morning
to
Cypheral you hardship the
my
date.
recorded in
Despatch ho 64 of
this
days
I have the honour to
be with the highest Respect,
My Lord Your Lordship's
most obedrent
humble Servant
Afd. nove
at
P.S. I considered myself liberty to take the engagement
that the man surrendered thould
not be hanged,
because it appeared
to me that there could be
Lo
doubt respecting the Five following propositions :
/ That embezzling pestlig money
is
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is not a
capital crime.
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2. That had the accused
ver crime
been guilty of a graver than that of einlogglement, good faith required that his surrender should be asked for
on the ground
and not the
the greater,
greater, and i
leper crime and therefore that embogglement
war
the
gravest crime laid to the charge of the Hong Kong Officer