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with sufficient clearnces, ond therefore that I have been mis-understood. It was not my intention to aste his Excellency to abrogate British Laws, or to diverge from the course which his instructions declared to him I merely suggested that it would be gratifying if during the time that the Material question remained
Unsettled by the two Governments, I could be permitted as a Courtesy, to exercise jurisdiction over the internal discipline of our vessels; that, in doing so
And I did not suppose, in this, I was asking the abrogation of any British Law or a divergence from any instructions
If I did not mis-understand His Excellency Dr Taki, he informed me shortly after his arrival, that His Excellency the Governor had assured him, that there should be no repetition of the boarding of our vessels in such Cases, until His Britannic Majesty's Government should be heard from upon the subject.
I merely acted for an extension of the time of this intervention, till the matter should be settled by the Supreme Government.
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