with the Majesty's Government
4. From my despatch of 18th February, 1870, Lord Granville inferred, perhaps because I did not make the fact sufficiently prominent, that I had not made my complaints against Mr. Moorson the subject of written Memoranda. On the contrary, they were almost invariably such, eventually reduced to writing, or were eventually sent in writing, and he had ample opportunity for sending and... did send replies. I think his Lordship must therefore have laboured so far under some misapprehension when he suggested that I should have made my charges against Mr. Moorson after due deliberation in writing, and thus afforded him opportunity of defending himself in the same manner.
6. The reply of Lord Granville arrived here after my departure. Therefore I have had no opportunity of adverting to it before, and I do so now solely because I think a very important principle, and one which recent circumstances make me regard as requiring very careful handling, is involved in the recommendation to keep the Executive Council aloof from any important matter wherein, from my instructions, I should rather have inferred it my duty to act with them. Indeed...
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