"I stay not to inquire; my 'intimates not being of that class, and the occasion being therefore unlikely to present itself.
Far different would be the position of affairs, were His Excellency even at this eleventh hour to reconsider his determination, and enquire. As the host whose table was the scene of the alleged offence, as the representative of the Sovereign whose Chief Justice demands redress, and who has invested him, sitting in Executive Council, with the means of granting the only redress demanded - means, for there exists no other tribunal here which can take cognisance of the demand - as the eyewitness whose testimony is vouched and whose own previous expressions of opinion and judgment are quoted upon my side of the controversy since at least ... and as the great authority to whom, after all, the Secretary of State will look with expectation, for the verity of the case, and the disentanglement of all the embarrassments which perplex it, His Excellency has the right to claim, and exacting cannot fail to obtain from every one of his guests of 13th instant, their testimony, supported or qualified by his own.
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