4
;
tutten before the Abagistrate to show
mer was
that the prisone refugee, but on
w
triping
the contrary the
weight of subsequent Evidence-
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5. That while the criminal, as I have
6
already
shown above
was not delivered
to the British Consul but to the Chinese
Authorities the British Consul at
inclines to
prove
that the rebel chief
whom he is put forward to personate
had died about a
before;
year
and a half
})}
pèracy
That the man's crime was not
but robbery from a boat within the dominions of the Emperor of China,
I make this point because had it-
we should have been ~
been
piracy,
forced he take cognizance of it in
our own bourts, and should not a
have been justified in the Criminal's rendition;
bantin
was acc
according to practice
policy
and as a matter of Courtesy and
duly and officially advised of the act
of rendition;
b. That there is nothing within the.
Knowledge of this Government, showing "barbarously put
that the man was
to death" But I must remark
on this head that the records of the
thongthing Government would be unlikely to embrace this point,
00
after legal delivery to the Chinese
formal notification
Authorities and
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