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the important condition I had all along declined. It was also completed with understanding between Dr. Eitel and Mr. Hayllar as to the latter not charging him with the costs on certain terms. That Dr. Eitel should
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now assert that he had to obey the Governor's instructions in allowing the case to be withdrawn is his own. That in doing so he sacrificed his demanded inquiry to the interests of the Governor, is a grave charge against me,
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but he has made it under such extraordinary pressure and whilst his mind is in such a state of confusion that I should be sorry to press it against him in any way. Everyone to whom has been speaking on the subject knows that he was most anxious for his own sake to have the case withdrawn and that he was begging me day after day, to assist him in getting it withdrawn.
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When, in the space of one month, his memory could betray him so as to allow him to write his Letter of the 17th of December after having recorded his wishes about the withdrawal of the action on the 15th of November, I am not surprised at anything he says as to past events, and I cannot notice all his inaccuracies in detail. I may however refer to a mistake he makes in thinking