by the exactions and corruptions of the Regithar General's Department, by the
the part of those. in power to listen to complaints and o proofs, and by the consequent impurity of the offender, _ I have now no choice
constituitional aversion on
left
-
but to submit the whole matter
to the impartial.
eye of your Lordship.
that
It may at first sight appear my appeal is premature; inasmuch
as an
enquiry
is said to be about to be
set afect by His Excellency. But, first, My Lord, it is not said what matters that
enquiry is meant to embrace, and it distinct by appears that it is not on intended to embrace the whole of them,
but only such as in this Exce
Opinion
are
Mency's
"Fangible . In the next
place, Your Lordship will observe that ; inasmuch as the most important of
the matters in
question relate to
Mah chow.
wing.
Jolly
Mah_chow
weng, The events of last
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Summer and autumn, and the disclosures then effected by the Assistant Idice Magishate, Mr. May, - Matter!, which,
means
again and again, as well by of that Officer as of Myself, have
I
been brought under the notice of this Government, _ without any inquiry being
so much as
s promised, - until
requested
now that I have
reasons
for
declining.
My m
to be in the
>-
Same Commission of the Peace with Mr Caldwell to be laid before your
Lordship, _ it is not likely that those
Matters at least, will now,
any
More
that formerly, be considered or sufficiently tangible to be included in the proposed enquiry.
Nor can it be supposed that the immediate cause of this highly
painful correspondence will be one
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