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to give testimony as to the Convict's bill being received into the Office.
I beg to assure Your Excellency
means within my
8.
that I have used
every
means to trace the matter of this
money,
and
grieve that the result is so
unsatisfactory.
(Signed) W. Caine,
Colonial Secretary.
Main &
Colonial Secretary.
Copy.
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Extract from Case No 154 of 15th April 1844.
Regina
v.
John Brennan,
Charged with
" 15th April, 1844
an unnatural Crime.
Captain Bance sworn. I am Superintendent of Police at Hongtong; I was in the same Regiment with the prisoner H.M's 16th; He volunteered from the 20th Regiment in 1838 (I think it was in 1838) I knew him until 1840, when he volunteered for the 55th Regiment; I was Adjutant of the 16th. I had frequent opportunities of judging of prisoner's character. I never observed in him anything peculiar; on the morning when prisoner was committed on the charge of which he at present stands accused
Captain Dunbar sworn. He handed to me a bill on Macao in favour of the prisoner, but drawn in favour of the Officer in command of the 55th for the time being in order to realize this money.