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of
of course, be expected to punich the act for which they
were arrested by the British
Officer at Chulan.
lome English persons lately
committed excesses on the Chinese territory at Cowloon, and if the Officer at that station
had in like manner.
seized the Offenders,
according to Greaty, and delivered them to me I would have instantly punished them; he has not done so, I have
but as
offered a
reward of 50 dollars for their discovery - In
Your future it would be much better if Excellency would have the foodness to direct
the Chinese Authorities to levze and deliver over to the English Officers or Consuls all British offenders, in order that they may not escape funishment.
with Rentiments of high consideration,
I have the honor Yo
True Copy Adam M. Imielin.
[Regned) I.F. Davis.
PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency the Governor, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Superintendent of British Trade, having been informed by the Officers of the Chinese Government, through the chief Ma- gistrate by the annexed letter, of certain most disgraceful outrages committed at Kowloon by some soldiers or other persons at present un-. known, is pleased to publish a reward of Fifty Dollars for any information leading to the con viction of the delinquent or delinquents. His Excellency draws the attention of Her Majesty's subjects to the severe penalties already enacted against this description of offenders, who at once disgrace their country, violate the provi sions of the subsisting Treaties, and oppose the wishes and intentions of the Home Govern- inent, so often made known; and he is deter- mined, by the most summary enforcement of those penalties against all persons indiscrimi- nately on conviction, to put a stop to abusesį calculated to abridge the liberty, hitherto- enjoyed by those who conduct themselves. properly.
By order,
FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE.
Colonial Secretary.
Victoria, Hongkong,
13th January, 1845.
A SECOND COMMUNICATION.
My Second, Major Yé stated, that several Englishmen on a previous day entered into the Fort. Your humble Officer treated them with politeness, because there exist peace and friend- ship between our two countries. Who would have! thought, that the said Englishmen would have gotten drank in the public place, and afterwards talked madly, fired their guns, doing every thing which was disgraceful. On the 4th day inst, (11ib January) there came again seven British Soldiers į from the Barracks to the fort, The garrison at
that time prevented their coming in, but the f English soldiers pointed their guns at them and threatened, as if they wanted to strike them. The i soldiers of the fort therefore seeing that matters went on in this manner, let them come in The English military then entered, produced their liquor, and after having become intoxicated, went out of the fort, and perceiving the pigs and dogs of the people, as well as their tame pigeons, fired at them at randam, just as they pleased,
In Cowloon first is the office of Major Ye, I where he drills the soldiers, and the order therefore · ought to be strict. The people rear the dogs, pigs and pigons, and these ought not to be hunted.
I therefore would request my elder brother to di- reet the Soldiers of Your Honurable Country, that whenever they come in future to Cowloon to walk about and to shoot birds, they ought not to go into the fort and injure the domestic animals
of the people. This would be no trifling proof of neighbourly friendship
I inform you of this, and hope you will cast your glance on it. Without dife
Received 12th January. 1845.
(Signed)
True Translation,
CHARLES GUTZLAFF,
Chinese Secretary.
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