CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5] — Page 388

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18.40

for writs en Av Clark

"It's a tilto alie! Italie ""

to a lie

to weigh in his favor.

£

22.

Mo Potto is

aw

intelligent

mamm

the bit litraitation

virtually any

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atonement whatever for the

insult to which he had been subjected,

least

apology to this

works. I

Enclosure N%

for

and for which he has

never

received the

day.

! | ruther phy

and

temporarily connected with the Survey

Department Overseer

as an

of

CIP

enclose his statement. from which it appears

that there

An ab

Eretructation

nothing amounting

to

a

or an intention to retract. but

that Mr Wilson on

من معاد

finding that he

in his lacts

wrong

facto

Lin his

he had been grap

DUN CUS

speech. merely

من

exclaimed "oh then I

mistaken. words uttered with his

back to M? blank, who

was at the other

end of the

of the

room

and

might

not have

heard them. Even if he had heard them

23. Mor blank is himself a gentleman-

manner and

diffident in evidently extremely sensitive, but unles

goaded by miked and intentional insult,

or munner he seems a very

either

of wards

ar

unlikely person to commit himself. Neverthelefp. throughout these unpleasant discupions Your

Space will not

fuil

to observe that he has

been betrayed into several retorto which he had better have left unsaid.

Tuttered in that

manner he could not have

24.

But

whatever errors

of temper

been expected to have considered them

as

judgment have

in the

Course

of these

being either intended

مان

or

constituting

proceedings

been committed by NOT black,

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