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Mr. Anstey may
think fit
to make,
for their ultimate
decision thereupon.
7. It is impossible for me
after considering the do-
cuments which you have
sent time, I especially, the memorial signed by many of the most respectable inhabitants of the Island, that there are no grounds
for imputing the vice
of habitual interference
to the Chief Justice, but
it may be that from
an excitable temperament
he may
on convivial occasions
transgress the limits of that decorum which
it is important to maintain
in his high position.
This may serve to account
for the error into which
I believe Mr. Anstey
has fallen when he imputed to him gross
misconduct.
I would willingly have avoided expressing any opinion after a transaction of this nature which