Council addressed you on the 13th of February last, with reference to the conduct soldiers forming the escort of H.E. tang, on the occasion of his visit to tie foreign Settlement of Shanghai in the mouth of October 1983, and it will be within your recollection that the letter I have referred to was the last of a sories dating from the day following the Viceroy's visit.
'T have now the honour to ask your refer ence to that correspondence again, and to request that you will consider the present letter asa continuation of it, while houring in mind the circumstances then complained On the 23rd of February last H.E. Tso again visited Shanghai, accompanied by an armed retinue, whose numbers wer mented largely by soldiers from camps in the neighbourhood, and it is with regret I have to inform you that the conduct of these men. was such as to imperil the lives of several persons of various nationalities, and seriously. to threaten the peace of the Settlement.
It las been brought to the notice of the Council that unoffending gentle assaulted by th: in the most cowardly manner, and in one
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