CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12] — Page 131

have been proposed even for the Chinese,

had it not been a well known

punishment of their native Laws. In- fact the infliction of any punishment. short of death was a mitigation of the penalties awarded by the Chinese Government to those banditti who constitute the Grad Sriety.

With regard to the fourth objection mentioned by Your Lordships, repulsion from

the island

was a aneadure

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suggested by necessity from the first occupation of Houghing. The distance of los than mile from the opposite continent made it absolutely indispensable to deport and

back numbers of vagabonds who

over to this place for purposes of

carry

flocked mischief, and who

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obnoxious to imprisonment or too.. numerous for that species of punishment.

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Our chief legislative difficulties arise, partly from our position relatively to the opposite coust, and partly from English laws being unsuitable and unintelligible to Chinese

The member of the House

Commons who made observations in his

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place with reference to the Ordinance: merely repeated verbatim some very incorrect statements from a Colonial- Newspaper, called the Houghong Register, opposed to the Government, and maintained the house of Jardine Matheson M, correspondents of Magniae, Jardine, Smith He in London. No increase whatever has

by the Emperor's government beew anade and the severity of the Chinese law regarding the seditions society in - question, and as far as any Chinese " " "Trial"

· be peconciled to our notions of the torno that Criminals of

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