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secratary

that he should direct

the Captain to take them to

Macao and land there all

b. Kavana

who would not go hose officers auxwvered that Le

Mouth do so

hei acon ver

ponsibility. Whether the

the people

Captain gave option of landing

the

at Macao

doracion appear, the captain

ui

not having baru un Hongkong

at the time of the trial. -

It appears tows that the

Colonial Officers

einproperty

acted wakk

in allowing

of proceeding which placed it

ris

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in the power of the paplain of the John Calvin to early to

"

Havana upwards of 200 persons

who coupepedly had not con- ssented to go thither. It was

their plain duty to take the sex tonsibility wither afrelanden the people or of clearingthei

for

Stavana. But on the other

itis

hand it is extremely eatural. that Sit. Lyall and the fightains of

"

the John (glous should not he

fully alive to the illegality of

a course mi which the tivé principal officers of ther Government had vertically.

acquirseed, and

instating

all parties

thaken the

whole