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the trial

my

Arle

object

was, so at the

li

final in perisition before the lovernor in Commeil it will be, that justice shall be

done,

but if

if justice

shmed re

require the

mi the

Ancrifice of the lives of these unfortunate

Criminals I dan not onemura

onemurage

Excitiincy any Expectation

Mind of Your Excellency

that favor

Can

be shewn them by

Reaso

of their birth - place, for our law recognizes

no distinction between Civilized

Savage,

Asiatic and

Contrary every man,

and

Europian, but on the

who by his misdeeds

has brought himself within the Co

Cognizance

of that law must, so

far forth

Lo

that

the

distinction is concerned, undergo

punishment which has been prescribed.

Your Excellency has in the

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concluding portion of your letter made Some observations with respect to the effect-

to follow

of Capital punishment. You much Kindly Excuse me if I decline to

into what is undoubtedly a difficult

you

question,

engages

and one which at this moment

the attention of some of the most

illustrious individuals in Imope, and

w this reason that when

a man is

Convicted of such a crime as

pirney

and Murder in a bout which derives ito

Authority

Judge

the British brown the

is not at liberty to exercise his discrition but has

pass upon

Death...

no allunative but to such Convict a sentence of

That no portion however of

Excellency's Communication Your Excellency's

may

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