Ave
With a view to a final settlement thought it right to invite Mr Price
to place in our hands all matters in dispute; and we
give us, as
hoped that he would
Your Excellency had done,
carte blanche, to dispose of them : I ~
to state that in a
regret
letter received
from
Mr. Price this afternoon he declines
to accept the tribunal, and
leave his
prefers
to
case in the hands of His
Lordship Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies to whom he has referred the questions which would come before us for consideration
Any further investigation of the subject would therefore be useless
and we
beg
to return the papers
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intrusted to us, to Your Excellency.
I have …
(signed) F. Stewart