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is I have had frequent occasion to remark, the commonest rules of international Law are utterly unknown.
In addition to this primary reason for withholding any Communication to the Macao Authorities, I likewise very humbly take leave to Jay - which I do with great deference to the legal Authorities whose opinion was sent to me by Stanby- Lod Mak was
I am forced by mature reflection to question the right of Portugal to call for our interposition or assistance between her and under any circumstances... She does not pretend to hold the somblance of Sovereignty over Subjects of the Chinese Empire, residing even in the City of Macao,
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Macao, and although circumstances have led to her exercising an undefined authority with respect to the Subjects and Citizens of foreign States, similarly Situated, yet even regards Portuguese Subjects the Governor and Senate of Macao are not I understand vested with the power of life and death, and have to send all such criminals as are likely to demand condign punishment for trial to Gov. Supposing, however, that the opinion of Her Majesty's Advocate General is perfectly correct (and I repeat that I dissent from it with extreme deference) I presume that the observance of the Treaties between England and Portugal was intended to be rigidly reciprocal