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any such
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such enquiries being instituted, have the right to hope that every person present on the 13th instant at your argument, (and particularly those in the near neighbourhood of the Chief Justice)
shall be interrogated
of every
me
as to the truth
of the statements on
which I justify that which his Lordship denounces as an "aspersion" upon his character!
I have alluded to the Executive
Council. May I without presumption suggest that the proposed reference to the Secretary of State may be, as His Excellency wishes, rendered unnecessary, or, if necessary,
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be made complete for all the
be
purposes of adjudication, if it be preceded by a searching enquiry on
the
spot before His Excellency in Council? or before His Excellency himself? or before any other Court of Inquiry nominated by His Excellency? and to the decision of such
Court I, for one,
shall cheerfully
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submit, be it what it may
Should this unfortunate
case be referred to the Secretary of State, either without or after such
an enquiry
as
I have
suggested, I trust that the private correspondence between His Lordship and myself,
without which this Communication