12628.
SIR,
No. 374.
(JAMAICA.)
LAW OFFICERS to COLONIAL OFFICE.
Lincoln's Inn, December 27, 1865. We are honoured with your commands signified to us by Sir Frederic Rogers' letter of the 16th instant, enclosing a copy of a letter which you had received from Messrs. Dean and Eley, who stated that they were instructed by the relatives of Mr. Gordon, who was recently executed in Jamaica, to employ counsel to appear before the proposed court of inquiry in that Colony for Mrs. Gordon and the representatives of her late husband, and requesting to be furnished with certain documents, and also anclosing a printed copy of the Despatches received in reference to the subject up to the 14th instant, containing everything material to that question which was in the possession of the Department; and further stating that having reference to the very unusual circumstances of the case, and to the intention which had been expressed to prosecute those who were concerned in Mr. Gordon's execution, you thought it best to request that we would inform you what answer should be returned to the said letter. In compliance with the request contained in such letter. we have the honour to
Report
That we think it will be proper to state, in reply to the letter of Messrs. Dean and. Eley, that their application for copies of the documents connected with the case of Mr. G. W. Gordon, which have been submitted to Her Majesty's Government, cannot be complied with.
We have, &c. (Signed) ROUNDELL PALMER,
R. P. COLLIER.
The Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, M.P.,
&c.
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