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of my
usual tulies, and Secondly because
I feel that I must be taking a very different View of the merits of the question from that apparently adopted by a Gentleman for whose experience and intelligent discharge of his duties I entertain very great respect - I mean Consul Robertson.
3.
Hee evidently has
the forfeiture of the reefsel
-
acqinisced and has
in
in his power
prevented the petitions so far as lay in his com exercising the privilege of appeal.. Nevertheless having had the advantage of personally conferring with the Consul I cannot find that in this case there was the slightest importation raised as to the "bona fides" of all the transactions in which
the Prince Albert was
ed in her recent
engaged
Any age
to Shnei Jung-
Nor were
any of
the statements of the Master or charterers of the Steamer called in question.
H..
I can
-can only gather that the Owne "Mwok_a. Cheong is supposed on former
occasions to have traded with Ports closed to
Foreign repels - but no attempt has been made to connect either the repel or any
party interested in her with illegal trading
during her last
5.
did not
voyages.
I therefore rent that Coment Reboten.
oso his
intu pose
good offices at an early stage of the proceedings to have proured the substitution of a fine for total forfeiture -
for a
as a more suitable penalty
an accidentat infringement of the
Treativ. I regret it the more because the
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