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going to Europe, and I trust that in doing so I shall receive your approval, unless indeed Sir John Bowring refuses the persuasion.
I quit this colony with the worst misgivings. It is true that Mr. Mercer, the Colonial Secretary, has returned to his duties - a man of honor and courage, I trust. But of the insufficiency of one man to the task,
I am a living sample.
Mr. Caldwell is still in the Commission of the Peace and enjoys the most contemptuous silence. Letters of the 30th have been observed by Sir John Bowring respecting the tires. Indignant protests on this subject for the confessed faults
and
in August,
justice, which men laid before him on August what influence this audacious man has over His Excellency, I do not care to enquire. Long before the Lieutenant Governor, Colonel Vane, was called to give evidence in his behalf before the Caldwell Commission, he had been heard to boast that the Establishment, albeit populous with the worthy persons assigned to him, had much to dread from his revelations touching the past. Italian that for. May has heard him say so. & I also testify that Mr. Wetherall Tarrant can corroborate whatever
that head Mr. May will state on
I do however know that he continues to enjoy that influence, and that, within this week, a glaring instance has occurred of its being called into ceaseless action, at Caldwell's instigation, and to obstruct justice.
It is, Sir, the case now pending before the Assistant Police Magistrate, Mr. Mitchell, of Policeman Otis v. Akun, to which I allude. I am too feeble and have too little leisure to furnish copies of the evidence,
but, if it be possible that Sir John Bowring does not send the depositions home to illustrate my present letter, I trust that they will be demanded by Downing Street.
Akun is a Hakka man, formerly employed in the Police Force under Mr. May and Inspector Jarman, who gave him a good character. But he comes from Heangshan & is at feud with the Canton men and its capital, the sworn Gang and Clan of Caldwell's ally, than those wrong. Caldwell brought the poor man before Mr. May, to answer to complaints of battery and trespass to goods, brought by two Tung-kuan men (allies of the Canton gang). Caldwell wished them to be discharged by the Police: Mr. May heard and discussed the charges: Caldwell said to the complainants; "Go up to the Magistrate!
The magistrate dismissed the charges, neither Caldwell nor his proteges being there to support them. They had heard, it seems, that I was retained for the falsely accused Akun. Akun, having more courage than his people, preferred a cross-charge of false and malicious accusation that charge was heard. I supported it. Of course, Dr. Bridges appeared in Caldwell's interest.
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