CO129-021 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [9-12] — Page 323

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of intoxication

Public attention.

as to attract

This charge

related to an occurrence which

had taken place.

gears before,

and had apparently

"Leen forgotten

as it deserved.". "Although not a

single witness who was cxamined

on this subject

"Intoxicated" mi

uses the word

reference to the

Chief Jushie, and others distinctly

negatived it, although it is

Evident that

observers.

many

perceived nothing remarkable

mi his manner on

the occasion,

317

and that those who noticed the

most describe his condition

theruselves in no shonger language

than that of excitement and

"Exhilaration" — yet tivo Councillors,

of them a witness against

this fudge, soled that the charge

was proved,

one of them having

been himself called as a

against him

witness

Without too

nicely weighing the exact meaning

of the words used by the witnepes

in describing the state of bir

Hulme, it is quite sufficient to

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