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who was

friendly to both parties) to

prevent Mr. Gibbons, whose proceedings

were

" Excellency might upon it be able to

intervene. None has arrived." But

becoming every day

more and

more

he added," I fear

that

nothing

can

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insubordinate from making matters

worse. The

gentleman I alluded

to is

Mr Justice Snowden.

I enclose for Your Lordship's

information a copy of a note Mr. Snowden

addressed to

me on

the 16th of October

referring to the message he conveyed to Mr. Gibbons that I was anxious to

bring

3.

about some accommodation.

Your Lordship will

observe that Mr Snowden says "I begged

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" Mr. Gibbons to think over what I had

said, and hoped he would

answer so

as to give

an

opportunity to see whether anything could be

done with him; he will not listen

"to advice!" And in the early part of

his letter Mr Snowden

says

"I

am

sorry

that I found Mr. Gibbons quite beyond the reach of

reason

"remonstrance." Five or six

days

after Mr. Snowden's conciliatory effort, Mr Gibbons made the public utterance in Court for which he is now suspended.

4.

On each occasion before this

that I myself saw Mr. Gibbons he

seemed

more

disposed to create difficulties

than to remove them, and he dwelt

constantly

on the utterly inadequate salary

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