mind as we claimed discharged, trust that the insity which naturally pree to Earn
your
Lordship's pleasure,
Combrating in
in account of
the peculiar
Circumstances in which I am situated to
an urgent necessity, will plead sufficient apology for my
sollicitude. The favor of your
Early
reply
may
presuming Lordship's Revision
be possibly concerned-
Clerkship .
When before addressing your Lordship's knowledge as to the state of the case alleged : extortions on the part of the Chinese most comparatively small. Indeed it,
must appear evident to every one, that it
was neither my intention nor wish to browbeat or be browbeaten, nor had it been in any extortion that had been in reality effected. The whole tenor of my action, impelled by a sense of duty, was to check Chowch Awan the Treasury Exchequer in the attempts, which he so audaciously made before my eyes, and to bring down
those who merited, a premium on those who vehemently villeged that the Ben the Mayor Cumshaw participated in the monies which his Compradors dishonestly obtained.
Treading however that despite all the grave charges made by [Phawh Acau], borne out as they were by the united testimony of Mr Afen and Jam Acholy. I had been committed as a Criminal almost solely on the false assertions which it was apparent he had made with a view of Screening himself, it became necessary for me in preparing my defence to search out the reality and existence, if any, of the Extortions alleged, when, if other such false evidence was brought against me I might possibly be prepared to meet justification and necessity; for conscious of the utter impossibility of its being proved that I had tricked to injure the reputation of the Hon the Mayor Cumshaw, or that the course which I had deemed it proper to pursue, was injured, or was calculated to injure that gentleman's character, I should otherwise have been disposed to sit down, and let the strange twight against me take their course:
But owing to the extreme difficulty of eliciting truthful Statements from Chinese