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in this balony,
be
and secondly could it
that the Registon
succeffully contended that the
of the leaunt is the Queen's boroner and
Attorney, the local law is imperative that
for the purpose of bringing
a Criminal
"case under the cognizance of the Supreme
Count an Information phall be piqued by the Altomey General!
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Itrust therefore that I have made
that if an Information had
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there
it manifest not been filed by the Attomup generat would have been practically a denial of justin to the Portuguese Authorities in this Colony, a condition of things which ill accord with the celebrated statement
of
Lord Ellenborough in the Case of The
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any publication which tends to dispaces,
considerable
revile, and defame persons of consider
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foreign Countries, may
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and
in
dignity be tatten to be,
libel; and
particularly
where it has a tendency to interrupt the
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amity
and
peace
between the two Countries.
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9. But I have next to establish the propesition that the abetaining the Sunction
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condition precedent
of the Excecutive is not to the excercise of this right. In Blackstone;
Vol. 4 chap. 23, Section 3, the followin
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is to be found. There can be
no doubt but
"that this mode of prosecution by information
(or Suggestion), filed
on record by the
Kings Attorney General, or by his Coroner
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