x indeed

there is in

to take advantage of the rendition art: the Treaty of Tientsin (XXX) Considering the difficully Getting the truth from chinese witnesses

& that cases are as

so

frequently decided

the doctrine of probability as any thing Else, it may to happen that a chuirse Officer commissioned by the Provincial Imperial foot to proceed to Hongkong

witurases in a

rendition Case

may

f

by

with

find

himself in dicted for a conspiracy a committed for a term of imprisonment by the Supreme Court alltid he has in truth done nothing to deserve it. Suel a contiging

I take to be a

Such

:

very grave one x very likely seriously to interfere with our amicable relations with the Chinese foo._ The Late

Case was

I believe an unsound one

may not be so

that

Danger

but

hereafter & hence the

I venture therefore to think that

under

405

under the peculiar circes W? attend Chinese protection sh? be afforder

Evidence some

to the Officers of the Imperial foot acting within the jurisdiction of the colony of Hongkong in accordance with the provisions of the Treaty.

The attorney fent,

Us?

Panncefole with whom I have had some Conversation on the subject says

that

nove but ambassadors & their servants

but I

are entitled to protection, inclined to think the obligations international Law that an officer

до

D

little further

Commission d

by his foot

to carry out the stipulation of a Treaty

is

protected in virtue thereof, a is not amenable to the Local Law While in the exercise of such a function, but if this is not so it seems desirable for the reasons above given that protection sh? be afforded in some shape when they of a class of Lawyers Tho will take up a

come

within reach

Case

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