(
109
Lord Palmerston (when Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) to all Bonham
N: 18 of 244 January 1850, and in that Despatch Lord Palmerston lays it down
that the Surrender of a criminal, such
as
this in question, "Could rest only upon
"grounds of general comity", "unless it be
"otherwise stipulated by Treaty"
6.
I would submit then that
with
a
people
like the chinese a
principle
of general comity (especially when refendiaten
aô
snch) may fitly
be made the subject of
Sacaty stipulation, and it has been with this
view that my previous Despatches have been
written.
។
Lord Balmerston farther -
remarks that "it would be a perfectly
"sufficient
answer to such "the Chinese authorities were to
a demand, if
"the accused
person
say had Committed in
that
>>>
"the Chinese territones crimes
for
which
"ho
was about to be tried by Chinese law?
and of this there can be
Апо
doubt, unless
dvere
enjoined by Treaty:
another course
but so
so to
neither
such other course is
Extraordinary
enjoin
личено
onable
one
when the nation with whom
is one
which
dark
from füst Grealy) wring
we are
have (in
dealing
very
the
important and
air
unusual concession of a relinquishment-
of their natural territorial jurisdiction.
8.
The
Ove
which
main point however the subject seems to turn is the question of
Comparative security to life
and
property