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save that it
may
documents submitted to
be questioned whether
a
will be seen
other instrument can tatre
Treaty or any away by implication
an inherent right.
· The only leto points requiring forther slucidation are our rendition of Criminalo withiont guarantee against torture, and the rendition by the Chinese Government
of criminals who have cocaped from
Henghing.
to note
a
desire
Before lonching on these I decivo
slight clerical mistake in
Your
Excellency's third paragraph, the despatch
Keph
by
me
back
by
the lemont being one addreford
to the bantin authorities.
Also as
to the denial of
the Queen's
Severeign rights, it was not to myself only
that this so
appeared, but in one
of
the
Your Excalteney it
that the same view was latin by
the acting Attorney General
who
adrised
that it should be prolested against
As
a
legal opinion
paint this is important.
First then
as
on a
strictly legal
to the rendition of
Criminals without guarantee against torture,
You
with see that the Scoutary of State for the Colonies only refers to Chinese Pirates
brought jurisdiction, but it is a question which I have already submitted to the Secutary of State whether any prisonces whatever shined) - be surrendered mittimub suck quaranted.
under certain conditions within our
without
ms in
this head,
Pending
ding instin
instrations
I nest in the hope that no case may ari.
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