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advice and assistance of a certain member of the bar. He told me that his letter to the Colonial Secretary asking for permission to prosecute the "HongKong Telegraph" was written for him by this gentleman; and I have little doubt but he would admit, if the question were put to him, that the voluminous case now submitted to Your Lordship comes from the same pen.
Your Lordship. Knowing this to be so, I pass by, without remark, some inaccuracies in this part of Captain Thomsett's letter to Your Lordship, being willing to let this branch of the subject rest, as far as I am concerned, upon.
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the letters sent from the Colonial Secretary's Office, the instructions in which were based on the opinions of the Attorney General, and the minutes of the Executive Council. Some of those have been already transmitted by me to Your Lordship in despatches No 108 and 141 of 187%, the 7th Ultimo. The subsequent minutes of Council are enclosed herewith.
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As illustration of the way Captain Thomsett's case has been seen that he prepared for him, it will be professed to enclose to Your Lordship copies of letters and minutes sent to him from set August, 1880, to the 31st of December, 1880, to show the harassing nature of the communications made to him on the subject of Emigration, but whilst he gives a certain letter of the 8th of September, 1880, he omits his own answer to it of the 11th