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these circumstances obtaining such a

conceppion by diplomatic

ascertained, in all cases to remand a

cases

prisoner so circumstanced and

means

If ultimed

any

him

at all it must be by compulsion. In

I Case us

the matter stands,

I have no

authority to enter upon negotiations for

this clifect.

I may further add hereever that

withough

you

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rightly informed as to

: the necefsity of confesion in Crimimals before

judgment

being any acquitted

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be given, I doubt there

real danger of prisonus being

and set free

without punishment;

liberated at all if the crimeo

bring liberated at all

they

changed with upon phrong evidence

be such

as entail capital punishment,

Simply because they will not

Confess.

The

practice being, as I think I have clearly

and

bring

up again

again for examination. By their usual mode of procedure

result is in the end either his and conviction, on his death

the

confession

wom

out

by long imprisonment and frequent trial

It

is

popible

pirate or any

friends

that in bhina

other Criminal

and mean

buy the free

may

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have

of

which a failure of justice might be Secured, either by a judgment against

evidence on

things

mo

by escape from prison. Such doubt have happened not only.

in this but in other Countries nearer

home, but I

am

result in the case

convinced this is a

of any pirates

or