CO129-020 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [5-8] — Page 56

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4.

(I may

name

Captain Lyster the

"late Commander) are perfectly, cognizant of the principal recurrence, which took place

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the occasion

of Keying's

So is

last visit to Hongkong. – Major Aldrich, lately gone home overland . _ Witnesses of the same

occurrence exist

here at this time, but I. have seriously considered the question of reviving pubiely, under existing circumstances, a scandal which might best be allowed to be forgotten if possible.

This consideration has

been strengthened by the fact that since the Compton, in November last, Mr Hulme

Case

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guard,

very

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has been evidently on his and the return of his family from England, by the Steamer which brought Your Loudshifi's bearet and Confidential Letter under reply, is a

further

UN

security against the recurrence. O of habits which occurred when

his family

not dwell

was absent. _ Ido

the remote

consequences to the

party

himself of a public investigation

of

the Kind

in

At his

question... great

distance

from England I am not willing,

an

occasion

of

this nature,

when the deviation merely

consists in forbearance, to inewr the responsibility of exercising

the amount of

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