CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7] — Page 203

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But

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regardo

brought under

The second condition

notice, that formed

my

of

part of the instructions

Her Majesty's

"Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and

inasmuch as it would neceparily inolve,

already stated, a pretension to remould the whole system of judicial prosecture

So far

as these Criminals are concerned?

I doult whither Her Majesty's Government

I would feel justified

justified in making

buch

a

demand. Without discufsing the question

of the

equity or expediency of puch

change, or how for it could be rightly insicted upon by any one of the Sorign | Powers, in whose Courts and

pradice

examination by tortine

mode

wao

the recognized of obtaining wiidence until recent

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be

may here that the Chinee

times, not excepting

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sufficient to pay

as a nation,

no evidence as

Authorities if not the Chinese are accustomed to regard

trustworthy which is not tested by some

form of tartine, the kind and

which are

minutely

and

degrees of elaborately

prescribed by the law according to different civannstances. Such a change therefore

would be equivalent in the present state of national legislation

founded

moreover

and opinion,

like our common law

02

immemorial Custom, to & Louign Tower

dictating to us the obligation

the obligation in all cases

of the rendition of Criminals to abstain

from taking any evidence on

I

deem

it

outh.

altogether hopeless under.