ressionsible_thove namely contained in
cited which
of the Right.. I are now under the review of own letters
Honorable the Secretary of State.
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careful, when before the Commission nor
of
to offens against the delicacy which is sunclytur to
their repeated that Minister, by sometiming in any way. references to my official appeal to Lord Stanley, I did not lay before them any copy of that appeal, armit the Cauthenticitly of
1 the brpy they find procured Your Department. It scented to me, and it does so still, that until the Secretary of Staten har had time signify this fleasure with regard to it, no Government servants within the Colony Bad take
from
to
againstring appeal.
any in support of itt.
action litter
But, our the Commission_litive thought fit to make public the existence and fun port of my letter of Appeal Scannot be Hamed for accepiting their surgical reference to that dreument
There temains only one charge which affects my
personal Conduct.
It is sound that my
londence before the Commission
Contams passages which, being inclevant and deformatory
were productive of finblic "poanda?".
Jam unconscious of
Clarge in fairly applica de
any
avenger to which this
is
In the first place, may condence throughout hind to follow the beat of the feartio, Ine Jugnay for stuck Sway norted, And I can, me
lifver
my
lindor, declare that d
attempted to preced the limits so imposed upon mue. I ought to know something of the Aules of Pridence, and, if I failed on this
con to keep within then gater, the Juult surmot howe bain in the intention. But again
recasion
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Idealne that I had no such intention. It was altogether the other way.
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No Can I Hame the Commission in this respect. Imust do them the justice to say that, converon
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converms of the C Informiliarity with the principles of evidence, their sidern seemed to be always to restrict Signing
and stunt out
Ovidence, last pershence they should ordmit that which
mad missable,
100mg
or that which
wow inclevant.
It is right, however, that me this point they should bethemselves hound. They sory
in their Report:
We trave hard Twenty five sittings, oftending sver a "period of seven weeks ;_ we trave Nomines upwards of Fifty witnesses, and a post maws of documents, and howe 19ftluded our signiries into a munter of matters, some of " which, inclevant as they may now appeary
Farthey
were to
woven into and Combined with the immediate suffic,
Subject
"of Suguing that it was not considered safe to leave them
timefantined.
It is in fact hand for any tribunal__ Above all one Constituted as the Commission
authe
wat
treword
i go to the
collateral issues : _ as for instance issues which credit of parties concerned. And justice to the Commissio not less than to myself compels
ave tworecasions
to remind this
Excellency that the most remarkable instances in the prevent have
were the two recasions when Hair Acting __ Colonial Secretary by appointments,
ow
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vame down to raise
affecting my credit, the other that of M.May, the former relating to the Atlong the the "Jeneralship, the latter to the Office of Superintendent
[ Police: but wither of them relating directly to the Caldwell Ingsiny to the Ba
lindirectly to the ecasions notle bas given by the Chinina
both
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