"of the woman. They have my own evidence examined in and found that the tree will, and had her own evidently been brought by her own connivance with a view to escape from ill treatment at Canton, where she refused to return, stating she preferred death.
7. The case therefore seemed to me of a very extraordinary British character—so far as a Consul's action therein was concerned, and I expressed freely in my reply my surprise at a request being made to a British Governor, that he should compel a woman of age by force to decide for herself to return to a state of slavery on the ground of any "property in her held by any person whatsoever.
8. Consul Robertson is an Officer of great experience and long service. Moreover, the questions with which he might be presumed to be most familiar are those connected with such a demand for extradition. Nevertheless,
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