Records of the Cape Colony, Vol. 22: From June to August 1825; Copied for the Cape Government, from the Manuscript Documents in the Public Record Office, London (Classic Reprint)
Records of the Cape Colony, Vol. 22: From June to August 1825; Copied for the Cape Government, from the Manuscript Documents in the Public Record Office, London (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Records of the Cape Colony, Vol. 22: From June to August 1825; Copied for the Cape Government, From the Manuscript Documents in the Public Record Office, London That his excellency, altogether slighting the prayer Of your petitioner's memorial, or instituting any inquiry into the merits Of the charges he had adduced against the commissioners, placed it forthwith in the hands Of his majesty's fiscal, with orders to commence criminal proceedings thereon, and a prosecution for libel was begun accordingly. That as ...
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Excerpt from Records of the Cape Colony, Vol. 22: From June to August 1825; Copied for the Cape Government, From the Manuscript Documents in the Public Record Office, London That his excellency, altogether slighting the prayer Of your petitioner's memorial, or instituting any inquiry into the merits Of the charges he had adduced against the commissioners, placed it forthwith in the hands Of his majesty's fiscal, with orders to commence criminal proceedings thereon, and a prosecution for libel was begun accordingly. That as no lex loci was applicable to your petitioner's case, no English statute or Dutch decree, nor even summary enactment Of a Cape proclamation, his majesty's fiscal Obtained his conviction upon his own unwarranted assumption of Roman practice, both contrary to the laws of the ten tables, and of the pandects of Justinian, the acknowledged bases Of that code by which the Batavian republic and its provinces had hitherto been governed, and your petitioner was sentenced to five years' banishment from the colony. That during the course Of this prosecution, which was vexatiously protracted by the illegal retention Of papers necessary to your petitioner's defence, his house was invaded by his majesty's fiscal, and attendants. Under the sanction Of his excellency's warrant, and his papers seized for the avowed purpose Of implicating him in the promulgation Of a charge against his excellency, Of having committed an unspeakable atrocity with his reputed son, the physician to his household a proceeding as unjustifiable as the grounds Of it were visionary, no doubt now existing in the minds Of the Cape-town colonists that it was prepared, affixed, and withdrawn, in a desperate exigence Of his excellency's unpopularity, by a person named Jones, but better known by the appellation Of Oliver the spy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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