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rank), sent specially to Hong Kong

to press

me on

the subject. a

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Chinese gunboat has also arrived

here to

carry off the prisoners

when surrendered. It is

understood here that if Your Lordship's decision should not

after a reasonable interval

arrive after

for telegraphie reply, there will be

an a

application for a writ of

Habeas Corpus; and that the

ne Court may possibly

dupreme

again

order the liberation of the prisoners. The Chinese, like all

Orientals

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Orientals, find great difficulty

in understanding our complete

separation of Executive and Indisial authority, and that there

is a power in Hong Kong which

sons whom the

can release persons -Governor, by direction

of 1

the

Secretary of State, has caused to

be imprisoned.

10.

I have informed.

the

the Viceroy of Canton (through the English Consul) on one hand, and the Roman Catholic Bishop

on the other hand, that this eas.