Kwok a Sing
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of
According to the statement
is a native of Siangshan, Kwangtung,
he is 36 years of age; his father and mother are both dead; he has neither elder brother nor younger, wife nor child; has always resided at Macao, gaining his livelihood as a small dealer. The conduct of the Portuguese Commandant (body of soldiers) had been all along savagely tyrannical: in making a horseway he had entirely destroyed the graves in the vicinity outside the San pao gate, levelled and desecrated them, to the great indignation of all men, both Chinese and foreigners. The graves of the ancestors of Thin chi liang, of the prisoner, and Li à pau having been destroyed by Amaral, Thin chi liang conceived the design of killing Amaral, to avenge himself, and by his counsel, and at his instance, the prisoner and Li á páu became his accomplices in the act. Then chi liang likewise induced...