guilty of Burglary and Robbery on Chinese
territory.
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been seriously compromised, had I refused to deal with the question.
2.
I need scarcely say
how entirely
I concur in the opinion expressed in the
closing paragraph of your despatch
No 3 of the It th December as to the 7.0.
advisability of avoiding raising any
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questions
on
that subject pending probable
th
negociations therem at Pekin.
would however have been utterly impossible to have avoided dealing
with this last case, the evidence was
so clear
and the absence of all political
motivo for pursuing the Criminal-was
so
palpable- that the good faith of ther Majesty's Government might have
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th April 1866.
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I therefore devoted myself to
a
certainly
ensuring for the prisoner of a fair trial- and to obtaining from the Nece Roy of Guanting for more distinct and positive pledges againit
the use
Or
of torture whether before - during -
after trial, than had hitherto been obtained from any.
Chinese Authority
In that respect I think the case has been unquestionably turned to a good,
burpose.
Н.
The Original application for
oner uUA
somewhat
renditions of the prisoner