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Excellency contents the Captain is not
responsible
on the grounds that the
Mercantile transactions in which the
"Malaspina" is engaged
are under
Known and responsible administration altogether distinct from the commander
I whose buties are
confined to the riscction, good order, and security of the ship; and
((2) who is further exempt from all responsibility by the character
vessel.
I find
бай
the
The proceedings refered to
are
in the nature of a mercantile
&
suit instituted by a private individual
fr
Civil wroups alleged to have been sustained by him, and in such cases I cannot constitutionally
C
C
interfere with the
斥
Enstire-
obinary administation
happy however
to learn that the present ense
has
been amicably arranged, and I therefore only enter upon it here with a view of conecting
your
misapprehension under which heallancy appears to labour as to there being here
a Known and
responsible administration other then the courmander of the Visul for the Marcantile Interests in question,
the hope that by so doing means for obviating any
in
may be devised similar unpleasantness for
future.
The fasts of
the case
ús
the
for