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other criminals Surrendered by the British Authorities highly improbable.
Under these circumstances I have ( not felt at liberty, in the various off Communications I have had with the
Board here
storeign the receipt of
on the subject since your despatch, to make
any definite proposition to them for the further modification of their Criminal furisprudence in accordance with
Suggestions.
A despatch from the Under
your
revetary of State for stenign Affine to
the Under decretary
State at the
of State
at the Colonial
Office dated May 8 1867, Copy of which
has
no doubt been forwarded to Sanghings will have probably led you to anticipate
this result.
Seen
that
You will have Lord Stanley conceived thue might be slijections to raising with the Chinese fourmant
the
question of a revision of the Chinese law in regard to confefsion before excecution, and that the deprivation of liberty
which at all events
is pubject,
aw
to
unconfessed private
is in itself no slight funishment.
If his Lordship knew to
as
I do what a
chinese prison is, and the conditions
under which a
durance, his
prisoner is held in
would have been
opinion
still stronger as to the pencel nature
of any
detention.
I have hitherto deferred writing in
answer to the despatch
in the desire to
comply
under athrawledgments
with
your request