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Colonist, Volume III, Issue 245, 24 February 1860, Page 2

MR. SAUNDERS' MEMORIAL. To his Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor, and Commander in Chief in and over her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand, and Vice-Admiral of the same. May it please your Excellency— We, the undersigned inhabitants of the Province of Nelson, presume to adress your Excellency, in reference to the case of Mr. Alfred Saunders, of this province, now a prisoner in the gaol of Nelson, where he is undergoing a sentence just passed upon him by the Judge of the Supreme Court, for a libel upon the Judge of the District Court of this province, and we anxiously hope that your Excellency's clemency may be extended to him, by the remission of the sentence of imprisonment. Deprecating any undue attempt to disturb the judgment of the Supreme Court, we are still compelled, by our duty as men and as citizens, to make this request to your Excellency. We do so, because we believe that the ends of justice would be fully satisfied, and the respect due to the law and his administrators would be sufficiently vindicated by the fine, which (as part of the punishment for the same offence) has also been imposed on Mr. Sannders. Because wo believe that all punishment, in the opinion of the public, marked by great severity. produces the undesirable effect of directing public sympathy rather to the offender, than to the law which he may have infringed. Because we believe Mr. Saunders' punishment, if inflicted, though nominally terminating in six months, would really be of much longer duration, Mr. Saunders' previous pursuits rendering protracted confinement within the walls of a prison certainly detrimental, and in all probability, destructive to his health. Because we believe that in point of fact, offences of the character which Mr. Saunders has been convicted, not only may be, but often are, expiated by mere fine, without also subjecting the offender to the cruel and lasting degradationt of confinemen in a common gaol. We cannot see a fellow-settler, who during eighteen years' residence amongst us, whether in his public or private relations, has hitherto been without reproach, condemned to an ignominous punishment without making every constitutional effort for his relief; and we would therefore, most respectfully and earnestly impress on your Excellency, our most strong and conscientious conviction (which is shared, we have reason to believe, by the whole people of the province,) that tin occasion has now arisen in which your Excelency's power may be most timely, wisely, and beneficially exercised. And your memorialists will ever pray, &c, &c, &c J. W. Barnicoat, M.P.C | R. B. Walcot, professor of music Fedor Kelling, M.G.A. 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