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impartial inquiry into the leading facts connected with the organization
and action of the force?,
the truch
as
also inte
-statements, which
of many have not merely bon circulated hav bist have actually bem officially
transmitted to be recorded in
Lordship's Office
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7.
It is not
my
wish, and
a
is now
7
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Colary. Of
course it is
wholly
out
of
the
question that I should allow the
Commission access
to
the any of the despatches of Major-General Whitfield,
who administered the Government during a view to reporting
my
absence, with
to their accur
accuracy.
the appointment of a Commisiar
Nevertheless, as
As
at all
a. mA.
matter
of some
seeing
refusing
The
Commission of Inquiry appanted by which what I regard as the principal misstatements will
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doubtles be sifted, it seems and incxpedient to notice most of the topies adverted to in documents transmitted to Your Lordship during my prolonged recent absence from the
for
seems to have been some doubt with Your Lordship,
that a reply
is av
its
rtray
prayer of the Memorial
such inquiry,
I think it as well
to remark that, with
any
unavoidable
Knowledge of the erroneous opinions
certain subjects by the
advanced
Major General, I could not but ful
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