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the subject to the Governor

very satisfactory

to the

Government.

(Dr Stewart observed

that he had acted with the best

Archives and did not think it

of sufficient importance to report what had passed and that he

had always avoided doing anything

that could be considered

unsatisfactory

to the Government.

The Governor said,

now, that as Dr Stewart had

made that general remark at the formal table he would

mention that

a few weeks

ago

he had had a conversation

with the

Attorney General respecting

a public

Address to Mr Kennick that the Acting

Colonial Secretary had signed in which

there

were reflections on the Colony

and a repetition, in effect, of

what had been often charged by the

local newspapers against the Government in the management

of the Colony-

and as

well as

he remembered

the Attorney

General spoke of the Address

Dr Stewart had signed, as containing

a

libel

on the

Colonial

Government.

The Attorney

General said

that he had told the Governor that

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