CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862 — Page 80

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the most serious conseque

Ď this

relations existing between. European Soo to & thes of China, and especially & Britch and French interests. That on the French Commandant at Canton becoming aware of what had happened in connection with the Villed agen's forceedings, he promptly interwened, and applied to the Authoritics of Hong Kong on the subject, and whon full inquiries was so sa

tisfied of the W of the master and crew of the "Withe dragen" that they requisition delivered up to him to be sent to France for due punishment. Tut the British and French Anthontics at Canton, and the British authoutièsat

were on.

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Hong Kong had made the fullest inquiries into the case, and had procured auto factory Evidence of the entire truth of the above facts. That under such craumstances they had rightfully interfered, at the request

of the French Commandant, to prevent the Cooties this brought under the trench

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within British Jurisdiction from being detained therein against their will; and that judicial proceedings had been mistibuted against Pestor and Helguera at Hong kong in respect of their conduct in wrongfully bringing in to and keeping them in enstody within Portisch providiction= That, nother the tanding the acquittal of

Helguero,

Pastor and

on technicnt

grounds, on this charge, the Chinese foor of the Province, within which the Cookies had been seized, had made a formal application to the four of Hong Kong for the surrender of those persons wpon which, after a full argument, the thief Justice had held them to bail and reinitted the case to

& England; and

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that it was only

on a fuller consideration. of the question, here, that the conclusion

had been arrived at that in strictness of law, the chinese application cannot be complied with. That Him. foot is conomiced that the foot of Pern will, "pon further information, take the

view of the entstantial mito &

dame view.