79

12 0.213)

"It was unfair that I told the foreman it seemed, 20 had been put spore my

"trial. This was. 12th October 1837 the clerk's names

originally In the intervals, by

Wi

purpose

Official letter of the 28th September,

racanination

of all the document

Je

6

avowedly for the purpose of verifying disproving the charges of the Newspaper: ubi supra.

supra and the it

see the rendence of the prejudice of Mah Chow Wong - and Are p? Dixson & Mongan.

may be added of Mr Caldwell' _. Depositions of Mr directed to take place. It was

Caldwell & the Chinese

however

witnesses for the Mr. Caldwell himself that the morning

Crown's in the Queen

was confided; and, provotically speaking, d. 1 Javant; police Court, August and he alone who made it

It is true was at the same time direc

October 1838

Mr. Caldwell's Notes but not with the "documents themselves, which Mr Caldwell had examined.

to

25. His Report of Mr Caldwell was to the effect, that the books and papers

enr

of the pirates contained no evidence of his

the subject of the entries guilt; and

it was relating to Mr. Caldwell himself, altogether silent-

24. Mr. Mays' Memoranda", which were read in the Executive Council along with the 'Report' caused an immediate reference to be made to Mr. Mongan; who, however, was unable to assist Mr. Caldwell, But that was he his winduce in to explain the wide discrepancy perceived be

Mongeur

and from his & Mr. Mongaut

endence

the Queen & Tarrant our state labi suprà.

it plainly appears that Mr. Mongaus' ap consisted in merely handing the papers to Mr. Caldwell & without even conciling

or

being in all cases consulted by Caldwell, and that Mr. Mongaur himself,

only

a

ane

brand

of chit?

'cursory examination of into the rest not examining

at all. Mo the Report, containing the results examination so made, speaks for itself." it was prepared and signed by Mr. Caldr Mr. Mongan compared it, he says, with

the

he

^

back

to exist between two professed analyses of

Document He, however, thought. "M2 Mays' Memoranda were too circumstantial, " to be forgeries, and concluded that some of papers must have been taken out before they came to his office - He could not imagine who could have done it, nor did he Know where the papers were, before they

the

/

'came to his hands, But he would call it

tte

(12.2.

a contemptible and damnable trick, part of the perpetrators; for he thought their 'object get off Mah Chow Wong

The Council broke up suddenly - The paper

was

to

were

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