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I the Lumaily, to which they home subjected hum. selors, bring inforced, it would under the peculiar circumstances puss with great hardship whon

those Geertienen.

We do not wish, Sir, to deny that the

Ilindants may have rendered themselves liable

dinud

to the Fine ciered according to the strict cutter of the law, but a careful review of the whole case

abundanily shens that there was no • attempt at

concealment in any one or their nets; and the exituma on the trial is equally conclusive as to

the cost of the cruel bring adequately fitted and frovisioned for the

voyage, as mi as

abully

competent, under the burificate of the Enigration

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Offer himselp, to convey the number & paunque

that

ge

meu on board; while it is recorded as the unanimous of rion & The Fury, concurred in ay A's Honor The this" Juña that the rightful

mortality that took pior during the voyagi, mat

the act of God alone, and in no may attributable to negligence or want of froter,

or mant & proper care or precautions, on

nereover

the part of this." Qyali Stil C. It mas moriour ixpressly stateci by the Atorney Beveral on the trial, that it was not as omers of the arse that he charged the clifinciants, but solely as suretics to the Bond.

Me mould further respectfully submit, Tir, That had the Emigration Officer striatly dore his duty by ordering the bhinese fassungus on show. men they demurred to going on the voyage, no ground for the reant proceedings would in all prot- -ability have ariem, miereas the course by that function any

mislead if it

uciopted

ary mas courtles calculated to

mis not the sole cause of the whole une qularity

if it was

We trust therefore, for, after a confini

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Jerusal of the widens _viciica_on_the Fiul and on