by the Owner of the Confiscated Samer Punce Albert " I received
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despatch
from the Superintendent, a beanstation of which I enclose, the purport of
which is
that the Foreign
Board
moved by your Ceullency's represen
lations desire the vessel to be restored
to her
owner
payment of er
a sum
to be estimated here, and that, this
Sunn
being
having been fixed at $8 G000,
one
Steamer
ao
half the value of the
asserkiined by Mr
Commissioner Glover, I am desired
to call upon
the
oconer
to parf
in this amount and take back
his vessel.
The
The
Course
thus proposed
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is so
different from the preeve and explicit instructions set forth in Your Excellencup's despatch to 25 of 3rd August on this subject that I do not feel
at liberty to accede to it; whilst, on the other hand I have strong
reason for
believing that the Superintendent of
Customs will decline to,
re-
- open
the
question of seizure and condemnation
by joining
Ane An
in accepting farther
eindener, in support of which refuent
be will doubtless.
allege
the present
positive instructions from the Treign
Board.
Under such circumstances I
lose