reply has of course, by a positive injunction, suppressed every scruple,
and made it incumbent on me to
pursue the
the enquiry.
I have therefore,
as desired, executed Your Lordship's
previous instructions without loss of
time.
I beg to observe that my note
to Viscount Palmerston of the 8 th November was a private letter written upon a sheet of note-paper on the eve of the mail's departure, And Your Lordship justly, observed that " as it was not written with
" any view to publicity" you
"
should
" of course abstain from referring to it,
except in a private and confidential
" manner : " In the present reply, however, it is called a despatch.
I
think that the style of my hote,
and the allusion to Silenus in the
No. 1.
187
" temple of "Themis," will prove at
once that it was not a
The
despatch.
expression conclusions
in my
despatch of may 220, on which Your Lordship lays some stress, was
nothing
but a repetition or echo of the term in your which mine
own
of January 28the
lvas
a
to
reply - "the accuracy
In
" of your own conclusions : This appears to have been overlooked. adopting Your Lordship's expression, I undoubtedly meant by it my
as
that
own
" opinions", derived as well from my personal observation
of others. Since the particular object of my
despatch
was
deprecatory of the
investigation being prosecuted, I of.
course extenuated to the utmost, but when the charges
were once
- brought forward (as enclosed) Your Lordship well perceive that they were