April I carefully refrain
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Their punishment will take place from doing.
At too great
But it is not
The text
My duty to
Express in
The plainest terms
My firm conviction
That in spite of any promise
The Viceroy may
Make to the contrary.
The accused persons will,
If surrendered, be most certainly subjected to torture at their trial,
And, if found guilty, will as certainly, in accordance with Chinese laws be put to death by the slicing process.
Both their trial and
The distance from
The vicinity
Canton to admit of
Hope that the ordinary
Formalities of judicial proceedings
Will in their case
Be in the least degree departed from, and
I cannot for a moment doubt that,
Concerned, even as they are,
Their treatment will be
More severe than that which befell the prisoners surrendered
By the Hongkong Government
In 1879.
I may add that I have
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