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We are honored with your Lordship's commands signified to us in Mr. Addington's Letter of the 11th Instant, stating he was directed by your Lordship to transmit to us the inclosed despatch & its inclosures received from Sir Henry Pottinger, relative to the trial and conviction in a Court of Admiralty constituted under the Orders in Council of Decr the 9. 1833 and Jan? 4. 1843; and held by the Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, of Salvador Lacrase, a Spanish Subject,
accused of the murder of William Hopkins, a British Subject, on board the Turkish "Bug" "Harlequin" off the Coast of China.
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Mr. Addington enclosed the Orders in Council referred to; and Copies of the China Acts of 1843 and 1845; of the Commissions issued under last of those, and of the Instructions which were addressed to Sir H. Pottinger in December last with respect to certain Regulations promulgated by him for the guidance of the Court created by the Orders in Council referred to.
Mr. Addington also inclosed the further Order in Council of October 1843.
Mr. Addington was pleased to request that we would take into consideration Sir H. Pottinger's Report of the proceedings in the case of Salvador Lamase.
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