a part of the furniture of a Chinese Couch-Room as a betel-nut box and box are
A.
of
I have taken some pains during
These last six months to ascertain by personal inspection what the actual proceedings in a Chinese Court of Justice are, and I have thought that it right
of
some service, in considering the question of re-tradition of Chinese Criminals from Hongkong, if I recorded, for the information of His Excellency the Administrator, exactly what I was
Myself an eye-witness of.
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A short description of the scenes I
have at different times witnessed
will be found in the enclosed paper which I have drawn up for the information
of
His Excellency the Administrator, and in further illustration of those scenes I beg to forward
a set of pictures which
are commonly sold at Canton, and which profess to comprise the whole series of judicial tortures. A description is given on every leaf of this book of each form of
torture with a reference
to the particular section
of
the Penal Code which authorises or prohibits its