CO129-109 - Public Offices - 1865 — Page 310

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in rach particular case where a demand

for extradition is made, that the crimind will be fairly tried and not o

t subjected to torture or to any punishment revolting to humanity

The Colonial Authorities should. seek to obtain this assurance through Her Majesty's Consul at the Port from which the demand for Extradition has proceeded; and the Consul fails to obtain it, the Colonial Authorities should then

if

refer,

as stated in

my

letter of the

2nd instant, to Her Majesty's Minister

at Pekin, holding the Prisoner in

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Custody

Ker

till an answer shall be received.

But Lord Clarendon considers it would not be advisable for Majesty's Consuls to seek to obtaire from the local Chinese Authorities a general assurance applicable to all cases that snight

occur. Such

general assurance the local Authorities Could not give, for they

Could not

venture to set aside, without reference

to Pekin, what they would hold to be

a fundamental law

andt., as I stated in

my

of the country;

Letter of

the

DEX

is

2 h instant, a question of that kind

at