Nr Intescue
6.78
105
I pass this letter without having had time to get to it more than cursorily through the contents.
As to the changes which he brings against his J. Downing, the Caldwell & then in H. Kong, I do not think there is much beside what he has already given to the public in a more convenient form in his lecture at Newcastle & in his pamphlet "Crime & Punishment at H. K." which you have doubtless seen.
There are however some of his publishing points which I do not concur concerning ourselves.
1. It was not thought here that the suspension of the Anstey was conducted as he alleges in par. 105. in violation of established rules. Nor do I know what he means by the allegation. It would seem to imply that the word "before the Comml" (Cor. ¶. 81) means that he must bring bodily before the Committee: but I have never so understood the word, where the defence is in writing.