Chapter I: Front Matter

TI-PING TIEN-KWOH;
THE HISTORY OF
THE TI-PING REVOLUTION,

INCLUDING
A Narrative of the Author's Personal Adventures.

BY

LIN-LE.

FORMERLY HONORARY OFFICER, CHUNG-WANG'S GUARDS; SPECIAL AGENT OF
THE TI-PING GENERAL-IN-CHIEF; AND LATE COMMANDER OF THE "LOYAL
AND FAITHFUL AUXILIARY LEGION."

VOLUME II.

LONDON:
DAY & SON (LIMITED), LITHOGRAPHERS & PUBLISHERS,
GATE STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS.
1866.

COX AND WYMAN,
ORIENTAL, CLASSICAL, AND GENERAL PRINTERS,
GREAT QUEEN STREET, LONDON, W.C.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

CHAPTER XV. PAGE

Chinese Custom-houses.--Attempts at Extortion.--An
Adventure.--Ruse de Guerre.--Its Success.--Peace
Negotiations.--Their abrupt Termination.--The Plot thickens.--A
Companion in Misfortune.--Negotiations renewed.--Their
Failure.--Hostilities.--Critical Position.--Danger
increases.--Attempted Rescue.--The Mud Fort Mandarin.--His
Fate.--The Civil Mandarin.--Rescued at last.--The _Williamette_ 425

CHAPTER XVI.

Hang-chow.--Ti-pings approach Shanghae.--Their Reception.--The
_Casus Belli._--The First Blow.--Filibuster Ward.--Admiral
Hope's Exploits.--Captures Hsiun-tang.--The
Consequences.--Hope's Policy condemned.--The real _Casus
Belli_.--Defence of Shanghae justified.--Inducements to oppose
the Ti-pings.--Official Reports.--Mr. Consul
Meadows.--Recognition of the Ti-pings.--The _Shanghae
Times_.--Mr. John's Report.--Edict of Religious
Toleration.--Report continued.--Mr. Muirhead's Report 445

CHAPTER XVII.

On Board the _Williamette_.--Blockade running.--Arrival at
Nankin.--Solemn Thanksgiving.--Domestic Arrangements.--Phillip's
Wife.--The Wooing.--The Dowry.--The Wedding.--Trade
established.--Imperialist Corruption.--Preparations for
leaving.--An Elopement.--The Journey.--The Surprise.--The
Repulse.--Arrival at Hang-chow.--Its capture.--The
Particulars.--Cum-ho.--The Chung-wang.--His mistaken Policy 475

CHAPTER XVIII.

Earl Russell's Despatch.--Its Effect.--"Taking the
Offensive."--Official Reports.--General Staveley.--Attacks the
Ti-pings.--General Ward.--Hope and Ward repulsed.--Che-poo
attacked.--Its Capture.--Loot Regulations.--Kah-ding
attacked.--Its Capture.--Ti-ping Loss.--Newspaper
Comments.--Tsing-poo besieged.--Inside the City.--Ti-ping
Losses.--Na-jaor besieged.--Cho-lin besieged.--Ti-ping
Bravery.--Cho-lin captured.--The Chung-wang.--Kah-ding
evacuated.--Consul Harvey's Despatch.--Despatch
reviewed.--Ningpo threatened.--Captain Dew at Ningpo.--His
Despatch.--The Reply.--Captain Dew's Rejoinder.--Preparation to
attack Ningpo.--Captain Dew's Inconsistency.--His
Ultimatum.--Official Despatches.--Ningpo attacked.--Ningpo
evacuated.--Newspaper Reports 498

CHAPTER XIX.

A Double Wedding.--Its Celebration.--The Honeymoon.--Its
Interruption.--Warlike Preparations.--Soong-kong
invested.--General Ching's Despatch.--Tsing-poo
recaptured.--Ti-ping Severity excused.--England's
Responsibility.--Curious Chinese Custom.--The Chung-wang's
Policy.--His Explanation.--The Ti-ping Court of Justice.--How
conducted.--Opium Smoking.--Its Effects.--Evidence
thereof.--Forbidden by Ti-ping Law.--Opium Trade 539

CHAPTER XX.

Ti-ping Disasters.--The Vampyre Fleet.--Important Letters.--Mr.
Roberts's Case.--Mr. Consul Harvey.--Letters
continued.--Misrepresentations.--Anti-Ti-ping Meeting.--The
Sherrard Osborne Theory.--The Fleet Afloat.--The "Lay" and
"Osborne" Agreement.--The Fleet repudiated.--Pecuniary Loss to
England.--A Resume.--General Burgevine.--Lieutenant Ridge.--Act
of Piracy.--A Tartar caught.--Exit of the Anglo-Chinese
Flotilla.--General Ward's Proceedings.--Progress of the
War.--Death of General Ward.--Captain Dew's Disgrace.--How
caused.--His Mode of Proceeding.--Its Effect upon
Trade.--Operations before Kah-ding.--"Wong-e-poo."--General
Burgevine dismissed from his Command.--Major Gordon takes
Command.--Sir F. Bruce's Despatches.--His Objections to Gordon's
Appointment.--Also to General Brown's Interference 562

CHAPTER XXI.

