CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12] — Page 235

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arrived, they could have remained under the same impression, and yet it appears that they continued to show the same determined resistance to the naval force, that they had done to the Police. I am however satisfied that the opposition offered, in the first instance arose from misapprehension, and under this conviction, I have thought it prudent to abstain from taking my judicial proceedings against the parties concerned in

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this call. I have also in some degree been led to this decision, by feeling that, had I caused the Suntimen to be prosecuted, and succeeded in procuring a conviction, of which I have great doubts, it would under all circumstances have been injudicious to have carried severe sentence into execution, while, considering the gravity of the offence, it would have been no less so to have passed it over with a very lenient one.

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% 228 To prevent, however the mischievous tendency that might arise from the opinion going abroad that the Government was precluded from taking further steps in consequence of the verdict of the Coroner's Juries, I have thought it expedient to issue Notification to the Junkmen in the Harbour, a copy of which, together with that of the Instructions that have been given to the Harbour Master, I enclose for your Lordship's information.

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From the evidence taken before the Coroner, it is moreover made to appear that this Harbour is infected by Pirates: I have to observe that I can take it upon myself to say, that while the evidence would leave it to be inferred that crime of this grave character is common, there have been instances since my arrival in this Colony, upwards of 8 months ago, and from enquiries that I have made, I am fully ...

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