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of the Nice Admiralty Court may

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be, and as my

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only channel of official Communication in

capacity

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Consular

Agent

my

accredited to the Colonial

Government lies with the Foreign Reportment of this lactory, without authority on my part to treat in cases like the present with the subordinate Functionaries of the local Representative of deer Britannic

Meajesty, there remains in the present instance

me, but to recent my

there fore

no alternative for me.

for

formal protest against the illegal seizure and

frrible

cible detention.

of

the Prussian Schooner Bachante

the

holding the Government responsible for

consequences of any unlawful proceedings againstso

the ressed by the Vice Admiralty Cout of this Colony.

I have to

(Aigner) G. Overbeek,

Consular Agent for Prussia.

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Overbeck to Colonial Secretary.

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Prussian Nice Loonsulate, Nictoria, Hooghing

18655.

31th May, 1865.

In pursuance of my

instant I have now the honor to

letter of 23rd

inform you,

that under date 26th instant a letter has been

the

by

received by

Undersigned, written

order of the Honorable, the Indge of the Vice- Admialty

Cout, informing

me of the issue of a deerse by that touch, ordering the delivery of the Prussian Schomir Bachante (late Falk) to the

quondar

1 am Owner Mr. Christian Marbery of Sonderburg.

and condemning the present lawful.

# H. Alexander, Eqre

Ading Colonial Secretary

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