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equal satisfaction in proving to Your Lordship that any own impressions as
to the Judge's habits
were substantially
the same as
the
Major
General's. My
position with relation to the Judge
precluded me from giving any evidence
that
a
very
of my own; and I regret material witness, Sir Thomas Cochrane,
was absent. It may
however be
considered as remarkable that so many
t" case
witnesses of the "Agincourt "
remained here at this moment.
I have at present only to
—
remark further
on the "address" of thes Chief Justice to the Council. The
unmeasured violence of the language 9
pass
over on account of his position, though he applies to the charges in
one
string the words "base, false,
"malignant, unfounded, cruel, "heartless, iniquitous, and damnable."
when however he states that I had insinuated "Treachery" on the
" on the part of viscount Palmerston, for communicating my private note to Your Lordship, I have merely to ask what proof he has brought of what I indignantly declare
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was neither said nor insinuated. His intemperance made Mr. Hulme forget that Lord Palmerston's noble conduct towards myself,
And
as
Generous
published to the world in reference
to the expedition of April, (which time has happily sanctioned) rendered such an insinuation impossible.
Mr. Hulme's address proves however that he has obtained information
as to the
general interchange of the . Private and _ Confidential" correspondence respecting himself. The Proceedings
on the
investigation will shew that he was