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engaged in trade, it appeared to me, that it would have been a hard case to summon them from and (anton to take part in a Trial for which a competent Tribunal was already provided in a Court Martial

I have since this correspondence passed, very carefully again read the Act of Parliament and the Order in Council which accompanied Your Lordship's Despatch N.21. of the 4th of January last, and it appears to me very doubtful whether the Provisions of the latter are intended to be applied to the Officers and Men of Her Majesty's Land Forces, or other Persons subject to Martial Law in China.

My own unacquaintance with the Forms and Proceedings of regular Courts of Justice conducted according to the Law of England of which from my public life I have had no experience whatever (though I was for seven years Judge (as well as Magistrate and Collector, of the Provincial Court of the Zillah of Ahmadnuggur in the Deckan) renders me, I confess, anxious to have as little to do with them, nor can I help feeling that my ... others ... immediate

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engaged in trade, it appeared to me, that it would have been a hard case to summon them from and (anton to take part in a Trial for which a competent Tribunal was already provided in a Court Martial I have since this correspondence passed, very carefully again read the Act of Parliament and the Order in Council which accompanied Your Lordship's Despatch N.21. of the 4th of January last, and it appears to me very doubtful whether the Provisions of the latter are intended to be applied to the Officers and Men of Her Majesty's Land Forces, or other Persons subject to Martial Law in China. My own unacquaintance with the Forms and Proceedings of regular Courts of Justice conducted according to the Law of England of which from my public life I have had no experience whatever (though I was for seven years Judge (as well as Magistrate and Collector, of the Provincial Court of the Zillah of Ahmadnuggur in the Deckan) renders me, I confess, anxious to have as little to do with them, nor can I help feeling that my ... others ... immediate
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engaged in trade, it appeared

to me,

that it would have been a hard

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case to summon them from and (anton to take part in a Trial for which a competent Tribunal was already provided in a furt

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Since this correspondence passed, very carefully again read the act Act of Parliament and the Orderin Council which accompanied Your Lordship's Despatch N.21. of the 4th of January last, and it appears to me

very doubtful whether the Provisions of the latter are intended to be applied to the Officers and

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Men

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350

Men of Her Majesty's Land Forces, or other Persons subject to Martial Law in China.

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own unacquaintance with the Forms and Proceedings of regular Courts of Justice conducted according to the Law of England of which from my publick life I have had no experience whatever (though I was for

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feeling that my

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