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a civil magistrate, proceeding for which I find no justification in the information furnished to this Government on either side. If the Police Hong Kong, have been invested with such an unusual power, there is reason to fear that mischief will frequently result from the exercise of it. As no Authority for such a proceeding on the part of the Police Officers is shown, I adopt the conclusion that their conduct in this matter was without the warrant of Law, and therefore furnishes a just ground of complaint. If there was no authority for taking Madison from "the" "Beindeer", he ought to have been restored to the demand of the United States Consul. This is the case, much