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English officers, should petition distinctly "the said English officers, and they would "govern them and direct their Affairs? __ and at that time the Lieutenant Governor of Canton respectfully submitted the same to the Emperor which led to the Cabinet minister Keschen being punished severely, a circumstance of which both those at home and abroad are well acquainted with.
Now, we the High Commissioners, as regard your holding four mercantile relations have again and a fourth time memorialized the Emperor, till we have received his gracious assent: if however upon this one head the Cabinet Ministers were to entertain different views, what in that case should we do! We humbly think that your object, your object in residing at Hong Kong is purely commercial, and Superintendents are not set up on account of the Chinese.
According to what is stated in Your Excellency's Communication "Henceforth any Chinese accused of murder, homicide, rape, robbery, and other grave crimes, shall be tried and punished by the district magistrate of Sinan: this is proper. Only "theft, shoplifting, pocket-picking, rioting, affray, drunkenness are to be...