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decline this, Visiting Justice, but if you His Excellency will be compelled
# with much regret to accept the resignation you
letter of the 12th of
# tendered in
# November?
6.
your
On the receipt of this letter Mr Keswick again changed his ground and declined to withdraw his resignation except upon the condition that I should make him sufficient amends for implying in the Legislative Council on the 6th of November 1879 that he had not properly performed his duties as a Visiting Justice of the Gaol. Of course this I could not do, as I entertain a clear opinion that he had discharged the duties in question carelessly and improperly, and whatever rebuke he might have felt was contained in the language personal to himself in the debate in Council, not a single member (including Mr. Keswick himself) differed with the remarks I made. Indeed, the remarks were evidently called for at the time. In the letter closing the correspondence, the Colonial Secretary reminded Mr. Keswick of this in the following passage:-
"The Governor desires me to point out that it would have been the regular and convenient course if you had taken exception at the time in Council to His Excellency's language personal to yourself. You had ample opportunity of finding fault with his...