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to connecteds with the case; And I have the satisfaction

lio faction

of thinking that I have decided

judiciously in pursuing

Course

a

of action not accordant

with that recommended by my

legol a

Adviser the

the Attorney General . But lest it be supposed

at given sufficient

that I have not

weight to his suggestions intends to refer to custom

I

Statements which appear in documents laid before you : and emanating from him

and

to which I have not Given the weight which (very

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conscientiously perhaps). might have expecteds attach to them in arriving

at the conclusions

My

me to

by which conduct has been guided.

To the Statements I refer

particularly-

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his letter of the 20 January

in

1857 which letter was endoscè Despatch N. 13 and which paragrap

follows - The.

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Jurors of Hong Kong are not generally men of Affluent

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