No. 45
CHIEF MAGISTRATE'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 16th June, 1856.
SIR—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 427, of the 19th of June,
The first three paragraphs have my most respectful attention.
With reference to the fourth, I have merely to observe that His Excellency has been misinformed in respect to "a war of mutual attack and defence being carried on between myself and the Attorney General, or the statement is only true with this limitation, that the attack is the Attorney General's, the defence to that attack is mine. With reference to the scandal, I lament it, as sincerely as His Excellency, but I leave the Attorney General who has provoked that scandal, and whose sole work and uttering it has been from first to last, to justify it to Her Majesty's Government as I shall be prepared to do, in proper time and place hereafter, while I am ready now to meet the Attorney General's impending attack, and all its consequences, in whatever form they may present themselves.
Sincerely lamenting a state of things which my conscience acquits me of having done anything by word or deed to inaugurate. I have the honor to be, &c.
W. H. MITCHELL
The Honorable W. J. Mercer, Colonial Secretary.
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No. 45
CHIEF MAGISTRATE'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 16th June, 1856. SIR-I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 427, of the 19th of June,-
The first three paragraphs have my most respectful atten-
tion.
With reference to the fourth, I have merely to observe that His Excellency has been misinformed in respect to "a war of mutual attack and defence being carried on between my- self and the Attorney General, or the statement is only true with this limitation, that the attack is the Attorney Gen- eral's, the defence to that attack is mine. With reference to the scandal, I lament it, as sincerely as His Excellency, but I leave the Attorney General who has provoked that scan- dal, and whose sole work and uttering it has been from first to last, to justify it to Her Majesty's Government as I shall be prepared to do, in proper time and place hereafter, while I am ready now to meet the Attorney General's im- pending attack, and all its consequences, in whatever form they may present themselves.
Sincerely lamenting a state of things which my conscience acquits me of having done anything by word or deed to inaugurate. I have the honor to be, &c.
W. H. MITCHELL
The Honorable W. J. Mercer, Colonial Secretary.
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