CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9] — Page 243

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;

tutten before the Abagistrate to show

mer was

that the prisone refugee, but on

w

triping

the contrary the

weight of subsequent Evidence-

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5. That while the criminal, as I have

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already

shown above

was not delivered

to the British Consul but to the Chinese

Authorities the British Consul at

inclines to

prove

that the rebel chief

whom he is put forward to personate

had died about a

before;

year

and a half

})}

pèracy

That the man's crime was not

but robbery from a boat within the dominions of the Emperor of China,

I make this point because had it-

we should have been ~

been

piracy,

forced he take cognizance of it in

our own bourts, and should not a

have been justified in the Criminal's rendition;

bantin

was acc

according to practice

policy

and as a matter of Courtesy and

duly and officially advised of the act

of rendition;

b. That there is nothing within the.

Knowledge of this Government, showing "barbarously put

that the man was

to death" But I must remark

on this head that the records of the

thongthing Government would be unlikely to embrace this point,

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after legal delivery to the Chinese

formal notification

Authorities and

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