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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
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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