CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862 — Page 76

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" publicly notified." But, still all this is without

any reference solver

nature

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to supelf.

to the parteimlar the charges of piracy, which your gease had before you, in the "Finding,

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"on which that "spienion wexs

Lased. An attention examunation

of

the changes in question,

as described in those "Findings"," and a compassion of them with my former charges, as described or referred to by the Iovernor (Sir John Rowring ) through the medium of kis Acting Colonial Levetary, Ir Bridges, in his lette (2) of the 23rd July 1858 will indeed shew - (10) that the

are identically one and the same, two sets ; charges that the tor officers lasturentioned professed to regard then as false, and to concur in athibuting them to the mere " malice of the chef withip, Mr. May P.P. (3°) that for effusions of (Mr. Mays ) ast detecting thear to be "the mere "reative," I was pronounced by those two officer person unfit to hold Her Majesty's Attorney Generalship, and wis accordingly called upon to show cause. My I should not be forthwith suspended pom all its o reed audicuments ( 42 ) that those are us established as true, to the fullest extent, in the indgement of your means abovementioned "Commission," that is to say the present Governor in Council of Hong Kong, __ and (as a mussary consequence of your Grace laving approved en Lernperived their findings to that effect, and ordined

to be

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its functions very charges, revithetiss,

then

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them to be carried into execution against falderety

andy

in the judgement of your hence also: (5) that, to

crown the whole, this sann mungistente, W. May, whose testimony against Caldwell, in 1858, Doctors Baring and Bridges thought fit

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& stiginatese, in their strong

and vituperation language, is now and has been pornbabe,

1861, - ( most justly, I admit, ) is titled,

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the best and

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and

most important and mentorious s;ent and instrument

of the guilty. in the bringing to light of the crime

authority of the Excurtion Goverment this, too, by the same authority

of Hong Kong, as sanctioned and adopted by your Grace, and in the folherouny terms

"The p

(Executive) Connect considere

Ma-chow-wing

" that Mr. May's new of the character of

imperatical ventures

a transported convict at the penal settlement

the correct one,

was

of Labuen]} (ci-devant partner of Caldwell at Hong Kong, but now and that he (Mr. May) rendered raleeable services to the colony (of hongkong) in

• prosecuting to conviction, ustenithstanding the powerful "opposition he had to contend against that notorion "offender, who had, for so many years, by the

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wery

the means at his disposal, "auschpulous exercise of

" contrived to exerpe the punishment due to his crimes. The "Council entirely concurred as to the great value of M. their " long and suentorions public services the Council

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