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In the matter of Salvador Lacrase a Spanish prisoner charged with the murder of William Hopkins an English Subject on board an English vessel at Hammo in China.
The Order in Council constituting the Admiralty and Criminal Court now existing in the Colony merely gives it Jurisdiction over Her Majesty's Subjects and it will naturally become a matter of inquiry how far Lacrase may come under that designation. Blackstone makes some remarks on the subject which appear to me tolerably conclusive. They are as follows.
"The oath of allegiance
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In the matter of Salvador
Lacrase a Spanish prisoner
charged with the murder
of William Hopkins
ar
English Subject on board
an
English vessel at Hammo
in China.
The Order in Corneil constituting the
Admiralty and briminal Court now existing in the Colony merely gives it Jurisdiction over Her Majesty's Subjects
and it will naturalle
I to become
matter of inquiry how for Lacrase
may
come under that designation Blackstone
makes some remarks
Dol 1. P. 369. 70.
on
re
the subject which appear to me
toterably conclusive
they
are ad
follows.
the point and
"The Cath of
allegiance
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