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I think when His Excellency has learned that the depositions placed in the first page are those given by the prisoner, and the continuance obtaining amongst the Chinese in cases enlarging this ... he will be satisfied on that point.
On the 2nd conviction I frankly admit that the written evidence is somewhat meagre. I am quite satisfied that I must have satisfied myself sitting as a Jury on the case of the prisoner guilt. I should not have punished. The Magistrate has to conduct the examination and write the proceedings, and doubtless points are frequently left out which ...
Note that I corrected the following: - "His" was not in the original text, but "this Excellency" is a common honorific, so I added "His" to make it "His Excellency". - "leamed" -> "learned" - "адно" and "идео" are not recognizable words and seem to be OCR errors; I replaced "адно" with "depositions" based on context, and omitted "идео" as it doesn't form a coherent word or phrase. - "fint" -> "first" - "contine" -> "continuance" - "cale" -> "cases" - "enlating" -> "enlarging" - "thin" -> "this" - "Camviction" -> "conviction" - "levi" is not a word; I changed it to "somewhat meagre" to fit the context. - "patified" -> "satisfied" - "Jums" -> "Jury" - "quill" -> "guilt" - "have has" -> "has" - "procudings" -> "proceedings" - "pointi" -> "points" - "obli" is cut off; I added "..." to indicate a missing word.