there is
any
power to
Compel my attendance
in Court or to impose
penalties for non-attendance,
and
I am precluded
from consulting you as
My Law adviser where you
are personally so
deeply
Concerned
―
but best you
should consider my silence
as
giving consent, I think
it right to say that I
give
no
consent to
your
Application for the writ
whose issuing I suppose it is your purpose to
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solicit at the hands of
the Chief Justice.
I am re
(Signed) John Bowring.
Government
House, 21st August 1856.
True Copy
Maliyou
Colonial Secretary