CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3] — Page 458

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that an understanding

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some kind existed between

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you.

and some one

there, -

I made no comment whatsoever,

well know,

although, as you these things have

seareely

evewtow

ceased to be the

familiar topies of discourse.

If I now allude to them,

it is

only

because

-

+

within

the last few hours-accident

has

d me

opprised

that some

is now

kind of enquiry being instituted into the truth of the statements -

in

contained in my

letter

the 21th ultimo - not by

of

by the

Government, nor for the

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purposes of this Excellency's note which called for mine,- but

by one of to, Mr. Lyall

alluded

of the jurors

and for

jurow aller

www

for his

- personal satisfaction; - who nevertheless alleges.

himself to have been put in poss

of that letter, I may infer, of my

· possession of t

and, as

previous reports

all written by

the same

as well; -

me under

belief, in the efficacy

of that protection hitherto accorded by the co

due to

confidence

my office. I felt that, if this scandal proceeded,