"
"Sailing.
under. such
Register. "
I
The object of my now intruding upon Your Grace's attention is to state, that of Your Grace will.
& givi directions to have this charge inquired into, I will undertatte to prove principally if not entirely, from documents in the archives of the Colonial Secretary's department, that Mr Caldwell obtained in his own name.
by making a false declaration of Ownership, a Colonial Register for a lorcha which blonged a notonous perate Chief. that the said Concha was commanded by a
notorious pirate, who was used as the means of commu. : nication between the pirates outside and the pirates resident in the Colony, and that Az Caldwell paid this Commander meney in the name
of Wages.
to
was
"I further pledge myself to prove that this Comba cons thus piratically owned, employed
and Commanded whilst
& Caldwell was the Registrar Seneral, the Protector of Chinese and a Justice of the Peace of this Colony, and that Dr. Bridges
was not only
aware
of all this, but that : he denied it on oath and suppressed the facts.
And I further pledge myself to produce inductor endena to prove that Mr. Morcer.
was aware
of these circumstances
so owned and Commanded
"subsequent to the Corcha buing so
but
( previously to Az Caldwell bung
dismissed from
from the puthic Service . Should I bring this knowledge home to Mr. Mercer, it follows of necessity, that he also concealed and suppressed the facts
Should Your Grace su fit to grant my
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request, I by leave to state that of every facility be grantes to one I will artainly not require then hours to submit all the evidence I have . I shall be ready at any moment when - suit the Convenience of the local Gennment to
it
It may
Me a
hearing
Jam,
My Lord Duke,
Your Graces
most obedient Servant,
Гуминой
grant