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3.
Earl Grey, when Secretary of State for
the Colonies,
of
criminals
on the subject of rendition
by
(
"Offenders
but none
for the delivery by them
"of Chinese Offenders".
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the Chinese Authorities.
4.
With the Wade's further assistance
are mİW
(letter enclosed) I have
been able to
find the Dispatch in question, which is
datest 8th February 1850, No 163, and is ii reply to Governor Bonham's M2 105
of 21st November 184g.
3.
In this last
Bonham
Governor lays it down (but erroneously) that "the
"Treaty (of Manking) obliged
"nations to
our live-
a mintical Surrender of Criminals
I" formally demanded", while Ford Grey
in his
"appears
anawer
points out that "the Treaty
to contain Provisions for the delivery "by the Chinese Authorities of British
On this I trust
be
may
of
permitted to observe that in the case British offenders
ders no reservation is made
as to the place of offence, and that delivery
of a
offender
Butish
is made by the Chinese even if the crime be committed in Chinese
territory; this being surely
greater emecasion than the delivery of a criminal,
no matter what his nation, whose crime has been committed in British territory, and whose surrender is demanded by the country whose
violated.
5.
whose jurisdiction he has
jurisd
Mr. Wade in the letter now
forwarded Encloses copy of Despatch of
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