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The battle took place at_ Chinkiang. The ships anchored off the N.W, of the city (one or two of them struck the rock on the south of Silver Island and the Buddhist priests assisted them in getting clear, by offering prayers to the Goddess of Mercy!) and a force was landed, and divided into three brigades. One was to attack the Lmperiulist camp outside the East gate; the second, to escalade the North walls, and the third to blow in the West gate. Poor Chinese! They fought as well as their superstitious notions would allow thera, but Idolatry had killed out patriotism even then. The Captain of the right brigade relates that his party passed through © small village on the hills "the village had not been deserted some of the houses were closed, while the inhabitants of others were standing: in the streets staring at ug in stupid. wonder: and although they were viewing 'a contest between foreigners and their fellow-countrymen, and in danger themselves of being shot, were coolly eating their meals."
We need not here relate fully what Lappened. Although it was a hot day in July and the enemy was strongly entrenched, British plack won. The Tartars at the East gate were driven in, the northern walls sealed and their defenders bayonetted or thrown down, and the western gate blown in. The Manchus driven into their houses by the rain of English bullets cut the throats of their women, threw their children into the wells, and then killed themselves. One mau was shot while sawing his wife's throat as he held her over a well into which he had already thrown his children, The drowning babes were rescued and the woman's wound served up. The grey-haired Buglish commander marched with two regiments to the south end of Chivkiang, and writes in his official dispatch: "Finding dead budless of Tartars in every house we entered, principally women and children thrown into wells or otherwise murdered their own people, I was glad to with. draw the troops from this frightful scene: of destruction and place them in the northern quater." Out of a Manchu population of four thousand not more than five hundred survived. Most of the dead had committed suicide. Thr, British lost thirty-seven men. Ov er one hundred were wounded, A touching incident is related n the Narrative of Events in China by Captain G. G. Loch:—
After we had forced our way over piles of furniture placed to bartica'Je the door, we entered an open court F, trewed with rich stuffs and covered with clotted blood; and upon the step.s leading to the hall of ancestors there were two bodies of youthful Tartars, cold and stiff, who seemed to be brothers, Having gained the threshold of their abode, they had died where they had fallen from loss of blood. Stepping over these bodies we entered the hall, and met face to face three women seated, & mother and two daughters, and at their feet lay two-
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