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"had already been burned,) - by M. Mongan, - been examined that certain important papers, noted in M. May's Memoranda, the character of "and gravely reflecting ove "M". (Caldwell, had not been found by Mr "Morgan ; — and, consequently, that, if they had ever been in the Collection, they could not have been there, when it was placed in M. Mongan's hands."
But it was Mr (Caldwell himself, – the suspected party, _ and not M. Mongan, who was ordered to make that previous examination. Mr. Morgan was merely directed to attend and assist the accused.
And it was that accused M. (Caldwell, in fact, did make that examination, and prepare, sign, and hand in the Report thereof.
As far as I, M. Mongan says,- 'was concerned, I should call it a Cursery Examination. I could not say it was not a searching one.
I counted every Printed Paper. I do not exactly recollect whether he consulted me on every one suspicious documents? And your statement. of the same off Mr. Mougan's subsequently sworn evidence like that.
of made before. Execution for effect (Pt. sehr. 36. and And see their t Or Bridges, very materially impeached, upon their prints, his lensworn. but only confirmed it upon this point.
Nevertheless, it now appears, that, in referring the same papers to a second examination, the Government Kept that gentleman in ignorance of the fact, that the previous examination had been so made by Caldwell. And they allowed him to believe, that Mr Mongan, in whom he had confidence, had been the Examiner employed.
It is not wonderful that he should have entertained 'the conviction, which he says, he believes he expressed, that nothing would result of advantage from his own examination of those papers; feeling sure that he should find nothing that Mr Mongan had not found; or that, under this erroneous conviction, he should have never "gone through", and indeed never looked into the papers in question, from the time of that reference, down to their final destruction with fire, by order of Government.
I forbear to make any Comment upon the Memoranda themselves.
If Sir John Bowring himself has not consulted their author, the Superintendent of Police, and sent the results of that Consultation
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