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the second by Mr. Woodgate, the Actionable Sup. K. Stewart, R. N., and Captain Watkins, R.N., and no doubt also by others.
"I believe Mr. Anstey to have stated more than I have written above and I have been informed that he made a similar statement to Mr. Leslie but which I have not seen."
Gentleman.
14. However I have shown enough to call upon Mr. Anstey for an immediate ample and public apology."
"Your faithfully Signed) "John Hultze:"
Sir John Bowring.
Of the five Gentlemen referred to by the Chief Justice three are public functionaries, and I thought it my duty to call upon them for a written Statement as to the facts which had been the subject of His Honour's representation. I did not think it desirable that I should trouble either the Admiral Kutt Stewart or Mr. Leslie.
Captain King replies that at the Artillery Mess on the 14th instant you "stated publicly at the Table that the Chief Justice was drunk, that he could be drunk at Government House the night before, and that he considered the cloth disgraced" to that effect.
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