CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6] — Page 81

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that Captain King and Captain Romer did not actually assent to it!. Fortified with their concurrence so tacit -- how is it to be supposed that I could distrust the accuracy of my observation & the strength of my memory as to imagine that such a matter was & could remain a secret from all the rest of the Community & during the whole week which intervened between that occasion and the complaint preferred against me, I did but mention the circumstance thrice - viz: - to my Medical adviser, to a gentleman whom I believed to be my friend (Mr. Leslie of the Firm of Dent & Co) and at the private table of Mr. Woodgate.

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I have since learned that during that very week, the story was in circulation elsewhere and upon the authority of other eyewitnesses & earwitnesses who attested it. And I find, from Sir John Bowring's own autograph communication to me of the 28th Ultimo (a fact I was certainly not aware of before) that His Excellency himself had on the same night when it occurred the 13th Instant remarked in the Drawing Room, not in resentment but in good humour, that the Judge had been somewhat arbitrary; and that he was hilarious.

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80 99 that Captain King and Captain Romer did not actually assent to it!. Fortified with their concurrence so tacit -- how is it to be supposed that I could distrust the accuracy of my observation & the strength of my memory as to imagine that such a matter was & could remain a secret from all the rest of the Community & during the whole week which intervened between that occasion and the complaint preferred against me, I did but mention the circumstance thrice - viz: - to my Medical adviser, to a gentleman whom I believed to be my friend (Mr. Leslie of the Firm of Dent & Co) and at the private table of Mr. Woodgate. 100 I have since learned that during that very week, the story was in circulation elsewhere and upon the authority of other eyewitnesses & earwitnesses who attested it. And I find, from Sir John Bowring's own autograph communication to me of the 28th Ultimo (a fact I was certainly not aware of before) that His Excellency himself had on the same night when it occurred the 13th Instant remarked in the Drawing Room, not in resentment but in good humour, that the Judge had been somewhat arbitrary; and that he was hilarious.
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99

that Cartain King and Captain Romer

did not actually assint to it!.

Fortified with their

Concurrence

so

is press or

--

tacit

how is it to be suppord

that I could is for distrust the

accuracy of

Игги

Abservation

the n the

strength of uw memory as to imagine

my

that such a matter was

n couli

remain a secret from all the rest

اگر

Af the Communiti & bct during the

whole week which intervened between

that occasion and the complaint

prefered against me, I did but mention the circumstance thrice- viz : - to my Mctical adviser, to a gentleman whom I believed to be my friend (Mr. Leslie of the Firm

100

and

at the

of Dent VC) an

the

private table

of Mr Woodgate. I have since learned that during that very week, the stou

was in circulation clsewhere and upon the authority of other eyewitneues

& carwituerees who And schorted it. and I find, from Sir John Bouring's

own autograph communication_ to me of the 28td Ultium what I

23a certainly trew not before) that dis

Excellency himself had on the same night when it recured the 13 Fulle remarked in the drawing Room, not in recentment but in good humour, that the Fudge had been somewhat arbitrare; _ and that he was hilarious. I should incult the understanding

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