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I now beg leave to renew application, and would respectfully submit the following in support of it.
The reasons taken by your Lordship for declining to accede to the application mentioned - and it will also have been taken by the Right Honorable the Earl Grey on the occasion of a previous application of similar nature - must have been the representation of Governor Bonham in his despatch of January 1849 regarding...
That representation, based on my case in its main particular, was on the report of a W. Mollay Campbell in July 1847 investigating the charges which I had brought against certain Chinese servants of the government of using the name of the Colonial Secretary for purposes of extortion - he had found that they were groundless and without foundation - that there was not the shadow of probability for what he termed "idle rumours" ; - and, further, that in bringing my charge I must have been actuated by other than loyal feelings for the public service, and therefore that I was not fit to be Her Majesty's servant.
Strong expressions such as these, and from one performing such important functions as...