CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857 — Page 469

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may be put to the test, but let me remind

you

the

that the reports of torture

in practise at Madras inflicted by parties in Employ of Government turned out to be true_ therefore my Lord discard not all I may say, nov

portion of it whatever, simply on the ground that it appears disbelieve any incredible. Let me remind your Lordship that the British play this at Singapore at tenang, at Sarawak - yet in all those places the Chinese have rebelled within the last few months and althe many of them had large intereats at shake, still no section nor party of them evinced attachment to the British Government. Our flag also flies at Port Phillip, and alth' the Ten found capitations tax sums to act like a charm on the Chinese in illustrating our benignity tin developing `our liberality, still I am not prepared to see Your Lordship resort to the arcumstanes of the inflection of that extortion to eluerdate or confirm your afformation. Observe my lord. I pray you,

the signs of the Times ._. The emente in Bengal ! The Siamese sending an Envoy to Frfumes! I would call your Lordship's expecial attention to this latter circumstance. Here is a Monarchy combining a fresthood and an Oligarchy, deeply imbued with bryetry #fanatacism, and thoroughly impregnated with frede, Printalism, and exclusion. Is it because they are more intelligent, more confiding, more desirves of becoming civilised, than other Orientals, that they have been the first to couixt our acquaintance? No my Lord, they have seen all the Nations about them hearbled subsidized or annexed__ they see no other Doctrine observed but that of the Wolf and the lamb _ they have traced the evil to the Root, namely _ to the maladminis = tration of British laws in the East, and not to the Laws themselves. Thus

оро the Seamese grasp at the opportunity of being represented at Head quarters. My lord no other construction can possibly be put on this movement of the Samose. It may not be out of place to mention that the lorcha" "Arrow went to Fram still flying the British play, having procured a Certificate of Regestry at Hong Kong under another name. The same master (Mennedy), was still in charge. For ill defined notion of the doctrine of meum tuum this man left Team in hacke + degust . He was discovered in Hongthong living with a policeman who was detected indulging in a habet he had acquired, of levying toll on Chinu boats. _ The illustrious pair managed

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to elude the ends of justice, either by flight or collusion. The Briksh flay flees in Honghong too, and as it was to this Colony that both Your Lordship and the Earl of Carnarvon Especially referred, I must proceed to illustrate how gravely mistaken your Lordship was. The information upon which your affirmation was founded, must of course have been derived from the dispatches of the Nongthong Government -_ that is the story of the accused party. I assure your Lordship with much regret and more emphasis, that if there be one thing more than another- that Sir John Rowrings ingenuity is tared to economize, that one thing is the Truth. If your

Lordship would go to the trouble of making enquiries

to

day,

into this assertion of mine, you will find it felly borne out, althe' I am prepared to admit, what Lord Elgin can doubtless testify, that the

leonomy displayed by Ser John in equipages and hospitalities, is pretty hard to beat I

appeal to any man in this

community, Civil, raval, military or commercial, whether Sir John's word be one wit more current than his portrait would be saleable with the spectacles omitted. I am addrefsing Your Lordship in an unauthorized manner, and am of course prepared to be treated with the silenc that such communication revally meet. But is your Lordship ready to stake the character that years of moral rectitude, Christian probity & foletical integrity, have so eminently, & deservedly earned for you, by endorsing on your affirmation in the House of Lords, the statements exculpatory of her own conduct made by a man whom Your Lordship can only have known as a Hustings tergivereator, Greck town speculator, a political hack, and a parliamentary nuisance. Your Lordship's affirmation to a statement may

be

Compared

to Rothschild's endorsement

to a Bill of Exchange. no matter the badness of the drawer, the endorsement makes the Bill undoubted. Knowing Your Lordship as I do, and exterming you for private worth and political Consistency above every other man in

man in England, I know of no other mode of giving vent to the indignation I feet at seeing

lordship induced to affirm what I know to be false, than by addressing Your Lordship in the manner I am doing. I will reither play the snake in the grass, noratab in the dark_ I shall name rames, _ record facts, and call thin go by intellegable phrases, but I will allow ou opportunity to escape of submitting an easy mode of proof, to each startling fact I navrate.

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