of a nation to deal with its own criminals within the limits of its own jurisdiction
as it may
may think fit, irrespective of the circumstance under what Country's protection the offender may
have passed the intervening time between the Commission of the crime and his apprehension; while in the other case the question is purely
of a local character not affected by prior considerations or ulterior Consequences, and involving solely the preservation of order within the limits of Colonial jurisdiction under ordinary circumstances.
which,
one
you
will
agree
with me, having
never been disputed, need not be further dealt upon here.
From the concluding paragraph
of your dispatch, the whole tenor of which has not failed to impress
me
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with the melancholy conviction that my
endeavours have been totally unavailing to establish in His Excellency's mind
a change in favor of the cause which
I represent,- I observe with regret that His Excellency the Governor has now decided to report the affair to the British Government in London, thus leaving me no alternative but to adopt
a similar Course
by referring the Matter to a higher Tribunal and laying the whole Correspondence before His Excellency the Minister of Foreign
Affairs
at Berlin, to whose superior
judgement I must leave to decide