CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12] — Page 520

516

time favored with a knowledge

of the contents of that Report,

not being the Author of those alleged "harges" and on the contrary having, before the assembling of the Commission

my letter of 24th May last to to your department distinctly repudiated

repudiated my asserted responsibitly

for them, as soon as their existence

was notified to me by the Excellency

I must almost despair of preparing

the satisfactory defence or explanatio

which His Excellency now requires.

of me, unless I am furnished with a Copy of the Evidence referred to in the said report and official

litter

Of course if His Excellency

deisies me this assistance, sshall

stiti endeavor, albeit in great part

from memory and conjecture

to give the information he demands

But I would further submit to

him, that the pruiting of the body

· of Corience is not even yet i completed; that, in fact, a portion of my own Evidence, given tha days before the conclusion of the

Inquiry, was brought

medy M beck, the Clerk to the Commurission

wet from the Goodmnent Prep

Only a few minutes ajo for

Correction..

and that this txcellency

himself will scarely be in a position