Accounts from Syiia to the 1 1th May represent j
the country to be in a highly excited slate, and an
outbreak was daily expected. The Flench had
been distributing a caii.-i.leruhle quantity of mo
ney. The latest new s from Maeoa is to the 31st ol"
March. Ke.-dicn's continued procrastination hav
ing at length exhausted Captain Elliott's patience,
! a t-teanicr w as despatched from Macjoa Feb. 1 till,
jvvith Tie draft of a treaty for the approval ol
; the imperial high cumiiiis-i mcr. The comman
der of tin' ste liner was ordered la wait at the
llogue lor a reply until the lSth.and in the event
of his not receiving one by that day, to rclum
immediately to M aeoa. This he accordingly did,
Kcdniii not having made his iippeaianee. On
the 21 a notification of the renewal of hostilities
was issued to In r Britannic majesty's subjects.
Oil the morning of the iuh three howitzers and
a parly of Sepoys was lauded at Cheun-pce jroui
the Nemesis and other boats uf the s madron.
The Chinese kept up a desultory lire while the
darkness lasted. lit fore dawn a battery bad Icon
erected wiih und bag-, and the gnus got into po--iliou.
