the Books and papers of Mah Chow Wong, thus, so far:
as regards this latter point, my Evidence given before the Commission but contradicted.
Or: "Bridges to the effect that, by in a conversation I had with Mr. Wade, the head of that Office, of some months afterwards, Mr Wade informed me the nature of the Memoranda' in question, and that they were then still remaining in his hands, was entirely confirmed by Mr Mongan.
52. Since my departure from the Island it has been publicly confessed by the Hong Kong Government that the Memoranda were [Ib. and see the printed Minutes &c Eleventh and Fifteenth days 17th, 28th June 1858 pp. (2a Col.) and 51 (for Col.)]. See No 40 Government (1854, in Hong Kong Notification of the life so stated by me, in Gazette of the 23rd Oct 1858. E. B. Lytton and my letter to ditto June 1839.
mor existence and W. Wade's hands, it that time, and so continued during all the sittings of the Commission, and the whole of my subsequent Correspond with that Government, and from thence down to the 12th March 1859; - when they were restored by my Wade, under Official Cover of that date, to the Hong Kong Secretariat. The "Notification in question contains an entire copy of the "Memoranda; and I understand, from Mr May, that the Secretary of State has also received a Manuscript Copy thereof; with additional ... the reason already mentioned, remains unanswered.
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54. 1. Those, which affect Mah Chow Wong, show him to have been engaged, habitually and by way of Vocation, in political operations on the largest scale. They tell of the equipment and armament of pirate Ships, despatch of such, on piratical expeditions, resetting of pirates at home, confederacy with pirates and persons abroad, kidnapping at Hong Kong, and the Slave Trade in the Straits of Malacca.
55. 2. Those which affect Mr. Caldwell, show him to have been, during the whole period of those vocations of Mah Chow Wong, in intimate and friendly relations with that Convict. There is a page of thanks to himself, through Mah Chow Wong, from a Chinese Mandarin, during the late War, for assisting to recover and restore Government plunder, made by Queen's Troops, from the writer's station, there are receipts to Mr Caldwell, and receipt from payments of money to his account. There is a transaction, binding Mah Chow Wong, Mr Caldwell, and a Chinaman of Hong Kong who has a suit for lands over ... if the suit succeeds ... to pay to the party conducting the suit, that is to say, Mr. Caldwell, for the sum of 1500 Dollars, out of which Mr. Caldwell - though not a Lawyer certainly - may also retain to himself the sum of 500 Dollars for Costs. [Ib. and see Evidence in Printed Minutes 4. Twelfth day. 18th June 1858 p.37 (Colt)]
56. W. Wade, as I have said, had been deceived by Sir John Bowring's Government into the belief that Plenipotentiary of the 12th March 1859 - printed by Reports, from M. May himself, and also from Mr. Caldwell, on the subjects to which the entries therein contained relate, I have myself offered to give every morsel of information in my power, to your Grace's predecessor, with respect to them, but my letter, for ...
See the Letter of Thomas Wade, Exy Chinese Secretary to the ...
53. Those entries belong to two Classes:
1. Such as affect Mah Chow Wong himself:
2. Such as affect Mr. Caldwell.
54s Those ...
Order in the Hong Kong an Index, had been already examined by Mr. Mongan, a student Interpreter, and a rising Scholar ... Government Gazette of the 25th April 1859. And my letter to Secretary Sir E. B. Lytton, the 10th June 1859 ... further concealed the fact that it was to Mr Caldwell himself ...
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