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against the law of China in
Lashar Ordinance No. 2 of 1800 to such
crimes or
or offences "as are
punishable by the laws
of
all nations and are not
peculiar to the law of China; and, if this be so,
there is thus practically
given to the word "Criminal"
in the XXI article of the
Treaty of Tientsin a
similarly restricted meaning, which is not at all likely to have been within the contemplation
of the Chinese in consenting to that Treaty.
4.
Such a limitation
would naturally appear to
be
a serious one
from the
Chinese point of view, as excluding from consideration offences which they have a right to regard
as of a very
grave character, as for instance, that in question in this case.
Under a system
5.
which prescribes examination
as the test of fitness for
all