to in the Enclosures in
letter and in
your Mr Secretary (ardwell's instruction to the Acting Governor, Ford (Carendon, I am directed to state, concurs in the principle
that if the (hinese Authorities at any Port Convent to send (hinese witnesses to Hong Kong
on condition that they again to China,
should be sent back
it would not be right to depart from that condition, provided it can legally be complied with in the Colony
"Lord Clarendon apprehends that
such a condition could not be complied.
with
with in this country, where,
Country, where, judging
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from reports in similer cases from time to time received from the tome Office and the Law Officers, witnesses sent
from
abroad
could not as a
general.
rule, be held in restraint by the local magistracy and still less by forcign
police officers, or given up against
their will after the trial to be
reconveyed
Country.
in custody to their
to their own
With reference to the hope sxpresed
by thr (ardwell that instructions ___ might be sent by the present mail
to
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