CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6] — Page 392

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has obtained his evidence in this

is

insapasitated from sitting to hear the

:ease, as he must be at once brassed in

favour of the evidence which he has himself acquired . His hearing the case, under such

circumstances, is as

all sense

ritterly repugnant to

e of justice, as it would be for the Attorney General to sit on the bench to hear

: cases with respect to which he has signed the informations. When the espionage system

in

Honghong is found to work such results

as this, it may fairly

time that some steps

be considered high

wwere taken to restrain

it within at least decent limits; so, that

whatever evils

may attack to it, in

connection with the vices with which it is

mainly associated, it may at least stop

short ofariolation of every principle of

reason and common sense.

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