which was published in the Gazette of the 28th August) the late Governor of to strangulation was by mistake decapitated Honan reports that a prisoner condemned
instead. The magistrate under whose superintendence the punishment was inflicted at first reported that the error occurred because the soldiers employed as executioners were drunk; but he afterwards stated in a despatch that he found they had acted by the direct orders of the sub-lieutenant who commanded them. The governor therefore held an enquiry into the conduct of the sub-lieutenant, but found that the charge against him was unfounded, and that the mistake occurred as originally described.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.