assuring violently his inverecy and the duty of the Court to let him from one propriety to influences may defeat the course of justice by simply forming a press
to de...
should chance
I simply informed with Excellency. I did not advise him; I continued of the opinions expressed in my letters of Sunday last, the 18th instant, that it
was not for me to advise whether a Court-Martial should be appointed to try cases of this kind, during the present crisis: eminently desirable as it thinks it; and much as the general enforcement of Martial law is unquestionably required.
I shall however obey His Excellency's desire that no informations be laid before him that are not reduced to writing and addressed to the Colonial Secretary, although I cannot help fearing that the present awful crisis will not be best provided for by general adherence to His Excellency's wishes on that point.
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