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Memorandum by W. T. Bridges
Lin John Bowring 20.5.56 The Chief Justice accompanied by Mr Chapman Acting Post Master. Called at the Port Office & said, no doubt I was aware of the business that brought him.
I told him that only a few minutes before I had heard of matters between him and the Attorney General. He said, he had brought Mr Chapman, to whom I said at once I was sorry to have taken the very painful duty of conveying to the grave and disturbing his rest with all the little tattle of the Coroner which had better be buried in oblivion. The Judge said, he, Mr Chapman, had done quite right & that he now was desirous formally to tender at my hands a public apology for a public slander. That Mr Austen had accused The Attorney General of being drunk at my table that he had stated this at the Artillery Mess it had been reported by Captain King that he had repeated it at Mr Torrens' table that it had been restated to Mr Leslie by Captain ... (By Duncan Baikie) that he understood Mr Austen had said the Attorney General's condition. I had not broken up the party. Mr Austen himself said he was "blind drunk" & that I had broken up the party in consequence of that.
I told the Judge that certainly I had broken up the party a minute before the usual time that my reason namely was to get away from what passed was very disagreeable that he twice ordered the Candles & the little libations & I was told how the punkah to be pulled that I thought ...
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