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occasion, more serious and
complicated by the excaution of the men arrested unless
some steps
were taken on
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the spot. Accordingly caused to be addressed to In Habaster, the British - Consul at Canton, the - Colonial Secretary's letter of
the 25th ultimo
requesting
to
him to make demand of : the Viceroy for the return of the arrested men British jurisdiction. On the
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receipt of M: Alabaster's letter of the 6th instant containing
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the Viceroy's
answer to this demand, which relied on a
contradiction of the fact
that the place of arrest was British territory, I caused
to be made by
enquiry
a
Commission (consisting of M: Mitchell-Innes, Acting Registrar-General, and Major General Gordon, Asting Captain Iuperintendent of Police), with a view to
ascertain