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to me. Any reiteration of

contradiction does not rebut facts.

I therefore preferred to leave the

Consul's last communication unnoticed,

as it did not absolutely need a reply, than to prolong a cornspendence - conducted by the Captain of the and His Consul in a tone which

Circe

might have necessitated my transmitting a serious complaint against both.

20.

Whether Quarantine be desirable

or not, is an abstract question unnecess sary to consider hire. But the Colonial Vide Ordinances,

N. J. 1862

Low in administering the details makes Sections He and 17

No

distinction between Merchant

vessels and I vessels of Nar, whether

Her Majesty's Ships

or those of

Pering

Nations.

At the

very

time when the

Couplain of the "Cevice" was declaiming against British inhumanity and the monstrous severity of our Laws, he might without the aid of even

"

"

an opera

glass have seen the British Gunboat Hesper undergoing in his neighborhood

precisely the same restrictions us

restrictions

himself;

inforced at that time because

Small Fox had not reached the town -

but less rigorously insisted on when

it has once actuar

actically established a footing there as it generally does for

some months

every year.

21. Ander all the circumstances I

would respectfully urge that the complaint of the Spanish Meinister,