CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12] — Page 57

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Ann absurdities of the arrangement,

and proving that in many mistañes

a meaning had been violently Force o

the passages of my speeches and

upon

letters from which they were pretuded

to have been compiled. I also took

occasion to protest formally gaint

the Violation of the Privilege of

Debate

and speech Secured to Every nowthr

of

the Legistation Council by Standing

Bar XVI.

of

No Notice has ever been lancus

lakew

that letter nor of my repeated

disavowals and protests to the same

Effect- from that line downwards.

Revertheless the Gooronments have

Contiunea from time to tenie, to

setter of the Attorney

General to the

Colorcial

Acting Seretary of May

1858.

13

designate their "Charges

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mine,

when they have had occasion to spook

The Commission, however, allowed

me, when giving Eviilence, to pass

Prose charges by, and to refer to my

letter of the 13th May, for the real ones.

Oh no other terms dia & conscut to

Evidence. Yet in their report

aive my

they prefer the Poornor's arrausement

at the same time theat, with

Characteristic méonsistency, they fiind

nearly the same fault with it as I do-

Except as a

as à Witney Insor

their proceedings.

took part nu

for many important days

and

I war

Not Extr

a spectator. Occasionally

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