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ills in

but have been

on Cause

For

immediate (and for my

Character unsatisfactory;

abandonment-

At the enduring

Sessions

of December, the Criminal Crown

Prosecutor [W.A. Parker]

in

the

State

charged

that he had no case against me, and the case was thereupon proclaimed discharged)

The late Governor

was under the impression that

Letter to

my Case

was

necessarily relinquished / as stated in the Colonial Secretary's

address & Copy the closed)) because it was impossible for the acting Chief Justice to preside

my

he

trial

as Judge at a trial in which he had previously in his capacity of Her Majesty's Acting Attorney General Expressed a legal opinion upon

and taken the evidence,.," but as verbally explained by Sir John Davis this impression

was erroneous,

as it was explained to me by

Campbell at the

progress

Some illusions presided

2

various other trials in which

he had previously acted as Prosecutor

in

the

part of the Crown;

and at the

on two distinct cases, in

Nisi Prius Sittings immediately preceding, had adjudged

which

continued up to the time of leaving

he had been retained

The defendant

and from one Plaintiff had received a large retaining fee I am told.

All these Sessions however the Honorable Major Justice's superior is still absent from the Colony, and now with knowledge.

His Royal delinquency

it appears unreasonable to expect that his presence would ever be obtained, unless an application were made to the Chinese Government in Cause

The

Miss

The only evidence remaining against me therefore was that of the law Clerk Chow, and I beg leave to inform

You

that had it come

on at the

first Sessions, I should have been prepared with the evidence of Mr.

Packer

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