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To
the Colony of Hong Kong
Lord Granville will be glad
to be favoured with any information
which Lord Kimberley may
have
10226
To
Aborigines Protection Society
17 King William Street
Strand, London
10.8.
May
the
14
1880
My Lord,
I am
deputed
by the Committee
of
the
Aborigines Protection Society to forward to
your Lordship
a memorandum
on
a subject of judicial torture
in
Hong Kong.
It has been drawn up by a member
of the Committee, Sir P. Benson Maxwell,
formerly Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements.
The writer shows in the first place
that although Lord Cardwell instructed the Hong Kong Authorities not
to give up fugitives from Chinese justice
where they knew that torture would be applied, yet, as a matter
of experience, they have lately surrendered persons who have been subjected to
the inhuman practices of the Chinese Courts.
In the second place, Sir Benson Maxwell states that torture is part of the ordinary judicial
procedure in China.
The Right Honourable
the Earl Granville K.G.
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
I am, Sir,
your most obedient
humble servant,
Julian Pauncefote.