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Prisoners, with two exceptions whose term of imprisonment he remitted in the following mouth. As regards the Naval prisoners the Admiral explained to me that he had no power to raitigate the punishment, but that he would have much pleasure in forwarding my recommendation to the Board of Admiralty.
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I have the hover to enclose
Copies of my correspondence with the Military and Naval Authorities.
The Admiral's letter
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the 2106
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April 1878 sets forth the details of the mitigation of the sentences
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of five out of the lix naval prisoners.
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release
I are happy to lay my
of
am
the prisoners in this case
gave general satisfaction throughout this Colony. The leading and wealthy chimere recidents thanked me in a public addrep for what I had done.
Even from Canton
I had the gratification of receiving from his Brooke Robertson, Ster Ilajesty's Consul, the aperance that it was most favourably regarded by the intelligent and respectable Chinese as a wire act of demency.
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