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withholden by the Authorities making it from the persons on whom they profited to make it; and that, by being kept so long in the dark, as to the existence of such a demand the latter are at this moment obnoxious to the serious misconstructions of the public, in respect of their long and unexplained reticence in the presence of such a demand.
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It is equally obvious that the non-publication at Hong Kong of a document meant for instantaneous publication here, and the entire ignorance of the Community there of the very existence of such a document, must have again prevented the expression on its part of any dissent from the views signified by His Excellency, in the "Despatch" or letter in question, more than one paragraph strangely represents to be in entire conformity - as those signified on former occasion were said to be - with the views of the Community in general and of every person who ever resided in China.
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Your Memorialists do not doubt that this method of suppressing in the Colony, and also from Your Memorialists, and at the same time publishing to the world, a paper which contains, at the demand of satisfaction of personal injury with honor, the pretended reply to the main articles of accusation against the local Government presented by the late Memorial will be regarded by your Lordship neither as regular in respect to the traditions of Your Department, nor as satisfactory, nor as itself compensatory for the extraordinary silence which with regard to their well-founded and respectful complaints of Colonial mal-administration.
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Into the possible reasons which may hereafter be alleged in palliation, if not in defence, of the proceedings of which they complain, they do not pretend.
It is very possible that their endeavours to conjecture those reasons might be misguided and therefore thrown away. They have also now the satisfaction to think that they can better attain the information which they seek upon that part of the case by asking Your Lordship to afford it: unanswered
Before they conclude, your Memorialists desire to add to their former and in yet altogether Memorial a few remarks upon the pretended reply to it which is offered by the accompanying or indeed it be genuine - so-called "Despatch" or "Letter" of October 20th, 1868.
In the first place, they draw Your Lordship's attention to the fact that the Appendix to which the paper in question professes to refer as evidence of the truth of its statements has been excluded from the printed Copy sent; an omission of some significance, because the Governor's accompanying "Financial Statement for 1869", of which that supposed "Appendix" is there stated to contain Extracts, and which had reached this October 1868 the hands of Your Memorialists through quite another channel, so far from supporting the statements in question, furnished the strongest proofs of their inaccuracy and of the facility of the arguments, founded upon them, by which the Hong Kong Government pretend to impeach the truth and justice of the original complaint of your Memorialists; viz., that the measures
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