Subject to the intimation of your forwarding's perusal Letter of the 21st in the matter (to which I defer to my last letter) Not only awarded each prisoner to pay to the injured plaintiff the highest sum ($100) which the Compensation Clause allowed him, but also, of the magistrate's own instance, fined every one of the witnesses for the defence.
"Breach of the peace", for "wounding with intent to murder" the 20th January, and ordered proclamation in Chinese to forewarn of the proceedings in terrorem; _and_ Lastly, that upon my appeal, the same court then summarily declared the statement of my having Attorney General in the case to be utterly false and groundless.
I have had much anxiety about the receipt of my cover, beyond signature in my servant's letter book and I am therefore apraid that this time also there will be a detention until a subsequent trial? I shall nevertheless take the liberty to forward through the same channel my present communication, and I shall transmit the Duplicates of both through another channel, as I have hitherto done.
As leave having been granted me to proceed,
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Letter of the Honorable
the
pieces of evidence - absolutely corroborative witnesses given before the Caldwell inquiry forming in upon as many heads, - have come to light concerning the making of their Report.
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Two of those pieces of evidence have been long since made known to the Authorities here and brought to have been long since reported by them to the Secretary of State.
Of the third, they are believed to be not as yet officially in possession.
The former two refer to the question of the guilt or innocence of Caldwell in respect
1st piracy.
2nd corrupt alliance. The Police Magistrate, Mr. Davies, to whom on his volunteering the same opened the main statement to me, reduced to writing and sent to the Governor about three months ago, the unsolicited confession of the Acting Inspector of Caldwell's steamer "Eaglet" in 1856, to me a fact that, under color of the convoy service - so verminous since recent disclosures in the Courts, - Caldwell himself, and the equipage suspected several piracies upon land and sea, at the times specified by the witnesses who attempted to screen their master from the threatened inquiry into the same: _ and that the convicted pirate, was not only a participator in that crime, though
Preatory to yourself, I sail after tomorrow, and that is pertinent to my voyage & journeys onward with all possible despatch.
In the mean time, it is right to inform His Excellency's Imperial Government, that three additional pieces
of further
Report of Convoy sailed truth from in their desperate ventures,
f. 2.
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2. More than six months are the pain Magistrate, in the hope of inducing his Jun Bousing and D. Bridges to forego their avowed resolution to dismiss Interpreter so _ (named in