14.
Reference to your opinion is conveyed.
The facts on which the questions were founded will be found in the enclosed copy of letter from Mr Hillier, which was forwarded home by the same despatch.
I have, etc.,
(Signed) W F Mercer
Colonial Accountant.
True Copy.
Colonial Secretary.
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Extract from Sir John Bowring's Despatch No.25 of 7th February 1858, to The Right Honorable Henry Labouchere, M.P.
"I was advised by the Acting Attorney General that he was of opinion the prosecution would fail, and he recommended that a Nolle prosequi should be entered on behalf of the Crown, on the ground that a written warrant for the committal of Captain Nichols had not been delivered to the Officer of the Court, and, during the past month, having had