The following letter has been written by the London Merchants to Lord Granville, in ro ference to the massacre of Tientsin, and urging the necessity for a better protection of Foreiga lives and property in China, 3, Lombard street, Sept. 15th, 1870.
at the interview which you kindly granted us My Lord,—As requested by your Lordship yesterday, I have the honour to state in writing the substance of the representations w made in the name of an influential meeting which had just been held in the City of persons interested in China and its trade, We informed your Lordship of the melancholy particulars which had reached us relating to the massacre of foreigners at Tientsin, perpetrated by the Chinese on the 2ist June From the information which has reached us from British merchants resident at the port of Tientsin, with the most ample opportunities of verifying the statements they make, we are firmly convinced that the attack upon the French Consulate, Cathedral, and Mission Raving larger objects and originating premises was only part of a preconcerted plan, strong anti-foreign feeling prompted by Mandarins high in office and power. The eircumstances of atrocious barbarity which attended the murder of the Sisters of Charity, and which we communicated to. your Lordship, have never been surpassed in the records of
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