CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5] — Page 28

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10. On the 8th of March, however, the Chief Justice wrote again, waiving his request that I should call on Mr. Bull and on a practitioner, Mr. Hayllar for reports of what had occurred in Court, as though anything was important except his own authoritative statement of the Law, which necessarily could have but one suitable exponent, namely himself. In the same letter he represents the delay in getting a report from Mr. Bull as preventing his giving the explanation "which I had permitted, and which he wished to make on Mr. Deane's Report."

11. I then felt I could no longer defer placing the action and motives of the Government more formally on record: as Mr. Smale was gradually entangling the simple object of Government in the meshes of a confused web of his weaving. This was done by the enclosed letter of the 10th March from the Colonial Secretary to the Chief Justice.

Enclosure No. 6

12. That letter fully explains the impossibility of this Government accepting any explanation of the principles which had guided him as to acceptance or rejection of "Confessions generally," but the Chief Justice himself distinctly declares that it rested entirely with him to give or withhold "explanations on the subject."

13. I presume this very intelligible and unambiguous mode of putting the Case...

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26 10. On the 8th of March, however, the Chief Justice wrote again, waiving his request that I should call on Mr. Bull and on a practitioner, Mr. Hayllar for reports of what had occurred in Court, as though anything was important except his own authoritative statement of the Law, which necessarily could have but one suitable exponent, namely himself. In the same letter he represents the delay in getting a report from Mr. Bull as preventing his giving the explanation "which I had permitted, and which he wished to make on Mr. Deane's Report." 11. I then felt I could no longer defer placing the action and motives of the Government more formally on record: as Mr. Smale was gradually entangling the simple object of Government in the meshes of a confused web of his weaving. This was done by the enclosed letter of the 10th March from the Colonial Secretary to the Chief Justice. Enclosure No. 6 12. That letter fully explains the impossibility of this Government accepting any explanation of the principles which had guided him as to acceptance or rejection of "Confessions generally," but the Chief Justice himself distinctly declares that it rested entirely with him to give or withhold "explanations on the subject." 13. I presume this very intelligible and unambiguous mode of putting the Case...
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