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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

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