effect produced by the public-ation of which I complain in particular and which undoubtedly added to the one object of getting the niche mercantile house here to immediate and I me Combined action against But it is a singular Coincidence, at least, that an the very day when I was told of the appearance of the hong report in the Hong Kong Register, a letter from the attorney to the Acting chief Magistrate was put into my hands, in which
70 he (Mr Lawson) informed my attorney that milestic (of Dent & Co.) had written to press him to fix an early day for the trial of the action of Mitchell vs Anstey, that Mr Leslie might come and give his evidence against me on the occasion; a fact the more curious that since I know the other side had previously Complained much of his (Mr. Leslie's) hesitation in the matter. Remind you willingness I need not here that Mr. Mitchell before his