CO885-(10-11) — Page 107

8951.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

C.O-885

10 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH—NOT TO

}

No. 81.

(BRITISH GUIANA.)

QUEEN'S ADVOCATE to FOREIGN OFFICE.

MY LORD,

Doctors' Commons, September 23, 1861. I AM honoured with your Lordship's commands, signified in Mr. Hammond's letter of the 3rd September stating that on the receipt of my letter of the 12th June last, your Lordship requested Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies to furnish the information I desired respecting the circumstances under which an Englishman was detained at Cayenne, after the period to which he was condemned had expired, but as the Duke of Newcastle was unable to supply that information, your Lordship instructed Her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris to endeavour to procure it from the French Government.

Mr. Hammond was also pleased to state that he was directed to forward to me a Despatch from Earl Cowley showing the result of his application to the French Government, together with the other papers relative to the case, and to request that I would take the same into consideration and to furnish your Lordship with my opinion as to whether any, and if any, what steps should be taken by Her Majesty's Government in the matter. In obedience to your Lordship's commands, I have taken these papers into consideration, and have the honour to

Report

That I do not see how under the circumstances stated in M. Thouvenel's note to Earl Cowley of August 20th, 1861 (which contains the only information forthcoming of either the facts or the law of the case), any further steps can be taken in this matter.

The Earl Russell,

&c.

&zo.

I have, &c. (Signed) J. D. HARDING.

016978-948.

25.-9/86.

[