Personal Narrative continued.--Mr. Lobschied.--His Reception at
Nankin.--Press Publications.--Mr. Lobschied leaves
Nankin.--Operations before Tait-san.--The Assault.--Act of
Bravery.--Rout of the Imperialists.--Gordon's Art of
War.--Tait-san reinvested.--Siege of Tait-san.--Its
Capture.--Manchoo Atrocities.--Treatment of Ti-ping
Prisoners.--Mr. Sillar's Statement.--Quin-san
captured.--Gordon's Report.--Gordon reinforced.--The Chung-wang
recalled.--Critical Position of the Ti-pings.--The Chung-wang's
Retreat.--Difficulties encountered.--Reinforcements.--The Scene
of Battle.--Its Horrors.--Arrival at Nankin.--The Chung-wang's
Army.--General Attack.--The Repulse.--The Surprise.--The Night
Attack.--The Flight and Pursuit.--Death of Marie 598

CHAPTER XXII.

On the Wong-poo River.--Ningpo Sam.--The _China_.--Her
Passengers.--The Ta-hoo Lake.--Its Scenery.--The Canals of
Central China.--General
Burgevine.--Soo-chow.--Deserters.--Burgevine suspected.--The
Americo-Ti-ping Legions.--Burgevine's Policy.--Colonel
Morton.--The Mo-wang.--Arrival of the Chung-wang.--The Loyal and
Faithful Auxiliary Legion.--How regulated.--Affair at
Wo-kong.--Recruiting.--Plan of Operations.--A _coup de
main_.--Arrangement.--Interruptions.--Postponed 632

CHAPTER XXIII.

Renewed Attempt.--Its Success.--Narrow Escape.--British
Interference.--How explained.--Its Failure.--The _coup de main_
succeeds.--Groundless Alarm.--Route to Soo-chow.--Its
Difficulties.--Generous Conduct.--Arrival at
Wu-see.--Prize-Money.--Treachery.--Preparations for an
Attack.--Manoeuvring.--The Attack.--Warm Reception.--The Enemy
repulsed.--The Result.--Wu-see evacuated.--Return to
Shanghae.--Last Interview with the Chung-wang.--Manchoo
Cruelty.--Result of British Interference.--Evidence
thereof.--Newspaper Extracts.--Further Extracts.--England's
Policy.--Its Consequences.--Its Inconsistency.--Her Policy in
Japan.--Religious Character of the Ti-pings.--Their Christianity 658

CHAPTER XXIV.

Kar-sing-foo.--Christmas in Ti-pingdom.--Works of
Art.--Dangerous Companions.--Narrow Escape.--Retribution.--Adieu
to Ti-pingdom.--Mr. White's Case.--The Neutrality
Ordnance.--Order of July 9th, 1864.--Intended Return to
England.--Particulars of the Siege of Soo-chow.--Strength of the
Garrison.--The Assault described.--The Nar-wang's
Treachery.--Its Cause.--Major Gordon's Report.--The _Friend of
China_.--Gordon's Report continued.--Narrative by an
Eye-Witness.--The Soo-chow Tragedy.--Major Gordon.--His
Conduct.--Gordon's Letter to Sir F. Bruce.--Analysis
thereof.--Newspaper Extract.--Gordon's "Reasons"
refuted.--Analysis Continued.--Gordon's "Personal
Considerations."--His Motives explained.--Newspaper
Extracts.--Sir F. Bruce's Despatch.--Its Analysis.--Falsity of
Gordon's Statements.--How proved.--Extract from the
_Times_.--Deductions 694

CHAPTER XXV.

Operations Resumed.--Attack on Kin-tang.--The Battle of the
Brickbats.--Ti-ping Success.--Active
Operations.--Manoeuvring.--Hang-chow invested.--Fall of
Kar-sing-foo.--Gordon's Proceedings.--Chang-chow-foo.--Narrative
of the Siege.--Fall of Chang-chow.--The Foo-wang.--Manchoo
Cruelty.--Debate on the Chinese War.--Lord Palmerston's
Policy.--Its Errors.--Mr. Cobden's Policy.--Mr. Layard.--His
Inaccuracy.--Extracts from the Debate.--Result of Lord
Palmerston's Policy.--Fall of Nankin.--"Imperialist"
Account.--The Chung-wang's Capture.--Other Reports.--Digest of
Events.--The Chung-wang.--His Position in Nankin.--Events in the
City.--Newspaper Reports.--Doubts as to the Chung-wang's
Fate.--The Retreat from Nankin.--Newspaper Extracts.--The
Shi-wang's Proclamations.--Lee Shai-Yin's Address 743

CHAPTER XXVI.

Results of British Policy.--Its Effect on Trade.--The
Inspectorate System.--The Tien-tsin Treaty.--Present State of
China.--Rebellion in the Ascendant.--Proposed Remedy.--The
Mandarin Policy.--The Extradition Treaty.--The Mo-wang's
Case.--Its Injustice.--Its Illegality.--Burgevine's Case.--Our
Treatment by the Manchoos.--Russia's Policy in
China.--Contrasted with that of England.--Russian
Progress.--Statistics.--Acquisition of Territory by
Russia.--Her Approach to British India.--Russia's
Advantages.--Her Future Policy.--"Peking and the
Pekingese."--Its Author's
Misstatements.--Misquotations.--Examples thereof.--"Chinese
Miscellanies."--Ti-ping Movements.--The Future of the Ti-pings
Doubtful.--Latest Movements.--The Kan-wang.--Nien-fie
Victories.--Future Prospects.--Finis 788

APPENDIX A.

Decalogue 823
The Trimetrical Classic 827
Ode for Youth 832

APPENDIX B.

Export of Tea and Silk from China 838