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private partics, and to do this without the primity or sanction of the Govemment. 2. The nerepity for considering such a from the Acting Attomey question

arobe

General, at the instance of Counsel employed by the Fortuguese bonoul, filing a himinal Information against the Editor of the

China Mail,

ome

of the local papers, for

libel on the Governor

a

and Public Authorities.

at Macao- in connection with

om

alleged

the conduct of

compt proceedings Emigration from that Sext. 3. I had

provectings

no

ow

Knowledge whatever of those

the part of the Attomey

General ixupt what I might have gathered

v

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from the proceedings in Regina & Saint as

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reported eccezionally in the Public faunals.

Nevertheless I had all along felt that in

the peculiar position which this Govemment occupied in reference to that of Mancus

and uloc locking

the

subject of Emiquation, and whac

to the

on

conespondence which had from time to time praped between the two govemments

more

the subject, it might have been convenient had the Acting Attomey General

objection

first ascertained that there was no on the part of this govemment to the

course

which he

proposed to follow 4. Apart from the abstract question whether w right to lodge such informations at the request of a Foreign Gavemment las or does not reside in the Attorney General and in him alone Your

this bolony and in

of

Grace will

perhaps

aque

with

me

in