written to the local authorities that
"Hongkong being a
British possession,
and that no one had any right to go
there to levy taxes, &c.
6.
The above case was referred to
abstain for the present from further
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discussion upon the other part of our
exclusive
&
right. Any attempt on the side of the
Chinese to exercise
reported to
be
for Lord Stanley by Mr Davis, whose
measures
and
correspondence His Lordship
approved by This Lordship in Despatch
No. 98. of 30th March, 1845.
were
7. I further informed Sir, to prevent
mistakes, that
to
any one attempting to execute here the warrant of a foreign
authority,
of whatever nation,
to
would be surely punished, according to the circumstances of the assault proved against him. This produced the reply which I have quoted at the commencement of this Despatch,
and as
as an
I consider it satisfactory, admission of the inviolability of our territory, I have thought it prudent to
authority here would
very easily be resisted, and I have little fear of the repetition of what, in this
instance, occasioned
9.
my
complaint.
The other is a
far
more difficult
matter, as it is easy to defeat our application for the person of a native criminal escaping from this jurisdiction.
10.
The murderer demanded by in this case, proved to be the chief of a formidable pirate squadron lately annihilated by Her Majesty's Ships
"Fury" and "Columbine", as Your Lordships will have learned from my Despatch No 100 of the 3d instant. He stands
charged with
numerous
acts
of piracy
and violence, committed in China and
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his person, as I am satisfied that such application would be of no
avail, and
I should be confined to a reiteration
of all my arguments already on record,
to no purpose.
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
Your Lordships,
Most Obedient,
Humble Servant,
Bonham