CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6] — Page 12

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terms of decision: but he failed to convince the Judge that the matter ought to be placed irrevocably in the hands of the Admiral, adding however that the Judge would have selected for Michael above all others.

It is scarcely necessary...

I should say that the injury to the Public Service and the impediment to the due administration of Justice which this miserable affair has created, I might state here that the Attorney General has expressed a wish that the Executive Council should become a tribunal for investigation.

On a former similar occasion it had so acted under the instructions of Lord Grey. I thought it my duty to bring the matter before the Council, and I beg to refer to the minutes of the meeting which took place. I concur in the conclusions at which the Council arrived and should, without the peremptory orders of Her Majesty's Government, certainly object to presiding over any court of inquiry as to matters in which I am so intimately concerned.

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terms of decision: but he failed to convince the Judge that the matter ought to be placed irrevocably in the hands of the Admiral, adding however that the Judge would have selected for Michael above all others. It is scarcely necessary... I should say that the injury to the Public Service and the impediment to the due administration of Justice which this miserable affair has created, I might state here that the Attorney General has expressed a wish that the Executive Council should become a tribunal for investigation. On a former similar occasion it had so acted under the instructions of Lord Grey. I thought it my duty to bring the matter before the Council, and I beg to refer to the minutes of the meeting which took place. I concur in the conclusions at which the Council arrived and should, without the peremptory orders of Her Majesty's Government, certainly object to presiding over any court of inquiry as to matters in which I am so intimately concerned.
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terms of decision:_ but he failed to convince the Indge that the matter ought to be placed unreecivery in the hands of the Admiral, adding however that the Judge would have selected for Michael above all others

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similar occasion it had so acted

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peremptory orders of Her Majesty's Coremment, certainly object to presidine

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as to matters in which I

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