CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10] — Page 178

"the sixtto (whow but one doubtful witness identifieds) has been convicted of aggra

aggravated false imprisonment witho

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spect to the intended, cargo of Coolies for the "Justina"; "_

And, although the activity

of the adversar

y

had enabled

him to deprive us

of the

evidence which would have

proved Murrow's personal~ attendance at the fetid place, where 250 human beings for three weeks undergoing inprisonment, and so

close

the

evere

to jure, understanding too largely

a dictures of law which fell frous the fourt, thought themselves not free to convicts that imprincipled

projector

D

" projector of the plaw for which his instruments were to suffer they dids convict him in

Counmow with the latter of the statutory

misdemeaisor

dangerous to

of a nuisance public healther upon a counte which I had framed

exp

abundanti cautela for that

purposer

Dean only regret

only regret that the injudicions levity of the Chief Magistrato is inflicting

a two dollars fine upon the man, for the last days' continuance of that muisance, under the erroneous opiciou which he emitted from the Bench that it was a privates " and not a common mistance?

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