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funishment.
the opinion and the Court of Inquiry.
Extracts from observations of
1. From the evidence before them they have no doubt that disgraceful houses, property, and persons were ferpetrated in the Town of Victoria
outrages
on
Hongkong, on the 13th and 14th September
men of the 99th Regiment.
origin of all seems to have
1854 by
2. The origin of
been the violent death of a Soldier of the
99th who having become entangled
affray-
au
Seamen;
was
in
between English and Malay,
mortally stabbed it is
one of the latter.
suffosed, by mistake by one of
3. On both of the above evenings
the promptitude, speed and combination with which the rioters acted, their
being armed with sticks when they affarently, rendegsmused at the Civil
on the 13th and the circumstance
a.
Arpital mentioned by Major Dunne in his answer A 8 Appendix A. of the Forage Caps without nusubers ficked up by the picquet, on the 13th shewing that the Culprits had taken measures to remain unknown, freclude the idea of the affair having been quite unpremeditated.
There is
evidence
of any
Kunoledge of the designs of the men by the Now Commissioned officers of the Regiment, neither is there sufficient