Confess to be erroneous view the very compfect and of the facts which his reported speech presents, and on his lordship even then felt himself unable to found a satisfactory judgment
I saw nothing, my lord, in the Despatch of the present the 17 Despatch, which made necessary, denial of a copy or extracts, or the past Marit delay, devring several valuable months, to acquaint and with its tenor,
It was strictly confined to the mere criminatory charges, brought against me to the accused; viz: - those of bitter hostility towards inculpated officials, of refusing to sit on the bench of justice if the chief criminal sat there; - insubpect to my superiors, that is to say, to the late Governor, the late Lieutenant Governor, Secretary, when I accused them; - and the late Acting Colonial ... the bald words of accusation; - of presuming to address, to the Secretary of State, any appeal against the Governor, only, not the Governor thought fit to admit such appeal; - and of having failed to prove the main charge against the principal criminal, Mr. Caldwell, to the satisfaction of a Commission of Inquiry; nominated by the inculpated themselves, after my appeal to the Secretary of State had been presented, and, above all, after those officials had destroyed, with fire, the only proofs still extant, whereby, charge in question, that of having in connivance with his pirate-partner the convict Mah Chow Wong, endeavoured to deceive the Executive Council into the pardon of that convict) would have been proved.
Yet the Despatch expressly guards your predecessor from being understood to have formed any opinion, on anyone...
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