CO129-078 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [7-12] — Page 274

Consulate for his offence This demand the Officer promptly declived to comply with .

Ow ingreturn to this

the

Colony to

same

afternoon,

the Harbor Master's

communication was handed

to me, and after conferring with the Commander of the "Elbe", who had likewise since

returned from bautow, I, on Saturday sent in my reply, which

was the

precursor of a further correspondence of a

Ja semi-

- official Character between

Mr. May

ама

269

Myself, copies of

which you informes

in

we are

your possession, and therefore require no further allusion ._ The result of this correspondence, as you

are aware, was the

on the

refusal Commander

e persistent

& part of

the

under of the "llbe" to

give up his prisoner on any pretence whatsoever until the pleasure of the Commodore commanding His Prussian Majesty's ships in these seas,

shortly expected

and now st

at Houghong,

known.

should be.