of the Treaty which seems
as it stands to bind us
to surrender political
offenders.
2.
Whether
any
additional provision is required to secure that
Criminals escaping from Hong Kong into China
should be surrendered
on demand if they are not Chinese subjects and punished by the Chinese Authorities if they
are
is, it appears,
that we should do all
we can to induce the
Chinese
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Chinese to abandon torture
in which I do not include an honest penal whipping
or other straightforward
and reasonable infliction (the reception of fulsome praise) and should not give up people to be tortured either by
way of trial or by way of
punishment, but that
in general and short of this, if it is necessary either that honest men shall be lawlessly plundered or that ruffians should be subjected to
excessive punishment,
the unavoidable inconvenience should fall
rather ...