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insupported tale, taken upon himself to question, or in any way dispute the clear right of confiscation which the Chinese Government proposed to exercise. What my little Kwok-a-Cheong or any of his friends and partizans may think is of very Consequence, and to me a matter of absolute indifference, but I hold it to be of the highest importance that all who are entrusted by Her Majesty's Government with the Conduct of our relations with the Government of China, should act in strict accordance with Treaty Stipulations, and show the same respect for the rights of the Chinese that we require for our own.
In this case, I would have been entitled to require detailed and satisfactory proof of the actual employment of this ship for some time previous to the voyage during which she was seized in the same way. I should treat a man brought before me charged with being in a house where he had no right to be in the middle of the night, so should I have treated this ship found four miles up a river leading to a Treaty Port. The presumption is that the man and the ship were, the one in the house, the other in the river, for an unlawful purpose, and the onus of disproving this presumption lies on the accused.
Unless there had been distinct evidence in this case, and never was produced that I
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insupported tale, taken upon himself to
question, or in
call in
any way dispute
the clear right of confiscation which the Chinese lovemment popoped opinion not unduly excercised. What
and in
my
little
Kwok- a. Cheong or any of his friends and partizans, may think is of very Consequence,
and to
me
сва
a matter of absolute indifference, but I hold it to be of the highest importance that all who are entrusted by Her Majesty's Government
with the Conduct of
our relations with the
Government of thing, should act in strict
accordance with
show the same
the Chinese that
and
Treaty Stipulations, respect for the rights of
ive
In this case
exact for
any judge
our own.
would have
been entitled to
require
detailed and
satisfactory proof of the actual employment
of this ship for
• ship for some time pre
some time previous to the
Noyage during which she
the same
way
ab
was.
•seized in
I should treat a man
brought before me charged with being i
a house where he had
мо
right to be
in
in
the middle of the night, so should I have treated this ship found four miles up
leading to a Treaty Sort. The
iver not leading
is that the man and the presumption is that the
ship
were
the one in the house, the other
in the river, for
river, for an unlawful purpose,
and the onus
presumption lies
of disproving this
vow
the accused.
Unles
there had been distinct evidence in this
case and never was
produced that I
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