the attack on the Foreign Settlement at Tientsin and the murder therein of the French Consul, his Staff, the Missionaries,
and Sisters of charity
ar
causing considerable excitement throughout China); and although it is
humnors
may
much
very probable that
aggerate the
gravity of affairs in other respects, still the facts already revealed are startling a native that men's
of so
Clima Mart &
5. July 1870
1820
Shanghai, and through the Public
125
Journals, of which extracts are endloved
July for the information of Your Lordship,
have established beyond.
very
a
doubt a
serious state of affairs, I have
considered it advisable to have boo
Men
ready for immediate inbarkation
in case
made
any requisition might be
for aid at
upon
min do
m
elsewhere?
camnet will be divrited of considerable
arvaidy.
Being without
direct official
amy.
intelligence from the North, I have
naturally refrained from lakting any
action; but,
Ao
the communications I
received from the French Corul at
mo
Shanghai,
I have the honor to be
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient!
humble
H.
serant;
Whitfeld.
Major General & Liintenant leverner