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which I preside and before the general public. No officer in this Colony has ever
been permitted,
of
the
this
to make use
of
the
pages of publication to attack another
or to publicly ventilate grievances already settled against the Heads
of
a
Department to which he had been previously attached.
22. The foregoing explanation I venture to think entirely well-
substantiates the statement that "In Ford's
case calumnious doen.
in
reports my statement and that its publication was under all the circumstances due to an intention to injure me. Of the Governor's personal feelings towards myself, I have, my Lords, unhappily too many other proofs. It is impossible for Your Lordship
to conceive the love and style His
Excellency has for
in his daily
me
a
Comm.
u
long time adopted
nications with
as Heads of my Department. Humiliating charges, degrading suspicions and the most mortifying reflections upon me
make
up
the
sum of most of the Governor's in official minutes and letters. His
Excellency has long since made his
determination to make
now
my posi-
tion utterly insupportable and im-
possible. The important public interests of which I have had in charge have imposed silence that His Excellency has changed for his private rebukes the most public form of reprimands at his choice between disposals I have no
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