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Provinces of China, Her Majesty's Consul at Canton, and this Government (together with minutes thereupon of myself, and other officers of the Colony), with reference to a Chinese subject named Lo Sin Chi whose extradition is demanded by the Vice Roy under the XXI article of the Treaty of Tientsin
accusation of on an "contravention of the Regulations for the conduct of the Public Examinations and breaking the arrest under which he had been placed.
2. As the failure to take proceedings for the rendition of this man is likely to be regarded as a serious grievance by the Chinese Authorities, and will tend to strengthen the opinion which I informed they entertain (not, unhappily, without much reason), that the XXI