Flee from the Caldwell Commission, the complaints of "family doctor complained by Caldwell for having met and his house, & the land agent and receiver of suspicious rents, It is further proved in like manner, that the prisoner was appointed watchman to the same Alley by either Caldwell or Zum obtein, alleged to be Caldwell's property, that hawkers, beggars, and low people inhabit it, that the Police were called out last July to prevent burglary from the Alley outwards, Prisoner kept them at bay for a quarter of an hour, & enabled the thing to escape, that he was then convicted & punished.
That a few days indeed after the return of the Caldwell business Report!) and think to this day he has nevertheless been continued in his office of watchman to that same alley, and that, in the recent faction fight between his people & those of Sich, Heangshan, which took place at his door, he was principal party, and, as openly protected by the prestige of Caldwell and less openly supported by Caldwell in person, before too May post: & afterwards before Mr. Mitchell. Both gentlemen concurred in declaring his statements on those occasions false, malicious and eminently worthy of punishment.
I say nothing of other cases; I am endeavouring, in this case, (upon the statement I believe of one who perpetrated himself in that the Queen & Tarrant) to misrepresent me having assumed to appear, as Akun's Defence before the magistrate, although is Notes Finding to Attorney general, when I undertook poor Pongking for her foten Bowring had known how to deal with gentlemen, he would certainly have put that question to me, and not, behind my back, in an ensnaring manner to Mr. Mitchen.
I protest against the unfair appreciations thus reiterating, conduct in my regard which forms the subject of my Protest of the 2nd August last in the Legislative Council, against the attempt privately on the 24th July, to compel official mention of that body to furnish evidence of my words spoken in debate, but without giving me any notice of such endeavour.
In the same Gazette of 1858.4.73, and for the same reasons, and because the advertised report of the trial and verdict in the late case of the Lucen & Cassant has not yet been published, and the reporter's rough copy before the cement promises the departure of this mail, I shall not now make any further comments.
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