CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12] — Page 528

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・at the Inquiry'

On

Comparing

letters

of Prokeat with a private note

from the

Chairman

of

the 14th ultimo, inviting my presence,

the above mentiones two

Note from the

Chairman of t Caldwell. Come me of the 17 June

to in his statements.

If this Excellency is eatiefics, from the

foregoing observations, of the unfair news of calling.

akon

me, until all the evidence is

I am enabled to state

interval and a

positively very important

that

during the entere

before and, for or

One

I did not once

attend the settings of

Letter of Prote of the 14: Sun

written statement in Explanation my

feller te. (No 433)

or

the Commissim, "not even

1858.

I

the 25.? July 1858

respect

to the charges

as a

spectator, for except

as a muo

spectator

or a

witness I never attended at all, and that I attended

zvedence in

an

the 17th ultimo merely to give my

Jemsuanced of Rack invitation

I specify this instance in proof. But it

was neither the

from

the

in

first nor the last

the last of my absences present on

the Commission. I was not even

days

person,

when Me baldwell made his several defences

and

handed in the documents re

refered to

important a stipp as my

defence of my conduct' with

sergea

by you official of the 2000 instant, I hope to hear further from your departiment before I takie st

If not, this is

my

Statement.

I entreat for it a calm and

Not

Community.

for my

anw

own

sake, but

above all

it

impartial hearing

for that of the

for the charactin

ryos of the Chinese,

of our Government in the I beseech Heis Excellency not to be anxions,

over much, to visit with pains

pains and pesa.

lties an

office of the Queen, merely because he have been

Els

resentiful