CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5] — Page 230

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This is the first time

I have heard it stated that

I was obliged to leave Singapore for a crime. I think throughout the Caldwell Commission Enquiry the only statements made on

the subject of my career in Singapore were (according to those made by "Messrs Anstey and May) that I had been a member of a Secret Society there, and that I was an outcast from my family. With respect to these two charges I would beg to refer His Excellency The Governor to the evidence taken on the Commission

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wherein it was clearly shown that at the time I left Singapore I was ignorant of the Chinese language and could not therefore have belonged to the Society in question. And with respect to the other charge I proved that so far from being outcast from my family, I was sent on by them with letters of introduction from Merchants in Singapore to Messrs Jardine Matheson & Co., and this fact I submit would go also to show that when I left the settlement I could

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This is the first time I have heard it stated that I was obliged to leave Singapore for a crime. I think throughout the Caldwell Commission Enquiry the only statements made on the subject of my career in Singapore were (according to those made by "Messrs Anstey and May) that I had been a member of a Secret Society there, and that I was an outcast from my family. With respect to these two charges I would beg to refer His Excellency The Governor to the evidence taken on the Commission 227 wherein it was clearly shown that at the time I left Singapore I was ignorant of the Chinese language and could not therefore have belonged to the Society in question. And with respect to the other charge I proved that so far from being outcast from my family, I was sent on by them with letters of introduction from Merchants in Singapore to Messrs Jardine Matheson & Co., and this fact I submit would go also to show that when I left the settlement I could
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This is the first time I have heard it stated that I was obliged to leave Singapore for a crime. I think throughout the Caldwell Commission Enquiry the only statements made on the to subject of my career in Singapore) were ( according those made by "Messrs Anstey and May) that I had been a member of a Secret Society there, and that I was an outcast 1 from my family. With respect to these two charges I would beg to refer It's Excellency The Governor to the evidence taken on the Commission } 227 wherein it was clearly shown that at the time I left Singapore Twas ignorant of the Chinese language and could not therefore have belonged to the Society in question. And with respect to the other charge & proved that so far from being outcast from my family. was sent on by them with letters of introduction from Merchants in Singapore to an که Messrs Vardine Matheson fo and this fact I submit would go also to show that when I left the settlement & could
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This is the first time

I have heard it stated that

I was obliged to leave Singapore for a crime. I think throughout the Caldwell Commission Enquiry the only statements made on

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subject of my career in Singapore) were ( according those made by "Messrs Anstey and May) that I had been a member of a Secret Society

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wherein it was clearly shown that at the time I left Singapore Twas ignorant of the Chinese language and could not therefore have belonged to the Society in question. And with respect to the other charge & proved that so far from being outcast from my family. was sent on by them with letters of introduction from Merchants in Singapore to

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