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of accuration of

his

kind

nou

ought

I

think to have made up

his mind to prove

to

hamvin

quit the office from which

he has made them. Mr.

Anokery has not only failin

of his

to prove the woot

charges but has failed to

prove

that he had

any

reasonable excuse for

bringing them forward.

appears

to

me

in

the

294

me

by Lii. John Bowring.

But this is not all.

a

Mr. Anstey appears to

course of the enquiring

to have committed a breach

of officice propriety which the absence of strong

claims

account

on ac

good character).

f

previous

woned be

alone a sufficient reason

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f

fou

his dismissal.

that dimifere

is the natural penalty of

failure.

car

the

And in the prevent

reasons for not

remetting that penalty

are

strengthened by

Mr.

the

previous history of on. Ansteig

career at

Itong Kong if

t

is at all correctly spilomyed.

by

It will be seen

ان

reference to page 48 of the

printed

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evidence that Mr.

Anstey volunteered a state-

ment that

his arrival

in the Colony the Couran

fram

confidentially off course

pleased to lament the corrupt sare of the Hong Government

ent and

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