engaged in trade, it appeared to me, that it would have been a hard case to summon them from and (anton to take part in a Trial for which a competent Tribunal was already provided in a Court Martial
I have since this correspondence passed, very carefully again read the Act of Parliament and the Order in Council which accompanied Your Lordship's Despatch N.21. of the 4th of January last, and it appears to me very doubtful whether the Provisions of the latter are intended to be applied to the Officers and Men of Her Majesty's Land Forces, or other Persons subject to Martial Law in China.
My own unacquaintance with the Forms and Proceedings of regular Courts of Justice conducted according to the Law of England of which from my public life I have had no experience whatever (though I was for seven years Judge (as well as Magistrate and Collector, of the Provincial Court of the Zillah of Ahmadnuggur in the Deckan) renders me, I confess, anxious to have as little to do with them, nor can I help feeling that my ... others ... immediate