"Boughoup), who were to be charged
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or serious crimes""
and Sir Henry Pottinger in his despatch speaks of the case as "establishing beyond
all future doubt or cavil the entire » Sovereignty of England over this
colony and its entire Populations .
Her Majesty's Government would greatly rejoice at such a state of things, but it can scarcely be alleged that the account of the proceedings given in the inclosures of the despatch, bear out that statement. Nor does it follow that because the Chinese Authority at Lanan admitted he had done
wrong in sending his Police officer into Hongkong to search for the Criminals who were charged with having
committed a crime at a certain
place
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place, which in the first instance
was not clearly stated to be within the Island, He therefore renounced all pretension to try those criminals eventually in his own Court, or admitted the right to try them in English Court - The ninth Article of the supplementary Treaty which is referred to, but which as it merely Applies to criminal fugitives from the Chinese dominions or from Hongkong has only an indirect bearing on the present case, provides that all preliminary steps such as the apprehension and examination in the first instance of Chinese fugitives who have sought refuge in Hongkong, shall be undertaken by the British officer, but each fugitive is, for trial
and
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