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by the exactions and corruptions of the Regithar General's Department, by the

the part of those. in power to listen to complaints and o proofs, and by the consequent impurity of the offender, _ I have now no choice

constituitional aversion on

left

-

but to submit the whole matter

to the impartial.

eye of your Lordship.

that

It may at first sight appear my appeal is premature; inasmuch

as an

enquiry

is said to be about to be

set afect by His Excellency. But, first, My Lord, it is not said what matters that

enquiry is meant to embrace, and it distinct by appears that it is not on intended to embrace the whole of them,

but only such as in this Exce

Opinion

are

Mency's

"Fangible . In the next

place, Your Lordship will observe that ; inasmuch as the most important of

the matters in

question relate to

Mah chow.

wing.

Jolly

Mah_chow

weng, The events of last

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Summer and autumn, and the disclosures then effected by the Assistant Idice Magishate, Mr. May, - Matter!, which,

means

again and again, as well by of that Officer as of Myself, have

I

been brought under the notice of this Government, _ without any inquiry being

so much as

s promised, - until

requested

now that I have

reasons

for

declining.

My m

to be in the

>-

Same Commission of the Peace with Mr Caldwell to be laid before your

Lordship, _ it is not likely that those

Matters at least, will now,

any

More

that formerly, be considered or sufficiently tangible to be included in the proposed enquiry.

Nor can it be supposed that the immediate cause of this highly

painful correspondence will be one

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