2.
attention of His Excellency the Formor in Council to the fact that, with reference at the Magistrates Court,
to the proceedings the only support to the charge made — against me by
the Hon : Major Caine, rests upon the (orally unattested Jevidence of a Single Man ! a Chinese and that
man,
the
very
Individual whom before His Excellency the Governor
and the Honorath
I
the Members of the Executive Council, charged on Tuesday the 15. ult with having
dared to use
the
the name of the Honorath
Colonial Secretary to enable him to extort Money from Tam Achory the Contracter, who applied for a license for a Market; and who has got witnesses besides myself to prove, that Acan (the Individual in question ) did attempt this extortion on him.
me
In exculpation of the charge against I beg to say
that I totally deny having uttered a Single word of that
of that which
Noan in his evidence makes
me
289
to
Jay,
and
it is perfectly apparent to me that he has made his accusation for the sole purpose of screening himself.
That far from wishing to injure
ble
the character of the Hon : Major
in
the
in
,
Caine,
course which I have taken, my object the matter to the notice of the
bringing
Government
was with a view to enable that
Gentleman to have the circumstances
property investigated, and I respectfully
urge
that the
Course
one and Calculated to
I took
was
a
proper
that object,
affect that
and put a stop to the reports getting so
over
current, and which it would have been criminal in me to have passed longer unnoticed; and that there could
conceivable motive for my wishing the Heon, Major (aine, either
be
no
to injure
in his private or public character .
The evidence of thei Moon at the