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the charger, to the prejudice of the, or even to intend to make them the subject of any enquiry, in England, or for the present indeed, anywhere else.
that those charges, even suggested "were proved"; including, inter alia, an unanswered letter of the 3rd instant and intimate Letter of the 31st July 1859.
' connection, and partnership in losches, with a notorious Chinese pirate were comparatively unimportant, on the question of the bearing English partner's fitness for English justiceship of the peace, in the locality, to which was the scene of that alliance.
In fact, the Despatch was evidently written with the single object of being communicated to me, and, sooner or later, to the British public, with a view to the offer, made by Secretary Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton himself, in the House of Commons a few days previously, to produce the "Documents, if Mr. Ridley moved for them, the minister then declared, there being no personal or official objection to the production!
I need not say that at that time, neither had Sir John Bowring returned to this country, nor was my return expected. But I have further that the only reasons, by which the non-production of the Documents in question had been, down to Friday last, justified, were the supposed good of the public service, and the absence of the (late) Secretary of State through illness: so that I learn now, for the first time that the absence of Sir John Bowring, (whose return had been expected ever since January last,) was considered an objection.
But it is with satisfaction that I perceive that I am not invited by Undersecretary Mr. Fortescue to make any...