am, with the administration
He duties of minister. My
temure of offices
g
is 90 nian, it's
close that it will not be
suppouse Tam specting in defence. of peramal dignity; but, on "principle, nothing
could be less
Resiselle than that the temporary
Absence of regarded by the Chinese as ani
for postponing the definitive
the Ministin Stould be
Excuse
Mttlement
of questions under discussion. I have but one, word to add
upon the quaranties arhich the Good of Hingeting has been instrusted to Requires. The abolition
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" long thich", or death. "by slow degrun,
Bras
presude u pon
the Prince
184
of Fung as Tuportid in dispatch 8816 of February Then I received from G Lop instructions to bispeath
the
Treatment of rebel.
226
Merciful treatment
it of ubel- prisoners after the capture of Man-Ming. There is, Tam
persuaded, no immediate
abolishing this
intention of
of abolishi
punishment . It will disappear-
as similar atrocities in own
history,
only as civilization
as civilization advances. In
the mean time no
the Chinese could
be worth our
no guarantees that
que
ld. give.
leo
voule
acceptances; there is
no engagement of
>
the kind that
could not be set aside
fifty subterfuges,
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