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Not being willing to trust to my remembrance of the conversation that recurred I requested His Honor to convey to me in writing the terms of my Communication and I received a latter of which the following is a Copy:
Tuesday May 20th 1856.
Dear Sir,
In accordance with your request, I now beg to state in writing that which I verbally communicated to you this morning regarding the aspersions cast upon my Character by Mr Anstey - viz. that on the 14th instant at the Artillery Mess being a quiet night Mr Anstey publicly and positively stated that at the dinner given by your Excellency on the 13th instant to Admiral Sir Michael Seymour "I was drunk. Drunk as drunk could be and had disgraced my cloth". That on the at a dinner on the 17th Instant given by Mr Woodgate Mr Anstey again stated that on the occasion alluded to 'I was drunk' and that the the reason - If your Excellency quitting the dinner table were after dinner was that I should commit you Commit myself! falschoo
These Statements and their can be proved the first by Cap. King - and doubtless by others.
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