"request HD. the Acting Governor of
Hong Kong to at once arrest and hand
"over
for
trial the persons whose
"have been given
"be removed
"the heart
of
so that harm
namo
may
from the people and
Wan
in the
may rejoice?"
In the present instance, on
receipt of your Despatch, I ordered
the various civil and military gamèns
to make stringent inquiries and
to make report
so that I might write to you and have the criminals arrested, handed over, and tried. From an examination of the contents of the
report which all the
that have been received and are enclosed, I find that
the men in question are
notorious criminals of long standing,
guilty of various crimes,
indeed, numerous
to be patent to all and to be well known to St. C. the Acting Governor of Hongkong.
You state in your despatch that the Government of Hong Kong are willing to arrest on behalf, and the various cases which are given against these
trustworthy
evidence. Offenders of this class are
an annoyance to China and to Foreign Countries and differ altogether from thieves. There will therefore
ordinarily be no necessity to send special witnesses to Hongkong, and considerable trouble will thereby be saved.
I have to request that
the above reply you will forward
and request His Excellency to hand
it for the information of the Acting Governor of Hongkong, so that orders may be given for their trial and entente cordiale be maintained.
If it is necessary
I beg to send some
one to take over the criminals, that you will write to me so that I may dispatch an Officer for
the...