Sir,
I have received Your Excellency's letter of 15th March on the subject of the Registry with much surprise and great regret.
2. In my letter of 8th February, I said that certain statements in Mr Seth's letter to the Colonial Secretary of 29th January were untrue: that I stated this as Chief Justice of this Colony, and I requested Your Excellency to accept this statement as such. Your Excellency now informs me that you are unable to accept my statement because you are unable to believe that Mr Seth has not spoken the truth. I quite appreciate the fact that Your Excellency's kindness of heart naturally makes you unwilling to believe this of an old Civil Servant, but it is the inevitable consequence of the course Mr Seth has chosen to follow. The only other alternative, which apparently Your Excellency has adopted, is to disbelieve what I have stated. The question does not admit of the explanation that my memory has failed me. I am speaking of something which has occurred continuously since I have been in the Colony, and which was the cause of my first letter to Your Excellency.
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