of the Nice Admiralty Court may
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be, and as my
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only channel of official Communication in
capacity
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Consular
Agent
my
accredited to the Colonial
Government lies with the Foreign Reportment of this lactory, without authority on my part to treat in cases like the present with the subordinate Functionaries of the local Representative of deer Britannic
Meajesty, there remains in the present instance
me, but to recent my
there fore
no alternative for me.
for
formal protest against the illegal seizure and
frrible
cible detention.
of
the Prussian Schooner Bachante
the
holding the Government responsible for
consequences of any unlawful proceedings againstso
the ressed by the Vice Admiralty Cout of this Colony.
I have to
(Aigner) G. Overbeek,
Consular Agent for Prussia.
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Overbeck to Colonial Secretary.
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Prussian Nice Loonsulate, Nictoria, Hooghing
18655.
31th May, 1865.
In pursuance of my
instant I have now the honor to
letter of 23rd
inform you,
that under date 26th instant a letter has been
the
by
received by
Undersigned, written
order of the Honorable, the Indge of the Vice- Admialty
Cout, informing
me of the issue of a deerse by that touch, ordering the delivery of the Prussian Schomir Bachante (late Falk) to the
quondar
1 am Owner Mr. Christian Marbery of Sonderburg.
and condemning the present lawful.
# H. Alexander, Eqre
Ading Colonial Secretary
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