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I the Lumaily, to which they home subjected hum. selors, bring inforced, it would under the peculiar circumstances puss with great hardship whon
those Geertienen.
We do not wish, Sir, to deny that the
Ilindants may have rendered themselves liable
dinud
to the Fine ciered according to the strict cutter of the law, but a careful review of the whole case
abundanily shens that there was no • attempt at
concealment in any one or their nets; and the exituma on the trial is equally conclusive as to
the cost of the cruel bring adequately fitted and frovisioned for the
voyage, as mi as
abully
competent, under the burificate of the Enigration
L
Offer himselp, to convey the number & paunque
that
ge
meu on board; while it is recorded as the unanimous of rion & The Fury, concurred in ay A's Honor The this" Juña that the rightful
mortality that took pior during the voyagi, mat
the act of God alone, and in no may attributable to negligence or want of froter,
or mant & proper care or precautions, on
nereover
the part of this." Qyali Stil C. It mas moriour ixpressly stateci by the Atorney Beveral on the trial, that it was not as omers of the arse that he charged the clifinciants, but solely as suretics to the Bond.
Me mould further respectfully submit, Tir, That had the Emigration Officer striatly dore his duty by ordering the bhinese fassungus on show. men they demurred to going on the voyage, no ground for the reant proceedings would in all prot- -ability have ariem, miereas the course by that function any
mislead if it
uciopted
ary mas courtles calculated to
mis not the sole cause of the whole une qularity
if it was
We trust therefore, for, after a confini
į
Jerusal of the widens _viciica_on_the Fiul and on