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Court House, Tuesday July 29th 1856.
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date, and to thank His Excellency the Governor for favoring me with an extract of his Despatch to the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies conveying my opinion on the subject of the Tresecution for Rescue against the American Conqul In Ruman and also with a copy of Mr. Hillier's letter on the same subject.
To the Honorable, William Thomas Mercer Esquire. Colonial Secretary.
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I deeply regret to find that His Excellency should, quite unintentionally I feel assured, have placed me in an entirely false position with the Law Officers of the Crown