CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12] — Page 132

than other traitors and conspirators against

their

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100 of July 165

government: My despatch No: 100 informed Your Lordship of the singular notions which the Chinese entertain in regard to the sufficiency of

very

widence in criminal cases. The quarticle

of the hepplementary Treaty provides that Chinese fugitives to Hongkong who have . committed crimes against their government shall be handed over to their own authorities. The observance of this portion of our conventions would be pondered early impracticable - previously to consider and weigh the nature of the trial or punishment to which the criminal. worths be subjected by his non government,

or

were we

sndeavor to reconcile Chinese notions.

justice with

our oven-.

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Both my diplomatic and

Colonial

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are so

Colonial functions in this country peculiar, and so calculated to beset me with difficulties, through which a right= principled repediency, rather than precedents, must be adopted as a I have no doubt Your Lordship and the Earl of Aberdeen will be inclined to make

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a guido, that

due allowance for the same, and to attack a proper value to the misrepresenta

local press,

of

are

-tions and abuse of the local

member of which has been pondered implacable by the transfer of the government patronage and printing (a matter of some consideration) to the Editor of the China trail

Somnust not forget at the same

+ time to notice the character and habits of the Opium merchants, whom it is a part of my duty to control. The history of her White at Shanghae, detailed in despatch No : 56, of April 14th, to Ford

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Aberdeen