to have been committed in
Chinese Territory in October 1836
3. had witnesses in attendance
that
occasion who could
upon
have proved that I had been
residing in Guangdong for the
last ten
years,
and that Said
not leave the Colony for a single day during
the
last
4.
The
Magistrate before whom
I was brought charged with the
alleged offence in October
or November
1884 refused
to hear
my
although my
solicitor
stated that they
were in attendance and asked leave to call them.
3. as
I was unable to produce witnesses before Norman Gilbert Mitchell Innes Esquire
who has now committed me
to
gaol
I was informed and
believe
that the persons able to
give
evidence on
my behalf
are
afraid
to attend.
in a case
in which Lihoi officer of the Shin
Government is the complainant
6. I therefore humbly pray your Lordship to grant me Her Majesty's writ of habeas Corpus to bring
me before your Lordship to be discharged from imprisonment and that Lordship will be pleased
to
order that a
writ of certiorari
be issued to the committing Magistrate to produce before Your Lordship the examination and depositions taken before him which grounded the
commitment.
And I do solemnly and sincerely
declare that the
contents of this
are true.
Declared etc.
my
declaration