CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9] — Page 242

alleged delivery, without legal sanction and even without the precautions prescribed by the Frentsin Treaty of a Taiping refugee, charged with piracy, to the British Consul in banton

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the Honghing authorities,

and by the Consul to the Chinese Authorities

by whom he was barbarously first to death

I lose no time in

explanation required.

giving the~

I have rarely met with a

statement: containing so many

So

brief a space.

give

of

the

errors in

The documents herein enclosed

st and most minute details

fullest

the case in its connection with this.

Government, and they prove:

1

That strict investigation

was made

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according to law, and that

legal Sanction was

perfect

attached to

every

Step in the transaction;

2. That the precautions prescribed by the

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Le March

Tientsin Treaty

were even more

fully

3.

I observed than is alleged, because the

21% article of the Treaty does not

recognize the British Consul in connection with

refugees

in Hongkong,

the

and the demand was made by Nice Ray of the Kwang himself; neither

dows that article justify delivery from HemgKong to the British Consul, but to the Chinese Authorities, and to

these the delivery

Qear

cordinglys

was made

That there is nothing in the evidence