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Sham Aking and Mr. Tarrant when in Gaol together

Mr. Tarrant states that

I told him that the minutes of Mr. Campbell's Investigation in 1847 were sent home

the Report of his trial in 1859.

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This is an error; a reference to the Records shows that on the

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again 1859. I told M. Tarrant that they had been forwarded to the Secretary of State in August 1947 (Sir John Davis Despatch 4.87, of 9th August 1847)

on the 13th Decemben

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9. It is perhaps not very material, further than showing that the minutes were duly sent to downing Street, (a point which M. Tarrant affects to doubt) and that Mr. Fannut himself was aware that they had been so sent. In fact in a letter of Mr Tarrant now before

before me,

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oated 13th December 1859, he admits that some time before 1850 he knew them to have been sent home in August 1847.

10.

Those minutes were

before

Earl Grey, then Secretary of

State, when su: Tarrant's original