so I beg leave to draw attention to the fact that if the allegation of the Petitioners that three members in one family have met their death at the hands of the 13 criminals in question is proved against the accused at their trial, the punishment to which they would be subject by the Penal Code is "death by the slow and painful process," a form of Chinese torture which has sometimes been described as a slicing of the victim into a thousand pieces. No torture could in our eyes be more horrible and I should be wrong not to remark upon this point, for the information of His Excellency the Governor because it serves to shew, as I have previously had the honor to point out, that the promise not to torture given by the Viceroy is one that His Excellency cannot legally give effect to.
I have, &c.,
(Signed) A. R. Hewlett, Consul.
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