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In this case, the Viceroy finds that Yong Pak-mo-Kaur and the other 12 criminals when arrested, temporarily handed over for safe keeping into the custody of a foreign Official, and he considers it, therefore, that they should be properly remitted to Canton to take their trial for the charge brought against them. Instructions have accordingly been issued to De Pring, the lieutenant of the night division of the Tai-prung regiment, to proceed to Hongkong and wait there until Yong Pak-mo-Kaur and the other prisoners are handed over to him for conveyance to Canton, so that they may be forwarded through the British Consulate to the Siang-shan Yamen,
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Jaunien, where instructions are to be issued for their trial. The Viceroy, therefore, hopes that Her Britannic Majesty's Consul will be good enough to give Lieutenant De a despatch to take with him to Hongkong for this purpose. He further requests that Her Britannic Majesty's Consul will communicate with His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong on the subject, so that as soon as Lieutenant De arrives at Hongkong, Yong Pak-mo-Nam and the other criminals may be sent to Canton over to him for conveyance where instructions will be issued for their trial.
Hitherto, torture will not be applied at the investigation and trial.