"were ascertained to contain such evidence as to make " of the man's systematic guilt " his pardon impossible, Mr Caldwell "having denied that they contained " evidence of guilt, it " any " follows that len " 1 follows " May's two Memoranda and Mr Wake's " certificate "Certificate were the materials which " His Excellency had before him, and on " which he formed his judgment. I know that these memoranda were in existence "Within a week before M. Wade proceeded "with Lord Elgin to the North. Mr. "Wake and I had a long Conversation "about them and their contents about that time, and he told me there was "no doubt that the Accounts and papers "contained the evidence of the Convict's guilt.
395 "He further states . "By the by I have my certificate upon the whole finished "of those papers"," and he added either "that he had sent them in or that he would send them in without delay ? It is quite certain that I did not Make any report upon the papers examined by Mr Mongan. I have shown above why I did not, but I kept the papers until the last moment in the hope of having an interval of leisure which never came, and my abandonment ultimately of my intention to examine them was I must think, due to this circumstance, and not, as Dr Bridges believes me to have stated, to the determination of the Council to let the law take its course with