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fete Government and fit for their diraptions.

Considerable difficulties and complications may be avoided by this

Course, and this Cousi-

-deration Counterbalances

the meonvenience, if any, of involving, to

a Certain extent, the Government in such

proceedings.

I conceive, therefore,

that the

proper

Course

for the Attorney General to have adopted in

this

...this instance, where

а

forsign Government

was concerned, would

have been to have

cousutted

you

before

instituting criminal proceedings. In other

enses much must be left to the diseration of the Attorney General

but, as at

present advised, I think it

would be

etrat

you

only right

should be

consulted in cased

where any publis interest is affected,

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