Harvard University - Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School / Heard family. Heard family business records, Volume FP-4, Folder GQ-2-2, and Volume JP-2.
Mss:766 1754-1898. Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School.
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On
the 25th of June the gunboat
Plcv.~
was ordered to remove
the
.
take,
for:mill& the til'at barrier, ..hieh
,
he
did luceeseru.lly, hevtn,; only
received one
.
hot
whilu
at work: . The next
c:l.q
the
Admiral himself at_
tacked the second burier in the Plover,
but
was met by a Bevere fire.
'
l'he
fire
8"" ,
of course, ret=ed, but ••
the
Chineu
bad
concentrated
their tire upon
the
channel ,
the
v...
d,
were at a great diubsntage and
were Icon rer;.dered
usde.. .
Two of
tl'.e
gunboat, were
8
BTound,
80
that
their batt_riee could not be worked , two other. were sunk at their an–
chora , and two othen were fo:t"ced to withdraw in a
dnld.n,g
condition.
The
Englllh
a~lral
tran.rerred
hi. f1a& to
the
Cormorant, and
had
been aerioue1:" wounded . Tbil
8'"
the moment chotec by CO!!I!IOdore Tatnall
to
pa,y
him a
vhlt
of condolence . A.."ld at
the
B"".e time he ordered
the
boatll of the Toeywan , or rather the Toeywan
herself, to to. the
Er~11t.h
boat. , 10ad.d with .01Mers ar.d marinSi into IICHon . Thi.
'
lid
a gTOI8
breach of neutrality, but tba Cammodore .ald, -Blood
it
thieker than
'
IIater . -
The
action waG unfortunate for the Engli.h, f or tba lD.en were
et'U;lk 1n
t~.e
lIIIlIl. ,
and a large portion of them leilled , !l.t haat one-third.
COlIJIlodo:re ')'atnall called 011
Adm!
ral Hope on board tba COl'1llorant ,
a vaI7 cJ::.1valro\:.8 b..
t
uaelel8 action. In gol11& alongl1de of tba Cor–
morant a ehot from tba Chine.e batterie. struck one of the oar. of
tt~
Comr"'dare'a barge, entered the bO!l.t , and paealll& between the legs of
tt..
f18.&
lieutenant, Yr. Trenchard, killed the cock''II!l.l11 .
The
CO!'r:lodore
had
to be Bent bacit to
the
Tc.eY'IIBn in one of the Cormorant's boat •. While on
board of her tt.e ere'll a ..isted in working her g.ms .
~e
En&lish had suffered a decided defeat . They
had
lost three
or four velluls and 450 men out of 1350, of whom 60 were French.
The
Adwlral and three unior captaine 'IIere wounded ,
),!
r.
Ward , after a
time,
l11,;,Cceeded in opening cOlllDUllications
with tee Chine.a authorities. They were at fir.t not dilpoe.ed to be
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