enclose a. Copy) announcing Your Lordship's _ ). prohibition of the transportation. of European. Convicts to Van Diemen's Land-, I received no acknowledgment, whatever, although its receipt was ascertained.
To a similar. feeling I must attribute an act of contempt towards the Legislative Council. Your Lordship's Deepatch. F2/2 of 13th August incisting
- 12 the necessity ofor the Rules of fourt being approved in the Council
#እ.
of
was read to
Mr. Hulme who had been opposed to it and the founcil's approval of certain_ Tules (for Fees) was accordingly appended to those rutes . _ These - Mr. Hulme published in the "China. Mail" of the 19th métant,
"
with the sanction omitted.
A supreme authority must, exist. somewhere, and. I therefore feel. disposition to dispense with the respect_
No
which
which is due to my
within this folong-
station
from every
335
At the same time
me
am sensible of the propriety of avoiding strong measures and unseemly collisions, and- the Shortness of the reference-home enables
me.
without inconvenience to
carry
out
the indispensable measure
of more frequent. Criminal. Sessions, with the
weight of
Your Lordship's authority, when that _ shall- have been received in reply to despatch. 103.
Without
on this
ee m.
my interference.
occasion there would have been no
Rriminal Sessions from June until - December – I at least, caused them to be bolden some weeks sooner on
the 9th Smetant
were concluded in
and they
five days 1.2. the 14th The enclosed List of Risoners
acquitted- will show that some had been. -June, that is, nearly
imprisoned since.
five months of the worst season of the
year-
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