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both the lates, the Carpenter, the

Steward, and lastly the Captain's wife, all of whom weredighich saving the Steward who was a native of India. The absence of the necessary Witnesses at Singapore to prove that the reich was englich, that shi Lailed under the National = long, rolded to the diffionity of ascertaining the name of the Captain and the other unfortunates, induced the Resident Councillor to request fin Ging Bonhams sauction to the George Rriminals being forwarded here for Frial, and to this for George, assented, seeing that the matorial

seeing Actrices here were unwilling to

unwilling proceed to Singapore, and stipulating in his reply He32 of the 25th February lost, that the cost of forwarding the Prisoners should be provided by

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2. The Prisoners accordingly chipped from Singapore on board The Honorable cast India Company's Steamer "Semiramis ", reached this Colony on the 30th March last, ano were brought to trial at the Criminal Sessions of the Iupreme Court on the

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3. It may be repedent to inform your Lordship that the late master of the "Herald", Luke Lawson, came to the Colonial Secretary's Office here, on the 10th of April 1851, and made a declaration that the Certificate of Registry of the Barque "Herald' granted at the Port of Gook within Unk kshire, dated on or about the 20d April 1850, had been

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