Dear Sir
120 Government House
20 May 1856
The Chief Justice has laid a formal complaint before me of statements made at your table (and subsequently publicly reported) by the Attorney General on Tuesday evening last. I have to request you in reference to circumstances which took place at Government House on that evening, to state in writing what were the statements so made; as an investigation into this disagreeable matter is forced upon me.
Yours truly,
Wm. Caine
J. W. W. Birch, Esq.
H.M.'s Secretary
21 May 1856
My Dear Sir,
I have received your letter of yesterday dated 20th instant.
In reply, I beg to observe that no conversation which took place at my table on Saturday last has been the subject of remark elsewhere. The matter, therefore, of which the Chief Justice complains against the Attorney General must have been made public by others to whom I refer. And although I am fully prepared to bear testimony to what occurred at Government House in the evening of the 18th instant...