IN RE KWOK ASING-JUDGMENT.
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haheus corpus, by reason that Kwok-a-sing truth, the whole trath, authoritatively, and in England for such false imprisonment ut se atands committed for trial at the next Ses that this office should not be left to the con. These are mere suggestions in reference sions before this Court for felony, plainly ex-ductors of the newspaper press here, whose to any future consideration of this cuse, pressed on the warrant of comunitment. Now active investigation in the absence of a better any such there may be. I know that this notice amounts to an admission by the organised and authorised inquiry must be much the atrocities of the coolie slave trade (un- prosecution that the charge of piracy in co.less satisfactory, though honest. Such au in paralleled save possibly in the worst phases of iamn No. 2 is a charge of felony equivalent toquiry will. I doubt not, be expected by the au. the African slave trade), which have recently that set out in column No. 1. That is, that thorities at home. It will be looked for by the been brought to public cogaisauce, will arrest the charge on the second commitment is the whole civilized world which now sits in judg. attention and excite borror wherever the Eng. same as the charge on the first commitment, ment as in international conclave on such hor.lish language is spoken-in the United States but if that be so, then charge No. 2 is absolute-rors as these. Such au investigation is the more as much as throughout the British Empire- ly prohibited by setion 6. The second ground called for here since the Dolores Ugarte was fitted and I trust that as good springs out for this cross motion is this. that subsequently up having all her slave carrying appliances, in the of evil generally, so here that the to the committal by Mr. May, and previous to waturs of this Colony. It has been asked why rent opinion and excited action of all Christen. the issuing of the 2nd writ of halices corpus was she not stopped and prosecuted here? dom induced by these atrocities, will establish Kwok-a-sing was duly served with an informa Could nothing have been done either under Or. such a police on the sea as to render all coerced tion (being here équivalent to a Tras Bill by dinance No. of 1862, sec. 7, or under that most emigration (inevitably tending to the slave a Grand Jury in England) whereby he is comprehensive act of the Imperial Legislature trade) impossible. In conclusion, I would adapt charged with piracy with violence. Now re- 5 Geo. 4, e. 113, especially seo. 10? I can ac- what was said of negroes by Montesquieu, no ferring to No. 3 the tabular statement be- count for the past. No blame attaches to any democrat, no fanatio, but a nobleman, fore referred to, this information is identical one, especially with the notion prevalent as to judge, and a French philosopher: "We cann in substance thongh not in praise words in what the law was. As to the past, whilst I claim aduit Chinese sea-borne coolia alaves to he charging the same offence (piratical and felo-credit for having acted according to my con-men-to do so would soon lead to our believing nicas being but diferent modes of designating victions, I am band to and do assume that that we are not Christians." the same bad ab-offence) as the charges in they who acted differently intended right at No. I and No. 2. The taking of the $10,000 least equally with myedf. It would be use-i and the apparel and the ten watches in the fi to know what ship and flying what Bell, Wyndham Street, Hongkong.
