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that Captain King and Captain Romer did not actually assent to it!. Fortified with their concurrence so tacit -- how is it to be supposed that I could distrust the accuracy of my observation & the strength of my memory as to imagine that such a matter was & could remain a secret from all the rest of the Community & during the whole week which intervened between that occasion and the complaint preferred against me, I did but mention the circumstance thrice - viz: - to my Medical adviser, to a gentleman whom I believed to be my friend (Mr. Leslie of the Firm of Dent & Co) and at the private table of Mr. Woodgate.
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I have since learned that during that very week, the story was in circulation elsewhere and upon the authority of other eyewitnesses & earwitnesses who attested it. And I find, from Sir John Bowring's own autograph communication to me of the 28th Ultimo (a fact I was certainly not aware of before) that His Excellency himself had on the same night when it occurred the 13th Instant remarked in the Drawing Room, not in resentment but in good humour, that the Judge had been somewhat arbitrary; and that he was hilarious.