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The facts of the present case cre

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Mr.

Swyney,

proceeded to the Court-house, and required the of Mr. de Jesus the Interpreter, (who is attached jointly to the Supreme Court and the Police Magistrate's Court), for the purpose of taking affidavits, in a private civil suit. When the application reached the Magistracy, Mr= de Jesus was employed in interpreting before Mr Hillier in a Crown case, which is to be brought before the Admiralty Court. The sending Mr. de Jesus to the Court house under such circumstances would have seriously interrupted the important proceedings then under investigation, and the Attorney General, who,

I was there at the time, watching the case of Peracy, on being appealed to by M. Swyney decided that the

matter

& graver should be dealt with first, und consequently the Attorney and his clients in the private suit- could not immediately be attended. to.

Mr Judge Hulme, being in possession.

of Mr Seyney's petition, presented it to the bouncil, and the matter having been discussed in the Executive, the letter Mr. Hulme encloses, was directed to be addressed to him. The Supreme Court is the heaviest expense of the Colony, and a view of

it's official apparaties, as exhibited in the Blue Book, will prove it to be rather over than under furnished. A necessary economy

dictated the decision of the Council as to the Interpreter, considering the Supreme Court is for months unemployed, and the Attorney-General gave it as his official opinion that the provision was sufficient.

Mr. Hulme's opposition to Your Lordships, orders, as conveyed in my former Deepatch, and. his present cavillings as to the act of the Executive Council, take up my time when it is claimed by my double duties under Your Lordship and Viscount Palmerstow, the latter at the present moment being particularly onerous.

In Mr. Hulme's Colonial position,