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London, England, 1860-12-17 00:00:00

spoke a word or asked for water, we were beaten and
stamped upon. They kicked us about the head with their
boots. If wo asked for something to eat, they crammed
dirt down our mouths. At the end of the third day irons
were put on our neck, wrists, and ankles, and about 3
o'clock on the fourth we were taken away in carts. I never
saw Mr. Anderson again. In our two carts there wore eight
of us, viz.,—three Frenchmen, four Sikhs, and myself.
One Frenchman died on the road ; he was wounded with a
sword-cut on the head. We were then taken away tewards
the hills. That night we stopped at a house to eat and
rest, and travelled all the next day. We stopped again at
night, and late the next day arrived at a walled town as big
as Tien-tsin. There was also a large white fort outside the
town about two miles off. The place was
,surrounded on
thre3 sides by high hills. 1% e were taken into the gaol in-
side the town. A Frenchman died after we had been in the
gaol about eight or nine days, and Sowar Prem Singh about
three or four days after that. They both died from maggots
eating into their flesh, and from which mortification ensued,
The Mandarin in charge of the gaol took off my irons
about ten days ago. The Chinese prisoners were very kind
to us, cleansed and washed our wounds, and gave us what
they had to eat.

(True translation.)
WALTER PANE, Captain Commanding
Fano's Horse.
Camp, Pekin, Oct. 13, 1860.

EVIDENCE OP JOWALLA SING, DUFFALAR, IST TROOP

FANE'S HORSE.

When Messrs. hakes and Loch left our party for the
purpose of seeing Sang-ko-lin-sin, there were Mr. Bowlby,
Lieutenant Anderson, Captain Brabazon, Mr. De Norman,
one man King's Dragoon Guards, one man Ist Sikh Cavalry
and our own party of 17 men. We stood waiting for half
an hour, when Lieutenant Anderson asked to be taken to
where the other gentlemen were gone; he was told to remain
till they came back. After another half hour the army
assembled in large numbsrs and surrounded us, told us to
get off our horses, and leading them to come with them.
Thon, the whole army, as Lieutenant Anderson remarked,
about 10,000 men, took us back to Tungchow, and made us
rest for about a quarter of an hour, and give up our arms.
They,then made us remount, and paraded us through the
army, and then took us on the road to Pekin, and rested
for that night in a joss-house. In the morning they again
mounted us on our horses and took us to Pekin. In Pekin
they made us dismount and fed us. They then took us
through the city to a place about two miles beyond it ;
they there made us dismount and gave us tents, the English
officers and the natives separate. Then they took us away
one by one and bound us lying on the stomach, with hands
and feet tied behind the back. They kept us there in this
position for three days. They gave us food three times,
and that only a mouthful at a time. They then threw us,
bound as we were, into carts, and took us, as I think, about
20 toss—the mules were trotting and galloping all night.
We arrived in the morning at a fort,* and were there put
into prison, confined in cages and load ed with chains. At
that time we were seven in all.f I know nothing of the
others. They were taken further on. We were kept in
this place three days, so tightly bound with cords that we
could not move, the sowars bound with one cord the others
with two. At the first place we got nothing to eat, after
that they gave us a little as before. After the first day at
the second place,t. Lieutenant Anderson became delirious,
and remained so, with a few lucid intervals, until his
death, which occurred on the ninth day of his imprison-
ment. Two days before his death his nails and
fingers burst from the tightness of the cords, and
mortification set in, and the bones of his wrist were ex-
posed. While he was alive worms were generated in his
wounds, and ate into and crawled over his body. They left
the body there three days, and then took it away. Five
days after his death a sowar named Ramdum died in the
same state. His body was taken away immediately. Three
days after this Mr. De Norman died. On the evening of
the day of Lieut. Anderson's decease the cords were taken
off our hands, but our feet were still kept bound, and from
that ime we were better fed. Our feet were unbound two
days after this, and kept so until our release yesterday
evening. When Lieut. Andersen and our comrades called
on us to help him by biting his cords, the Chinamen kicked
us away. When we arrived at the joss house between
Tung Chow and Pekin, Captain Brabazon and a French-
man went back, and Lieut. Anderson told us they were
going to the Commander-in-Chief to give information and
obtain our release.

(True translatioz.)
WALTER FANE, Captain, Commanding
_ __

Fane'* Horse.

SIR HOPE GRANT.
WAR. OFFICE, DEC. 15.

Mr. Secretary Herbert has this day received two
despatches and their enclosures, of which the fol-
lowing are copies, addressed to him by Lieutenant-
General Sir J. Hope Grant, G.C.8., Commanding
her Majesty's Forces in China :
No. 51.

