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the Colonial Jail, and to this His Lordship acceded in his reply No 197 of 29th August 1850. In March 1851,
George Bonham received. Memorial from Burke's Father praying for remission of the sentence passed his son, and a similar appeal to this Government was
es forwarded by Carl Grey in Despatch 1256 20th August following, to which dir George replied on the 25th November 1851, Despatch No277.-
Subsequently in March last the accompanying letter was received Moh from the Right Reverend the Bishop of Fictoria, intereeding for this Prisoner, and recommending him as a fit object for Mercy on Ster Majesty's Birthday; and by the last hail from England; Memorial reached me from More
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Burke, the Mother of the Prisoner, with entreaties to the same effect-
The prayer of these applications (a part from several petitions addressed by the prisoner himself.
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strengthened by the ps enclosed Testimonials from the Jo's Sheriff, the Colonial Surgeon, and ps the Pailer, commendatory of the
character and conduct of the... prisoner whilet in Jail. Under these circumstances, and bearing in mind that to a Curopean 31 months of close confinement in this Chinate might in some measure be considered a sufficiently severe punishment for the crime committed, and furthermore, that a longer term of unprisonment would prove dangerous to the life of the _
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