2795.
MY LORD,
No. 59.
(BRITISH GUIANA.)
QUEEN'S ADVOCATE to FOREIGN OFFICE.
Doctors' Commons, March 22, 1861. I AM honoured with your Lordship's commands signified in Mr. Hammond's letter of the 18th March instant, stating that he was directed to transmit to me the accompanying letter and its enclosures from the Colonial Office respecting the circum- stances under which the Governor of British Guiana had declined to give up four French sailors who had deserted from the French war steamer "Casabianca," and to request that I would take these papers into consideration, and report to your Lordship my opinion as to the answer which should be returned to the letter from the Colonial Office.
In obedience to your Lordship's commands, I have taken these papers into con- sideration, and have the honour to
Report
That the course pursued by the Governor on the occasion in question appears to me different course
to have been perfectly correct.
that papera,
any
I am not aware, and it does not appear from the would have been followed by the French authorities in the event of the desertion in a French port of seamen from a British man-of-war.
The Lord J. Russell,
&c. &c. &c.
I have, &o. (Signed) J. D. HARDING.
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