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The Daily Dispatch: January 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Tortures of the French prisoners in China. (search)
in carts, with points of nails sticking through them, and driven over rutty roads.--After traveling in this way for twenty-four hours they arrived at Pekin. They were conveyed for five hours in the streets, in the midst of an immense concourse of people, whose sanguinary rage could with difficulty be restrained; after which they were placed in the prisons of the city, separated from each other, and chained in a room amidst thieves, incendiaries, and murderers. M. d'escayrac remained in a cell until the Chinese became terrified by the victories of the Allies. According to information which he received, Colonel Grandchamps, Mm. Dubut and Ader, were killed on the 18th, while defending themselves against those who endeavored to take them. The Abbe Duluc and an English official are said to have been beheaded in the Tartar camp on the 21st, at the affair of Paly-Kya-Ho. Mr. Bowlby, the correspondent of the Times, and Mr. De Norman, secretary to Lord Elgin, appear to have suffered most.