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that I will not go away you leave metr Cart one or two of your accordingly left two men on board passion and went on shore : in board the
While I was on shore, the Warrant was inspected several times by the Trouch Cousul, the Chancellor of the French Consulate, the Agout, the Captain, and the Officer from the "Alma".
The French Consul must have known that I had the Warrant to execute before coming on board, and I think he should have drawn the attention of the Judge or some other competent person to the illegality of it and asked them to stop the execution of the Warrant instead of letting matters go so far. If the arrest turns out to be illegal, the issue of the Warrant was illegal because one must follow the other.
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The Marshal has discretion in the matter. If he fails to carry out the warrant, he is guilty of a contempt of Court.
-- I forgot to state that while the examination mentioned at the commencement of this statement was going on in the Supreme Court and after the Registrar had spoken about drawing up the Warrant, the French Consul came into the Court and conversed