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of Officers of the Chinese Government to private prosecutions at Hong Sting.
In reply I have to inform you that your despatches were communicated to the Foreign Office, and that Her Majesty's Government have been advised by the Law "Ifficers of the brown that an "fficer employed to demand the extradition of a foreigner quilty of offences against the Laws of the Country to which : he is sent, as for instance by
and
the Commission or subornation
of pergury for the purpose of ottaming that extradition
is liable to and
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be made amenable to the
Laws of that bountry .
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are however
puthe grounds upon which
such a course.
may
not be
advisable; and I have to
instruct you base of s
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that in the
"such misconduct
by
Chinese Officer in the discharge of his duty when ::mployed to demand the
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