CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862 — Page 78

Edward Belover Lython Best. MP against all or

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of the above parties, must, at all events, now be consitund

as established.

6. This is why I have asked your Grace to do the

the tardy justice I have to

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long hen expecting; -to declare

been that the result of "the late "Inquiry" was the entire cetallishment, in 1861, of the charges of piratical practices, and connections, which I had prefered in 1857, and repented In Erf, and to acknowledge that I was most wrongfully.

deficient er having to prepped them, stigmatized, by die John Rowring send his foremment, in the former year, as one

Jan in the most exporteat quaktus of a Law Officer of the

each, suspended from my office.

In the Crown, and, as

and later little sobiectous as to their other countercha

accused ceaseless shiftings of their positions of deface and offean;

against me,

such as deserved

Counterchanges.

no

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the ground orginally tatten up by the semised, : There has been many such, poor time to time raised but all of minor importance: _ and to

answer at all, I concesivne any that I have already done ample justin. To go further back then my litter of the 4th of June last : have, for instance, fully disposed of those recriminatory imputation of "hostility against Caldwell, and his accomplices, and of "disrespect towards the Governor,

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(Sir

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(Air John Bowring)

who so protected and abetted Kem. I have done so, at least, to my own

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satisfaction. I trust that I have done it to the

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difficult, if not I felt

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my dusty to prefer,

in language,

wheit, if

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satisfaction of your Grace. It was

imposible, to express accusations, such as

sharply canvassed, might not, by some censors of style, be thought

declare

my

too strong.

I am bound to

own solemn and conscientions Conviction, that any strength of expression, to which I resorts.

ought to be ascribed to the real and true nature and essence of the change it presented,

accuser

and not to any worden warmth in the ad and so to be holden by your Gran, and by -- Majesty's Goverment to have been felle justified by the occasion. But if . on instance, essed,

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I have, in to su and regret my error :-

in this respect,

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appealing, as

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vertheless, to the calur consideration and sease of justice of your Grace and Her Majesty's Sovemment, to neake some allowance for

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