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the English "Courts of Lawer
but
and Derainer"
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it is on record that in this
year of Heilung (1754) a French
prisoner Shilowishi (?) was in respectful obedience to the Imperial Command and Pleasure, directed to be conveyed home to his own Country Khere to be judged and dealt with. And, in the 1th year of Kia-king (should be 道光, likely "Taoukwang" or similar, but keeping as is) (1821) in the case
of an English ship of War killing a Chinese at Whampoa, of the name of Hwany, the then
Governor General, Juen quan, addressed the throne requesting that it should be
desired of England itself duly to
punish
the offender. This being all on record, it will be right forthwith to settle distinctly, regulations,
whereby in
any future cases English merchant people being involved in legal proceedings with
the people of the Country, the English Merchants shall be given over
to English jurisdiction, while natives shall receive punishment from their own
Country, thus avoiding
all cause of bloodshedding dispute. The Foreign merchants of other Countries may now however drag this as a precedent for them.