Mdwell was dismissed from the public service for (amongst other
Cryozing
things) confederating with pirates, and for practising an organised system of subernation of perjury. Under such Circumstances I respectfully claimed 0. statues which entitled me to address the Secretary of State wher. I saw this
Mr Caldwell he invested with his peculiar por is of offence, and again
that immunity from the consequences of his acts which has previously, made his position so invulnerable. Had you questioned my status, I should have known how to respect a dictum which carries such authority with it,
but I was unprepared to receive an official and entirely unmerited retreff
for performing an set which an ordinar, sense of public duty dretades the
propozety of
For inasmuch as Lalor, could be found to come forward. Hay, the
Charges which Querceded in substanteuting on the occasion of the second enquiry into Mr Caldwell's Character, so did it become a fair exfersme on My part, that being now absent from Honghong, the Secretary of State
might
Letter of the 26 Novembe
not be fully advised as to the matters on
trabed.
on which
my
Having
deemed it necessary to reply
to
your despatch of the tenet.
and desiring to close a corrispondence which would seem to be as distasteful
to
You
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it has proved unsatisfactors, to me,
I avail of the opportunity to communicate for the information of Lord Granville, the following Arcumstance
illustrative of the influence which Mr Pollard exercises in the administration
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the affairs of Hons Kong. the point on which the Gravamen of my charges rests.
The authorities of
Maras
employed
Mr Pollard to prosude the proprietor of a Honything newspaper for publishing an article on the Cookie trade which called
Macau
on question the sets of the Governor then administering the affairs of as well as those of his predecesser in office. The Attorney, General of Hong Kong
was absent at the time and
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Mr Pollard,
securing
the
co. Operation of the
Acting Attorney-General induced that functionary to file three 24. Officia
one and the same libel in the darne
informations on the 18th May, 1868 for one
of the Queen / Her Majesty, Queen Victoria). The first information was on behin of the King of Portugal, and the other tie on behalf of the then Governor of
and of his predecessor respectively. The present for the
Maces
Queen's
name wa
employment of the was the tendency of the alleged libel to cause a war between made in the suit it appeared
Later
Great Britain and Fortugal. On a motion being
he
that the Acting Atorney General and. The Pollard did not agree the former denied the defendant's reight to justify, which the former maintained should be allowed to do. The "ost fuctice required that the Acting Attorner, General shouts conduct the "Ane, but Expressed strong doubts as to his authority to institute an ex-officio information at all. The result was that the cases lay over unted the return of the Attorney General. It became matter of notoriety, that previous to his arm. the Attorney General had expressed himself on terms of descepprobation, and eve of indignation at the use which has been made of the Queen's name in the coolic trade prosecutions, yet soon
after resuming his duties he
appearts Court and not only exponced the proceedings, but for malls, declared that the Crown had delegate! its functions in the matter to Mr Pollard, who I once
opence the case on behalf of the King of Portugal. On his laying down. A distenable, proving that what the Anting Attorney General had done has been adopted by the Attorney General and by the Government through the Executive Council the Chief fucker exttered the following exclamation "I must assume then
" an authorit, has been given to the Attorney General in the teeth of a protect
"given to me by the only person who could give that authority"
J
confine myself to the relation of facts which are capable of casy pre ... but I should add that not only was the press of Hong thong terrorrait by these proceedings, but the printers of paper, escued here for Cerentation in
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