source of this unpleasant controversy, deserves to be considered public it was that of His Excellency on the night of the misconduct or hilarity of the Judge. It was an official Dinner party, at which the guests appeared, not as friends meeting in private conviviality, but as savants of the Front rank, bound by an inexorable routine of their own, counselled by weighty engagements, and rendering duty and service to the delegate of Majesty, rather than following their own inclinations and desires.
I am told, Sir, that Captain Kims himself has been brought to regard his compliance with His Excellency's request to have his report of what took place there on the occasion in question; and that Captain Kims now regrets his having made such a report on the subject. I wish, that he could be led to request the imperfections and suppressions by which the report furnished by him to His Excellency is disfigured; - I cannot help thinking that all the reports, beginning with the earliest one furnished by the Chief Justice himself down to the Captain Watkins the Harbour Master wonderfully agree with Captain Kims, in respect of these particulars.