Sm,-I have been requested to forwanl for publication the accompanying copy of a memorial to Mr. Consul Gibson, figned by all the principal Chines: Hongsin the south of Formosa, I also enclose the original document for publication in year Chincaz Jeane, should you think fit. wooms to me valuable as a further proof of the esteem and respect in which Mr. Gibson ix belt by all classes in Formosa, and of their appreciation of his just and temperate conduct under most trying circumstances; when a less jed action would have probably caused great loss of life and property—at that time exposed to imminent peril. A striking testimony to this feeling was afforded by the Heprtal, or Military Governor of the Fore of Aurping, which was taken and occupied under Mr. Gibson's instruc: tions during the Into disturbances.
The Hep-tai not only escorted Mr. Gibson, when he loft Formosa, with disown grant of honour, api with marks of rerpoct and ceremony never before shown to any foreign Gonsul in the Island, but, after he had left, emphatically declared before a number of Chinese and Europea There goes a just and honourable foreigner."
Your obedient servant,
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