CO129-088 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [10-12] — Page 237

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need trouble your Grace with

A little more.

previous

8. I have already in a despatch intimated the impossibility of divining Mr. Murrow's motives in

his.

his selection of

antagonists, but in the present case the name Caldwell is, I think, the clue, added to Mr Ball's having had

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occasion to

repress

Mr Murrow's

impertinent interference with the precedings of the Summary durisdiction Court in a case where

chinese Servant

of

Mr Murrow's

was concerned and narrowly cscaped committal for perjury. 9. I beg to remark that-

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nothing done by

me in this matter has

Mr

the slightest tendency towards recognition and far less encouragement of Caldwell, whom I have not even seen ofor a period of 14 mouths, but I

- with the Chief Justice,

certainly agree

Mr Ball, and the members of the Bar (at least I so underland them)

that the cause of Justice will be of

arrange

better sustained by allowing the Bench and the Bar to :-here matters amongst them.

I have the honor to be,

My Lord Duke,

Your Grace's,

Most Obedient Servant,

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