this question will ultimately prevail.
As I have decided views on these subjects, but as a Judge I feel it is not farther to debate them I expressly retired from doing so the 27th October 1879, page 7 although I thought it necessary to comment on what I thought to be an erroneous view of the Potesta in March last.
I have rears in the Times of the 22nd of June last the statement by Love Stanley of Alderley alleges slavery in Hongkong "it was to be regretted that the Chief Justice had rushed into exageration." This language is not justified by citing any specific passage I have ever uttered.
I have always entertained very great respect for His Lordship because the tenor of his public utterances has been uniformly marked by moderation. I have been often misrepresented but I never felt more pain at a misrepresentation than on this occasion.
Had I been free from public reticence I should have publicly called on His Lordship either to support his statement by quoting the words justifying his charge or to have...