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for

me to take such steps

as

I

might think right for the

release

吓

the Kitnapped men,

and the punishment

offenders.

I

17

the

pointed out to the

Consul that the atrocities had not been committed either by Mitish Subjects, or within British purisdiction _ and that it

417s

doubtful whether the parties implicated could be made

amenable to our

Law

for

the minon offence of falu

even

imprisonment in our Harbour.

be

I suggested that he surely must

have

If

power

to take

cognizance

- ffences committed by French

Subjects in Chinese waters, and that at all events the Kidnapped men should be returned to their native country by the French Authorities, having been carried away from it by a French Ship which had visitch for that purpose

place which was

not

an open Port, in violation of the Treaty between France and China. – The Consul replied,

that he did not think the Captain

#

of the Welle I'legen" had committed

any offence,

as

The had been very

Kink to the Costies on board his ship; that he had no

no power over the Peruvians and Portuguese