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H.

this Island

I take this opportunity of

enclosing to Your Lordships, copy of an officia communication from the Imperial Commis = 2sy address, announcing

sioner to

ure) and execution at,

seizure

Chineze called Thin chi

-

the

Fantor of a

liang,

whons ho

states to be the real mindeier of the Governor of Macas - He adds that the head and hand of the deceased having bcew discovered, had been sent to Macão, together with the head of This chie liang, to be exposed at the spot where

the murder was committed.

that the

and it

Not being

at all satisfied

main executed was the real. sœurderer,

· being beyond all doubt that the

crime was perpetrated. by

six or LOVED

A. 8. &

individuals, I called Sen's attention to Ng. the fact, and urged on him not to love

time is ca.

any

causing

large to bo

those at lay

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apprehended . I was principally induced.

to take this step,

5.

I was desirous that

the fommissioner should sed that I was

تا

not satisfied that the hard awho was

beheaded was the real murdered. The

-Commissioned in his

aejoinder insists upor This chi liang being the principal

in the Lovernor's murder,

for

vertheless to adopt

but but promises

certais me a sures

the immediate pursuit and

apprctension of the other Criminals.

The accompanying memorandum, drawn uso by Mr Meadows, the Interpreter

tow, will show that from the

4 fantoro,

inquiries that goutteman has been able

to make relative to these matters,

arrived at the belief that the

ho has

executed, was not the real murderer),

but a erbber of the District of Heang shaw (in whick Macao is situated), for whom the authorities were

Keeping