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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

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