substantiated that Chang san shen had no share in the Tung-chung robbery. The real accomplices have already been delivered up to the Nanhae magistrate, and Chang
-san- shen will be sent back to
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the office of the Kowloon Bailiff.
have moreover
our orders to the
given Howloon Bailiff to send Chang san shen back to Hongkong to follow there his pursuits.
As for Tae-hwan paou who proceeded to Hongkong and seized there a person, without first requesting the Kowloon officer to transmit official notice thereof, he has decidedly vulated the provisions of the Treaty. "We therefore requested the Howloon officer to administer the bastinade to Tae-hwan-paou, warning in future . "We have morcover
commanded the Howloon officer,
as al
that
whenever
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whenever there should be subsequently
ccasion for despatching soldiers to Hongkong, for the purpose of obtaining criminals, first to send an official note to the Magistrate of your Honorable Country, that they may cooperate in this affair, according to the Treaty, for the sake of preserving our fecindship!
This is the principal object of this
communication, addressed to,
His Excellency, Her Britannic Majesty's
Plenipotentiary, Sir John J. Davis, Bart.
Xc; te
Je!
Taoukwung, 26th
11the November 1846.
" year, 9th month, 25th day.
Received 13th instant.
True Franslation
(signed). Charles Gutzlaff
Chinese Secretary.
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