CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884 — Page 388

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of Tientsin, provided they can do so consistently with the dictates of humanity, but that, so long as torture continues to be a feature of the Administration of the Chinese Criminal code, AMG cannot dispense with the engagement which has been given heretofore.

AMG need be under no apprehension of their ever being asked by the Imperial Govt to do anything inconsistent with the dictates of humanity; that Sentiment which in different ages, sometimes comparatively recent, has manifested itself in such different ways that the humanity of to-day has often become the barbarism of the morrow. It is not long since a criminal code not unlike that of China, was considered not inconsistent with the dictates of humanity in some of

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## of Tientsin, provided they can do so consistently with the dictates of humanity, but that, so long as torture continues to be a feature of the Administration of the Chinese Criminal code, AMG cannot dispense with the engagement which has been given heretofore. AMG need be under no apprehension of their ever being asked by the Imperial Govt to do anything inconsistent with the dictates of humanity; that Sentiment which in different ages, sometimes comparatively recent, has manifested itself in such different ways that the humanity of to-day has often become the barbarism of the morrow. It is not long since a criminal code not unlike that of China, was considered not inconsistent with the dictates of humanity in some of 337
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of to day has often become the barbarion If the morons. It is not long since

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of China, was considered not incomiendent

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