Major-General Margary writes to The times as follows:—As the public have not been informeil of the whole facts, real or supposed, concerning the disastrous defeat of the Bri ion from Barmah through China, may T you to be kind enough to publish the following? The first telegram received said of an army of 3,000, sent by order of th "The attacking party was the advanced guard
Governor of Momein' to annihilate British of this there is mo doubt," "With jeep grief Colonel Browne reports that Margary and his servants, five Chinese, have been Killed at Manwine, and their heads exposed over wall of town. Chinese commanded by the nephew of Lee See Hie." The Jast telegram from Colonel Strover, vid Rangoon, dated March 3, states:—"From private information I learn that Margary went aheat of expedition to reconnoitre, when twelve miles frown Maw of hostile interruption notre, and was treacherously murdered. Poor fellow! we know not what horrible torture he may have been subjected to when the Chinese got him into the town. My heart bleeds to think of it. Will our present noble. Government and the British nation allow most outrageous insult and defiance of it to pass unavenged? I trow not. If it did our hold on-India would be imperilled. As it is, no doubt exaggerated rumours of a large force of English foreign devils" being easily defeated will spread through China and elsewhere like wildfire, and what may be the effects of it if we do vot act promptly? Man-should be razed to the ground and ocoupied by us—two feats easy to be ied.; and then there would be auflicient protection, both moral and physical, for a commercial'route through Burmah into China, open to all countries. We went to war with the King of Abyssinia on account of his imprisoning Vice-Consal. Lord G. Hamilton, in his tame answer to Mr. Cartwright in the House of Commons on Thursilay last, called my son a distinguished engineer who had joined the expedition of Bhamo," thus making jim appear a private individual travelling on his own account, whereas he was in Her Majesty's Consular service in China, and was sent to join the Mission to conduct it through China, by order of the British Minister at Peking. "He went most willingly, and held Imperial safe conducts.
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