Show from the hong kong register jan 27 the native nativa merchants of canton indict the english A MANIFESTO MANIFEST 03 concerning t the continually increasing 11 evils from which they are summering suffering 0 submitted by the owners shopkeepers and bo householders uie use holders of more than thirty streets embraced embraced in the saen seven ward of yew lad lan the five wards awards of tsing ping m anc and 1 a all ail 11 of tsung kweton the 6 ath th day of the 13 alth ith f th month of the 4 ath th yeal year fung in the ninth month of this year yeb when the english consul parkes was stirring stirring up the quarrel n on account of tile the petty dissatisfy dissatisfaction action about tile the matter of the lor lorcha clia cila he issued and had posted up lip on outside aside the gate pale behind the E english is factories a sugared proclamation to the in inhabitants E b i tan ean ts which we believed to be betrue true and quietly pu pursued our avocations as before it turned out however that immediately af afar tr their fort burning and cannon firing the english soldiers set fire to tila ilia he pack houses shop and dwell dwelling ine inz houses outside the tsing hae and woo seen gates at af the same time moreover without putting any questions they set to destroy and to hold all the shops in the tile neighborhood of the factories on the eveni nig of the tiie of the file first I 1 month of winter fire broke out in some of the sheds occupied aupied by bv tile the english guards girards in the middle ward of the factories street and when parties hastened from the various streets to 0 o help heip to put it out they were shot down and wounded and the flames spread to the houses and the foreign r residences themselves last of all on the morning of the da day y of the present month again treading in in their f former or ways and with a still greater poisonous recklessness english officers led on their soldiers provided with fire raising apparatus and applying it east and west rais rals raised ad a common conflagration this was done in the sight of all men all mouths will give the same report of it altogether at successive time timer there have been burned of the peoples houses not fewer than several thousand possessing a value vaine of not less than ten millions of dollars while it would he lamentable to relate the deaths wounds and homeless wanderings of men merr and women old and young xoung alas alas we are pack house bouse and shopkeepers icee ers we have dealt in foreign goods and our predecessors and wr have had intercourse with foreigners for more than one hundred years wit with us there was no cause for enmity or resentment and yet in this way with darkened conscience science have they the len hen raised fire again and again our property has been destroyed our lives have been injured where is imma trea venly principle |