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and private. not
not des
desiring
to
reiterate what I have already
represented to His Excellency I crave
leave to refer in extenso to
my
He then proposed
that if
was
desirous of being released from my
engagement he would assist me
in obtaining
leave and the means
letter 28th September 1880 which contains
a
very temperate statement
of
the
grievances
with
which I had
up to that period.
The
Chief Justice heard
of my
having sent the letter (and probably
seen it) than he sent for
me at once.
I attended him.
in his chambers and
as I had
in the letter
asked for relief
I was willing
in his
feeling
desire
to listen
to any suggestion he might make.
As my position had by
his treatment become so intolerable I gladly accepted his proposal and left him with the intention of withdrawing my letters of complaint, which he had stipulated should be
a condition precedent.
I accordingly went at once to the Acting Colonial Secretary to obtain the letter but found that it had
been forwarded to His Excellency who was then at Government House;
I then saw His Excellency.