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applied, but whose liberation was ordered by the Supreme Court of Hong Kong on a writ of Habeas Corpus, I have the honour to lay before Your Lordship copies of the proceedings in the Supreme Court, and of the correspondence subsequent to despatch to Your Lordship No 113 of 28th
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my
Inly, 1881. For facility of reference, I enclose copies of all the documents relating to the case from the time (28th November 1880) the Fugitives were arrested in Hongkong up to the last letter (10th December 1881) written by the Acting Colonial Secretary to the British Consul on the subject.
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Your Lordship will see (from my despatch to Sir Thomas Wade of the 1st of November, 1881, written by me the week after I had returned from Peking) that the delay in the rendition of the fugitives was owing to the fact that Sir Thomas Wade's decision and instructions had not been received.
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On
the subject had not
Writing to me on the 8th of November, 1881, from Foochow, Sir Thomas Wade refers to a memorandum of Mr. Baber, his Chinese Secretary, which he showed me at Peking; and, in the Postscript, Sir Thomas Wade refers to the conversations we had on this subject in which the different views we entertain were freely expressed.