deposition of the Chinese Corporal belonging
1
to
the guard at that Post, it appearing also that, the remained there for some time, and offered
assassins
sacrifices and libations to the gods, as is proved by
the circumstance of a bloody Chinese upper dress7, which
was
found there, as well as
traces of fresh blood met with in
several parts of
the building. That the outrage was not the act of
mere
assassins and highway robbers is evident from the
head and hand of the illustrious deceased being carried
away,
and since it is
certain that the assassins fearlessly carried with them the proof of their crime, is it not natural to conclude that they were assured of protection and safety when they committed it? This presumption is not only well-founded, but is being confirmed daily by the delay and negligence with which the Chinese authorities have acted in this affair, notwithstanding it's being of so grave and serious a nature, and who
of
"the activity and resources
of the
that is aware
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Chinese Police, does not see that the little advance
made by them in the present case is the
consequence
of some calculation, the motives of which it might
not perhaps
be
very difficult to discern? From what has been stated Your Excellency
will perceive the utter groundlessness of the assertion
that the whole statement made by this Council to Your
in their Despatch of the 29th instant, is
unreasonable, and with what justice they might
bring a similar charge against the Despatch they
are now
replying to, by which the objects of the authorities of the Province presided over by Your Excellency are clearly manifested. The Council, again declare to Your Excellency that such evasions and tergiversations are not only unworthy of and degrading to the character of a functionary of Your Excellency's rank, who boasts of sentiments of justice and reason,
but that they will never serve the end, as is perhaps
contemplated, of removing responsibility in the present
case. The Council therefore, whilst reiterating
the
protest they transmitted to Your Excellency on the
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