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from the Allorney General, covering

&

a letter addrefed to 16 Lister, the Acting Cormor, with that gentleman's reply.

Your Lordship will peresive from these documents that not only is Chief Justice & male directly charged with having instigated the action recently brought by Kreak - Asing against the Attorney General, but that there is sufficient prima facie evidence

to warrant an

enquiry into his

conduct, either before the Excecutive

Council here.

or elsewhere,

ao

may

be decided upon by Gove Lardship.

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I beg to draw Your Lordship's attention to that part of Moss Lister's letter in which he states that The Chief Justice had desired Mr. Francis, a practising Alternay, to take preccedings in Admiralty for the detention of the "Dolores Ugarte." Apart from the indelicacy of his conduct in

a souming

Executive functions

thus

and interfering with the duties the Attorney Generals, Yove Lordship will doubtles see

of

the

still

graver impropicety in procedure of a Judge who not only they gave clear index of the bias of his mind in a case

:

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