CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12] — Page 442

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My

Reasons

us for arriving at an opposite,

conclusion, and have only

to state that in

my opinion or othay's veracity remains unimpeachable

15. With acgars to charges of t

breach of

hospitality. and malevolent animus, I have nothing to say there they proved to the almost,

its would not in

the least affeck the question

of the credibility of all May's evidence)

when that evidence is not contradictio. Ano

upon

the social asprook of the case I do

not consider that the Excentive Council

are

the Saw Advisers of the brown- at all requeria to enter . B.Collana yara

is

perhaps not the best school for thes

affections. The qualifications Neoeso y

to

to the

439/7/

officiency of the Polion are not the

of the heart. But I doubt not that Mr

May regrets

as much as

any

one

that his

-duty compelled him to bring to the notive of the Crown Proscenter the suspicions fans

upon him with respect to one whom he had

Av

long wathed as There is one

a friend).

- peint, however, in allr

Mary's conduct in the

enquesion

into the case

Course

of his

of Mr Caldwell

which I am obligue to remark, as

indicating,

A. Av

want of discretion, to say

the leack of it, open to animadversion,

if not censure . I allude to the

Communications of certain Memorandas

Considered)

of importance in the can

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