jurisdiction, with distinct respect to any
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particular nation. Mr. M. Love "agreed in turn with each of us, and stated that all chance of a collision would be avoided if the courtesy
Lif Shown by the Colonial Authorities of not interfering, unless positively obliged to do so, in cases of discipline on board American Ships in her
Main harbour. I agreed with him as to this, and said
that while asserting most positively the abstract right of full jurisdiction, American Commanders and other Officers should always, as far as an individual could, meet all
exactions at any hands in the discharge of official duties. The conversation then took another turn, and thus the matter terminated.
I beg therefore to state most distinctly
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and most positively. That I had been misinformed with regard to the paragraph from him, copied out in your letter to me, and that I took then, and I take now, a very decided view of the question at issue between American and English Authorities in this Colony; this I would never have willingly acquiesced in the concession stated in the Commodore's letter; Moreover, I had no authority from the Colonial Government to "settle any future course of proceedings with regard to American Ships, and it is not probable that such an authority should have been committed at a private interview, and without previous discussion of the matter with my superiors.
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