letter should be communicated to Mr. Seth through the same
channel. It would not have been correct on my part to have
communicated my letter to Your Excellency to Mr. Seth. But in
view of what Your Excellency has said on the subject I have now
done so.
I may remark that Your Excellency did not
hesitate to communicate to me Mr. Seth's letter to the Colonial
Secretary which contained a denial of the truth of the statement
I had made, and consequently an imputation on my veracity.
Your Excellency cannot I think have
realised the full effect of paragraph 5 of your letter of 3rd.
February. I had informed Your Excellency of certain facts
concerning Mr. Seth. Your Excellency referred my letter to Mr
Seth, and on his denying the truth of my statement, no enquiry
is made, but his letter is merely forwarded to me in such a
manner as to convey to me Your Excellency's belief in Mr. Seth's
denial, and disbelief in my statement: a disbelief which is
again expressed in Your Excellency's letter of 12th. March, and
is based on the facts of his long and honourable service, and
his having been awarded the Imperial Service Order. In my long
service I have never known of a serious charge being so dealt
with.
4.
With regard to paragraph 3 of the letter
under
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