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all.
at wil. As already noticed the question at issue arises simply from breach of a Civil Contract. In no existing rendition treaty in any part of the world, and in none of the various and extended inquiries of the Parliamentary Committee, which in 1868, sat on that subject is there the slightest
trace of its being required or possible that any Country could surrender to another a party accused merely of breach of Civil promise. It cannot therefore be doubted that if the Governor were forcibly to arrest a father, who merely declined to force his daughter
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into an odious marriage and
as a
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of
were to surrender him to the questionable mercies of a Chinese Tribunal with non-use Costume under the 2126 Section Treaty of Tientsin he would justly incur the censure of Her Majesty's Government.
of the
11. Moreover, although nothing could bring Lai-bi-heen's case within the Treaty, it is well to bear in mind that even if it were within that Treaty the machinery provided to enable the Governor to carry out Treaties between Great Britain and China
gives
... authority whatever to the Governor