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of misusing conduct towards himself by Mr. Mitchell I trust that the explanation conveyed in Mr. Mee's letter of the 17th July to Mr. Keenan, will have satisfactorily terminated that part of the case.
I have telegraphed to the U.S. Consulate, Hong Kong July 8th 1886.
Your favour of yesterday in answer to my letter of the 6th instant to his Excellency Governor Baring, complaining of the conduct of Magistrate Mitchell, has been received. In it you state that Mr. Mitchell avers that he was justified in refusing my claim, contrary to a seat upon the Bench during the trial of one of my countrymen, in which an American Sailor was the prosecutor, owing to circumstances which he then particularly detailed.
The circumstances that Mr. Mitchell ...