The woodcuts have been all retained, and an additional map of the east coast of China, comprising all the recent improvements, has been added. A few corrections in the detail of facts have been made, at the suggestion of officers engaged, and it is hoped that this edition will be found to possess some advantages over the first. The Author gladly takes this opportunity of thanking the naval and military officers concerned, for their indulgence, and also a considerate public for the friendly reception which has been accorded to the work. The Author is willing to believe that he owes more to the interest of the subject itself, when simply handled, than to his own individual efforts, however conscientiously directed. LONDON,--1844. ILLUSTRATIONS. ENGRAVINGS. Tombs of the Kings, and sculptured Monsters Frontispiece. The Nemesis to face p. 1 Battle of Woosung 396 Portrait of the Chief Priest of the Porcelain Tower 451 WOODCUTS. Plan of a Temporary Rudder 14 Plan of Lee-Board 16 New Method of strengthening Iron Steamers 31 Plans of Repairs of Nemesis 32, 33 Plan of Naval Operations before Canton, 18th of March 198 Bridge of Boats at Ningpo 332 Chinese Caricatures of the English 367 MAPS. Track Chart, England to China 56 Hong-Kong 246 East Coast of China 448 Canton River, and its branches, with Plan of Operations at Canton end of the vol. [Illustration: The Nemesis] VOYAGES AND SERVICES OF THE NEMESIS. CHAPTER I. The year 1839 will long be remembered by all those who have taken any interest in Eastern affairs. The harsh and unwarrantable measures of Commissioner Lin, the imprisonment of Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and all other English subjects, and the wild but brief career of uncontrolled violence which marked his reign, called imperatively on our part for stronger measures than had yet been resorted to; and such measures were at once adopted by the Court of Directors of the East India Company, as well as by the government of the country, their direct object being to ensure the speedy departure of an adequate force for the protection of British subjects and British trade in China, and to demand proper reparation for the violence and insult offered to Her Majesty's representative.