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according to law, and he should only

interfere to for.

to satisfy himself that the proceedinge are regular. ___ In the present ease when the

warrant issued the offender was supposed to be a British subject, and that the warrant would be backed by the Court at Shanghae,

the 66th section of the order in Council of 1865, and the man.

under

brought down here in

Custody.

proved to be an American citizen,

the warrant could not be enforced._

were not regular and if Im Seward had at once released

the proceedings

the

quan

this Government could

not have complained -

We thought fit however to

detain him, and to invite a

GreaQ

he allowed time

:"formal demand for his rendition. By this

for the reply of the Board of Trade to be received while the

offender

er was still within reach, If that reply had been different, and the Board of Trade had been

able to send out the necessary.

evidence ; proceedings regular in every way might have been instituted at Shanghae before the British Conent,

as prescribed by the 268th section of the Merchant shipping det: and

any interference by Im Seward

Might