supplemented his letter by another of the same date; copy of which I have the honour to enclose). From the debates in Parliament in reference to the Windham case, I thought it not improbable that the X Section of the Extradition Treaty was abrogated, but in the absence of any official notification from Your Lordship or any intimation in the London Gazette, a file of which I had carefully examined, I felt that I could not refuse the Consul's application.
I therefore instructed the 1st Police Magistrate to take the necessary steps, which he did, and issued his Warrant in terms of the Extradition Act of 1870, and the three prisoners were arrested and brought before Mr. May on the 7th October.
A Solicitor appeared to defend them and the Consul attended the Police Court to watch the case. The defendants applied for a postponement of the Magistrate's investigation, and to be admitted to bail so that they might appear before the legal authorities and finish the lawsuit which he had instituted.
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