CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12] — Page 611

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Consisting

in his having entertained a proposal

from one yeh and one "Tsun-quei-tsin to assassinate Colonel Caine and give

Caldwell; -

And that this same

one Ych of the Criminal

yah Sessions is the person to whom my present letter

relates.

that thr

I have humbly to represent to This Excellency interests of justice demand the delivery of this prisoner to the

same court which tried and

sentenced.

to

a

just punishment

the

3607

miscreant's less quilty

accomplice

or victim.

"The jurisdiction attacles

from the moment that

the criminal touches it.

can he

Neither the rights of

plead wad; for

1. Assassination is not

if it were ;-

of them; and 2. The rights of

war do

not belong to those belligerents who wage

it without law or

of law.

formalities

The mere arraignment-

much more the conviction.

yet

mone the punishment.

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