CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5] — Page 438

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that had the Commission required evidence to satisfy them on those points I could have produced it, as particularly stated in my that I did not wish to take up their time by calling witnesses, yet I told them should they not feel satisfied with my explanation that I was prepared with witnesses, and the fact of not being called upon to prove any one part of my Statement led me to conclude that it had been satisfactory.

Under these circumstances, I consider in justice to myself that I may with propriety respectfully dissent from the wording of the report and show to His Excellency The Governor the nature of the evidence I was prepared to give on the particular points referred to by the Commission, had they informed me that my explanation was not satisfactory. I must first advert to the report on charge 4 in which the Commission state that there were grounds for bringing it, those grounds...

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2that had the Commission required evidence to satisfy them on those points I could have produced it, as particularly stated in my that I did not wish to take up their time by calling witnesses, yet I told them should they not feel satisfied with my explanation that I was prepared with witnesses, and the fact of not being called upon to prove any one part of my Statement led me to conclude that it had been satisfactory.Under these circumstances, I consider in justice to myself that I may with propriety respectfully dissent from the wording of the report and show to His Excellency The Governor the nature of the evidence I was prepared to give on the particular points referred to by the Commission, had they informed me that my explanation was not satisfactory. I must first advert to the report on charge 4 in which the Commission state that there were grounds for bringing it, those grounds...Page 435 is likely a page marker and should be kept as is, but since the exact formatting (whether it was alone on a line or not) isn't specified, and following the instruction to output in HTML, it is left as is in the paragraph. However, to strictly follow the given instructions and preserve the original format as much as possible, the correct representation should directly reflect the original text's structure.Since "ہم کرتا ہے" seems out of context and is not English, and given the rule not to translate text, it is omitted in the corrected output as it appears to be an OCR error or misplaced text. The rest of the text is corrected for spelling, spacing, and reordered for coherence.The final output is given in HTML as per the instructions.
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