The Rerean - Torrent - Hong Kong
Supreme Court Special Jury November
in the case of where the verdict
of in fact found the late Governor
mo late Search Sitting (torical
and Lepicons, 1855
haveing procured 'trick, and a spoliation of keritary, guilty of
the evidence, that very failure of their charge against Mr. Caldwell already referred to, and which by the Despatch is made a principal reason for their own act, in suspending me who had brought it.
It must be obvious to your Grace that, whether these singular omissions or further suppression were owing to some deficiency of papers at Hong Kong, or whether they only belong to that systematic forbearance from enquiry, to which, in the concluding paragraph of his Despatch, your predecessor expressed his intention to adhere, cannot be expected, until these deficiencies are supplied.
I have to protect myself against having applied to me and my past conduct, the only portion of that Despatch which I have not noticed. I refer, of course, to the startling doctrine it lays down, to the combined duties of the Queen's Attorney General, sole Grand Juror, Justice of the Peace.
I have, most respectfully, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3rd instant and for your decision upon the points then submitted.
I have the honor to be,
My Lord Duke,
Your Grace's most obedient and humble Servant,
F. Miskin Attorney
The Most Noble the Duke of Newcastle,
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies,
Downing Street.
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