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the caricatures and misrepresentations.
He says that in the part he says "In me Curie of the eve enue be bear frequent allusions to the condition I was in, but that he cannot give the names of the persons who made them." The latter statement is true but the same cannot be said of the former if the letters I have received from different gentlemen present are to be believed.
The conclusion of this same letter cannot fail to attract your particular attention and to arouse your imagination. It is no less than a very insinuation that I am capable of being influenced in the discharge of my public duties by private motives and private feelings, in other words - of corruption.
Had I been made of such base material it is hardly likely that I should have had the honor of serving Her Majesty's Commission for upwards of twelve years.
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I have to deal with the truth or falsehood of the charges preferred against me by Mr. Gustey, but I may for the purpose of showing perhaps for the amusement with which they may be allowed to remark that the charges were as unfounded as they were unfeeling, inasmuch as the occasion alluded to was the first...