CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898 — Page 361

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No. 64.

My Lord:-

LISBON,

20576

(Prc 13 SEP 3

352

August 2utn.1698.

Verious allusions have appeared in the L1S-

bon press during the rest day or

+.6 case of

a Fortuguese subject, Jusé Osorio, who was recently

tried for wilful murder in Hongkong, found guilty and

executed; the fact being mentioned that intercession

in the highest quarters was made by Trein Majesties,

the King and Queen of Fortugal, to obtain a commuta-

tion of the sentence of desta pronounced upon the man

in question,

The comment generally made upon this inc1-

dent is to the effect that there is no room for Sup-

prise in the failure of the intercession exerted;

that the case was in no respect one of extradition,

and thet consequently the circumstance of ca ital

puniament being excluded by Portuguese law nad no

The Marquess of Salisbur,

K.G.,

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bearing