in May last, the Harbor Master
was
required to grant a Port
Olearance when arrlied for,
SULLY
Pate in Ports the Master
may
chose to ciem for, there was res
Clear
authority for withholding
this
dreument. A
was
given
to the
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Iusannah in the same manner they have been given to all othe Cesels from this Office, indeed I had no power to refuce it.
I would be permitted to add
appears
most respectfully that it to me, that both the clearner
and the beats of the Miniter of the
Susannah'
nah were
is the point of
If
perfectly legal up
his arrival at
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Arica in Bolivia, at which point Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affairs
دة
permitted him with his "French Agent to sell the humigrants Slaves, an action mot ouly illegal but diametrically opposed to the nature of the voyage set forth the Port Clearance.
in
over the illegal tramcnctions of the Master of the "Susannah. I had is Control, and therefore confidently hope that the Honorable the Licut: Gorema will free me
me from
from the charge
I granting a paudulent Port Clearance.
(True Copy)
Estonial Secretory
I have, He.. (Signed) R. P. Michelle