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The Justices of Sierra Leone. I therefore feel surprised that the Chief Justice his advice could support by reference to Mc Dermott's case, which clearly upholds the decision in that of Rainy
28. On the merits of the case I must frankly say, if an expression of my opinion be necessary, that I think Mr Bollard is justified in too many of the aspersions advanced in his Petition. Some of the remarks in his letter of the 14th July are very strong. Vide Enclosure No 1.
and I cannot admit that the Chief Justice thought he was doing more than his duty - Still it must be remembered, that Mr Bollard immediately penned those remarks after being subjected to almost unprecedented humiliation in presence of the most numerous assemblage ever gathered within the Court House.
29. As to the merits principally from the contemporaneous printed accounts of what passed - especially on the 27th Ultimo - one of these accounts was printed in the Mail that day and the other of the evening of that in the Daily Press next morning. The former represents Mr Bollard to the Chief Justice saying "You cannot produce him (a Witness) as if he were a piece of paper", words which constituted the original
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