Capital exceutions, whereas the
underta
certaking given by the
Viceroy of Canton is general
in its terms; but under all
the circumstances the Foreign= Office came to the conclusion.
impossible to
that it was
гроп
insist
the whole of
the
Chinese judicial machinery
356
Kung's letter.
Lord Granville is of
opinion that Her Majesty
's
Government should insist on the strict fulfilment of
that guarantee as regar
executions, but that as
d
£
regards
torture at the trial to extort
Confession, they should be
:
being set aside in the preliminary
examination
satisfied with the
Z
Criminals, in
order to meet the views
of
the
of
a
foreign Government, and
that matters
must be left
on the footing of the Rince of
Kung's
assurance
Viceroy that it will not
be resorted to.
The
guarantee given by the Prince of Lung in 1866 appears
to have been lost sight of at
Pekin
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