12.
further =
cannot conclude without strongly recommending the Council to pause before they carry, out the suspension of Chief Justice Hulme from
his high Office .
The single
le act for which he is to be
" it had been satisfactorily
made responsible,
ever
if i
proved to one, is not recent _ Upwards of
years
two
have elapsed since it took place, and
the principle of retrospective punichment in J
à cate
like this, is more than doubtful_
At all events whatever
may
have been the
amount of Mr. Hulme's supposed indiscretion,
the penalty under all the circumstances,
er
excessive, and the mode and
до
un-
appears to me. manner taken to establish the offence
*
English that what you, gentlemen of the Council
might
be more
A
think gaines
in abstract
+ justice,
will
than lost in public sympathy
The Chief Justice will be considered
viction to his judicial and political opinions,
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and above all to his differences with the Governor of this Island, and what is meant by you for justice, will be branded by the world as persecution.
Pay His Excellency the Governor.
The Governor reserves his reply to the Major General's Minute until next Council. __ But guided
by the opinions of the majority of the founcil, he is confirmed in the decision, that he cannot obey the
orders of Earl Grey,
ercept by suspending the Judge.
Council adjourned.
(Signed) J. Ft Daves.
Read and approved
this 2nd day of December, 1847.
(Signed) L. d'Almada efactio, black of Councils. True Copy)
L'Almada Caths.
Clerk of Councils.