CO129-109 - Public Offices - 1865 — Page 176

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"last report as having been made

by the Honghong authorities to the Canton Mandarins for Tesping Chief who had taken refuge here

good deal of popular indignation. It would affear that the Local Authorities have not only rend the Treaty erroneously but that

has excited

they

have

in the matter,

A

power whatever to meddle

mo

Ordinance

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having been passed to enable them to 1.08 (2 take cognisance of Offences under the Tientsin Treaty ! The sad part of the story is the mode of the death of the unfortunate

demanded

man surrendered. He

Or

bras

charge of piracy. The decapitation.

punishment for which is

The surrender

the man

was made through the

giving

British Consul et Centon who in

af to the Mandarins notified that the accused ought to have a for

trial

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trial, and that he wished to know when the same would take place

he would make it a duty to wath the proceedings. Whether a reply

was or

not received is not known, but

was h

the prisoner

ground,-

to pieces in

thew to the excention

tied to a

a

cross, and

thrauner

trad

east

too horrible to

ent

I

tear recital. When at length death released the wiction, his heart out and the soldiers mustved around.

wad

rate it ! lifter which the head was out the idice in the commision of the

fi "two last barbarous acts being that the deceased should appear in "Wades" without

head

was

heart. The horrible spectacle

witnessed by an Officer

in H. MS"

M.

The conduct of the Consal and the Acting Governor of "Hong Kong is the more culfate,

they

were

perfectly

AMM

culpable;

of the autrecedent

جو نار

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