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5:34
this day private
at 2 P. M. at
M. at my
residence.
to appear
and
He has failed to
in his stead I have been
favored with a visit from Mr Mitchell himself, followed by his present advisers, Mr. Parsons the attorney; and Mr. Day the barrister. Mr Day after demanding my authority to issue such a
summons, or indeed
any
summons to that witness,
!
and informing
me that he
Mr Parsons, and Mr Mitchell
to call
disputed my right to
for any testimony whatever
ended by saying
it would have been less
offensive for Ly asi himself
to have done without such a
demonstration as
Lyy
asi would be advised, or
had been advised, not to
appear.
He has not appeared at
any
rate, and I am now
preparing to close the case. But I submit to His
Excellency that this
gross interference of the acting Chief Magistrate with the office of the law and its course of action ought not