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2. The letter is a ... it's tenor and form, that I am unable to transmit it without explanation. A simple narrative of the incidents which produced it seems the most intelligible explanation in my power and I proceed to give it.
3. Early last month I received from Mr Deane, Superintendent of Police, his report for 1868 transmitting the usual returns of crime for that year together with his observations on the Police Department generally.
4. In the 4th paragraph of that report, when alluding to the murder of a British subject, an American named Yancey or Cuntry at the Howison's side of the harbor, Mr Deane mentions that two persons had been arrested for the murder and had been acquitted on the point of Law raised by the counsel for the defence that the words "your statement will be taken down in writing and may be used against you" had not been used when the prisoners were cautioned by the Police.
5. It seemed to me that Mr Deane must have quite mistaken the Chief Justice's views in the matter. It was most desirable, for the purpose of regulating the Police practice in such cases, that the views of the Supreme Court should not be misapprehended. I directed in the general Minute, which I