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Your

submit that named Lord

Grey

Excellency has ina svertently

of Sord Palmerston

instead of

then Secretary of State for Foreign affairs.

There is no record in ow

office of any

such

decision or any inter communication

ow on

that

particular point, and I venture to think -

(fen of

"not be

dence with di is

course the Correspondence

me) that the "circumstances" under which rendition could not be insisted on '

mush have been precisely those which have

I been perpetuated and are

engaging attention

now, viz: the omission to make rendition

a.

1. reciprocal duty.

I venture

further

to think that had

this singularity in the relations between the Dolony

and the Chinese Government been brought at the time to the notice of the

Secretary of State

for

the Colonies it would

have been minuted with a view to its

Correction.

Chui ahea apoo

ivas

subsequently as

Your Excellency states tried in the Colony

and convicted of mano

true that he

enslaughter; it is also

was not arrested, till he arrived

within the Wolony, but he did not voluntarily revisit theonghing, having been thidnapped

Wanton and Conveyed hither by certain:

Meav

chinese

for the

the sake of the reward offered:

by this Government.

After

his

escape from the scene of the

murder (in this island)

fir

he

which he was

arraigned desvice of the Canton Government,

was taken into the Police

and

1

blo

it stands on record though it is imposs