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Jb Jb And see Commiss.co to have given entre appian credit to both of these statements. $ 50. But no attempt was then or ever made by Dr Bridge to explain that disappearance of the "Memoranda".
Long Cross-examination at the Trial of concealment referred, in Legislative Council, to those papers, as containing Evidence of the fact; that is to say, the 10th May 1858. Moreover, Dr. Bridges deposed, not aware, whether the Orders, then given by him, were given; or were even obeyed at the time they were given; or what was the date that he long afterwards; or ...
The reason & justification for the authorised destruction of the originals (supposing it to have taken place at the period suggested), and those subsequent period, when the destruction actually took place, implies and expresses both initials and Memoranda — before cross-examination of Mr. "Kongan, acting Chinese Secretary, on the same occasion, was the the Commission. But four months later, at the trial of the Queen, the Commission had ceased to be ... it was reluctantly admitted by Dr. Bridges that the order for their destruction, was also given by himself and on which he — with or without the Governor's sanction — ordered their destruction, was also ...
A few weeks before the day on which the fact of its having taken place was communicated to the Commission. That was on the 17th day of June 1858; and, consequently, destruction must have been ordered not only long after it had commenced to ... Excellency, after M. Caldwell's connections with Mah Chow Hong, but or about, the very June, when I first referred ...
28 referred, a young Gentleman, by whose hand the destruction took place. He deposed, that the whole Volume of papers, so destroyed for encumbering the Office, where they happened to be but "ought not to have been" — and of which he was in charge at that time — that there was room in the Acting head, was not more than a Cubic foot — in the Office for them", that the Office itself belonged to the General Department of the Superintendency of Trade, other department possessing Archive and Rooms besides his Office; and that, as these Documents were only there, on loan, from the Judicial and Departments, the proper course, even if they were any real incumbrance, would have been to restore them to the Departments where Records he considered them to be. Mr Morgan further declared, on taxing his memory, that he had some remembrance of the missing "Memoranda" being sent with his office, subsequently to their production, before the Executive Council, in opposition to the "Report" made by Mr Caldwell, upon ...
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