tires - Many fords,
it will be noticed,
which are in constant use at Canton,
are not only unauthorized by the code, but expressly condemned; but their illegality is not, it would seem, sufficiently punished upon to prevent the presiding
Magistrate from having recourse to them
whenever he chooses to do so. And I
cannot too often repeat that it is idle
to hope that, as long as the Chinese
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recently been received from Her Majesty's Government as to the course to be pursued
when the Extradition of
future Chinese Criminals is demanded by the
Canton Government under Article 21 of
the Peking Treaty, and from these
papers I learn that Her Majesty's Government are not prepared to insist
upon any guarantee against the use of torture at the trial of such persons other than the Viceroy's assurances
of
Final laws remain as
they are, and such
practices will ever be dispensed with.
As I write this despatch I have before me the Instructions which have
been given, and I note that it will not be resorted to, though,
in the case of
Executions, Lord Granville
considers that Her Majesty's Government
recently
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