Printed and Published for the Proprietor, by W. H. Attorney-General's information No. 3 of tabn flag, it was that towed the Dolores" Ugarte lar atatement, is hid as having ocenrred whilst out of the Macao roads, and whether any, these articles were in the custody and to have, and what, insurere, and being of what na- been taken against the will of the Captain and tionality, secured as a debt of honor to the crew-that is, during their lives, that is between slavers the valns of the living carga of the Do- the first outbreak faud their deaths on the 4th lores Ugarte in the event that has happened. of October (a very short period) these takings Not further referring to the past, if I am not were therefore part of the main felonious or mistaken, even now, two, if not several, vessela piratical resyest. In respect of No. 1, I have are within these waters under the control of already said that there was no legal ground of the Harbour Master, whose fittings and ap charge against is prisoner. On the present pliances plainly indicate their destination for depositions, No. 2.still less cau this prisoner be that slave trade, against which, sa by coinmon eunvicted, and I do not see how ou such evidence consent, Chinauen make the only terrible pro- the information No. 3 can be sustained in law, or test in their power. Like Sampson, whom how it is other thad a charge to the same purport from infancy we have been tauglit to admire | as No. 1 and No. 2, and on this information to admire is in the young to years he is not a prisoner. The Attorney-Ge-imitate), they have immolate, and will con- neral contended that this information, the tiune to immolate, their utasters heedless purport of which appears in No. 8. of the of the results to themselves. Macao and the tabular statement, takes Kwok-a-sing from coolie ships divide the large profits of this out of the protection of sec. 6, and brings him traffic, but has not this Colony acted the part within the provisions of sec. 7 of the habens of the Lion's provider, and has not bere a corpusact. My opinion is that there areno words sumall part of the profits attending these ud- in sec, 7 that take away the protection of sec. ventures been distributed ? If the answer be 6. That sec. 7 takes up a subject essentially in the affirmative, must not this colony share, different from the sabject matter of the enact and does she not in fact, rightly or wrongly, ments up to sec. 7, That 7th section confines share with Meno, the discredit of this itself to cases which proceeded without any writ atrocious tra le among the Chinese? To recur of habeas corpus, and it provides for the then to the information filed by the Attorney-Ge frequently occurring oppression of the sub-ineral against the prisoner, it charges that the jeet by repeatedly postponing the trial of the Nouvelle Pen-lope was "in the peace of our Lady person charged. I am on the whole of opinion the Queen;" that is a necessary fact to be that Kwok-a-singis entitled to be discharged, and proved to give this Court jurisdiction to try I deliver him and set him at large. The Attorney-this prisoner upon this information. On the Generul having stated that officials from Macao depositions first before me I held that the Now- purpose to come over, and to give evidence on velle Ponelope was a pirate ship as a conclusion
pirate ship can she being an enemy of all man- kind be other than an enviny of the Queen And an enemy's ship is not in the peace of the Qunen-see Arch. Flea and Evidence, p 386, 15th edition. Whether the acts charged against this prisoner be piratical or not in themselves,
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the trial of this prisoner, I am on that ac-of Law. The evidence in the depositions on count very much disappointed. The more which exclusively this information is and nust thoroughly the whole history of the Nouvelle be founded and filed-(the Attorney-General can Penelope is ventilated the better for legally import no other into his mind) is cer humanity. It will be lamentable if these tainly in this respect, as to the prisoner's guilt, officials cannot be examined and cross-examined ad idem, not raore if so much. Now if she was a in an open court. Macao would be as maob upon its trial before the world as this poor miserable man Kwok-a-sing, who has been now ever since the 7th of February stretched on a rack of mental torture, compared with which the Chinese wach abused ordinary physical tortures would be bearable. In the course of has this Court järisdiction over acts done in a the argument the Attorney-General asked from abip which whether according to Freuch or Eng- the court an order of detainer against the priglish Law, ia at the time in the commission soner on recount of the existence of the infor- of an act declared pitical by both nations, nation lel by him. He offered no procedent and therefore not in the pace of the Queen? for such an act by the court, and I know of no But let it be assumed that these coolies were authority on which I could justify compliance merely illegally, coerced, an English lawyer with his request upon this hearing of the appli- must apply this principle to such a case. eation on this writ of habeas corpus. The pri If a soner ia free, and effect must at the risk of a custody they are not guilty of the murder;
are not in law al coutempt of this court be given to the decision of those de facto in authority over of this court which sets him free. The ques Being prisoners they have a right to re- them. tions arising out of the case of the Nouvelle gain their freedom by any means in their Penelope have attained an unprecedented in-power. This is the law to be found in B. v. tures since that extastrophe has been followed Serca and others, I Den, e o B. 104, which see also by the horrible incidents connected with the iu Roscoe, e Evidence, 777, 778, and in 1 Rus. deaths by burning of the enolies on board the by Greaves 247, 249. Moreover, R. v. Lesley, Dolores Ugarte. Many seamen and coolies who Bell, e c, 220, goes to this estout. that the fant have escaped from the appalling scene, a ship that men legally imprisoned, and so legally on fire, are now is this colony. It is due to the put on board a ship in Chili, (Macao) does authorities at Maca, maligned as they are said not render the contigusuce of that coercion in to be that this friendly Government should a British ship at sea legal, and the captain of publicly by a Commission of Inquiry elicit thea British ship was convicted and imprisoned
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BOLETIM DA
PROVINCIA
DE MACAU E TIMOR
PARTE OFFICIAL
de contador do juizo, que tem de ordena | de Mesquita, tenente coronel.-J. P. Leite, do annual 1808000 réis, menos ainda o tenente coronel.-J. A. da Costa, tenente
MINISTERIO DOS NEGOUTOS DA MARINHA E pode ser accumulado por pessoa, que, co-coronel-Assis
ULTRAMAR
mo Eulalio Perpetno, já vence orienulo Marques.” superior ao de contador. Paço, em 28 de fevereiro de 1871.-José de Mello Gront-
DIMECÇÃO GERAL DO ULTRANAR
CIRCULAR
N. 14 Havendo sido frequentes vozes remet- tidos à secretaria d'estado dos negocios da marinha e ultrazuar mappas de inspec ções de saude feitas nas provincias ultra- marinas, & empregados, officiacs militares e praças de prat, que precisarem dẹ l- eença para vir no reino, son dos mesmos nappas constar se as molestias dos ips- peccionados foram adquiridas no serviço
em preceder ás averiguações necessarius, a fim de nos respectivos mappas declara- rem, sempre que for possivel, as informa- ções de que se trala.
