to lay before him the
Copy of Parl
Granville's despatch on the subject
of the duties of the Attorney General this Colony in Criminal Cases, as it arrived during his absence,
of
me As
and had been furnished Acting Chief Justice for the information of the Court.
11. The Chief Justice saw this
Case
Despatch and afterwards casually observed to me, that this Trial for Perjury (which has excited much public interest) was a
very fit for a private Prosecution and in order not to adjourn the Sessions in consequence of my indisposition, he
wrote to
suggest
one of the cases
in which I did not appear" should be taken on the first day."-
12. I had therefore every
reason
to believe that thanks to the authoritative
manner in which this vexed question had been disposed of by the Secretary of State I should not again be annoyed by Mr Smale's attacks
from the Bench in relation to the discharge of my Public Duties
upon
As
13.
My
Attorney Several.
my
astonishment however
I learn from the Newspaper Reports as well as from private sources that the Chief Justice
again
on the occasion,
on which this very Trial for Perjury
publicly expressed his opinion that