10.
Petition by Mr Douglas, the Superintendent of the Jail, that Your Excellency also placed faith in it, and if the confidence should prav to howe been in
any way mis pliced the parties
to blame will be the sponsors for the Prisoner's Military Services; to wit : Mass Russell, and Danglas.
As regards the demand mode for a publication in the Gazette of a letter reflecting on Your Excellency, disrespectful and
it seems to me so
unreasonable as well as subversive of Authority, that I do not see how a reference to the Secretary of State can be avoided, expecially Russell has positively refused to a
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avail himself of the appartivities offered; 1.4 by Mr Smith at my instance, and then by myself personally, to withdraw
or re-cast his letters.
That he is not himself entitled to demand a transmission of them may as the Attorney General observes, be bene enough, but as in event of his memorializing the Searitary of State they would, news fiurity
form enclosures, I do not see
should not
why they
go forward at once with a view to the avoidance of further Correspondence here.
(Signed) J. G. Austin,
Colonial Secretary.
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18th May, 1871.