as well

Wo

behalf of the Messageries

Maritimes. We also produced a copy of a Treaty between

me the

and

France and England and

Rome

Despatches which I need not particularize,

Wo

I make

no

doubt they were

supplied to him by Your Excellency's

directions.

Upon hearing both sides and reading the Treaty and Despatches,

I made

not

an

order releasing the "Ava, having myself the slightest

doubt that the

case was

within

Article 8 of the Treaty. It is proper, nevertheless, that I should mention that

Mr. Francis produced a letter

a letter from

Mr. Brereton to the effect that bail

would be

given by the Agent of the

Messagerie Maritimes, and that he had subsequently declined to do

so

a

circumstance, which

se. This although it could not in reality

affect my

decision upon

the rights

of the respective Governments under

the Treaty

was not without its

importance in relation to the general merits of the

case.

This too induced

me, with the consent of the Queen's

Advocate, to add to

my

order the

term that

no

action of Trespass

for the seizure

should be brought by the Messageries Maritimes. The

above

are

the circumstances

so far..

Case so

of

I am personally

the

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