Excellency covering a Memorial of
mine
to Your Grace, to
transmitted
by
ве
the Mail. Steamer
of the 23rd Instant. _
were
The Letters and Memorial
laid before Sir George
Bonham, and
nearly
an
hour
sent
aftowards His Excelleney
for litly
me
and said:
That it
"out of question
"my
Memorial
by
the
gudly
was
entirely
to forwarding the Steamer
23? Instant.".
that it was impossible "that Mr Mercer had made
" use of the expressions stated "in Paragraph N. 12 of my "Memorial" _ to which I.
res
spertfully replied, that "they
Hill
resounded in
my
ears."
zotty_ Sir George Bonham then
told
me
Well; You have
"my confident, and
"You to
190
been
I adviser
take out these words"
(pointing to the insulting language
used
by
Mr Mercer towards me).
" from Your Memorial; because
"if you do "have to
not
do so, I shall
call upon Mr Mercer
"for his report
"the chances
"will
on
them, and
are that this
contain things that will! "be far from agreeable to you,:
"and
which I shall be bound
"to send
to
The Duke of Newcastle" .
me to
His Excellency pressed withdraw the above expressions;
but I respectfully declined to
retract
any
of
the Statements
I had mare in the memorial._
His Excellency then rejoined :- "Very well, just
as
Zou like;