CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3] — Page 116

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assuring violently his inverecy and the duty of the Court to let him from one propriety to influences may defeat the course of justice by simply forming a press

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I simply informed with Excellency. I did not advise him; I continued of the opinions expressed in my letters of Sunday last, the 18th instant, that it

was not for me to advise whether a Court-Martial should be appointed to try cases of this kind, during the present crisis: eminently desirable as it thinks it; and much as the general enforcement of Martial law is unquestionably required.

I shall however obey His Excellency's desire that no informations be laid before him that are not reduced to writing and addressed to the Colonial Secretary, although I cannot help fearing that the present awful crisis will not be best provided for by general adherence to His Excellency's wishes on that point.

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assuring violently his inverecy and the duty of the Court to let him from one propriety to influences may defeat the course of justice by simply forming a press to de... should chance I simply informed with Excellency. I did not advise him; I continued of the opinions expressed in my letters of Sunday last, the 18th instant, that it was not for me to advise whether a Court-Martial should be appointed to try cases of this kind, during the present crisis: eminently desirable as it thinks it; and much as the general enforcement of Martial law is unquestionably required. I shall however obey His Excellency's desire that no informations be laid before him that are not reduced to writing and addressed to the Colonial Secretary, although I cannot help fearing that the present awful crisis will not be best provided for by general adherence to His Excellency's wishes on that point. Page 114
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"assurling violently his invecerey " and the duty of the Court to Let him from One Propians to influenceds may defeate the course of justion by simply horming a press

to de

should chance

Isimply infromad Wit Fxcatlenay. I did, not advise him : I continued of the opinions expressed com any letters of Sunday

last the 18th instant that it

ane

was not for lo

to advise whether as Count & antial should be appointed to try cases of this kind, during

the

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the present crisis : eminently desirable as Saray thinks it; andemuch as the genera enforcements of Martial law is unquestionably required.

Ishall howem obey

His Excellency's desire that

no infromations be laid before him that is not reduced to

swritings and addressed to the Colenials hordtany's although Tcannot help fearing that the present awful crisis will not be best fervided for, by general adherence to thist Epallway's wishes on's that:

in

peepest

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