CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4] — Page 109

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the one phrase is the distempered

expression of wounded vanity, and that the other has its origin in the izagrecable nature

of my reprimand - igain, I am unaccustomed to

words that do not express

the use

of

frny meaning

and it is simply the ion

simpossible that I could have

epithet so void

imployed an epithet

relevancy and so

inapplicable

atrocious. Mz Almada's use

these terms is, I hope, to be

attributed to his imperfect

of

مان

This is not a deich

sed yous.

The

requaintance with the English Amer

language.

But I am perhaps descenting

too much into detail; so let me

denisi

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repeat that, holding for the time the Authority of the Colonial Seenitary I deerned it my duty not to let an intentional act of

insubordination

paci

unnoticed

and I therefore firmly and decidedly reproved Mr Almada, not in such

terus as his imagination has begotten, but precively as I would

Mini

Affice,

were

reprove one in my it similarly necessary, a contingency I am happy to think of remote probability.

as a very

The Surveyor General

present

have

on

was

the recasion and will I

no doubt corroborate my

statement, if such corroboration

EB

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