74 under every 87 one of those enumerated leads of enquiry, where I, if I were there to attempt to interrogate must be prepared to meet with the mortification of refusal. There can be no doubt as to the nature of their answers. I will persevere, I dare say, as I did on a former occasion, when the unpopularity of the then Governor became the safeguard of the accused Judge, and a piece of plate was offered in atonement of the behaviour of the Executive. They will declare him to have been as severe as one of themselves. But they will be forced to admit, that he did indulge in every one of the gross and humiliating extravagances which, in my self-defence, I have reluctantly laid to his charge. The country will divide between their requital in the gross and keen inculpation in the particular, and will judge his conduct by the verdict of public opinion, in the mouths of the Community of Hong Kong. His leniency certainly made an impression on my mind, who witnessed them. I have correctly