CO129-020 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [5-8] — Page 236

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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

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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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