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Lord Palmerston (when Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) to all Bonham

N: 18 of 244 January 1850, and in that Despatch Lord Palmerston lays it down

that the Surrender of a criminal, such

as

this in question, "Could rest only upon

"grounds of general comity", "unless it be

"otherwise stipulated by Treaty"

6.

I would submit then that

with

a

people

like the chinese a

principle

of general comity (especially when refendiaten

aô

snch) may fitly

be made the subject of

Sacaty stipulation, and it has been with this

view that my previous Despatches have been

written.

។

Lord Balmerston farther -

remarks that "it would be a perfectly

"sufficient

answer to such "the Chinese authorities were to

a demand, if

"the accused

person

say had Committed in

that

>>>

"the Chinese territones crimes

for

which

"ho

was about to be tried by Chinese law?

and of this there can be

Апо

doubt, unless

dvere

enjoined by Treaty:

another course

but so

so to

neither

such other course is

Extraordinary

enjoin

личено

onable

one

when the nation with whom

is one

which

dark

from füst Grealy) wring

we are

have (in

dealing

very

the

important and

air

unusual concession of a relinquishment-

of their natural territorial jurisdiction.

8.

The

Ove

which

main point however the subject seems to turn is the question of

Comparative security to life

and

property