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or are said to have rendered themselves amenable to the Criminal Law, and with regard to such persons as no question of Nationality could arise, if they had not escaped from Macao or Hoihong respectively, we do not see why any question of nationality should arise in an extradition treaty such as this is in substance.
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We see no reason for confining the operation of S. 10 as suggested in Mr Monsell's Letter. It can hardly be said that an attempt to murder becomes more political in its nature because it is directed against the person of a subordinate Officer and not of the Governor himself.
We need hardly observe that all these points are after all matters much more for your Lordship's Judgment than questions of legal opinion.
We have to
(2d.) M.P. Collier J.D. Coleridge Travers Twiss.
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