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No. 574.

(ВАНАМАЗ.)

FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

Foreign Office, June 26, 1869. I AM directed by the Earl of Clarendon to request that you will acquaint Earl Granville that his Lordship caused your letters of the 18th instant respecting the seizure of the "Salvador" on her return to Nassau, and the legal proceedings taken against the Naval and Colonial officers on account of that seizure by parties interested in that vessel, to be referred to the Law Officers of the Crown, and that he has been advised by them that they consider that the measures taken against the "Salvador may be sustained under the sixth section of the Foreign Enlistment Act. They add, however, that in the present state of the evidence they do not feel sure that the "Salvador" falls also under the operation of section 7, but they think it very likely Section as 10 that in the result the opinion of the Attorney General of the Colony to that effect may "transports."

prove to be sound.

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As regards the action brought against the Receiver General of the Colony and Cap- tain McCrea, the Law Officers consider that they should be defended, or at all events indemnified, by Her Majesty's Government.

The Law Officers further observe that they think it their duty to inform Lord Clarendon that, after perusing the papers laid before them, it appears that the embarka- Salvador," and the escape of that vessel from Nassau, tion of Cubans on board the " show beyond a doubt that the English law has been publicly defied in the Bahamas under circumstances of great aggravation, and without any effective measures being taken betimes by the authorities of the place to prevent or punish the offenders, and that this has happened in a manner justly calculated to arouse the suspicions of the Spaniards as to the good faith as well as the vigour of the local officials.

The Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.

I am,

&c.

(Signed) E. HAMMOND.

016978-296.

$5.-5/86,

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