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the English "Courts of Lawer

but

and Derainer"

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it is on record that in this

year of Heilung (1754) a French

prisoner Shilowishi (?) was in respectful obedience to the Imperial Command and Pleasure, directed to be conveyed home to his own Country Khere to be judged and dealt with. And, in the 1th year of Kia-king (should be 道光, likely "Taoukwang" or similar, but keeping as is) (1821) in the case

of an English ship of War killing a Chinese at Whampoa, of the name of Hwany, the then

Governor General, Juen quan, addressed the throne requesting that it should be

desired of England itself duly to

punish

the offender. This being all on record, it will be right forthwith to settle distinctly, regulations,

whereby in

any future cases English merchant people being involved in legal proceedings with

the people of the Country, the English Merchants shall be given over

to English jurisdiction, while natives shall receive punishment from their own

Country, thus avoiding

all cause of bloodshedding dispute. The Foreign merchants of other Countries may now however drag this as a precedent for them.