Chinese Account of the Opium War

However, had firmly discouraged any relations with them. They were now ruining the bodies and the fortunes of the Chinese with their abominable poison and the memorialist proposed that the penalty of death should be decreed against all offenders. In consequence of this the Emperor at once remitted the matter to the consideration of all the high provincial authorities. Without a single exception, those officers recommended the most stringent measures, and he amongst them who wrote the most uncompromisingly was lin tseh-su, Viceroy of ?u Kwang, who was at once sent for to Peking, whence, after receiving the Emperor's instructions, he was despatched as Special Imperial Commissioner to Canton, armed with full Admiral's powers in addition.

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