As a deserter from the Russian Navy. In reply to this it was pointed out to M. Overbeek that no action on his part as between himself and the Naval authorities of his country could in any way affect the rights of a third party - i.e. the Government of the Country in which he was at the time resident - and he was informed that I had determined to refer the matter to the decision of Her Majesty's Government.
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To this Mr. Overbeek rejoined, in a letter which closed the correspondence with that Gentleman, that the man was taken prisoner while on board a Prussian Man-of-War on Prussian ground, where Prussian jurisdiction was fully entitled to assert its power; that consequently no offence against British