FOOTNOTES:

[43] See page 46, Blue Book.

[44] See page 50, Blue Book.

[45] See page 64, Blue Book.

[46] See page 50, Blue Book.

[47] See page 51, Blue Book.

[48] See Appendix B.

[49]

William Breck, Esq., United States Consul.
M. Leon Obry, His Imperial Majesty's Navy, commanding steamer Confucius.
Lieutenant Henry Huxham, R.N., commanding H.M.'s gunboat Kestrel.
Frederick Harvey, Esq., Her Majesty's Consul.

[50] "E" corresponds to the Chinese title "Kung," or Duke.

[51] i.e., She-wang (the Assistant Prince).

[52] A quotation from the "Sze Shoo Mencius," tom. i. chap. 2. The King of Tse is inquiring of Mencius whether he ought to take possession of the kingdom of Yeu, lately conquered by him. Mencius, instancing the practice of the ancient kings Wan and Woo under similar circumstances, replies that, unless the voice of the people invites the invader to take possession, he is not justified in so doing. Hence the rebels would have it believed that they have enlisted in their cause the sympathies of the nation, without which, according to received notions, it will be impossible for them to obtain the "Teen-ming" (the Divine Commission), and, by consequence, the Empire.

[53] i.e., those of the nation who do not submit.

[54] "On the occasion when they recently stopped some British junks at Woo-hoo, eventually retaining two (subsequently released by the Bouncer), in pledge for payment of duty, on the whole their demand amounted to 2,000 taels. Their right to levy moderate duties on all vessels trading in the territories they hold was allowed in the original arrangement entered into with them, but they were, at the same time, distinctly acquainted that I had stationed a vessel of war at Nanking for the express purpose of securing to British vessels entire freedom in the exercise of their right of navigating the Yang-tze. The necessity of preventing any interference whatever with the passing trade by the rebels, arises from the impracticability of recovering any duties they might extort without a serious collision. In the case of Imperialists, redress could always ultimately be obtained by reference through the Minister to the Government at Peking.—J. Hope."

This is the excuse given for depriving the Ti-pings of their revenue.

Transcriber's Notes

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

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Hyphen added: co[-]adjutors (p. 342), E[-]CHING (caption of image facing p. 304), E-ching (p. 379), Kwang[-]si (p. 144), Pei[-]ho (pp. 229, 230), sand[-]bank(s) (pp. 107, 202), semi[-]civilized (p. 228), Shang[-]te (p. 418), Soo[-]chow (pp. 272, 273), Tai[-]ping (p. 306), Tien[-]Kwoh (caption of map facing p. 359), Ti[-]mung (twice on p. 132), water[-]fowl (p. 20), Woo[-]sung (p. 199).

Hyphen removed: banner-men (p. 322), blood[-]thirsty (p. 415), fire[-]arms (pp. 79, 408), good[-]will (pp. 88, 102), main[-]land (p. 21), Ning[-]po (p. 356), Po[-]yang (p. 88), Shen[-]si (p. 157), under[-]mentioned (p. 342), Vice[-]roy (p. 71), Wu[-]hu (p. 267), Ye[-]su (p. 175).

The following words appear in multiple forms and have not been changed: "benefited" / "benefitted", "Budhist" / "Buddhist", "gunboat" / "gun-boat", "Han-kow" / "Hankow", "Honan" / "Hoonan" / "Hoo-nan", "Hoopeh" / "Hoo-peh", "Nan-kin" / "Nan-king" / "Nankin" / "Nanking", "Shang-te" / "Shangte", "Tae-ping" / "Taiping" / "Tai-ping" / "Ti-ping", "Woo-san-kwei" / "Wu-san-kwei".

p. 61: "jingall" changed to "gingall" (a gingall battery).

p. 70: "Atalanta" changed to "Atlanta" (the occupation of Atlanta).

p. 86: "sovereignity" changed to "sovereignty" (his divine commission to earthly sovereignty).

p. 86: "sufficent" changed to "sufficient" (with guns or sufficient powder).

p. 88: "Imperalist" changed to "Imperialist" (Imperialist troops in Hoo-nan).

p. 111: "1838" changed to "1858" (Elgin treaty (June 1858)).

p. 125: duplicate "that" removed (that something was most likely dangerous).

p. 197: "exclaming" changed to "exclaiming" (exclaiming, "hish.").

p. 212: "inconoclasts" changed to "iconoclasts" (iconoclasts of the strictest order).

p. 237: "skook" changed to "shook" (shook hands).

p. 241: "acomplished" changed to "accomplised" (accomplished prince).

Caption of image facing p. 261: "HU-KAN" changed to "HU-KAU".

p. 271: "superintendant" changed to "superintendent" (in his capacity as superintendent).

p. 295: "dissertion" changed to "dissertation" (a lengthy dissertation by one Rev. J. L. Holmes).

p. 329: "ursurpation" changed to "usurpation" (without aggression or usurpation).

p. 331: "gave" changed to "give" (to give his favourable opinion).

p. 331: "bravos" changed to "braves" (becoming the mercenary braves).

p. 342: "Imperialst" changed to "Imperialist" (the Imperialist braves).

p. 344: "forgottten" changed to "forgotten" (has evidently forgotten himself).

p. 348: "Impearialist" changed to "Imperialist" (all the Imperialist posts).

p. 349: "prejudical" changed to "prejudicial" (prejudicial presence).

p. 350: "chieftian" changed to "chieftain" (gallant chieftain).

p. 354: "politicans" changed to "politicians" (politicians of the Yang-tze).

p. 356: "compartively" changed to "comparatively" (were comparatively useless).

p. 368: "parient" changed to "parent" (the injured "parent,").

p. 371: "Sze-wang" changed to "Sz-wang" (to call in the Sz-wang).

p. 388: "detoriated" changed to "deteriorated" (has seriously deteriorated).