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The letter from this office of the 12th instant states clearly the facts of this case, and has been commented on by Lord Palmerston's Minute.
I also here had further explanation to give, anti-reply.
I here send the Treasury copies of both the Bishop of Winchester's letters 390 & 23382/23 and I think they speak for themselves.
I said that Mr Baxter misrepresented, I believe, trusting ...
3382 Hong Kong 23 Feb
Like most cases when investigated, Mr Baxter's will not bear to be hardly included in either of the categories which seem to the Treasury to exhaust the subject.
Mr Baxter's Exchange was sanctioned by the Bishop of Winchester. Mr Baxter was in great pecuniary difficulties, & addicted to the shifts common in such difficulties, though a thing distinctly fraudulent has apparently been brought home to him.
I cannot, I said, that he misrepresented or suppressed his circumstances, for he was never asked about them. Neither can it be said that his appointments were "owing to the error of Men in which he in no way participated" for if he had made his circumstances known, he would never have been sent to Hong Kong.
In fact, such are the circumstances.
His Lord...