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of the matters included ; _ I mean the cit connection of Mr Caldwell as Crown Tenant

and

6 payer of Crown Kent, and as < Landlord and recipient of Rack Rent, with the Chinese Brothel 1:48, he

which, as Registrar General, he has in the name of the Crown, granted a

license under the late Brothels

a passed

Ordinance, - ( a measure which,

(a

through Council a few days before

my

announced return prom sick leave), Keis Excellency again

and again declured in Council his disbelief of that charge when I first mentioned

I it, and, fur from inquiring into it ridiculed it as à priori impossible. Why

it should have been so considered

I cannot tell ; not to speak of his

ther antecedents enumerated in

my

of the 13th instant, Mr.

letter Caldwell's cartier

career as a commer

Sailor

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sailer at Singapore, of evil repute ;

well known to this Government through our late Governor Fir George Benham formerly the Resident at Singapore;

and a man who once owned three unlicensed Hong Kong Brothels at a

time, and whose Chinese Fisters in law

My

blood or usage ) were keeping. others in 1856-7 – could scarcely be

above sus

suspicion. The

The Acting Colonial Secretary, however, having as he

said "professionally " advised and

months back in the

assisted a

few

Composition of Mr Caldwell's debts, and the assignment of his property-

book the same line with the Governor, and affirmed that Mr Ouidwell had no interest whatever.

in

any

land or houses here . /

I had not persisted

in my

statement, in the face of those

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