[Lord Derby [as Lord Stanley] and crime on the high seas, 1842.] Printed Colonial Office circular dispatch laying out the Government’s conclusions on the question of ‘acts done in the High Seas’.

Scarce: no other copy traced. 1p, 8vo. In fair condition, lightly aged. Disbound from a volume and paginated in manuscript 37. Printed ‘Circular’ dated from Downing Street, 16 December 1842. Headed in manuscript ‘Crime in the high Seas’. At bottom, in manuscript (not Stanley’s hand): ‘/sd/ Stanley’. Twenty-nine lines in copperplate font. The first of four paragraphs reads: ‘The attention of Her Majesty’s Government has been recently called to various Laws enacted in the British Colonies for the prevention, regulation, or punishment of acts done in the High Seas, as on the Seas within one League of the Shore of the Colonies in which such Laws have originated. After consultation with the Queen’s Advocate, and the Attorney and Solicitor General, Her Majesty’s Government have adopted the following conclusions on the subject.’