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1556.4 for fees cond costs. has sintered to take advantage of my official incapacity to deny acts or explain publicly the words with which (See Hong Kong Register of Investigation 5th August) I am by the Report of proceedings in Council furnished to that paper, openly and by charged, I have a demand from His Excellency, from whose Council I was on that occasion, the means to obtain satisfaction for the past and indemnity for the future. I have the more right to this demand because it is not the first, by many instances of the same kind of which I have had occasion in Council and out of Council to complain and His Excellency cannot have forgotten that when I protested against the Chief Justice being allowed to appoint the Editor of the Hong Kong Register (MW: Bannerman) to the public Service as Judge's Clerks, a protest to which His Excellency was pleased to assent, – I did so on the express ground of his having libelled and traduced