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is

that

under

the 21th Article of

the Treaty of Tientsin H.M.

Gout cannot of strict-right

refuze

the

пейза

torture

to

deliver a criminal ground that

will

there

for suspecting that

be applied

to

criminal. But humanity

that

every step taken, possibly even

the extent of determing

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willing

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affind

torture

rendered

practical

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tte

to

dated July

blimeze Gourt

extend the

already griven that

he inflicted

Thall

criminals, and to

to

Ma

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An

The whis

opportunities for

themselves

that the

promises of the

Chinese

ale

fulfilled, and

no

torture

ficials

that

Ve

mch

requies

stall

be

to

the

present

the

action of the

treaty, to prevent

British

Gourt assisting

any way

relation to the

before

th

infliction of

torture.

It appears.

letter of Mess.

from Brereton,

Ae

should

be

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suggest that

is inflrited.

both in

particular

to its

general question, advantage taken of the opportun