CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4] — Page 181

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letter from the goo temon who composed the Inquest on the occasion to which,

your

lester

refers, and I had taken the

to secure the

necessary steps release of the defendant (f still in autody) in conformity with the intention expressed

by,

2 in my reply to those.

Gentlemen, a copy where of

is also rnclosed.

in

From the two documents question this bycellency

will at once see the true

state

of

the

case; so much

disfigured in Mr Parcons

very

absurd account of it. I

shall be

glad to have them?

back when the Affair

ended.

I have

is

1.5.

178

only to report

by way of further explanation that, in Acting

and not as

as I did;

Mr Porson's has

represented me, I

Course

Ad me, I followed

of

a

conduct which I

began more than has years when sitting for the

ago,

Chief Justice

That

course has been to

interpose the authouty of this Court at the instant

of a perjury committed in its presence,

So as

to make

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