and Mr While the late Chief Magistrate of Police at Hong Kong in confirmation of the former statements of Your Memorialists as to the true causes of the failure of Criminal Justice at Hong Kong, in the matter of the offences of gambling and keeping of gambling tables, and in illustration of the official documents so largely referred to by them in their former Memorial, upon that portion of the subject:
This prolonged silence on the part of the Chief Secretary of State with respect to their Memorial and its prayer is by far the gravest subject of complaint to your Lordship. Within the last few days, Your Memorialists having learned to their exceeding surprise, from an English Newspaper, that an Official Letter to their Secretary from the Government of Hong Kong was in circulation here, and having, through personal application to a proprietor of an Overland Miscellany ("The London and China Telegraph"), obtained for the first time a perusal of the document in question, as published in his Number of the 7th ult., have now to represent to your Lordship on the authority of that Gentleman (Mr. Wright of Number 2 Cowper's Court, Cornhill) that he received it about the end of last November from the Hong Kong authorities, in a printed form, for publication here; that it must have been privately printed—for in China Newspapers hitherto received there is no allusion to the fact of such a document being in existence or intended to be; and above all that, although it bears date "October 20th, 1868," and the signature of the Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, and (purporting as it does to have been sent by command of the Governor) ought to have been sent to its destination along with the Despatches of the Governor to Europe, nevertheless neither the original itself nor any Copy or Notice of it has been as yet received by the gentleman to whom the accompanying Copy from "The London and China Telegraph" (here called the "Despatch") in question purports to be addressed. They enclose the copy so obtained.
So far as Your Memorialists have been able to learn, the other Officers and Members generally of their Association have hitherto been kept in the same ignorance on the subject of the so-called "Despatch" or letter, with themselves, whose only knowledge consists as yet in the alleged Copy of it which accompanies the present Memorial and procured by them until last week.
If it were necessary to enlarge upon the apparent impropriety of the above proceedings of the Hong Kong Government, Your Memorialists might justly advert to the fact that, as stated in the final paragraph of the "Despatch" or letter in question, the main, if not the only, object of sending it at all was to obtain the reparation demanded: reparation for one misrepresentation of fact alleged to be contained in their former Memorial, and insisted upon by the Hong Kong Government not only in the final paragraph, but also in the first eleven paragraphs of that so-called "Despatch".
It is very obvious that the demand of reparation ought not for a moment to have been withheld.
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