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it. If not, I trust, Sir, that you will premise the copy annexed to duplicate Original N.2 was
From that correspondence you will perceive that, at the very time when I was acting actively in the Jr. Bridges suspension, the measures for my removal were being taken.
A year - part of my expected spoils to be allotted to him by 9250l salary was being allotted to his contingent share, although such allotment was directly forbidden by the terms of Lord Clarendon's despatches.
The same correspondence will show you, that, (my suspension being partly justified by marginal references to official correspondence of February and March 1857, on the supposed limits to the right of the Attorney General to advise private clients, here and at the Five Ports,) D: Bridges has, since his acting appointment to the office in question, acted freely for clients in Appeals coming before Sir John Bowring, such Superintendent.
The expression 'greedy for my succession,' on which so much indignant censure was passed, by his Excellency in Executive Council, is, I submit, fully justified, by the facts; (now first brought to light by the death of Mr. Day, with whom the arrangement was effected.)
I have the honor to be,
Your most obedient humble servant,
1. Cheshiren Anstey
To
The Right Honorable
2. B. Lytton Bart. M. P.
Secretary of State for the Colonies,
Downing Street,
London
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