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Shanghai in a sailing vessel from Singapore, touching where I remained
at Swatow,
for a fortnight...
was in August, 1869, and
This having been a very peaceful and
harmless life in Shanghai, I was an English tutor
and writer among the local
journals, and was never interfered
with by the Chinese till the 21st of last March,
when I was arrested on a charge
of assaulting a Chinaman on
the Street.
I was brought before Mr. Mowatt, Law Secretary,
who remanded me for a week, and informed
me that bail would be accepted.
I was then brought to Her
Majesty's Gaol, where I had to remain
till the 16 ultimo (July) when I was
put on board the S.S. "Acanthia"
which shipped on the 21-July and
arrived here.
Owing to the very extraordinary
circumstances which occurred whilst I was
locked up in H.M's Gaol,
in which 3 ... were taken away.
I arrived here in a totally destitute position. My
boxes, papers, books &c. are still at
Shanghai, together with all my
summer clothes.
The treatment I have received here at the hands of ...