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that

th

in

very

last cursion

of a parliamentary

enguing

on the entfect of my suspension, Under Secretary Mr. Festescue, in his place in the Commons explained the fact of my suspension pour office. and of you leave's conformation Gretend of an

alleged failure of

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et on

the

graver and.

" großer charges aquenst Mr Caldwell : " an

attogether affording

onc

cons statement on

Debate o 25 thuly 185

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The

July 1859.

his part, get=

last proof of the manne

in which

Cove

the question continued to be regarded by your

State, down to the close of my lore- of departement

Spondias with it in 11579, and at the Commerce so recently compt to an -ment of the reinquiry

end.

the truth of my

that the

-

statements no

10. It is therefore with suprise and repet, that

to the learn from your Grace – not for a moment Contesting the truth

my surplasion by his John Nonviction griginal grounds

of my cinsitress per Bruning, "responsible and confidential office under the "Crown was formed, in quat part, because of

bought the intemperate manner and reckless spirit "A hostility, in which these changes well forrard, and is not removed by the fact that "The inculpated) officer has now been dissiped " from prime the public service, to the mount of an investi-

I am left to presume, gation occasioned (!) by my original charges "agnenst him, " no yet, as

for your gean is silent as to that, by the fact of Mr. Sony's wortations having been at last officially centiped

to

to be, not "the men

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efpicions of malice, " but

the harvest burthful testimonices of a justly com_ =mended public servant, against the real quilts

an enormous culprit.

Ihan usted was you Sean will have oven - but

11. 'I

/11.

I shall not wmark whone - the sighting and.

in which my contemptuous tone

last paragraph. in that pa stecular are mentioned in some of

ruy the passages repered to in

above; un de I dum et peoper to discup with you Grace the propriety of your doctrine, that a coloreal Attorney Genical ought to abstain prin. or taking denouncing crimes and misduncaners, or. measures for the detection and punishment of their perpetrators, when these happen to be colonial servants of your Graces department. of state.

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12. But I owe it to my character and to the

norin

the bar that I should invist, and I do insist, upon my own tette to redress at you q that reputation of his John hands, by means Bowrings calumnions statements, contained

I gur the Blue Book of 1059-60, which the publication of all papers" in contenuation","can alone now, Jask

you Grave to complete your own work. now printing for publication the Minutes and Procedings of the Govern and Council in the late Inquing,

by

and

all the correspondence to which

fall

my

it has led. It will be

entire vindecation. It

wire show that the charges which I preferred on now conpped by the Hong Kong Government to

have

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