!
to be made in obedience to instructions received from the Viceroy in consequence of my despatch to His Excellen of the 6th instant.
This officer asserts
that there has not been
any report and that there is no record of an arrest having been made in July last of LawnYing in Shamshui-
one
pc. But he states that Captain Lu, then of Admiral Fang's staff, reported that on the 19th July he had captured in Changshawan a criminal named Lam Pão Mu Ying, ie, Lam Ying with the Kickname wis man had been Pão Irul! This guilty, the report states, of__ purse-cutting and other offences, and a reward of
$130
$130 had been offered by "," his fellow-villagers for his capture. The Viceroy now requests
me to obtain from His Excellency the doting Governor unimpeachable evidence that the Lam Ying now in the Chinese prison here is the Lam Ying who is said to have been captured on British territory on the 12th July last. He also wishes to know what evidence there is as to the kind of soldiers who effected the arrest and the mode in which the
capture.
was made. It seems to me to be
mere
trifling on the Viceroy's part to suggest that there
may have been two Lam Yings arrested in the same.
neighbourhood
il
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