transmit to Your Lordship Copy th of the reply that I caused to be
made to it._
Your Lordship will observe in Mz Secretary Caine's letter to Mr Burke, it is stated that the sentence of Transportation will not be carried out but be commuted to Imprisonment for four Years- an arrangement I was compelled to recort to from not having the means
the
of carrying original sentence into execution_ and which has since been
B
in
approved of by Your Lordship Despatch to 197 of 29th August, 1850-
Before making any reply to Ms Burke in April last, I consulted the Chief Justice the subject of the Petition, and the enclosed Copy of a note from
on
2.
Mr Hulme will I trust satisfy Your Lordship that the Prisoner has been dealt with as leniently as is consistent with the ends of Justice._
I have the honor to be, With the highest respect, Your Lordship's Most obedient
Humble Servant,
AGET