CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5] — Page 255

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18 Jan

to the eve

and

surgery, Zeal,

very

considerable

ability of Mr Caldwell

as

a

public officer

That qualities sometimes found

in Connexion

over

with

Eagerness

for public service

want

as

being

Are...

in

...

and

the

scrupulousness

of means.

not always

easy to decide

An

It is

...

the

...

1

Course

followed towards

officer

2527

to be

whose merits

are

thus balanced

by

the

demerits incidental to

them

But it

may

be safely laid down

as

a

rule,

that conduct

which either involves

serious moral culpability

in the officer guilty of it, or which brings the administration of

authority into suspicion

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