until the Minister of Spain in London can consult on the case (which is not so clear as the Attorney General and the Court suppose) with his Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs in England. Regretting as I do, not being in accord with.
Your Excellency to whom I owe, and to whom I have every kind of respect and consideration, and with the Supreme Court, a tribunal which I hold in the same esteem, I shall be placed in the painful and unavoidable necessity of protesting in due form against an act, which in my judgment, and according to the opinion of my Colleagues, attacks an unquestionable right,
which is established by International Law (Wheaton's International Law p. 165), and is also against that which is expressly ordered to be observed in Cap: CANTI Section IV of "A Collection of Public Revenue Statutes passed in the Twenty fourth and Twenty fifth years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria".
Hong Kong, 12th March 1872.
I have, &c.,
Signed K. Cheer,
Consul for Spain.
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