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in the milder form to be yearanted,
Can
guarantee
easily be evaded.
11.0
a that will not
furnished tant
There remains the
refusal of
the
Chinise Anthorities to return to thonghing for
Frial Chinese
Colony
guilty of Crimes in the
and who have subsequently escaped.
to the main.
This apprems to you
a
denial of the Sovereign rights of the
Queen by the Chinese Authorities.
11 refusal
I should have regarded
in the same light-
Excellency but
In their
Your
for
the
authoritative
10
decision of Earl Grey when Secretary of
State
f
the Colonies,
the reension of
the demand made
ww
for the Murderer.
Trü apo
in the
year 1829
rither in
that
year
or the
following,
Siv
George
Bonham
after a long Commissumier
Onala
pondence with the Imperial
Sw
upin
this
very question of
the right of the lookony to demand, the
muundura's rendition,
informed by
his
Sordship that the rendition of Chinese
Criminals under the circumstances stated
cold not be insisted on.
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I
am aware that
subsequently tried in the
was not, I think arrested.
Colony; but he until he voluntarily revisited it,
and
without being able to cito Sora Grey's
exact
exond words, Iiful curtain that my
recollection of this Sordohifi's decisio
is in the main correct.
shall lose no time in requesting
I
Ford Russell's instimations
upen
this