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Whether a reply was received from Brommer is now known. When a man was taken and tied to a cross for execution, the spectacle was too horrible to bear recital. The victim, his heart cut to pieces, was a man. The soldiers mustered and released 478 subjects, permitting British subjects to serve the Chinese authorities.

An Officer of H.M. by the name of Licit Carden, by Regimental order, was to continue their instructions out. Major ... after the commission of such barbarous acts, being witness to the fact that the deceased should appear without a head or be a horrible spectacle, was in H.M. Service. The Governor of Hong Kong is the most culpable, as they were acting perfectly aware of the antecedents of the "Cheriere" Officials, who exhibited perfidy, cruelty, and baseness towards Sarping, whom Governor Schlaugher slaughtered for 60 to 100,000.

The province of Canton alone witnessed executions; the Bloody Shanghai by the "Fontai; the torture and timer Gordon at Wis-com-suf-cade. It was believed that such cruelty could be practiced with impunity. Notwithstanding the order in Council dated the 4th March 1864, the body of Chinese in the vicinity of mortars and light guns under Colonels Pudley & Boyle, Poncey, Jung-wang-s at Drein do-Chicco, and thirty-quot had large bodies of men under their Command, daily exercising them in the use of every calibre.

Dr. H.M. Reg. & Europlan mies are engaged in manufacturing for the Chinese Government at Foochow. Col. Cooke commands a body of Chinese at Ningpo, and Amoy, and Costirkham's sent to the head of a body of Chinese troops. On the other hand, it is said there were 80 to 100 Europeans of all Nations in the Service of the Taiping Chiefs in the province of Fokeen.

It must be manifest, therefore, to your Lordship that while Europeans are not prevented from hiring themselves as mercenaries to the contending parties in China, the country is beset by anarchy and consequent dis-solation and the miseries...

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Proofread Text Whether a reply was received from Brommer is now known. When a man was taken and tied to a cross for execution, the spectacle was too horrible to bear recital. The victim, his heart cut to pieces, was a man. The soldiers mustered and released 478 subjects, permitting British subjects to serve the Chinese authorities. An Officer of H.M. by the name of Licit Carden, by Regimental order, was to continue their instructions out. Major ... after the commission of such barbarous acts, being witness to the fact that the deceased should appear without a head or be a horrible spectacle, was in H.M. Service. The Governor of Hong Kong is the most culpable, as they were acting perfectly aware of the antecedents of the "Cheriere" Officials, who exhibited perfidy, cruelty, and baseness towards Sarping, whom Governor Schlaugher slaughtered for 60 to 100,000. The province of Canton alone witnessed executions; the Bloody Shanghai by the "Fontai; the torture and timer Gordon at Wis-com-suf-cade. It was believed that such cruelty could be practiced with impunity. Notwithstanding the order in Council dated the 4th March 1864, the body of Chinese in the vicinity of mortars and light guns under Colonels Pudley & Boyle, Poncey, Jung-wang-s at Drein do-Chicco, and thirty-quot had large bodies of men under their Command, daily exercising them in the use of every calibre. Dr. H.M. Reg. & Europlan mies are engaged in manufacturing for the Chinese Government at Foochow. Col. Cooke commands a body of Chinese at Ningpo, and Amoy, and Costirkham's sent to the head of a body of Chinese troops. On the other hand, it is said there were 80 to 100 Europeans of all Nations in the Service of the Taiping Chiefs in the province of Fokeen. It must be manifest, therefore, to your Lordship that while Europeans are not prevented from hiring themselves as mercenaries to the contending parties in China, the country is beset by anarchy and consequent dis-solation and the miseries...
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