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Capital exceutions, whereas the

underta

certaking given by the

Viceroy of Canton is general

in its terms; but under all

the circumstances the Foreign= Office came to the conclusion.

impossible to

that it was

гроп

insist

the whole of

the

Chinese judicial machinery

356

Kung's letter.

Lord Granville is of

opinion that Her Majesty

's

Government should insist on the strict fulfilment of

that guarantee as regar

executions, but that as

d

£

regards

torture at the trial to extort

Confession, they should be

:

being set aside in the preliminary

examination

satisfied with the

Z

Criminals, in

order to meet the views

of

the

of

a

foreign Government, and

that matters

must be left

on the footing of the Rince of

Kung's

assurance

Viceroy that it will not

be resorted to.

The

guarantee given by the Prince of Lung in 1866 appears

to have been lost sight of at

Pekin

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