6.
Article 21 Treaty of Peking
from his letter, whether the clause in the Treaty of Peking stipulating only for the rendition to this. of "Criminals, subjects of China,
ores not withdraw
from
Government the right of
delivering any Criminals.
this
other class of
6. The question, therefore,
"/
the Crown
ofor the Law Officers of to consider is, whether the
Government of
this Colony has
the right to surrender to the Chinese Government the Subjects of non-treaty Powers who have
committed Crimes within the
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China and who
have taken refuge in trusting.
7.
If it be decided that such right exists, then I. have Grace's instructions
to ask
your
as to the course to be pursued in the case now reported.
8.
My
own opinion is that considering the atrocity of the ease and the necessity of
showing that crimes
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such a
native cannot be committed
with impunity - Paston should
be
given up,
Care
being taken
at the same time to stipulate