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Collector of Customs, if at a

British Port,

or the Consul, if

at a Foreign Port. - The Caurs

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are usually to able and so

judicions in their reports, that

will not comment on this

lingular passage.

I will merely

take the liberty to remark that nothing is more common than for the Admiral's Flag Ship to be living at stong Kong and I

should be glad to know with what countenance the Captain joy a ship carrying 80 Cuns could joya

plead as an excuse

for making unlawful Prize of a Foreign Phip

that he acted under the orders

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of a Collecton of Customs. Even

of this

this could

for

an vistaut be

supposed to relieve bem from

pecuniary damages for

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illegal act, the offence given

Foreign Power would deuppare

to a

not be the less because an act

had been dictated

of viole

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violence

a civil servant of small

account, instead of done by the

"Sit proper authority of an Officer intrusted by Her Majesty with the control of ster Arned Forces.

The Corrs also speak of "Sustructions Conveyed by it. Labouchere to the Admiralty, but

more

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