instructing the Jury that certain attempt to extort must be distinctly proved.
Dique) W.P. Mercer, Colonial Secretary.
Honial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hong Kong, 8th July, 1858.
True Copy)
Maurice ... Krunt Secretary.
Copy NA 51.
Sir,
Police Magistrate's Office, Victoria, Hong Kong the 10th July 1856.
I beg leave, with all respect, to inform His Excellency The Governor, that it is not my intention to address the Secretary of State by this departure, on the subject of the case against myself for Misdemeanor at the recent trial. I accordingly leave the representation of the case to Her Majesty's Government, entirely in His Excellency's hands.
The Honble. W. J. Mercer, Esqre, Colonial Secretary.