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honor to comply with His Excellency's demand. Thior however to entering upon such explanation, it will be comenient that I should detail the circumstances
under which these proudings
instituted.
3. On
about the 13th
ON
Pollard
of
come
were
MTM
of May Hour Majesty's bounsel for
this balony called on me at my chambers
faud informed
me that he had been
[consulted by the Portuguese Consul upon the subject of taking proceedings against (the buitor of the China Mail, in reference to certain articles published in that paper, dreflecting upon the conduct of the authontics at Macao. The learned jounsel further Jave
Have me
me to understand that he had fiven
it
as
his
were
opinion that the articles libellous for which criminal proceedingo
ought to be instituted and that with
that view he had
come
to
me clo
Acting
Attorney General. Whether I read the
Articles on that occasion or
CH
not I am not
prepared to, say, (I. presume that I did,
rate
but at of them I
any
Came
after a careful perusal
to the
same conclusion as
that at which Mr Pollard had arrived
namely that the articles
were libellous prima facie and that the matter which, under the Statutes regulating
was ome
The
Law of Libel, ought to be submitted to
the considuation of a jury When this opinion to Mr Solland that gentleman
was made known.
was
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