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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

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

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