28
389
"Surround him with forms of respect &
yo yo ye
prepared to apert
37 I am not however positively that Mr Pollard has
ever
endeavoured to brow beat the Bench, but it is difficult to account
for
Mr. Smale's
Sudden irritation unless there had been previous occasion for it.
38
It
is however not the less to be
regretted that, so far as I can judge from
the enclosed evidence, he should have first
an
expression
like an action in reference to perfectly harmless and not addressed to the Bench and have so treated it afterwards
by rejection of all apology and explanation,
as to create finally
an amount of Public
excitement which cannot but tend to
lower the Bench far
more than ten
times the number of "Contempts" such as
those for which he has condemned Mr Pollard.
39
I have only to add that I have apprised Mr Smale of my receipt of the
enclosed declarations, and that he has
also been furnished with copies of all
the
correspondence with Mr Pollard.
40 Your Grace
will further observe that I have not thought it necessary to offer
any
observations
on
that part of the
petition
which
is a repetition of Mr Pollard's
request that the fitness for Office of
the Chief Justice shall be inquired into. I think it
may fitly
be left
to Your
Grace with such information as is
afforded by
the enclosed documents.