10.
Incentive Council, and that their proceedings with a full knowledge
facts have been confirmed
of the facts
and approved of by Her Majesty's
Government.
10.
In the case now
brought to your Lordship's notice I was fully prepared to cause Execution to be done on the Prisoners. The Teruel on brand of which the
Murder was committed was
a
British Nessel the murdered
-
and
Man a British subject- auch the murderers natives of Java, bom under the Butch Flag, and shipped at Singapore, British Settlement, and were therefore fully
Crime
aware
a
that the
Murder was punishable.
by death. At this time morcover,
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it is particularly desirable that an example should be made Persons convicted of crimes of
of
a serious nature committed on
board ship,- reports having recently been received of curtain Chinese huigrants who left Cumzingmoon,
a Port in China, having murdered the Master and others of that Veruel, off the Southern Points of Cambojia, and plundered the Vesul_ as well as of an English Versel named the "Herald" which left. Shanghai on
the 26th August 1851, having been destroyed by the Crew, and the Captain and his wife and other British subjects murdered_ about. 100 Miles westward of the Straits. of Sunda - and indeed, so
determined was I to make