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instructions from Her Majesty's Government as to farther proceedings. It is probable that the interval which must

clapse before my present Despatek

can reach Hong

Horny will have furnished with materials for

you

forming your own judgment

on

this subject, beyor d

those which your present

Despated and

it's

enclosures containi.

Judging

however

from what is before me,

I

ax

of opinion that

if farther evidence is

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altho further Evident beng be dorcovecat teresting thing by to rebut the defen

discovered in the interion, set up by Altrom wher

tending strongly, to bring boothiest, & to estables.

home the guilt of poisoning to them

the fact that be was guilty of the crime for thick be our tired

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in the case

of other individual sufferers,

or rebutting the defence

set up by ethlum his last qual, then, in

the

case

Og

offence

involving danger to the liries of so marry persons,

you

will be justified

in causing

new criminal

proceedings to be instituted But this would not be

warrantable unless the

grounds for such

are

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of

the

a course

strongest, as

well as clearest, character

Supposing

that no

fresh criminal proceeding

cam

be properly instituted,

it seems to me that the best course is that

indicated in the

in

Memorial