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Government rule that under treaty the bolonial Government possesses the right it claims, that right will be enforced.
Pending the decision of the Home
Government, therefore, I shall be
as
rejoiced
I have said in my despatch of the
84 Instant, if Your
Excellency will
adhere to the correc, in all post time held
m..
the
legal, of surrendering frisoners application of the Chinese Authorities
transmitted through the Conent;
shall be
even more
and
gratified of you feel
popibly
new in
their
མ་༢།
mu
from the
Foreign office; but, without exprees instinctims,
I should have some
difficulty in informing
the Chinese Government of what is in
reality
a new interpretation of a treaty
provision.
a lotally
б
may remark that when discussing
different question some months ago,
I took veension to
urge
the abolition of
the barbarono punishment
against which
the Instinctions of the Secretary of State
J
fo
the Colonies
are
A
protest
and that I
gunself able to defer for the present giving effect. to the particular instruction defining the conditions under which thou liable to
Capital pimuishment
Instructions
m
are to be surrendered.
the same
subjects are very
am quite satisfied that there is not, at
the present moment, the smallest
feeling
in
farmer of such a change, further,
that unless we
are
prepared to definte
persons to witness Every Capilit punishment