CO129-57 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7] — Page 69

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issued by the Marine Magistrate for the arrest of the Defendant, cruch be your plosed out the town of the boost of Cetty dessions.

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"The United States Consul attended, accoufioned by a sa siderable punter of her entrymen, and, through his legal a driver, formally plained the right to sit with the Justices in the French _ a right to which he avouredly. had us claim. It is quite in the breast of the bout to allow or jurite any party to sit on the Bench, but this right now demanded and associated with a claim to purividiction on the port of the United States Count over

_Amerison_Citizens in Dover of offencer

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committed within the Quceur Dominiones,

the Chief Magistrate refused to recognize the right on funt forward,_ and, in sing

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judgment, was fully wananted in suole refusert.

The Bluef Magishate declares that he started to the United Starter Convul he hard been in the leabit of allmong a bowel a seat upon the krenohe, an a

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matter of contery, but felt compelled

This recaving to deviate, exual practice, and to ignore the Convuls aliving refuring it countery, Mr. Keenan having o

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recent recasion, quitted the Benely, to which he had been invited, in order to

revone a prisoner of the bont pran its custody, and to assouth its officer. The Chief Magistrate demes having end "insulting language=" or persived the authority in a "mudistive and insulting

manner", and states that his Brother

Magistrate, Captain Wathing, beanstine

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