Most well known to those they influence, and the world can but guess at the former from the
acts of the latter,
"I owe it to myself to attest the purity of
In the presence of the accused SooCLUNG, and without contradiction, that no personal feeling ever actuated me
that there could have been none, for he was a
Stranger to
me, and that no relations, good or ill ever existed between us.
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I farther declared that his personal friend Mr. Disson's son, the Government printer, for friend he had been before) by the conduct of Mr. Caldwell about October in the Case of Mathewson Wong th
is my original and principal informant, that W. Molyneux but unwittingly corroborates -near a twelve month later the facts which had been forced upon my
notice by the first, and that the Communications made to me by Mr.
by Mr. Inglis, the
Governor of the Gaol and acting Marine Magistrate had preceded those of Mr. Mary.
I repeat those declarations,
For myself I have neither perverted nor suppressed a particle of the information I have gathered in the course of my sad experience of this
Corrupt administration
Nor have I brought it forward without
having
taken deliberate means to obtain the Conviction of its soundness and truth. That Conviction I entertain still,
of
Course
and I continue in it to the hour of
my
death.
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I have the honour to be,
Sir,
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Your sincere and obedient Servant,
(Signed) W. Pedder not
Attorney-General for Berkeley
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The Honorable
The Acting Colonial Secretary,
Hongkong.