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(there being no one to undertake it. Having knowledge, which I now stated. Every circumstance within my ... may apology for the Report; I will, before proceeding to state its main findings, merely add that it was drawn, considered, and approved on Saturday morning; on Sunday it was copied for signature and signed in the morning of Monday; two months having been taken to consider the evidence on which it was supposed to rest.)
84. By that ill-considered instrument, the Commission reported to the following effect.
$5. That the Brothels' Charges were 'Not Proven', but no grounds for that finding were assigned; and it was contradicted that there were grounds for bringing those charges!
$t. That the Character of Mr. Caldwell's connections (by marriage or otherwise amongst the Chinese) was also 'not proven' (and again, without assigning grounds for this latter finding).
87. And that, with respect to some matters of mere inference, or matters stated merely in corroboration of Charges, Mr. Caldwell was 'Not Guilty'.
38. They found him 'Guilty' under the following heads.
39. 1. Long and intimate connection between himself and Mah Chow Wing.
40. 2. Being in the habit, on Mah Chow Wong's unsupported information, of arresting persons.
41. 3. Aiding on the acceptance of Ewe Kai, his former servant, as Bail for Mah Chow Wong. Ewe Kai having been imprisoned for Debt, for a few days, a short time previously.
42-44. 4. A Partnership with Mah Chow Song in a Lorcha (the said Caldwell himself having admitted a connection with him on the third day - 17th July 183...).
43.5. Induring the Attorney General at the beginning of 185% to order the release of a great number of men, whom Mr. Caldwell knew to have been pirates, and who Mr. Caldwell ought to have known were pirates.
94.6. Making for that purpose a representation of their (good) character; ... appearing incomprehensible to the Commission how any person with Caldwell's knowledge of the Chinese language, and holding the Appointment he did, could have been ignorant of the character of the Boats in which the men were seized, and that one at least of these men was a notorious Pirate; particularly as it is in Evidence that Mah Chow Hong was concerned with the Boats.
95.7. And having, since the commencement of the Inquiry, solely upon the information contained in an anonymous (Chinese) letter that certain property had been stolen, personally and without the assistance of the police, searched a room, in the occupation of a thing Interpreter; whom Caldwell knew to be about to give Evidence before the Commission. The Commissioners considered this injudicious, to say the least of it, having regard to the reluctance of Witnesses to give Evidence, and that it is manifest that the Chinese are averse to giving further Evidence against Caldwell (a majority of three to two having declined to make it a direct finding of Guilty) by unanimously adopting the finding in support of the inference of his unfitness to be a Justice of the Peace.
96. That a sum of money was offered by Ah Inama, as a mark of gratitude to Mr. Caldwell, for being instrumental in the release of a Lorcha seized by Pirates, in which ...
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