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it is defended. My duty at least with have been discharged).
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I find however that In Rutherford Alcock is inclined to treat the whole subject exclusively within his Department, that as I gather from the tone of his despatch he rather resents Kwoot-a-chieng's appeal to me, though I have shown that the Consul's action deprived him of all right to appeal elsewhere. In one sense, it redress may if a wrong has been done, be said to belong to the whole world, but in the instance of Kwoot-a Chiung and his relative position to myself, regarding him only as an Alien Resident here and a British Registered subject of this Port, he had a special right to the protection of this Government, and I would refer Your Grace for information on this point to a late judgment of Vice Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood, in which he lays down in clear terms that an
"Alien coming into a British Colony becomes temporarily a Subject of the Crown, bound by, subject to, and entitled to the benefit of the Laws which affect all British Subjects.
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I can also perceive that when Sir Rutherford Alcock informs me "he has fully approved the Consul's conduct and sanctioned the course he has taken throughout and so reported to Her Majesty's Secretary of State" &c. so he implies that the matter is at an end, and that it is hopeless for