CO129-021 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [9-12] — Page 260

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instance at

my

own

table that I

might have expressed, and probably. did express great regret for it, and also the difficulty of repeating my invitations, but all this passed away and nothing but the unfortunate estrangement above alluded to prevented me from asking the Judges

house - As to the Judges

again to

my

―

general habits, I have already said that it is impossible for me to depose

to them of my own

Knowledge - I have had so little intercourse with him_

2_. But although subsequent to the 23th of July you ceased to ask the Judge to dinner, it has already- appeared from the evidence before the Council, that previous to the 23rd of July, soon after which date you

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spoke to

me,

you

· had a good deal

of social intercourse with the judge -

A_ I cannot

cannot charge my memory with how often the judge has dined with me before that time, or

how often I have partaken of his hospitality_ But with the single exception of the 23th of July, and of the 22th November 1845, when on board the "Agincourt", I do not recollect at this moment:

any

occurrence on board

thing that bears upon the 3rd Charge- With regard to the the Agincourt." I consider the judge to have been as already described by the Honorable Major Caine, and several other evidences as

" greatly

excited by wine", and although

I do

moment attempt to

not for a single moment

defend any deviation from the smallest propriety in a person of his high