CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12] — Page 465

A

Plea

must be taken to be four dads entirely on the ( so-called ;) of Inctification, which must have been supposed by theiatury to have been proved by the guidance) thoseidone) on Cross Examinations,

of the Crown Witnesses themselves.

The Pleas of Dustifications

& as such poopted

so called, is Das such,

by the Corman, in spite of all

brows legal abigations,

amounted to this,

ving that the Libel pharged by

the

directed,

Information sea's dievoked: not against the Government, in the proper acceptation. the term, but against the recently Acting Colmials Berstary

of

Dr

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Bridges, who was alleged

to have usurped the functions of Government, and in the

courses of his usurp beon guilty of the mal practions charged in the passage of the "Friend of China which formed the gravamen of the charge of

nour ation to have

Libel.

his

I be imputation against

Dr. Bridges/

must have been

regarded by the Purigao poned.

Tury Right or wrong, therefore, the perdict concerns Dr. Bridges, not the Government, in the

ہو

ordinary acceptation of the

term.