CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12] — Page 613

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the town their intention to tatte

the man

"Yeh,"

und his fellow-

- prisoners out

of

of the custody

the naval Officer in charge, and bring him up to the bar

of

this court, by Xtabeas corpus.

It

appears

that they

have got some lawyer to c consent to defile his hands with

a fee for this respectable service to the pirates and murderers. against whom the Queen's.

doing battle at

forces

are d

"Canton their "point" "being

" that we are not at war".

Mr. Huffum, the blent

to the Chief Justice, is in

3609

possession of my intention

to

oppose, if

I have notier - the

application for the writ itself

in the first instancr

as 派

I foresee much objection to the course of supporting the return that must be made

to it if issued at present,

and as I

am of opinion

that it will be nearly impossible

for these intruders to show their title to obtain it at

all.

Any chinanan who

authorizes

nives at

or connives

this infamous proceeding is in my opinion, a dangerous