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The Earl Grey.

Sir J. th Davis

7th May, 18470'

Received

52.

under which

Reporting circumstances

free Pardon

was granted to an

European

and again urging

Prisoner named Sinclair,

the necefsity

being fixed for European

of a Place of transportation

Conviets.

20

Sheriff's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 26 April, 1847

Memorandum respecting Henry Daniel Sinclair a Convict in Victoria Jail

Sinclair

was committed by the

Marine Magistrate on the 17th of May

on a

1845

charge of Peracy . On the 19th of the

following month, he was tried at the Supreme Court, found guilty and sentenced by the Chief Justice to be transported for life.

Since his imprisonment he has

been in close confinement and heavily ironed, and though he entered to all appearance

a

sound and robust man,

an emaciated and worn

as

he now presents

Jame

figure . I am of

opinion that he cannot endure incarceration much longer, without danger to his life:

The

opinion of the late Fr. Dill