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against which I have preenites that Appeal

I do this the rathw because I perceive that;

at least twe of the 'Charges" or "Accusations"

which are contained in this Excetioncy's "List",

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Mean Nos 15 and 16, were stated to L'ora

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way of support to the charge which I dia make

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and

but which His Excellency overruled,

that of being

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the management there of

Share in the responsibility attaching to the excemination

a document not

of a does

get referred back

for that purpose by the minister to show alone it was directeds.

Not

desiring in the least to shatter myself from whatever interrogatories I may be

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may

underly.

be asked to

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to withhold whatever helpo I

afford

I must not vitiate

my Appeal to the Imperiał

Government.

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not

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inhibiting the Course now at

the twelfth how taken, I must not sanction it :-

to be a witness. I dony

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ready to bo

to obstruct

any enquiry which

deny the

that I

am

any

longer

an accuser; altogether eschewing

the

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a

Tribunal

Now, as

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His Excellency may

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into the subject matters of my appeal, I must respectfully decline to accept any

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by him, le investigate a case which, I am

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