IES
and that the one result
of the
sanguinary penalty that so revolts us is a theme, to
brutalize the people and, a broad
to alienate
foreign sympathies.
It seemed to me that
both ministers made less
fight than usual, but this
may
have been because they did
not wish to
prolong the discussion.
They both stoutly denied that "piracy is, any more than burglary, punishable by the
"Ling Chick", "I have found it stated, in a manual of the criminal
law, published as lately as 1859,
that, by a Secree of 1780, the principals
concerned in
6 of piracy
and resistance to the executive" are to be sentenced
to the "Ling Chick :"
I find
instructions sent to the Govr of
Hongding, but I look for
No
immediate result, and I merely
forward this report to show that the question has not been neglected.
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(97) Thomas Francis Wade.