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3852.

SIR,

No. 246.

(MAURITIUS.)

FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

Foreign Office, April 25, 1864. I AM directed by Earl Russell to request that you will state to Mr. Secretary Cardwell that his Lordship has consulted Her Majesty's Advocate General with regard to the proceedings of the Governor of the Mauritius, as stated in your letter of the 14th inst.. in regard to the goods taken out of the Confederate Prize "Sea Bride" which were brought to Port Louis in the French bark "Sirene," and that the Queen's Advocate is of opinion that the Governor of Mauritius was rightly advised by the Procureur-General in this matter, and that it was not competent to the Governor either to take possession of that property or to take any legal steps against Christopher Elmstone,

Sir F. Rogers, Bart.

I am,

&c.

(Signed) A. H. LAYARD.

D 16978.668, 25.-2,86.

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