I
were
enfounded. The Albaney Coneral ratjoins
to his report a shong animadversion
W.
on
the
conduct of Mr. Farrant Ciniself: particularly in keeping silence so
Bancourt.
In the 13th
long with respect to these
July
Ent. Farant was
summoned before the Executive Council, and
cautioned"
"
as to his conduct in this particulan
how the reason which hd. Farrant
gives for his long silence (though not easily
collected from his cambling defence) is this : -
that the character
o
the Chinese
from which thise witnesses
J
come is such
the class
as
to render it exceedingly difficult to distinguish
with from falsehood in their reports
in their reports that no
reliance could be placed on
individual testimony:
that he therefore judged it best to wait and
is whether the widence shaped itself
moc
distinctly, instead of immediality communicating
the sumours and thereby forewarning
the
wat
justly
parties charged.
I dare
the God. say dissatisfied with this exense; nor does it indeed whether M. Parrant made it
appear
when reprimanded. But it is only of importance to remark that it is plausible, and will no doubt be thought to have weight in D. It
230
justification, of the charges brought against Mr. I himself, hereafter to be noticed, toom out unfounded.
On the 27th July a charge
Wet
nistituted
by Major Caine against did. Parrant before thou Attorney General, which ended in hd. Farranté being held to bail to take his Trial at the Sessions on the not very intelligible charge of Conspiracy against the character" of Major Caine . Conspiracy by
"C
our
Law is a crime committed by
several in concert, and hd. Farrant (as he
was ordered to be indicted charge by whatever name called
hiniself observes )
alone.
She
appears in substance to be this in Endeavoured, unsuccessfully,
>
a Chinese, to bring
Juvent
that the
to nicite Rosan,
л
an action accusation of
corruption against hd. Caine. Now this restò
wholly
on the widence
f
Rosan himself.
of
Evidence besides,
There is not a pachèle
although much hörsag is stailed: and the
other Chinese, lefoon, from whom it was Endeavoured to whicit another charge, dishnelly
There and expressly exculpates ded. Parrant.
is, indeed, a separate charge in the form of
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