The Sun. — 1848-04-26 (London, England)

PROCLAMATION OF THE PROVINCIAL JUDGE OF CANTON. " Le, by Imperial appointment, Chief Justice for the province of Kwangtung, makes proclamation. " Whereas the penalty of the statute is always life for life, the inhabitants not concerned in the present case need not hurry about moving their property in trepidation and anxiety. Do you, the gentry and people of the several villages in the neighbourhood of Keaoupeaou, Kang-keaou, and Hwang-chu-ke, whe are men of reason and capacity, hasten to inform the civil and military officers of the place in which the corpses are caooonhceaalsede, possible they may take possession of them as ; and do you also deliver up the authors of the disturbance.Vsi Be likewise speedy in bringing intelligence of the two persons who were killed, of the surname of Chin and Le dwell that anel inquest may be held upon them. You can then in tranquillity, and joyfully pursue your avocations foreigners will have repose. My and motive Do both natives and is;to not preservedeeeive all your villages unharmed [or entire]. yourselves. These are my commands. " Issued on the Ist of the 11th moon (Dec. 8, 1847.") CO3IMISSIONER KEYING TO SIR JOHN DAT (Translation.—A communication.) Is. cc Ke, Imperial Commissioner, Governor-General of the Two Twang, &c., hereby makes a communication in reply : " On the 12th inst., at about four o'clock, and to-day, I have successively received your Excellency's dispatches, with the contents of which I have made myself fully acquainted. On receiving your Excellency's dispatch yesterday referring to this case, I communicated to you in reply the circumstance of Leang-a-i ae and others having, on being interrogated, admitted that the villagers had beaten the Englishmen to death, they themselves being on the spot, and witnessing the affair with their own eves; and that the Englishmen had wounded several een of the natives; also of orders having b given to sub• nd bto force the ject them to another interrogatory, " delivery up of the principals in the murders.a " Since then the Commissioners thei entease ,sand the local authorities concerned, have predreport, stating— "On the 12th instant, a widow Chin, of the maiden name of Ho, of the Hang-keaou village, and a widow e. Le of the maiden name Mo, of the Keaou-Pesou villag severally reported for inspection their respective sons Chin-a-Chin and Le-a• Keen, who they stated had been shot by foreigners in the outskirts of the Ilwangechu-ke village. It was found on inspection that the body of Chin-a-Chin had a shot wound on the left side of the breast, which had really caused his death, and that Le-aKeen had a shot wound in the fore part of the right side, which had a ver • e y grave appearance, and had rendered him speechless. .n resultst of the inspection were then separately entered into the shrouding of the dead body,forms, and orders given for went of the wounded person 8:4 and the medical treat' " In reply, I gave orders to urge on the proceedings vi. ence in forcing the eve garously, and to use the utmost d gentry and elders to deliver up one of the principal murderers who beat the Englishrya en to death, in order that they may be prosecuted and punished. "On examination I find that the Chinese la giving life for life in cases of murder are very and as this case is, morever, one affecting the severe. relations s e o en; r between the two countries, it will, still less than others, permit of the slightest degree of perversion or remissness. ", The whole of the inhabitants of the villages are, however, not alike, there being among them both good and bad; and in this affair justice will not be rendered fer the dead, nor a warning given to the ignorant and foolish, 'unless we succeed in inflicting condign punishment on the true and real murderers. And the real murderers, wain, can be only ascertained with truth, apprehended and delivered to the authorities by the gentry and elders of the public halls. Hence, I ordered the civil and mi litary commissioners in the case to lead troops to the place in question, and establish themselves there, as also to close up the ancestral halls of the gentry and people, and thus force them to deliver up the murderers with all speed. The commissioners have now reported to me that the gentry and elders, having yielded obedience to their commands, are using the utmost diligence in