to inform you, that His Excellency
having communicated with the Honorable The Chief Justice of
the Colony, before whom the said James John Burke was tried and convicted, does not feel himself warranted in acceding to the prayer of your Petition_
I am however further instructed
that the sentence
!
to inform you of 15 years transportation is not to be carried into effect, but will be commuted to four years. imprisonment in the fail of this Colony, for
altogether
reasons
apart from those urged in your
Petition-
I have, te... Signed, M. Camie_
(Tine Copy.) Chlonial Secretary
Colonial Jerretary
Copy.
بھی بول
Dear Sir
In 5295
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Monday: March 24 $1,1851-
I have read over my Notes of
the Trial, Regina & Newton and Burke, and find that the latter was perfectly sober at the time of the commission of the offence. That he, Burke, was the prime
the
affair issufficiently indicated by the Sentence. Newton, the
mover in
Chief Officer, was very
was very drunk at the time and in consequence of his previous good conduct and the recommendation of the Jury to mercy, was sentenced to buk one month's Imprisonment with hard labour within the Juil-lpon the whole I think Burke richly deserved
"Sir George Bonham, K. C.B_
L.