241
En abaixo assignado, Mestre China de Procuratura, declaro, e consora do msn a declaração acima feita pelo Lingos Mauricio Xavier, e que
tudo é verdade.
Marno, Cartorio da Procuratura, Fevereiro de 1862.
Assignado
do Mestre
da Procuratura
China
仕
LI-ST
P. M. po CARVALHO,
Enclosure marked
I hereby certify the paper writings hereunto appended to be true and correct copies of declarations made before me by Jarnes Ritchie, Joha Ross and William Gant, on the days in the same respectively mentioned.
Signed WH. FITTOCK.
British Consulate, Canton, 19th February, 1862.
H. B. M. Vice-Consul for Canton.
This is the paper writing referred to by James Ritchie and John Ross in their declarations before me of the Fifth of February, 1662, and by Willian Gant in his declaration of the Sixth day of February, all hereunto appended,
(L.S.) Signed W. H. FITTOCK,
-
H. B. M. Vice-Consul for Conton, The undersigned, wheu well enough to get out, is willing to make affidavit as follows:--
I James Ritchie, a Tide waiter in the Canton Customus Service, pre- sently an Inmate of the Civil Hospital, Hongkong, make oath and say- 1. That I have read a letter from Mr. Caldwell to Mr. Scott and Mr. Scott's reply, both printed at page 138 of the Minutes of enquiry into the Civil Service abuses before the Executive Council, and also published at pages 111 4 113 of a Pamphlet intituted The defence of D. R. Caldwell &c.
2.-That when the Slam Ahing referred to in these letters was brought into the Criminal Gaol, Aongkong, on or about the 21st of January, 1860, I was a Turnkey in the said gaol, and so remained till after Mr. Tarrant left the gaol on the 21st of March following,
25
3. On the 21st of February, 1800, I was the Turukey in charge of the sail Shun Ahing on his trial at the Supreme Court, and remember the man and his case perfectly. To the best of my remembrance he was tried on the said 21st of February.
4.-During the period from 21st January and 21st February in ques- tion, while Sham Aling was on remand, it was was not possible for any prisoner in the gaol to be intimate with a prisoner on remand, or to speak with one excepting in the presence of a Turnkey,
5.-That after Shum Ahing's conviction, it was equally impossible for a misdemeanant, debarred from entering the Criminal Gaol as Mr. Tarrant was, to be on intimate terms with either of the Chinese Convicts without its being noticed and remarked on by the Turnkeys.
6. That I never saw the slightest attempt at familiarity between Mr. Tarrant and Shum Aling or any other of the prisoners, nor do I think any particular intimacy could have been without its being noted and made the subject of conversation among the Turnkeys.
7. That the reading of Mr. Scott's assertion that he had more than once separated Mr. Tarrant and Shum Ahing has taken me by surprize, for I never heard of such a thing before; and I verily believe it to be a pure invention, without the probability of truth; it is absurd to a degree.
Witness to this signature
Signed F. M. Wheeler,
14th January, 1862.
Signed JAMES RITCHIE.
I have perused the foregoing, and am willing, at any time, to make a similar affilavit.
Witness to Signature
Signed W. Gant,
Signed WILLIAM R. WHITE MAN. Warden during the period indicated) in
Victoria Gaol.
Proprietor, Canton, Hotel,
17th January, 1882.
I have read the foregoing, and can confidently state that I do not believe Mr. Tarrant could have been on such intimate terms with Shum Ahing as Mr. Scott describes without my seeing it; and I never saw or heard of anything of the kind before:--had such a thing happened I
323
1
DEX