Ordered the local mandarins to send them up to the Provincial City, that they might soon be tried. Both the Criminals and Chin-peit-sac, new and old, were tried again. Chiều mạng however, died in prison of disease, whilst Chinalae, To a tir, and the others, four in all together were again put on their trial and confessed before the Provincial Judge. The treasurer in conjunction with Ching, the Lieut: Governor having the Treasurer, Judge, and Inspectors under their direction, then judicially ascertained that Chin-mang was the criminal who originated the piracy, and although he had died in prison, his corpse ought nevertheless to be cut in pieces. The crime of the leaders Chinatae and Foalik, who both boarded the boat and committed piracy and murder being of the deepest dye; so that no law could respite them, we therefore requested respectfully a death warrant, and directed the Provincial Judge to take the two criminals Chinatae and Foalik, and send them bound to the place of Execution, there to be decapitated and their heads to be exposed; whilst Chin-mang-new's body, he being the author of the piracy, should at the same time be cut in pieces, and their heads be stuck up on a pole, at the place where the crime was committed, as a warning to the multitude and to deter others.
The two accomplices Chinagne, Linfootsae, who though being forced on board the boat, and shared in the plunder, still did not assist personally in the robbery, ought also as accomplices of Pirates, according to law, be sentenced to decapitation, to wait for an answer or from the