reside at Whampoa, at some distance from the residence of his Superior Officer, and be necessarily called upon there to exercise Jurisdiction over 13 British Subjects. Your Lordship presumes that there could be no greater objection to several persons being invested with Judicial powers within a given district in China than there is to the inserting the names of many persons in the roll of Justices for any County in England.
That your Lordship is fully aware that Her Majesty's Consuls could not pretend to Exercise Jurisdiction over Foreigners, unless such Foreigners should voluntarily submit to their Jurisdiction, as is the case in the Levant, where British Consuls have from the force of circumstances, long been Compelled to take cognizance of the complaints of Foreign Sectors, although until the Order in Council, under the Foreign Jurisdiction Act of the 2nd of October last was passed, the Consul was exposed...
Page 139