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the day that the ship is going away.
who come
Seeing this Your Excellencywe dared said a
word, as the British Consul is here to protect us and to give justice to whom is entitled to, anu as he is quite contrary tɩ what I have already mentioned, I therefore most respectfully
Your Excellency report this British Consul to you,praying that you may severely deal with him according to law. Because Your Excellency all these English and Nova Scotian captains to Manila wilfully illtreat their crews knowing
that there is no law for a sailor in Manila once brought
before the Cons' to be tried, Consequences Your Excellency will be the result one of these days that all these captains shall be murdered by their crews,if the Consul will not give any justiceto sailors. I know another case Your Excellency
Scotian ship "The Honolulu* which happened on board a Nova where the captain on his passage from Newcastle to Phillipine Islands did shoot a man the ball passed theman on his left side of his stomach and came out through his shoulder blade and struck another man in the breast, tha samme ship ("Honolu lu*) Your Excelleney is lying in Manila up to now. Do you think that the Consul did punish the Captain for this? No Your Excellency,he uphold it. I think that it is my duty, Your Excellency to report this Consul to you, for his partial-
ity.
I hope that Your Excellency will be good enough as to have that case of mine investigatec, anu that you will be good enough to give me an immediate answer.
I am starving ashore now Your Excellency,home
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