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blemishes. Not one of them,
...
I can learn
from
His Excellency's autograph of the 21st ultimo
the Correspondence and papers in this case have never been communicated to me (at least) but suppresses statements I made of the particular instances on which my opinion of the Judge's condition was formed, not one of them but suppresses the main point, the Governor's indignation as expressed by himself to me in the smoking room. For aught appearing on the face of those discreditable communications to the contrary, all that I said was that the Judge had been drunk! — whereas what I did say was that the Judge 'evidently drunk because he did "such and such things, which "impressed not only myself and another gentleman present, but the Judge himself with that conviction. No doubt to have so reported me would have been attended with this inconvenience, that a curt denial of my statements would have been impracticable, and a vague assertion of strictness useless. But it would have been the only course consistent with honesty and truth, and as such gentlemen having Her Majesty's