of the Chinese Government..
With a view of ascertaining in the first instance, as nearly as I could, the opinions which are entertained by the most enlightened of the Chinese, on the general principles of Law and on the extent of the jurisdictions which the Chinese are willing to allow foreign governments to exercise over their own subjects while within the Chinese territory, I carefully examined and considered the very curious and instructive collection made by Order C138 order of the Emperor Kaungkie, the most enlightened of the Chinese Sovereigns, in the 17th Century, of all the edicts and instructions which had been issued by his different Predecessors, together with his own observations upon the policy of each of those public acts; the celebrated translation made from the Chinese into the English language of the Chinese criminal code by Sir George Staunton, and the very useful resumé drawn up some years ago by a public officer