And it is necessary further to
other faults Mr. Parrant
say,
that whatever
may have committed),
there seems not very probable Evidence
for change.
You will consider whether this
can
be safely posted.
J
writing
to the Governor.
It is certainly unpleasant to criticize the proceedings
of local Government where there is a chance,
of a
that although grossly wrong
in the conduct or
be right in the substance of the matter here we have not. Farrant's own
them, & may make
Memorial (transmitted by Dr. Bonham in July 1911 Houghing) to deal with
to
It seems, therefore, almost unavoidable, that Dr. Bonham must be told, that
Lord Grey urgently (Dr. Bonham) had not looked
a
little further into the proceedings against Dr. Farrant, in order that he might have enabled himself to explain fully which, - to persons willing
Every presumption
to make
in favour of the justice and good foundation of the proceedings of the local government -
a
very unsatisfactory appearance.
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recapitulate there, without going much into detail, and to remind Dr. Bonham that explanation was before required of them (14th April 1848) and The like explanation has never been given till Mr. Farrant's Memorial raised the subject again. That Mr. Farrant was
expressly suspended on the ground of the charges against him, and Government has declined to prosecute those
he
is justly entitled to receive his
full
20
charges,
half salary
from 5th August 1847 to 10th October in the
when his Office
was abolished - That
his gratification is, however, glad to receive from Dr.
Bonham The statement.
of
his
disbelief in the
more serious charge, that Ed. Farrant had been made the victim of persecution for his endeavours
to detect the corruptions of Chinese Officials -
That his lordship has no resource
from the sine
- possibility of judging at this distance of the truth or falsehood of allegations of corruption, but to
rely on Dr. Bonham's judgment as to
the steps which
may
be
necessary or proper without repetition, by Mr. Farrant, in his last Memorial, of his former charges, and
in consequence of
the apparently suspicious
circumstance
of
The
continued absence of Kheen Pean from the Colony