376

abandon the

a

use

mode

truth

of torture as of Extracting from the accused

Jerem.

Which fully verifies

the tact

&

intelligence

which is displayed by R.

Alcock, in his account

of his negotiations,

I

Lord

cannot

Givennor is not able

to acquiesce in this

Settlement of the question

as it concerns

the South of Hongkong

He is strongly of

opinion that looking to the Chinese procedure

in Criminal matters

it would not be

consistent

with the policy or practice of this country either to deliver up

the sort of

Chinese

persons charged with political offences

or

to deliver up

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