CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12] — Page 539

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and subsequent investigation before

Complaint; Excellency, such in

· fact

Heis

9 as

Am No

subjected

to sixthout Complaint on my part, was perseveringly dispensen with. Mhelat

un a

I

Jet

the matter was

yel

to act without

appealed to Downing that, whilst

was an 'Accuser, and

Awaiting

free

the decision of the Shoutary of

State, there

by:

ana

wer

Hers

bent two simple issues to

bia

Hew Excellency who has his me

-prepare for the Contingency of a treal of Myself before the Excreation Conmail, might, so I then thought, have sent

those issues

for

trial there, if

triab

were

Necessary.

The first

first was my right to prees my

resignation of the Lucoliceship of the Peace

fit of ninetien

Charges

5335

The Second was

the maladministration of office

by Mr. Caldwell.

Out of the incidents, arguments, illustrations,

and

Conjectures.

to which the conse

intricate Controversy on these two issues

of a long and

birth

gave

some person, not familiar with precision of sparch

and

logical sequence of

deduction, Compiled the Nineteen

charges which have this been dealt with by the Report.

and I. who have always deview and

the compilation.

of Ingriny

in a

great

Surely be

and was no

which made

Measure

Now

from

party

dis approved

to the Commission

the Aeport,

and dissent

the Reput itself cannot.

required to explain the Acpnt in its

becaring upon the compilation

2. With

respect never the less to the Recoma which I am defending myalf.

head of division under

of

The

I

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