CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862 — Page 74

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the printing of it been as yet made : _ an orpion, oring, as I may presume, to your Gease's avowed objection

to the printing, and which objection my own

letter abovementioned

of

the 19th of Jerse

inprinted of pure does not seem to

hoor removed.

what that.

2. At the same time, it is not possible for me, after having the M. F been placed, by the kindness of Sir Fitz Roy Kelly, the shong asomances to that effect, in hopein

9 honnath and learned Queen's Counsel has received pom the Portamentary Underterrotary of State for the Colonies (th. Crechester Fosterine, M.P. ) to hesitate to believe, that the sole Mech which your Grace has at heart, in this scatter, in

to engself:

; and that the the doing of

complete protec withholding from publication of the documents in

question is only

h

is only to be attributed to a prudential regard. in your Graces part, to an economy of the public purse.

3. Relying, therefore,

on

those apperances, my tord,

Alar

not

my on my own port, and for the purposes of any willing, a present letter, to wain, for the present, all further no will from my : representation of the disadvantages, under which I have been and am, artainly laboring, having the entire case and the whole correspondena, presentil + Parliament _ and to the people out of Vartiament - this partial publication. Iss from the lateness of For your face cannot fail to be struck with the fast that,

even

-Ax

atthoug

although my

letter

of the 1174.

of Movember last asking

that a due publicity might be geven to "the "Fadings,"

come to in the previous month of litiber, by the tent Governor in Council of Hong Kong,

so that won character

as a gentleman, a banister, and a sometious law offeren of the Crown, might be at bugth, vindicated pour the former Governor sin John Bownny's crop-charges.

counterconsentations, (of an incapacity, namely, to discera "truth" pour "falschool" "_" the effusions of mere sustine," "pour " the evidences of real quilt, "__ and that guilt itself from praiseworthy public arozie, _ ) was under your Grace's

eye

the

on the 7th of kecember last, and the "Readings themse with the "Minutes of Inquiry, containing them, 19th of February last. _ ( I find both then dates in the la printed Return alone reposed to, ~) nevertheless, by

Mald

a

fatat concurence of accidents, which I must alior to the part of f

have been unavoidable, and

some officer or officers in your

equally

mistakes, on

Department, which, I am bound to beleior, wen innocent or excusable

it was not until the 7th ultime, that those "Findings" were laid on the table of either House for peruealtor

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