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to a certain extent of the breath of a grave accusation, made to us some time previously, in His Excellency's name; by his private secretary, against a gentleman in the Colony. That denial I was asked to convey and did subsequently communicate to Mr Hayllar, through his Solicitor, in the document to which His Excellency, in the course of our interview, pressed upon my attention certain other very disagreeable statements, relating solely to his family affairs, which I was greatly disinclined to receive and which I was requested to consider confidential.
I am not aware of having offered to His Excellency, on my own part, any explanation or statements of any kind, or of there being any reason for my doing so. Any remarks, which may have fallen from us, were incidental to and arose solely out of His Excellency's volunteered communication, and the Governor must excuse me if I decline to discuss any portion of purely private conversation, which was forced upon me, and with the subject matter of which, with the exception of