No. 16.—The Mandarin
Correspondence concerning the bastinadoing of a British subject in the village of Ching-Wang, 30 miles from Shang-Hai.
1. To the British Consul at Shang-Hai:—
From Ching-Wang.
April 2.
Sir,
I write to say as how I have been bastinadoed on both feet. My feet is swole something cruel. This was done by the Mandarin Lu-Chu. He says as how I stole his cherries, which I never done it. Please investigate. I am a British subjick, which my mother was a Chinee.
Yours truly,
Fu-ling Thompson.
2. To His Complacency the Mandarin Lu-Chu:—
From Consul’s House, Shang-Hai.
April 8.