CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861 — Page 148

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or common report;

to make my inmediate

suspension pore all any official functions and

Salary" inevitable:-

A

measure which received.

Bu.

the eve

Secretting Sex & B3. Lytton's confirmation of a disqualifying sickness : - but "in which Constersion your

Grace", "on succeeding to his

office about thee months afterwards, "felt youvery

Isppeared to que " compelled to concer that I could not, with any propriety, renew my tenansevered demands, of justice against the guilty, and of reparation to myself, untit " that tardy investigation should have been commenced prosecuted, and bought to a close, and the results reported pom Hongkong. - 2 . I was confemed in that opinion by the insutting language of the officer whom your Grau had necessarily selected to be the President

or Couest of Enquiry, before of the Commission wheih the still surviving witnesses appenst M: Caldwell, and his accomplices, Sir John Barning and Dr. Bridges,

were to be examined at

Kong.

Wong

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an

Rong . That language appeared to convey insinuation that the Enquiry was meant in reality

Enquiry against myself.

as

an

Reporting the band that my veracity, not the guilt of

Janent the accused, (which

1825! Nev: Ins

Blue Book Ht. Merchants of 6-1.6302-62.

A

Special Jury of

secking, had publicy

their own.

established,) was to form the subject matter

the future Report. Alluding to a more recent the trial, where a defendant had failed to make good against a member of the Government, charges in a form never made by

says.

that "this cannot fail to cast doubt upore

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in me, he.

to the data

"the remainder of his (M. Ansteys) unsupported apertion, that is to day those into which as impartial enquing was going to take place.

I felt that I could not hesitate to

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abide the hazard. It

wus

no

small one.

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the best witnesses of the truth of Mr. Mary's change were all away from the island. Mr. May

hanging the alone was left, and over him was official menace of Governor Bouring, renewed by his exccessor, of suspension prom office, if the

his cordence rétracted charges were not proved, Besides this, it was clear pour the foregoing extrait the then recent Blue Book, in what spent addressing himself to "Governor Robinson was addressing the performance of your Gracis intentions .

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Nevertheless.

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