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mode of legal redress open Supreme
Court on as
to us
at the
"he remarked, "Any
"Other Course that might appear to us more Indeed our own application
"advisable
of
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th October to the Police Magistrate, the first instance, for a copy of the Depositions, which was
by him, declined
in stated our intention was to send the same
to the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, through His Excellency the Acting Governor
our Letter of the 31st October last with the
Original and Copies of Correspondence upon
the subject matter of our complaint, which we took the liberty to send accompanying, it is presumed unnecessary to trouble the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies with any further details of our grievance through the unjustifiable Police prosecution complained of, at the instance of the Postmaster General of this Colony.
Only we may add that had not the Summons been served (apparently for a purpose) at our residence, a considerable distance from the Magistracy, scarcely an hour preceding our required appearance in the Police Court, we would have been prepared with legal advice, and adduced respectable exculpatory testimony on our own part, as well as in reprobation of the Postmaster's high-handed proceeding, not alone towards ourselves, but to the general public, who were likewise impatient for the overdue delivery of Overland mail despatches close to the eleventh hour of night!
We have the honor to be respectfully,
Jam Sui
Most Obedient Servants
Littler
Dr. Frederic Rogers Barl
Colonial Office Sheet
Downing Street London