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since, that a
existed
and that
not very long
difficulty between the Government of England of Portugal, masmuch as the laws of Portugal prohibited the penalty of death for the crime
of muvider, so that murderers could not be given up from Portuguese territory unless the stipulations were given
that they should not be though found guilty.
It will
executed.
even
a nation possessing
therefore be seen that, when a highly civilised nation is called upon to give up cumenals to a lower state of Civilisation every precaution must be exercised as to the
upon
which such prisoners are passed into another purisdiction. Upon this subject
long remembered in Hong Hong
as aw
motonce
of the jealousy with which England desires to guard her right to give refuge to political offenders even in out of the way dependencies like this Colony Under some mistaken impression, this Chimaman was given up to the Chimese authorities, and the consequent indignation of the Government officials heard and felt for years
Downing
Sheet
was
afterwards. Indeed, the case of the Mo Wang
led up I believe, to an understanding which we definite reading
are
justified in styling of the earsting Treaty.
a new ov
Now for the eleven Chinese for whom I
usually
led the
plead
I must say first that
ictradition England has way in surrounding political refugees with
perfectly fee Country
all the protection which a
could afford : and in this taking her stound upon
man to liberty, unless
Im Abstract right of wery
he has made himself amenable to the common
lau's
of humanity or to some special. Treaty concludes with his own Government, she has sometimes incurred the
envy
and set will of less favored nations. The case of the Mo
Wang will be long
Every
one
· possessing
any knowledge of the Chinese of the Southern provinces, and especially of those districts of the Canton Province
Hong Kong, knows how common are those clan and family feuds of old
near
with all their horrors. there is
place where the old.
hardly
another
saying might is right. la force prime le droit, is better illustrated than here. There is no chance for the most- sacred rights and juskst
causes against the
united