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to inform you in reply that His Excellency does not consider him on
you should have interrogated. this point. To jump at such
hasty conclusions
as you
have arrived at in
your
Letter
of the 17th may, is entirely
inconsistent with the
Attorney General's report
on
our previous communication;
your
W 38
of
the 2nd instant, and
the consideration of the case
in Council.
That Communication,
transmitting the papers in
the case, was submitted to
His Excellency for consideration
on
the 3rd instant, and,
on
the usages
of the service, His Excellency had
one way
or
the other, of
referring to the Secretary
of State at the time he
received
Your
letter of
the
7th instant, to which
however, no
answer could
be sent pending the Acting
Attorney General's report,
was
the following day, it
referred to the Acting Attorney General, whose report was received on the 14th instant, (Saturday) and submitted to His Excellency, who directed that the report
and all the papers connected
with