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of such a gentleman as I have "been taken, but Sir Michael Seymour has already expressed an opinion in my favour (see enclosure 11 A) and under such circumstances it would not have been fair to have allowed Mr Ausley to have addressed the Tribunal.
Matter to go before such an one. There is now therefore no other course open to me but to lay the matter before you and to pray that you will be pleased to address the charges against me so imperatively calls for & to which I feel myself so fairly + justly entitled.
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I take the liberty of forwarding herewith a public address just presented to me and also one from the Barristers and Attorneys of Hongkong
I have the honour to be Sir, Your Obedient servant John Walter Hulme Chief Justice
To the Right Honorable The Secretary of State For the Colonies