months additional pay, as damage for an alleged wrongful dismissal or in other words illegal discharge - That the plea of defense to this was
as
follows:- 1st, The man Ellis late
Steward of the American ships,
Lathley Rich was
Rich was discharged
discharged at Hongkong by the Consul of the
United States, in accordance with law - 2nd That the Consul having discharged the man Ellis in accordance with law and given him his certificate of discharge under his signature and the Consular steal of the United States it was not - competent for the Court to review the
having no Jurisdiction
case,
457
Against all precedent the Court entertained the case, thereby constituting
itself a Court of appeal from the decisions of the United States Consul, at this port in matters concerning the discharge of American seamen from American vessels, rendering nugatory all instructions of my Government or laws of the United States, made and provided for quidance of its Consuls at a foreign port in matters relating to the discharge of American Seamen from American vessels, and the manner of their discharge.
the
The Statements of his Lordship in the judgment rendered busin