O que se commumica, para os devidos effeitos, ao governador da provincia de Macau e Timor. Pago, em 3 de março do 1871-José de Mello Conceia.
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QUARTEL GENERAL DO GOVERNO DA
VINCIA DE MACAU E TIMOR Macau, 27 de abril de 1871. ORDEM Á FORÇA ARMADA N. 13
e Fernandes.-Sousa.-
O secretario geral, Henrique de Castro.
Secretaria do governo de Macau e l'i- PRO-mor-N° 209.-I. sr--Encarrega- me S. Ex. o Governador de rogar a v. 3." que se sirva syndicar se o capitão e pilo to do navio Dolores Ugarte, são os mesmos que fizeram as duas ultimas viagens n'es- te navio, e bem assim, se a tripolação é a mesma que tinha, e na indagação da identidade d'aquelles individuos, recom. menda o niesino Ex. Sr. que v. s. em- pregue o maior escrupulo, a fin de não poder ser illudido.
S. Ex. o Governador manda publicar para os devidos effeitos o seguinte:
ou por effcito d'elle: manda Sua Mages- “Accordão em junta de justiça, vistos os tade El Rei, pela referida secretaria d'es-autos, allegações do promotor de justiça tado, recommendar ás juntas de saude do advogado do réo, e relatorio. Mostin- das provincias ultramarinas, que tenham, se que feudo o réo Autonio Vieira Braga Deus guarde a v. 3."-Secretaria do em identicas inspecções, o maior cuidado alferes do batalhão de tinha de Timor governo de Macau, 24 de abril de 1871. sido dennuciado pela participação de -- sr. capitão do porto-Henrique da pratica de differentes crimes e abusos de Castro, souretario geral do governo. no desempenho da commissão publica que exercia de governador de Manbara. depois de entrar em conselho de investi- gução foi julgado on conselho de guerra onde por unanimidade de votos se enten- den incurso nas disposições dos artigos de guerra 6, o 24. e por maioria na do 25. dos mesmos artigos para lhe serent SECRETARIA D'ESTADO DOS NEGOCIOS DA appliculas as penus que ali se comuni-
MARINDA E ULTRAMAR DIRECÇÃO ARRAL. DO ULTRAMAR 1. Repartição
N. 13
Es.sr.-Em virtade das ordens trans- mittidas por v. ex. em officio de hontem, por ordem do Ex. Sr. Governador para en syndicar se o capitão, piloto, e mais equipagem da galera salvadoriña Dolores Ugarte, ancorada na rada de Macau, com destino para Callao de Limas, são os mes-
os que fizeram as duas viageus anterio res; tenho a honra de informar a v. ex.", para que se sirva levar ao conhecimento do mesmo Ex. Sr., que o capitão do dito navio é D). Cecilio Garaz que substituio em Callao o autigo capitão José Peres Saul, e os pilotos e equipagem, são igual- mente novos, não havendo a bordo ne-
hum, das viagens anteriores.
