CO129-124 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [8-9] — Page 253

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Prince Albert,

Apart from mere considerations of good taste and propriety, and thus publishing in a series of sweeping denunciations by Her Majesty's Minister against every averment and evidence adduced in facer of the story, I greatly doubt the beneficial result of the unusual step taken by Your Excellency's arguing in the local Press.

I know that your particular side of a case cannot, by reiterating individual details in disregard of all the proofs given where proof was possible, dispose ex cathedra of the story, which is more likely to be true than false, and which at all events is at this moment completely unrefuted.

I have no doubt that, whatever regret might be felt by many at having to withhold credit from claims who had peculiar British consideration, and who were entitled to credit as much as to disbelief, still all would admit that you were acting strictly within the limits of the discretion confided to you.

When, however, you proceed not merely to expound the general...

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Prince Albert,

Apart from mere considerations of good taste and propriety, and thus publishing in a series of sweeping denunciations by Her Majesty's Minister against every averment and evidence adduced in face of the story, I greatly doubt the beneficial result of the unusual step taken by Your Excellency's arguing in the local Press.


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Prince Albert, Apart from mere considerations of good taste and propriety, and thus publishing in a series of sweeping denunciations by Her Majesty's Minister against every averment and evidence adduced in facer of the story, I greatly doubt the beneficial result of the unusual step taken by Your Excellency's arguing in the local Press. I know that your particular side of a case cannot, by reiterating individual details in disregard of all the proofs given where proof was possible, dispose ex cathedra of the story, which is more likely to be true than false, and which at all events is at this moment completely unrefuted. I have no doubt that, whatever regret might be felt by many at having to withhold credit from claims who had peculiar British consideration, and who were entitled to credit as much as to disbelief, still all would admit that you were acting strictly within the limits of the discretion confided to you. When, however, you proceed not merely to expound the general... Page 245 17 becomes Prince Albert, Apart from mere considerations of good taste and propriety, and thus publishing in a series of sweeping denunciations by Her Majesty's Minister against every averment and evidence adduced in face of the story, I greatly doubt the beneficial result of the unusual step taken by Your Excellency's arguing in the local Press. Page 245 I made the following changes: 1. Rejoined broken sentences. 2. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "facer" to "face", "senrefutedt" to "unrefuted", "Tress" to "Press", "ex to athedra" to "ex cathedra", "laims" to "claims", "Časl" removed as it seems to be an OCR error). 3. Fixed spacing issues. 4. Removed extra spaces and added missing spaces where necessary. 5. Reordered some text to form coherent paragraphs. 6. Added a page number indicator as per the original scan. 7. Output in HTML format using `` for paragraphs.
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