Hou
Com
My Lood,
Hong Kong 2d August 1557
467
It is stated in the newspapers, that Your Lordship,
in reply to an enquiry put by the Earl of Carnarvon in the House of Lords
on
the 12 may, affirmed that "so far from there being reason to apprehend
" that the Chinese, from hatred to our laws, would rise wherever our flay
' waved, the English laws were milder, gave greater security for the liberty
"
than
:
" of prisoners, and were administered with more calmness and justive " could be found elsewhere.
I submit and maintain that of this be a..
correct report of what Your Lordship des say, you stand compromised to as false a statement, day affirmation, as ever emanated, either from an Oriental potentate, or his minister.
I call
upon Your Lordship to test the merit of my challenge – to release yourself from the stigma of having made a false affirmation... to absolve yourself from the responsibility of having screened the Corruption, which your having denied the existence of makes Your Lordship a particeps Corminic in _ and at the same time by bringing to light, the venality, the extortion, and the malpractices attending British misrule in the East, to have the laws of England dispensed in their integrity by hands capable of administering theme, and not by reedy polituane, hungry lawyers, and worthless favorites.
I shall eschew taunting Your Lordship by repeating your _: own words, as I elucidate the points antagonistic of their veracity_ I am about to tell Your Lordship some starting facts. Your Lordships Credulity
may
be
The Right Honorable
The Carl of Harrowly.
Ve, de, de.