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the 2nd of this month, oft r more than a fortnight after he was in receipt of an urgent appeal from H. M. Consul for Wo A Fung's release & some days after the latter is said to have been put to death.
H. M. Minister having asked H.H. and Th. E.E. to make immediate enquiry into the circumstances of the arrest, it was not his intention to have further discussed the question with the Prince & ministers pending the result of the investigation, but inasmuch as the Viceroy of Canton has expressed a very decided opinion on the merits of the case in his note to H.M. Consul, H. M. Minister cannot pass over in silence