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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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