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desirous of pardoning; and
I am
you
now to request that
will state to the
"Dake of Newcastle that
Lord Gussell, who has consulted the proper Law
Advisers
off
the matter
the frown on
Concurs in
the opinion expressed. by the Attorney General at Bongkong that neither Her Majesty's Minister
at
of
Pekin as
Chief Superintenden
in Cheia, nor
Trade in
the Governor of Hongkong.
have
have the
power of pardoning
the Persons in question.
Their pardon, which appears
to this Lordships to be proper,
must be a
Royal Pardon
by the Queen in the usual form.
Considering, however,
the length of time which must clapse in all communications between Great Britain and China, and the probability of extended intercourse
with that Country, and
The