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in rach particular case where a demand
for extradition is made, that the crimind will be fairly tried and not o
t subjected to torture or to any punishment revolting to humanity
The Colonial Authorities should. seek to obtain this assurance through Her Majesty's Consul at the Port from which the demand for Extradition has proceeded; and the Consul fails to obtain it, the Colonial Authorities should then
if
refer,
as stated in
my
letter of the
2nd instant, to Her Majesty's Minister
at Pekin, holding the Prisoner in
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Custody
Ker
till an answer shall be received.
But Lord Clarendon considers it would not be advisable for Majesty's Consuls to seek to obtaire from the local Chinese Authorities a general assurance applicable to all cases that snight
occur. Such
general assurance the local Authorities Could not give, for they
Could not
venture to set aside, without reference
to Pekin, what they would hold to be
a fundamental law
andt., as I stated in
my
of the country;
Letter of
the
DEX
is
2 h instant, a question of that kind
at