CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7] — Page 268

necessary, the sentence of

ordered by

the sentence of the Court was me to be carried into execution.

On the 1th July the moles of the Chief Justice

were read

e read before the

Executive Council withs reference to the trial of Charles Inward alias Robert,

a avan

Sinclair, for the murder of a named Shilkinson at Whampoa peach-

This trial was held under the jurisdiction established for the Consulates

6 for The Chief Justice stated that he coul not recommend this man.

to

mercy,

as

had

circumstances of deliberate cruelty marked the conduct of the convict towards his vicini, whom he had bound hand and foot previously to drowning him in the river. The sentence was accordingly confirmed.

to

Imay observe with reference to the Chinese criminal, that his capital

punishment,

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punishment, the first instance of the

Kind under Bulish Law in China,

Establishes the sovereignty of ther Majesty in this Colony,

and sets at

rist the embarrassing questions which wer: mooted by the Chinese. Government

its first settlement.

Twents fain indulge a hope, that these early and necessary. xxamples will serve, as a

others, and pender

warning to any future precurrence.

to such painful measures for the

repression of crince a remote prospect:

comparatively-

I have the honor tobe,

With the highest respect,

Your Lordships,

Most Obedient,

Humble Irvant.

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