CO129-014 - Public Offices - 1845 — Page 92

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of the conventional

oard of

arrangement, would lead to their peenishment, or prevent a repetition of the offence, I requested Major General RAquelar to cause the tivo prisoners to be sent down to me in order that I might hand them over to His Excellency Keying.

They accordingly arrived yesterday in the "Sapphire troop ship, and were instantly sent over to the charge of the Mandarin at bowloon, with the enclosed Letter from myself to the Imperial Commissioner. I took this

occasion to point out to His Excellenang that

in case

and

of British subjects trespassing misconducting themselves on the Chinese territong it would be impossible in most cases

for

me

to act up to

my

anxious desire to punish such offenders, unless the local authorities seized them

on

the spot and handed

handed them

myself had done in the case offenders.

over, as

گناه

of the two Chinese

In

N°1.

N. 2.

In my

91

letter I allude particularly to

a case which lately occurred, when the Officer

at bow loon merely wrote a complaint against some persons unknown, without having either arrested them, or afforded

me any

clue to

Their identification. I published a reward of fifty dollars for the conviction of the persons in question, as your Lordship will observe from The enclosed extract from the government gazette, detailing the circumstances.

Major General D'Aquilar instituted a Court of Enquiry, and the result has been That four sergeants of the European force

proved to have

gone

over on

the

were

day in question, but a minute investigation proved that the statement of their conduct on the occasion had been grossly exaggerated to the Magistrate ab Cowloon by his subordinates. The Major General has judiciously taken measures to prevent any non... commissioned officers or privates being -

allowed