CO129-57 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7] — Page 189

to trial (and with Success), suola

prisoners as, being

deverited,

Iverc

in the position - willing to be tried

without the five day's notice. At the

March Sessions, however, I was

-pelled,

tim pie Cake,

then

T

Emmitted

only received

to ivorive my right by the Chief Justice, who refurred in

Court to receive the signed. Information I had sent up against Mine prisoners for piracy, Imunit the day before, and the depositions in whose cave I hond mily Headily that mornings of" "Kwokin yuushee and others, already reported by me upon another pron 5 your department. The intuesses were all Chinese people, revident on the Mainland, and, as I have already

were all absent from

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print

informed you,

his belang on the tire pubsequent

their

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recasines to isliches, noring to the bluef. Justice's refusal to hear the eave m the day of the finding of the Information the ease sood adjourned. They

the devout recession accordingly. at Mr. Day's suction, discharged by proclamation in the usual Anamer. The brnon coituesses were here in the

No

on

day of the finding; and, if the thief, justice had not prevented the trial, ou punch desired by the prismers as by the proventor, from tirking place,

those witnesses would have been heard.

and, if I may judge from the deposition sclush I enclose, a conviction must have followed

"Mor is this an ssscptional ouse. Leave. The Chief Justice at the folimning Sessions _ the April_ dessions_applied the same rule to the ease of lamarang

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