CO129-021 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [9-12] — Page 156

2.

1

town not for frau? . Macav. Our police pursued and

who

identified..

the partice,

broved to be

to be persons of some little

proved

consequence

in

their neighbourhood.

This enabled them for a time to resist or wade the operation of justice until at length on the further representations Mr Wilson, the person robbed, of of addressed the enclosed s

to Reying

closed string remenstrance.

I was glad to learn shortly- afterwards, that the

e property portaining

to the family of the Thieves had beens put under sequestration by order of Keying.

and

This

Aval

a

strang

measure,

& preved the detomination of the Imperial Commissioner to do right by It was presently followed by a Petition to myself from the Chinese family,

400.

who with some undue de

degree.

·

3.

151

of assurance entreated me to intercede

for them.

I look

2.

but in

1.3.

no

notice of the Petition,

that

ouncing to heying

according to my previous promise/

I had caused

Owner

I justice to be done to the of the Salt junk, notwithstanding

Mr

the Judge's proceeding as to. Mt Sachine, Trent

" sent hime the Chinese Télition from the relations of the Thieves, which is

fonwarded

as a

enclosure.

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As I expected, this had a decisive effect. Grateful at mee for my substitution of equity in the place of law, and incensed against the. family of the Thieves by their appeal to myself, he scoured the

the operation of justice by additional instinctions to

the local Magistrate.

ale, and addressed.

NH.

to

me

the annexed not.