proper Tribunal, offender of this description.

and

To prevent, however, as far as possible, the inconvenience that might arise from such an unseemly state of things, the horrible results that might

should the opinion quoted prove to be correct, and become generally known, I have deemed

it right and expedient to issue

a

Notification

&

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the

subject, to

which I call your particular

attention.

You will observe that

You

I have considered myself called on to take a certain Responsibility,

will therefore bear in

mind the

for

more.

Heat exists

than ordinary

observed in the

exercise

of the

being

discretion with which

temporary

a

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I have invested

out the measure

you in carrying

prescribed in the

in the above notification. The Circular respecting

Consular Jurisdiction is not applicable to this particular case;

not of a Colonial or of a Local nature, but one affecting

it is over

the Interests of all nations,

befall

solely within the Jurisdiction, and as such the formalities,

evidence and other

particulars, requisite at Trial in

the courts of England,

necessarily to be observed; hence

the

The Evidence

foss.

have of Chingake, had it not been otherwise objectionable,

could not have been read at the

trial,

although it had been

proved he was dead.

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