Copy.)
To the Hon'ble. Major Caine,
Sir,
&c.!
$
200
I beg to acknowledge the receipt
of His Excellency's letter 20th ulto,
transmitting to me his recommendation that
I should petition the Post Master General
on the ground
regarding the verdict against
me, according to the late Acting Attorney General's letter of 23rd August, the Crown
had
no concern whatever in the prosecution
against
me,
having
been instituted at
the instance of the Post Master of the Colony, Mr Hyland, to whom an application
from
me for information, has been met with a direct refusal on his part. I have to remark that the late Acting Attorney
General must have forgotten the previous facts, when he wrote the letter of 23rd August, for the enclosed copy which was