DIPOI or common report; to make my immediate suspension, prior to any official functions and salary, inevitable: - A measure which received, on the eve of my departure, the confirmation of a disqualifying sickness by Sir E. Lytton's dispatch: - but on succeeding to his office about three months afterwards, "I felt very much compelled to consider that I could not, with any propriety, renew my demands, of justice against the guilty, and of reparation to myself, until that tardy investigation should have been commenced, prosecuted, and brought to a close, and the results reported from Hongkong."
I was confirmed in that opinion by the insulting language of the officer whom your Grace had necessarily selected to be the President of the Court of Enquiry, before which the still surviving witnesses appeared. Mr. Caldwell, and his accomplices, Sir John Bowring and Dr. Bridges, were to be examined at Hongkong. That language appeared to convey an insinuation that the Enquiry was meant in reality as an Enquiry against myself, not the guilt of the accused.
Reporting the fact that my veracity, not the guilt of the accused (which had been publicly established by a Special Jury of Merchants), was to form the subject matter of the future Report. Alluding to a more recent trial, where a defendant had failed to make good charges against a member of the Government, he says, "this cannot fail to cast doubt upon the remainder of his (Mr. Anstey's) unsupported assertion, that is to say those into which an impartial enquiry was going to take place." I felt that I could not hesitate to abide the hazard. It was no small one.
The best witnesses to the truth of Mr. May's charges were all away from the island. Mr. May alone was left, and over him was the official menace of Governor Bowring, renewed by his successor, of suspension from office, if the charges were not proved. Besides this, it was clear from the foregoing extract from the then recent Blue Book, that Governor Robinson was addressing himself to the performance of your Grace's intentions.
Nevertheless.
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Reference: Blue Book H.C. 1825, No. 302-62.
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or common report;
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