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Marshy informed Your Lordship that, on the recommendation of the Attorney General, and with the
coneurre nee
Full-eo.
of
the Excentive
Council, he had directed criminal
proceedings to be taken against the Editors of four local Chinese Newspapers for publishing Hongkong what purported to be
in
an Edist issued by the Viceroy. Canton. In this document.
of
Chinese subjects residing in
were exhorted to m
" scoretly Kill some French men
"Commander
"Commander or destroy by fire their
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munitions of war, or co-operate
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with the Chinese officers and
"
soldiers in attacking them from
within and without, with a view
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to their being entirely swept in "away " Promises were held out to those complying with these instructions of forgiveness for
past offences, as well as
ell as of liberal rewards in the future.
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now enclose a
melosures Memorandum from the Attorney. General showing the result of the
land
Government