his power to give effect to Lord Granville's wish confirmed by Your Lordship, as to necessary
Communications between the subordinate authorities on
either side
of
the boundary
in
Cases of emergency, and to report to me the result.
I may state in the mean time that, in reference to the arrest of
British
Criminals on Chinese territory, I cannot, with all due deference to the opinions of the Law Officers of the Crown, entertain
Any
doubt that power and authority to do so exist by Treaty; and I am sure that no Chinese authority would think
of
Contesting it. In the question of Treaty right I am fully borne out by the opinion of the Chief Judge: Sir Edmund Hornby, which I forwarded to the Foreign Office in my Despatch to Lord Stanley No. 153 of Sept. 28, 1867. He therein states that "If a British subject in flight reaches Chinese land, we can follow and arrest him because he is a British Subject and the Crown has jurisdiction over him and can bring him back without infraction of Treaty."
Again, as to the Treaty right; By Art: XV of the Treaty of Tientsin, rights of Exterritoriality are fully secured and the exclusive jurisdiction of British Authorities over
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his power to give effect to Lord Granville's wish confirmed by Your Lordship, as to necessary
Communications between the subordinate authorities on
either side
of
the boundary
in
Cases of emergency, and to
to me the result.
report to
I may state in the mean time that, in reference
British
to the arrest of
Criminals on Chinese territory, I cannot, with all due deference to the opinions of the Law = Officers of the Crown, entertain
Any
doubt that power and authority to do so existe by Treaty ; and I am bar that no Chinese authority would think
of
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of Contesting it . In the question of Treaty right I fully borne out by the opinion of the Chief Judge: Sir Edmund Hornby, which I forwarded to the Foreign Office in my Despatch to Lord Stanley No. 153 of Sept. 28,1867. His
therein states that " If a British subject in flight reaches Chines land, we can follow and arrest him because he is a British Subject and the Crown has jurisdiction over him and can
bring him back without infraction of Treaty."
Again
, as to the Treaty right; By Art : XV of the Treaty
Tientsin, rights of Exterritoriality fully secured and the exclusive furisdiction of British Authorities
of
are
over
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