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Court instead of signing

An arrant

A

enabling the Governors

to surrender them to the Chinese

Authorities; and he informa

bey

lwo

that he was actuated,

considerations. First he

considered the crime to be

-piracy jure gentium and

and that

he was bound to commit them

for trial in

consequence of the judgment of the Privy Council. as to the duty of the Magistrate=

in the Kwok-a-

circumstances

Sing). of the

cave- The

the two cases

are however different,

think Mr. May.

and I

was onistaken

in his application of the language

used in that judgment but this is immaterial at present for; Secondly) he considered : the evidences to be of very soubtful characters,

and að A

regards the guilt of the

prisoners quite unreliable : but in the conflict of lestimany) he thought sight

a jury.

to send the case do

he would have dones

if it had been simply

Q cade

of local crime. Had the of res

been one

Case

lition only) he

would have considered. it his

duly to

report

to the Governors

of the

the untrustworthy natures

If His Excellency

evidence.

instructed in cases 0: