prisoner.
6.
This application immediately forwarded to the Magistrates who reported that the prisoner had in consequence been remanded upon the charge of committing crime on Chinese territory and that it would be necessary for the Chinese Authorities to send down witnesses to give evidence as to the alleged crimes.
7.
Two witnesses having been sent down the Magistrate reported their arrival and requested that as several important questions of international character might arise in their opinion the Attorney General should be obtained before any steps were taken in the investigation.
8.
This having been done the Attorney General suggested that the case should be gone into at once as the absence of sufficient evidence would cause all proceedings in the Chinese demand for rendition to fall to the ground. He advised however that notice should be given to the Portuguese Consul of the demand made by the Chinese, as in event of their objecting on the ground that the crime was committed in Portuguese Territory we could not decide any such question here.
9.
Notice was accordingly