Head-quarters, Bivouac, outside Pekin, Oct. 9,

Sir,—ln continuation of my letter of the 4th instant

have the honour to report that, on the sth of October the
allied forces advanced from Tungchow, leaving the heavy
guns, tents, and baggage stored about three miles from that
place. We halted for the night about three miles east of
the north-east angle of Pekin, and the following morning
resumed our march in a north-westerly direction, so as to
pass along the northern face of the city, but out of gun-shot
of the walls, and attack Sang-ko-lin-sin's army, which
was supposed to be encamped directly in our front.
The country about here is not good for cavalry, from the
great number of trees, villages and hollow roads. I accord-
ingly despatched the Cavalry Brigade with two 6-pounders
with mounted detachments, with orders to advance on the
road leading to the Emperor's Palace at Yuen-min-Yuen,
with a view of cutting off the retreat of the enemy in that
direction. The French were on our left, while the English
force moved along the out side of an old rampart which runs
parallel to the north face of the city. At this time we received
information that the Chinese army was in full retreat, having
commenced moving the night before. I therefore sent a
message to General de Montauban that I should advance
at once to the Emperor's Palace. On the road, however,
we came across the rearguard apparently of the enemy,
with whom a few shots were exchanged before they fled
towards the city. As they appeared to be in considerable
force in the suburb, I determined on halting on the northern
road to prevent their moving out in that direction.
The French meanwhile, anxious to join is in our advance,
struck off to their right, and, crossing the rear of our
cohimn without either of us seeing the other, pushed on to
the Palace without meeting any opposition, and occupied it
about nightfall.
The Cavalry Brigade had reached the Palace about two
hours before this, and were there waiting for us to join
them ; on their way they saw a body of the enemy's cavalry,
but were unable to come up with them.
On the following day Mr. Wade went to meet a Chinese
Commissioner, and conveyed to him a memorandum from
General de Montauban and myself, a copy of which I send
herewith, as also Mr. Wade's report of his interview.
The result of this has been that yesterday Messrs. Parkes
and Loch, with one Sikh sowar and five Frenchmen (one
officer and four soldiers) were brought into the English
camp.

The Chinese declare that these are all of the prisoners
who were in Pekin, the rest having been conveyed some
•d;stance into the interior; they have, however, been sen t
for, and will be given up in the course of a few days.
Messrs. Parkes and Loch have given the following
account of their capture :—When Capt Brabazon and Mr.
Loch left the army on the 18th September to recall Mr.
Parkes' party, they proceeded at once to Lang-chau, where
they experienced a short delay in collecting them all toge-
ther, and then set out to return. On arriving within a few
hundred yards of the centre of the Chinese position, where
they had left Col. Walker, they heard firing commence, and
immediately their passage was barred by a large body of
cavalry and infantry. the commander of whom informed
them that, as firing had begun, he could not permit them
to pass without Sang-ko-lin's orders. Considering that it
would be almost impossible to cut their way through the
large bodies which surrounded them, they decided on trust-
ing to the flag of truce which they carried.
Accordingly Messrs. Parkes and Loch, accompanied by
one Sikh orderly with a white flag, quitted the rest of the
party to go and speak with Sang-ko-lin-sin ; while there
they were surrounded and made prisoners, by order of
Sang•ko-lin-sin himself, and sent into Pekin, where for
several days they were treated with great severity.
haveO been
ntehne
29th Sept. they were removed from the gaol, and
since treated in a proper manner. •
The rest of the party they know nothing of, beyond
having heard Sang•ko-lin-sin, at the time of their capture,
order the remainder to be seizedalswoealn.edtsaeknetnbaperkistoonTeursngin-
chow.
The five Frenchmen given up
Tungchow while walking about the street, and ignorant
of what was going on.
appear
Pekin
into
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The loss of the Emperor's Palace appears to have had
a great effect on the Chinese authorities, who whfo
be now willing to accede to our demands, to which we
have antbdlesclwhile onlyhi the
we giving
remain uph of the
ere, in return for which
ourhands
re
the city will be preserved for them.
The heavy guns will arrive from Tungchow to-day, so
that the Chinese will
that we are prepared to enforce
en
our demands in the event of their deceiving us.---I have, &c.,
J.
Lieut.G see
e r al, Comimia°n?dEerGoltflthNeTFerces.
The Right Hon. the Secretary of State for War, &c.

Camp, outside Teh-Sheng Gate, Oct. 8.
Sir,—I have the honour to state that I went yesterday
evening, at 5 o'clock, to a temple outside the Teh-Sheng
gate, to meet Hang-ki, the deputy of the Prince of Kung,
and that I communicated to him in the enclosed note the
decision at which I had been instructed to say your Excel-
lency and General de Montauban had arrived.
Beyond the rendition of our prisoners, which, as your
Excellency was already aware, the Prince of Kung had

* Showja, I think it is called.
1 eAuderson, De Norman, one duffadar, four sowars.
4:
Outside the kings palace, about three miles from Pekin