The following is a translation of a de: spatch purporting to have been addressed by Li Yung-tsai, the leader of the rising in Kwang-si, to the Tartar General in Can for "Thave the honor to inform you of the following particulars, and I shall be very much obliged if you will memorialize the Throne embodying my whole statement, "On the Gth day of the 4th moon of the present year the Governor of Kwang-si sent me with 4 despatch to Kwang-tung, there to await an appointment; but owing to my having no means to pay the expense of the journey, I wrote to the Viceroy soliciting him to allow me time that I might go home and devise some pian to get sufficient money to meet the expense. On the 15th of the same moon, having received His Excellency's permission, I left Kwang-si, and on the 9th of the following moon I arrived: at
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