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Prove our case amply, and as clearly as sworn statements. Can prove that I had the fullest grounds and the broadest foundation for changes which, so far as I was concerned, it was undeniably my duty to make.
The investigation further shows that any impartial reader of the minutes, the minutes, that, far from deserving censure, I deserved praise for the wide discretion which I exhibited in the matter of reporting only a case where the Colonial Secretary's name was used for purposes of extortion, when the facts were clear and not to be honestly disputed.
Now, My Lord, as gathered from Governor Bonham's despatch of January 1849 mentioned, the minutes of investigation to which I allude have never been laid before a Secretary of State; they have never to this hour been laid before you. You have never had the means to enable you to form a correct judgement of my case; and therefore it is that I renew my application that when the minutes in question are printed, your Lordship will accede to it, and direct payment to be made to me with Colonial interest for the period during which I have...