CO129-021 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [9-12] — Page 309

6.

habits of Mr Hulme had made him reluctant to ask the Judge to his house

to his house. Aid not

resollect that he had

ever

modified to the Governor the account that he has

given

him, on his return from Chusan, of the collision with the Southing in the verandah._ Did view the

habits of the

the Judges as opposed

at the time of

to Sobriety,

speaking

to the

Governor,

on his

return from Chutan, with reference to the

23

occurrenQR)

the 28th July. (be Evidences)

f

Now it must be observed that if these strong statements from the General, who was Lieutenant-

Governor

in

in

supervened

my

absense,

in

the remarks

303

4. Note

my private. to Love Palmerston would hardly

Lord

have been made._ I must add!

that I

never met the

Jarge

in

society after the affair of the 23rd July 1846,

any

more than

the General himself did..

Sinze

the above

giving evidence, however, Major-General L'Aquilar has evinced greats dissatisfaction, and put himself in opposition to myself and the Council.. Some of the

to

these

arguments used by him, and expecially that of the somblance of persecution attaching proceedings, were myself to Your Lordship

Despates of May

had not

my

view

on

my

own

f

the scene on board the Agincourt,

urged by

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in last._

I further undertook the responsibility of postponing

: