CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862 — Page 46

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office, which and afterwards.

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tas report, receurd the sanction of

your department of state.

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3. In diference to the expressions of public opinion,

ne without the walls of Passerment, expon these will within as without the wallo events, a full and searching enquing into all chayes, agamist the Civil Servin at Hong Kong, prore its head is John Bowring, and its Chief.

5 chief seat, the Zuretanat, downwards, of corrupt adminis than once promised - tion, and connivance with crime, was, more by your Grace's increndente predecepor, sectary Sir 2.13. Lytton, and his Undukuritary, the Earl of taernarvon to will appear from the debates of 1058 + 1859 in the two houses, as will is from the litters of that noble Lord to neyself, which are published in the Itong Kong Abuses Blue of the period; and, in one of which, cited in last letter to your frace, there recurs the solemn assurance that the investigation should not be confined to the charges

" only a past" y against seldwild, for those were general question.

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1859, to succeeding, in the spring of 18. 4. Your Grane, on succeeding, your present office, ratified and adopted those pledges: and (albeit after many months of further delay, and in the atrence of impety, and nearly all the official and other witnesses to the truth of my statements and through the centrinly not piendly medium of the Hong Kong former in Council) the promised enquiry was, at anoth directed prom your department, and was commenced, at Hong Kong, in "the course of the following year.

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5. It became my duty to suspend, during the course that exquiry, exporte and unsatisfactory though th "one claions to redress:- And, for the persecution of my

an unnaparily protracted examination eightien months of an of only the first for out of more than twenty, new or served barges of the same crime of piracy against the same culprit, I took no port even in that perceeding.

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but patiently awaited the result. It came at last.

6.

By the unanimous "finding of the Governor in Execution Council of Hong Kong, published there, by authority, in Beloter

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(the first and only one which I have ever addresed:

Department, since the suspension Correspondenu in the sunomer of 1859) aldious former declared guilty of the Junatical confederacies imputed to hem by the First Five Changes - "being the identical ones reported by me in tit.

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eny enquiry into the remaining livenly charges, in this Wellency's judgment, experfluous,

2. It is true that instead of discating the proper his trial for Mose Camer for putting

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discipal pom office a suffere soul pouneshment for the same : - although it has not been thought too heavy for the only offence ever alleged against me, that of having been the

pist to denoue nie which stands apind mus, unrevoles, to this hour. 8. It is also true that, into the misprisions late Goveina (Berding) the late Coterunts keretary, (Bresses,) and the other patrons & abelhorn of Caldwell (come of whom are still in office at Hong Kong) and generally, into the remaining Civil Service Abuses the swotworthstanding the abovementioned pledges of you? Grace's dips show at and the doccitations of the cotric all onquiry wreativer was, by this Exalteney

guill, Council, pore the pist, pe Implority demed, and that, with Caldenll's share in

the corn mon,

the investigation began and ended.

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J. And lastly, it is time that, to sugelf by reparation Wentiver is offered by their Priport. They do not even adopt. the pureedings of this pre dempers

against the n07, quietion.

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10. But it is also true, that the ver

Call them to

very question on what suspension herned, viz. the degree of Credit, one to Mr. May, in 1858, on my part in respect of thise Charges, necparty

my

before their liberal, and

taxed "Mr May's

Ry they have dealt with it : for he was still a chief stays appinet Caldwell, and the latter following her John Kurung

asdisse again example had, in despoise. statements with being "the oppresions of his mere mention = the point also, are before you. 11. Their "Findings.

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And I still ish your face, as I reked you in bicliber last and in ale fea deponis, whether their own triumphant

exallpations

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