, which dislikes the in statu quo of life, and studies the picturesque somewhat after the manner that Colonel Jebb recommends to all country gentlemen who are desirous of converting their mansions into defensible posts. The love of destruction is certainly inherent in man, and...
Seite 319 - Thus ended the China War of 1860, the shortest, most brilliant, and most successful of all that we have waged with that country. Let us hope that it may be the last, by procuring for our merchants a perpetual immunity from those acts of violence and oppression which had led to all our disputes with the Pekin Government.
Seite 14 - For the future he must not be so wanting in decorum. The above remarks will have to be communicated by the commissioner to the British minister, whom it will behove not to adhere obstinately to his own opinion, as...
Seite 7 - Pang-Wan-chang, &c., and their Excellencies the Members of the Great Council of His Majesty the Emperor of China. The Undersigned has the honour to state that, as in duty bound, he has laid before Her Britannic Majesty's Government a full narrative of all the circumstances attending his journey to the mouth of the Tien-tsin river last summer, for the purpose of exchanging the ratifications of the Treaty of Tien-tsin, as required by the provisions of that Treaty, on or before the 26th of June, 1859....
Seite 14 - If he bo sincere in his desire for peace, let the commissioner, when he shall have thought over all the details of the treaty, those which it will be proper to give effect to, and those respecting which compromise (or arrangement) is to be made, negotiate (with the British minister), and when both parties shall be perfectly agreed, if he will come north without vessels of war, and with a moderate retinue, and will wait at Peh-tang to exchange the treaties, China will not take him to task for what...
Seite 8 - Tien-tsin in the 5th moon, did not abide by his original understanding with Kweiliang and his colleague, but actually forced his way into the port of Takoo, destroying our defensive apparatus.
Seite 223 - ... it is once commenced an effort is made to stop it, the good men only obey ; the bad soldiers continue to plunder, and become rich by their disobedience, whilst the good ones see the immediate effect of their steadiness is to keep them poor. I do not believe that it is attended with such demoralizing effects in a French army as it is in ours. The Frenchman is naturally a more thrifty being than the careless Britisher, who squanders his money in drinking, and "standing drink
Seite 11 - Peiho has compelled lier majesty's government to increase her forces in China at a considerable cost, and the contribution that may be required from the Chinese government towards defraying this expense will be greater or less, according to the promptitude with which the demands above made are satisfied in full by the imperial government.