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necesarily bring the whole of ibi proceedings before the Privy Concil. The Chief Justice had said so
from
the bench, and I did not doubt it. I thought, tee, and probably said
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to the
that it would have for him with his views applicability of the Slave Prading
Acts to the Coolie trade and the Coolie ships, if the "Dolores Algarte" had been libited in the Vice Admiralty
Court here
as
a slaver and that I
had bow thinking of doing it, but had not dove it, because I differed in opinion with the Chief- Justin to the applicability of the antislavery lawn. We talked, if I recollect aright-
ao
for a long time and I said a great
deal
very indiscreetly
about the case
case and its
but I do not believe it
a/a
it appears,
divigo,
posible
that
I could have said what Mr. Lister
afverts that I did say, First, because
to way lid
so would have been to have
outright; Secondly, because, if I had been acting under the orders and advice of the chief garlic,-
should not have said so
sake of my
airv
Justice,
for the reputation. It
would have been much
more to
I
my credit to have appeared to Mr Lister and to the world as acting soldy on my own judgment. Thirdly, I had long previously made up
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