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sentative on that spot of Her Britannic Majesty, liaJ 

 succumbed to tb© dictatoi-ship of a Goveraor of Macaoj 

 and could give no further account of the Englishman 

 who had claimed liis protcctioi), than that when the 

 MtmndiT sailed, as wlien sho arrived, ho was " In prison 

 for not taking oflthiB hat ! " 



The perverse bearing of Senor Atnaial, on my pei^onal 

 application to liim, is the more reiuarkablej and ia aggra- 

 vated by the fact that lie kad^ in his note to the judge, 

 cliarged Afr, Summers, a Protestatit Missionary/' with 

 the ''dmdtk sttrndal/' of dlBrespect to the pj-ocessioii, 

 atid to hunself With jua, therefore, he chose, at the 

 eacpense of candourj to sink the reli^hm point, tliat he 

 might exalt himself 



I have hinted to the general reader how much lio may 

 $Mf^ Kow, therefore, as the case prescnta points of 

 professional as well as of personal interest, I will 

 proceed to state particularly the coiisideratioiia wluch 

 were duly — though, as the case was urgent, — promptly 

 weighed by me, before I determined to settle with 

 Sefior Amaral after liis oto summary fashion. 



As the senior naval officer then at Macao, I had 

 threo distinct questions to determine^ tiz : — 



I— Has this British subject contravened any law of 

 the country in which he h imprisonetl, so as to forfeit the 

 protection of liia own countrj^^s flag ? 



11, — Who is the proper pei^son to mtercede for him, 

 if he has, or to see justice done fco him, if he has not ? 



