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Report.
We are of opinion that the difficulty occasioned by Instruction 28 would be disposed of (as your Lordship suggests) by its repeal, as on and from the 1st of June last.
We see no objection to the selection of a bishop in the manner proposed by section 1, or to the right and mode of appeals in section 5.
And we are of opinion that the Act is in other respects proper to receive Her Majesty's sanction.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Kimberley,
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C.
&c.
We have, &c. (Signed)
J. D. COLERIDGE. G. JESSEL.
J. PARKER DEANE.
SIR,
No. 777.
(GIBRALTAR.)
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
Foreign Office, August 2, 1872. WITH reference to your letter of the 26th ultimo, I am directed by Earl Granville to transmit to you, for the information of the Earl of Kimberley, the accompanying of a Despatch which, on the advice of the Law Officers of the Crown, his Lordship has addressed to Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Madrid, instructing him to apply
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to the Spanish Government for a fresh inquiry into the affair of the "Vigilant's
"boat,
at which inquiry the British subjects whose conduct is impugned should be present.
The enclosures in your above-mentioned letter are returned herewith.
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
I am, &c.
(Signed)
E. HAMMOND.
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No. 13.
SIR,
LORD GRANVILLE to MR. PERCY FFRENCH.
Foreign Office, August 1, 1872. It appears from Mr. Layard's Despatch No. 272 of the 3rd ultimo, respecting the case of the "Vigilant," that the Spanish authorities have had before them the depositions which were taken on board that vessel by the Spanish Consul.
But as the officers and men in the "Vigilant's" bost had no opportunity of being heard in their defence, or of cross-examining the Spaniards who charged them with gross misconduct, for which, if guilty, they ought to be punished, I have to instruct you to request the Spanish Government to hold a new inquiry, at which the British subjects whose conduct is impugned may be present, in order that the truth as to their proceedings may be thoroughly sifted.
Percy Ffrench, Esq.
&c.
&c.
I am, &c.
(Signed) GRANVILLE.
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