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attempt to coade the
rules of the service which
require
That all such
Communications should
be sent Governor. He has clearly endeavoured to injure Mr. Mercer
through the
Channel of this
department without giving that gentleman an opportunity of reply.
I am bound however
to
say
that no such
was
necessary
no doubt Mr. Mercer
has furnished a handle for argument by one or two expressions which
appear not to have been well advised.
But I see no ground for
Censuring
The Course
he has pursued; while
the Correspondence exhibits, on Mr. Firth's part,
a
degree of carelessness if not of positive perversity in the supervision of his department and a want of discretion, and propriety in his correspondence with his official superiors which must be seriously prejudicial to the public service.
You will
Communicate
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