CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844 — Page 74

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"Boughoup), who ong to be charged

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or serious crimes""

and Sir Henry Pottinger in his despatch speaks of the case as "establishing beyond " all future doubt or cavil the entire » Sovereignty of England over this

colony and its thinère Populations .

Her Maject 's Goverment would greatly rejoice at such a state of things, but it can scarcely. be alleged that the account of the proceedings given in the inclosures of the despatch, bear out that statement. Jon it does not follow that because the Chinese Auttiosity at Lanan. admitted he had done

wrong in unding in his Police officer into Houghong to search for the Criminals who were charged with having

committed a crime at a cestarin

place

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place, which in the first instance

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was not clearly stated to be within the Island, He therefore renounced all pretecision to try those cominals eventically in his own Court, or admitted the right to try them in English Court - The ninthe Art er s of the supplementary Treaty which is referred to, but which as it merely Affilies to criminal fug in from the Chinese dominions or from Monghong has only an indirect bearing on the present case, provides that all Ieliminary steps such as the apprehension and examination ins first instance of Chiniese fugitives who have sought refuge in Hong kong, that's be undertaken by the Britiste officer, but each fugitives are, for trail

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