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4th December, I have pointedly complained of the des coures, which the Governor then observed) passed upon me, in the hope that His Excellency would see his way to withdraws, but His Excellency has not yet thought proper to deal with this part of the subject.
I am quite willing to believe that, when the Governor spoke, he did so only in the warmth of debate and without a full knowledge of all the circumstances. His Excellency has now had before him, for a considerable period, the whole of the case; and he must be alive to the fact that, in not regarding the inspection of the Prisons Offence book as part of my duty, I but followed the general rule, prevalent among the visiting Justices, up to the establishment of the different practice, I have already mentioned.
It seems to me, therefore, manifestly unjust that I should have been singled out for public rebuke, conveyed in the following remarks (I quote from the report of His Excellency's speech in the Government Gazette of 12th November 1877). And, here I may mention two other prisoners...