Dear Sir,
e d to love Gtueral y 5 131 Sort: Hose In 7028102 20 May 1851 The Chief Justice has complained of the statements made by the Attorney General on the subject of occurrences which took place at Government House on Tuesday last evening, mentioned to me. Will you oblige me by informing me in writing what these statements were for my guidance in the consequences that may follow?
Yours truly, (Signed) J. M.
Captain Macpherson, R.H., Wing Kong, 21st May 1851
My Dear Sir,
In reply to your note of this date, I have briefly to state that I have not given publicity to the statement referred to. The facts of the case are simply these: Mr. Moncrieff Chapman, Acting Postmaster, called on me yesterday and asked me whether the Attorney General had stated in my hearing that Mr. Woodgate was drunk at the last public dinner at Government House. I told him the Attorney General had made such a statement.