CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5] — Page 389

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I cannot but feel that they have been caused by attack's originally wholly

unprovoked, and made in a manner

which

and

cam

only be designated

as Coarse

ungentlemanly, unless a difference of miners from

from that adopted in England

is to be the standard established here. The

copinion of the bouncil

was

against Mor Milsen, mit

therefore wholly

Mr Wilson, and probably, the

more

so, because his peculiarly aggravating and

domineering

manner is a

fact which

can only be appreciated fully by those,

who personally know him.

$25. That opinion

was

conveyed

to Mr

Milson in the inclused litter from the burdened to

bolonial Secretary, which embodies

the resolution of lecuncil

a

to the

TE

net

inexpediency of his permanent tenew of

office, and shews that the Resolution

is sufficiently supported by

evidence

derived from sounces independent of the

testimony of either Mo" blank

Wilson.

on

Mo?

I have 14 26. I now temamit the reply of MG=

Wilson, and

I

knowing what I

person wy

cannot help knowing of the real facto

and bearings of the Case,

reply

Iregard that

as most unfortunate for Mo" Wilson,

whose Memory

and ac

accuracy

can be

shown by direct testimony to be so

much at fault as

to

expase him to the

grawest suspicions. Naturally the first thing which I looked for

was some

frank apology for the grop insult to