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reasonable that circumstances which call for its being exercised should be explained to the parties concerned for their future guidance. It appears nothing however that there was anything illegal in the circular, as the Bench has been expressly informed by the Colonial Secretary that it was transmitted to him by the Attorney General not as Attorney General but as a Magistrate of the Peace, and because he felt personally aggrieved by it. The Bench cannot believe that the Government would make itself the instrument of any individual motive for the purpose of obtaining redress for personal grievances, as proper remedies exist therefor, and the Justices therefore conclude that the Government acted on its own account, and for special reasons of its own, in suppressing the circular. What those reasons were, the Bench has used every means in its power to ascertain, but without effect, and is reluctantly driven to the conclusion that the Government suppressed the circular in order to prevent the Justices from obtaining information which they were entitled to ask for and to receive, and which was in course to be conveyed to them in the customary and proper manner.
They are driven to that conclusion by the consideration of antecedent events. The Justices have already addressed you in regard to a memorandum issued by His Excellency the Governor respecting the construction of Ordinance No. 8 of 1856 by the Bench, having due regard to both the letter and spirit of Ordinance; they have been unable to understand why the Government would wish it as such; and it is a singular coincidence that the circular in question relates to cases under the Ordinance. The circular