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in the matter of the Caldwett Commission attaching blame or otherwise to the Superintendent of Police) (Iminuter of Excentive Council, 25 August 1858) as those statea by my lamentia predivescor,

it is due to hom

and to the Council

that I shouce exhibit the reasons

difference of opinion.

for my

1 ... I cannot but think that Mr.

toonla

May, or any bidy else in his position

feel as justifiable surprise in seeing assortment of frogments from his,

Jan

emversations with the Public Rosecutor

of the Colony,

on the character of people

More or less under his surveillanes as.

Superintendent of Polica, published without his consent, mixed up with a

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variety of imputations called from other

Aoures, and; ģSu

assuming the form of Arbites of Impeachment, which he is cattes apen to support, if not to provsonte, before a

Tribunal Constitution

the occasion. Mc

intrusion into the department of the Police

of a foreign Authority, taking the work out of the presser hands before it is complite, must lead to abrogate altogether the secret functions of that department. The Superintendent might be the discoverer of a deep laid conspiracy. The will in future be afraid to breathe a

the subjeck to a singl

syllable

Member of this

Gerernment, because he tinows that before.

he can

lec. lation out

complete his case, it may of his hands altogether, sony suspsicion he