British office being present at the trial of the accused persons.
Dr reply of torture.
have the honor to state that His Excellency the Viceroy has requested me to inform His Excellency the Governor that the foregoing statement by the Commandant abstain in their case have to.
from the (signed) St. R. Aulett Consul.
of the proceding from ignorance part of this officer of Treaty provisions, and is altogether unauthorized. His Excellency Aurther requests that the 18 criminals may be at once handed to the Chinese Office. Li Ping-tai for a conveyance fanston, and returns, in the usual word, the promise to
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