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Lordship by M. Ewens,

t

barrister practising in this

I have now the

Colony,

honour to forward another letter addressed to Your

Lordship by the same gentleman.

2.

Before coming

to

Enel: 1 24th April, 1838/*

the particular complaint. which is the principal object

of

his letter, Mr. Ewens refers

to the petition

on the subject

of vicarious communications

which was also enclosed

(with my reply)

in the

despatch above mentioned, -

and he describes it as

one

signed by every European of

standing in the Colony.

I

therefore think it well to

mention that

my reply to

this petition, though made

#

ago

more than two months has never been acknowledged,

and that various" "Europeans

of standing whom I have happened to question subject, though they signed

on the

(with

the