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the attack on the Foreign Settlement at Tientsin and the murder therein of the French Consul, his Staff, the Missionaries,

and Sisters of charity

ar

causing considerable excitement throughout China); and although it is

humnors

may

much

very probable that

aggerate the

gravity of affairs in other respects, still the facts already revealed are startling a native that men's

of so

Clima Mart &

5. July 1870

1820

Shanghai, and through the Public

125

Journals, of which extracts are endloved

July for the information of Your Lordship,

have established beyond.

very

a

doubt a

serious state of affairs, I have

considered it advisable to have boo

Men

ready for immediate inbarkation

in case

made

any requisition might be

for aid at

upon

min do

m

elsewhere?

camnet will be divrited of considerable

arvaidy.

Being without

direct official

amy.

intelligence from the North, I have

naturally refrained from lakting any

action; but,

Ao

the communications I

received from the French Corul at

mo

Shanghai,

I have the honor to be

My Lord,

Your Lordship's most obedient!

humble

H.

serant;

Whitfeld.

Major General & Liintenant leverner