mow
mo
But
Co
regardo
brought under
The second condition
notice, that formed
my
of
part of the instructions
Her Majesty's
"Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and
inasmuch as it would neceparily inolve,
already stated, a pretension to remould the whole system of judicial prosecture
So far
as these Criminals are concerned?
I doult whither Her Majesty's Government
I would feel justified
justified in making
buch
a
demand. Without discufsing the question
of the
equity or expediency of puch
change, or how for it could be rightly insicted upon by any one of the Sorign | Powers, in whose Courts and
pradice
examination by tortine
mode
wao
the recognized of obtaining wiidence until recent
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be
may here that the Chinee
times, not excepting
ол ол
sufficient to pay
as a nation,
no evidence as
Authorities if not the Chinese are accustomed to regard
trustworthy which is not tested by some
form of tartine, the kind and
which are
minutely
and
degrees of elaborately
prescribed by the law according to different civannstances. Such a change therefore
would be equivalent in the present state of national legislation
founded
moreover
and opinion,
like our common law
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immemorial Custom, to & Louign Tower
dictating to us the obligation
the obligation in all cases
of the rendition of Criminals to abstain
from taking any evidence on
I
deem
it
outh.
altogether hopeless under.