personal risk to himself, when I reflect in the return that he has met at the hands of Her Majesty's diplomatic Agents, where not merely gratitude but duty should, in my opinion, have prompted my course of action the reverse of that which has so unfortunately been followed, and which is generally regarded here prejudicial to British character and prestige.
10. In communication of a letter ultimo from Consul Robertson to the Colonial Secretary, the Consul states that he has received your approval of the arrangement whereby Nwok-Cohiong is to be permitted to redeem his vessel for four thousand dollars. It is probable, however (for I was under that impression at first), that Your Excellency, when approving that arrangement, had not been invited to consider whether there had originally been any such violation of the Tientsin Treaty as to justify confiscation at all. I am now in a position to state that the Attorney General of this Colony, a most unbiased and competent expounder of the Law on the subject, is clearly of opinion, that assuming the