Your Excellency to give effect, wathin "the limits of this Colony, to the+
If Regulation Provisions of the Act for the Regulation of Colimer Passenger Thips. Imily await the expression of your wishes in this respect,
and in the mean- -time suggest that Auch Officer sent out nece to my Flong hip, ein order that the necessary force may
to the Lemont. accompany lime from this to the Levant." In the 9th 10th 11th and 19th
9 paragraphs of Your Excellency's despatch,
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it is intimated that a Commander
of a Ship of War belonging to Her "Moyesty, how fiaver to dearch a persel such on the "Levant", and to seize and detain her, and that no
responsi _bility will attack to Naval Officer for such forrecedings, and that the Attorney General will advise further proceedings
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when the "Levant" shall be reported under seizure; And Your Excellency. requests my assistance to enforce the Clet in question, it being, as your inform me, the devire of Her Meyjesty's Gnvernment that the Ret should be enforced with firmness. In these circumstances I am naturally-ansions to give effect to fare faiz Execelliney's application, and I love to notify to you that in the event your considering it sinpervsible that the "Seizure or detention of the "Levant coun) be effected by any officer affiointed by you to carry but the Borvinw of the "Act, I shall, sin this mixtance, direct on seccool Officer to detain her suntil further, instructed.
"Auariting Your Excellewey's
reply
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