Deus guarde a v. ex."-Capitanía do porto de Macau, 25 de abril de 1871.--- Ex. sr. Henrique de Castro, secretario
tam. Os de junta de justiga considerando que está exubundantemente provado pelo documento existente nos autos constatado pela propria confissão do réo, que este levantara da fazenda publica e Tendo sido presente a Sua Magestade em proveito proprio a quantia de cinco El-Rei o officio de 31 de dezembro ulti-enta e oito rupias e quiuze avos, quantia mo, u.o 289, eu que o governador da pro- que por força da comissão que exercis vincia de Macau e Timor, dá conta de em Maubara se achava sob a sua admi- que, anunindo ao que the propos o juiznistração e guarda. Considerando que os de direito da comares, nomeara para in mais crimes de que o accusam não tem a terprete do juizo a Enlalio Perpetno, plenu prova que era mister para serem accrescenta que sendo o nomeado ana-tidos na consideração que denloveu os do geral do governo.-J. E. Scarnichia, ca- nuense da conservatoria, onde vence o conselho a fazerem a applicação dos artipitão de porto. ordenado de 2008000 réis, se lle não pó-gos de guerra referidos. Julguu o réo | de abonar o ordenado de 302000 réis, que somente incurso nas penos do artigo 319. para o emprego de interprete está con- do codigo penal, que diz assim: "Todo o signado no decreto de 1 de dezembro de empregado publico que em razão das suas 1866, pois que o decreto com força de lei funcções tiver em seu poder dinheiro, ti- de 30 de julho de 18-14 prohibea accumula- tulos de creditos, ou effeitos moveis per- ção de vencimentos á excepção de certas tencentes ao estado ou a particulares para pensões e dus gratificações estabelecidas guardar, despender on administrar ou the por lei, e por isso considerando a difficuldur o destino legal, se alguma consa
Cousulmio de Perú, Macau, 26 de dade de achar quem queira servir o cm d'estas. furtar maliciosamente levar ou prego de interprete por tão diminuto veu deixar levar on furtar a outrem on appli- abril de 1871.-Logar do sello-B. 3. cimento, propõe que ao mencionado Ea-
cur a use proprio ou alheio, faltando a Fernandes, encarregado do consulado do Julio Perpeno so abouam os 303000 réis applicação ou entrega legal, será condem- Forú. amatues à titulo de gratificação.
nado a traballos publicos temporarios.
Certifico que foi por este consulado concedida bandeira peruana á galera Do. lures Ugarte, hoje denominada Don Juan.
Certifico mais que toda a tripulação da referida galera foi tomada recentemente em Hongkong, como mostra a sua ma- tricula, que se acha devidamente archi. vadu n'este consulado.
Por ordem da ex.
junta da fazenda O mesto Augusto Senhor, conforman-1.0, quando o valor for inferior aos de- do-se com o parecer da janta consultiva clarados n'este artigo, a pona será a de se fux publics, que o capitão Francisco de Attendendo Mello Baracho êm commissão n'esta pro- do ultramar em consulta de 22 do presen- prizão maior temporaria. te mez de fevereiro, manda, pela secreta porem a que o réo se tem conduzido por vincia, se acha considerado socio do mion ria d'estado dos negocios da marinha e vezes como militar valente a brioso deno- te pio official desde o mez de janeiro ul ultramar, declarar að sobredito governa tando virtudes que merecem consideração timo; devendo desde o dito mez contri- dor que sendo o vencimento de 308000 o que se mostra pelo documento de f-buir com a competente quota, como cons réis de que se trata verdadeiro ordenado, o condemnam na pena de tres annos de ta do officia n.o 10 do ministerio da na- que não só pela disposição do decreto de prizão correccional nas custas e sellos dorinha e nltramar de 23 de fevereiro de Macau. 25 de abril de 1871.-Mi-
30 de julho de 1814, mas até pela expres processo. Macau, 13 de agosto de 1870-1871.
sa disposição do decreto de 1 de dezembro | Assignados-d. F. Lacerda -4. Sergio guel Pereira Simoes, secretario da junta de 1800 não pode ser accumulado com o de Sousa, Governador, presidente.-V. V. de fazenda.
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