CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12] — Page 534

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22.

pumpnt of my

to makis femblie the existence and letter of Appeal, I cannot be blamed for accepting-

the marginal reference to that document.

There remains only one charge which

Affecto my personal Conduct.

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Know something of

the rules

of Evidence, and

na. if

I failed

on this occasion to keep within their

gates, the fault

must have lain in the

intention. But again I declare that I hav

no such intention. It

was

It is said that

-Evidence

my.

before the

altogether the other

ways

Commiacion Contains passages which, being

"' defamatory, seere productive of

"firrelevant' and 'defamatory!

Spublic Scandal.

T. a

Am

unconsciovos

of any passage...

to which this charge is faidy applicable.

In the frist flow, my eviden or throughout

plac haw to follow the bent of the particular Inguing

fr

which I was invited, and I can, on

on my

honor, declare that I never attempted to exces)

Nor can I blame the Commission

in

this

respect

I must do them the justice

to say

that, conscious of their unfamiliarity

Evidened, their endeason.

with the principles of

Leemed

to be

always

and

to restrict Inquiry an

phoned;

shut out evidence, lest perchance they shmen

was in admissible, or that

Admit that which

which

was irrelevant

It is

right, homceves, that on this point

the limits so

imposed upon.

me.

I ought to

Repint

they shores be themselves hears.

Know

Shey

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