"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;
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