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The question of Mr. D'Almada is thus fully answered. There would have been no impropriety in Sir John Bowring's consenting to the example set by Clarendon, and appearing in the witness box of a Court locally situate within the borders of his viceregal government. There would have been no irregularity in my obtaining, upon that consent, a writ of Subpoena in the usual form, in order to sanction and justify such appearance.
When His Excellency forwards the Correspondence, private and official, in this case to the Secretary of State, I shall be much obliged by being allowed to inspect my letters to His Excellency (for I have kept no copies of them) in order that I may prepare my own statement of the case for the eye of the Minister, to accompany