a
British
loss inflicted
on the owne of Registered besel is now almost initrievable, as under existing regulations acquiescence the Consul in the repels confiscation has deprived the petitioner of all right to appeal.
6.
الا
therefore venture to draw
youn Excellency's attention to the matter - and if you
believe that the whole proceedings of the resel were characterisest by "bona fides" that she
was
really chartered to assist in looking for and saving a damaged frank with
hu caigo,
and that when searching for the forced to take
latter she was in a measure
refuge in the precincts of a forbidden
harbor, because the neighborhood
Avas
infested with Piratical looking craft- which the Chinese Authorities had
apparently no ability to furt down you
with me in thinking that.
may perhaps agree there could scarcely
be
a Case
the equity of
which would better be satisfied by infliction
of a fine.
7.
Morcover, remembering the leniency
of the Scolland and
Shewn in the cases
"Mercury - where there was bad faith-
and open illegality- it
that even
yet
thue
may
freurs
to
me
be means within
your Excellency's puver of obtaining not
You
as a matter
of right but
as
a mallu of
indulgence - a mitigation of the penalty enforced
8.
Sunless
I am
therefore sanguine that
ourmomlable
there be some insurn
obstacle in the way, Your Excellency will