actually resident in the Colony, should cause much apparent conflict between the opinion of the Law officers of the Crown and the Supreme Court of a Colony so intimately connected with the Portuguese Settlement of Macao, and where so many of the residents in the Colony are natives of Macao.
I would beg also respectfully to point out that, in commenting upon the course pursued by the Attorney General (Mr "Crawford")* in proceeding with the Demurrer filed to the Defendant's plea by the acting Attorney General (Dr Ball), the Law officers of the Crown appear entirely to have overlooked the fact that Mr Crawford, when he came to that determination, had before him, the Despatch of the Secretary of State for the Colonies of 23rd November 1868 and an extract from it (annexed here as N°3). That Despatch, which condemns the conduct of Mr Ball in filing the information without the previous Sanction of the Executive, clearly stated that in the abstract the libel was one which would justify, though not call for, "the mode of procedure adopted", and, this being so, Mr Crawford had then to consider whether, in justice to the Government of a friendly Power, he could possibly stop proceedings at the point at which they had arrived, without seriously affecting their interests, and I submit such a consideration would naturally outweigh...
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