So much and so various have been the malpractices exercised in relation to me. Mariet use double to me (use injuunity, with which the name of 'Member' of the executive Government has been mixed up with some of intrigue, and which the prosecution brought against me tended to remove the aguinst me for only not noticing. In no way of ground in the minds of the Chinese Residents) detail of all that has come to my knowledge. Could & sure time I beg leave to trouble your Lordship for perusal; und veleving, that sufficient has been already recited to effect my object of proving, that a necessity existed for me to take the course which I have effectually, pursued, I will not intrude on your Lordships patience further than to inform you the progress of the charges brought against me subsequent to my letter of August. wherein it was stated "that I stood indicted and held to bail on the anomalous charge of conspiring, with my... and myself to injure the character reputation of the Honourable Major Caine.
At the sessions following; of October Bei Asoon who had been previously examined as ... the part of the prosecution, was named as the first witness, And : the trial was moved by the Attorney-General for postponement; because "the Honorable Major Caine's Comprador was not in the Colony; but had not been examined at the Magistracy Court, when I was Committed, although then within Magistracy Jurisdiction, and as it was not shown to the Court that any attempt had been made to procure his presence, the trial would have proceeded, but that the Honorable the Judge deemed it advisable not to throw any obstacle in the way of clearing up the mysterious cause of my arraignment, by forcing the case to a trial, which would ...
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