小
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against the Government.
fully proved out of the mouths of the Crown!
Witnesses, boots werk.
immediately awarded by the
Chief Judge against the Crown, and they have since been
paid by Sir S. Bowring, and I hear, under the head "Miscellaneous expenses of the
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& under Solicitor's Department'
134. Your Grace will not blame
me for again
reminding you that
the Court and Jury, which
thus determined the case of Mr Caldwell and the
Hong Kong Government was
a Tribunal chosen by the latter; and that I had no part in the selection -
134 No decision was taken by the authority to
which
the Secretary of State
referred. See Germany
Hansard September
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My letter of the 11th ult 1856 to Secretary E.B. Lytton Baron
Ritter to myself from under-Secretary the Baron of Mauven of the 13th
April 1857.
1854 vol. 153 pp 13-14. Letter to myself from and compare the Memorandum Wolff, Newspapers of the 12th and the 7th April 1857,
did
submit my case
to
the
-
under I had arrived
in
March 1856.
or
on my
way homeward
4
1
the
reports of
House of Commons.
learned it through the Newspaper
8
by
your
The announcement... was made
in the
on the 18th March last
which was
immediate
Predecessor simply to
the effect that he, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton
acquainted have been obliged to confirm my suspension
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135. No reasons
were
assigned no
reasons have
H. H.
on that
ever been assigned – for the confirmation On the
contrary, the Secretary of State was pleased
exhibited in
that conduct in Office had
'talent'
most favorable light my
my "learning", my "energy", a zeal for the Public Service
J
α
·
and
my
character, Subsequently,
again,
letters to myself from
Under Secretary the Earl of Carnarvon of the 16th
and 30th May the
th
June 1857.
again
in reply to
my
letter of the 14th April last (respecting my arrival, and complaining of a passage in the Newspaper versions of his speech which represented him to have adopted
aspersion, Sir John Bowring upon my
Evidence before the Caldwell Commissioners a pure
me,
cast
by
and
get
make the unfavorable remarks and that the passage was misreport, and, in correcting it, in question had the goodness to renew his expression of opinion
AND
of my official and personal merits, and substantially in the same,
flattering terms.
136. I have applied for reemployment and for
compensation for my wrongs, But neither to that or any subsequent application letters to the Secretary of State, of
record
nor
my
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subsequent dates to the 13th April last, have I
any reply + The only communication's indeed which I have ever received from him be the letter last mentioned, and a previous intimation through his private Secretary that he (E. B. Lytton) had been unwell for some
would
D
but
M
doubt "inform me when he could receive me!!" Having requested,
on the 14th April last, the usual
case.
137 - It is here from the late Under Secretary of State, the Earl of Carnarvon, I have received several letters
noticing
unanswered letters to the
Some
of my
Secretary of State; and that his Lordship's letters
-
also
June 13th June & appear to be written in his late official
But those letters deny me all information Capacity
•although I had asked it,
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as to the grounds of my
suspension by Sir John Bowring
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or its confirmation
by