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to me. Any reiteration of
contradiction does not rebut facts.
I therefore preferred to leave the
Consul's last communication unnoticed,
as it did not absolutely need a reply, than to prolong a cornspendence - conducted by the Captain of the and His Consul in a tone which
Circe
might have necessitated my transmitting a serious complaint against both.
20.
Whether Quarantine be desirable
or not, is an abstract question unnecess sary to consider hire. But the Colonial Vide Ordinances,
N. J. 1862
Low in administering the details makes Sections He and 17
No
distinction between Merchant
vessels and I vessels of Nar, whether
Her Majesty's Ships
or those of
Pering
Nations.
At the
very
time when the
Couplain of the "Cevice" was declaiming against British inhumanity and the monstrous severity of our Laws, he might without the aid of even
"
"
an opera
glass have seen the British Gunboat Hesper undergoing in his neighborhood
precisely the same restrictions us
restrictions
himself;
inforced at that time because
Small Fox had not reached the town -
but less rigorously insisted on when
it has once actuar
actically established a footing there as it generally does for
some months
every year.
21. Ander all the circumstances I
would respectfully urge that the complaint of the Spanish Meinister,