Sir B. Maxwell
May 31, 1880.
Sir,
Foreign Office
May 31, 1880.
I am directed by Earl Granville to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th inst., forwarding a copy of a memorandum upon the subject of judicial torture in China, which has been drawn up by Sir P. Benson Maxwell, late Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements, and a member of the Committee of the Aborigines Protection Society. And I am to thank you for this paper, which will receive His Lordship's attention in communication with Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Colonies, and with Her Majesty's Minister at Peking, who is at the present time discussing with the Chinese Government, in concert with the other Resident Representatives of Foreign Powers at that Capital, the subject of the administration of justice in the Mixed Court Shanghai.
F. M. Chesson Esqr.